Show Thompson Thinks Island Rubber I Is Coming Industry ISABELA Basilan Island P. P I. I Aug 28 AP Addressing AP-Addressing Addressing a p public pub blie b- b lie lic meeting here today CarmI Carml A A. Thompson who is making a study pf f conditions l in the Philippines for President Coolidge said he believed that rubber growing here now in lb into a Its infancy would develop great industry Mr 1 Thompson visited two rubber plantations on the Island where he was told that the production of of rubber rub rub- ber bel Jn In large quantities in the Philippines Philippines Phil PhIl- was entirely feasible The plantations h he visited 1 which are among the best developed in the Islands produce about one-half one mIllion million million mil mIl- mil mil- lion pounds of ot rubber annually This Is shipped chiefly to San Francisco The American manager of ot one plantation said that in order to cultivate cultivate cultivate cul cul- rubber on a large scale it would be necessary to modify present present pres pros ent insular land hand laws which limit holdings to 2500 acres He Ho said acre holdings are essential to encourage foreign capital to In Inest In- In vest est |