Show THE RUBBER TRADE The rubber boom which has been making London Loudon Lon Lou don crazy for several se months seems to have ave run rim runabout runabout about its limit A couple of weeks ago nearly tons of plantation rubber was as catalogued and offered offered of of- for sale The rubber buyers apparently agreed that they would not bid for it and so it IH hid lud d to be withdrawn Later it was offered again and the highest price obtained was us lIs per pound as compared with lith 10 lOV d. d at the last previous pre sale This the shrewd dealers in the extensive extensive ex ex- business look upon as a symptom at least that the thc highest highest- price has been reached Bradstreet Bradstreet Brad- Brad street treet says sas the situation is dominated by the consumers con con- sumers in the United States and tile tic course of the thera raw ra rubber market is almost entirely dependent upon their support That the present extravagant prices for rubber are due in a certain measure to manipulation is is- probably true The news from I Brazil should afford relief to the consumers As a n result of of- the high prices double or or- tn more re laborers will be put in the field th this s year and the result ought to be the doubling of the 1 to the thc worlds world's supply from the Brazilian forests But it itis itis itis is a lucrative business and will vill be so lon long as men in hi the United States will mortgage their houses to obtain the money to bu buy automobiles |