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Show SOURCE OF RUBBER SUPPLY New One Recently Has Been Found in Mexico In the Palo Amarillo Tree. City of Mexico. Another practical and very extensive source of crude rubber Bupply was recently discovered in the vicinity of Guanajuato. It is the palo amarillo tree, which grows wild In a broad scope of territory bor-berlng bor-berlng the Pacific coast and extending towards the Interior as far as Guanajuato. Guana-juato. The commercial possibilities of this tree as a producer of rubber have been thoroughly tested by the Mexican Mex-ican government and by representa. tlves of large American Interests that are investing considerable capital in the new Industry. The palo amarillo tree bears no re-1 semblance to the guayule shrub from which large quantities of rubber are being manufactured In Northern Mexico Mex-ico and Southwestern Texas. This tree is also of a different species from' the rubber tree of the tropical regions of Mexico and other countries. It attains at-tains a height of about 30 feet. Its trunk gets toJe of a thickness of one to two feet, Thetree Is of rapid growth, reaching a commercial size in five years. The news that the palo amarillo tree is being utilized for the manufacj ture of crude rubber has caused a number of independent rubber con cerns to enter the new field of indus try, to the extent that they are active-1 The Palo Amarillo Tree. iy purchasing all the available tracts' of trees In the territory that has not been invaded by the pioneer company. It is expected that a number of Independent Inde-pendent rubber manufacturing plants will be established during the next few months and that it will not be a great while until the palo amarillo industry in-dustry will rival that of guayule rubber, rub-ber, in which more than 65 million dollars gold has been Invested during the last few years. With the assurance that the palo amarillo tree and the guayule shrub can be easily propagated and that their growth is adapted to a large area of country the question of the possible permanency of the rubber supply of the world is practically solved. |