Show HAS UTAH GOT A NATIVE RUBBER PLANT Astonishing Claim Made by b John Beck the Portlier Former Wealthy Mining Man Rubber Fuel Fiber Piber and Marketable Potash All Prom Front a Rocky Roel y Mountain Discovery 1 John Deck Beck no k at one time one OM of ot the Iho foremost capitalists of oC Utah Is In yes DOS session cession Fe he ho claims of ot st I secret by IJ meant means of ot which he ho hopes to revolutionize the rubber Industry of ot the thc world and re Ie e gala a 11 fortune greater titan than nil 1111 the th money mone the mine has hns pro produced 10 In Its marvelous history It Is III a II plant or weed veed 1111 that grows abundantly In this state In Idaho and anI It Is lit thought throughout the Intermountain lama tain country It produces a n gummy substance a substitute for tor the hue ordinary ordinary nary rubber ru ber for tor which startling claims lire are made mode by hy its ItH discoverer After this Is III extracted one third of ot the tho weed Is h Isn isn n 1 superior substitute for tor horsehair hor and excelsior used now new no In upholstering and nad I tho the remaining third Is a n fuel tuel that horns burn burnns i as ns well and amid longer loner than coal cont And to tl cap tap It Il all the ashes thus produced con can contain I tain u 11 largo large percentage of oC potash The Tho history his lor of ot this discovery roads rends like Ilk a Jules Verne orlle novel but Mr tr Beck declares he huts has hn been 1 at work for tor near nearly nearby ly Iy a year car experimenting In III and putting his discovery to practical tests testa and tho the results ho contends bavo been lieen emi eminently satisfactory Ho lie Is now no engaged engage 1 in organizing a n company to cultivate the plant and market Its It possibilities Fifteen years ago alO when his hl name wan so closely allied with the financial enterprises e of oC the th state John Johll Heck made his discovery He lie lIa horseback holdback hOI riding In the hills of ot county one aliI aliIda day da when n looking down dawn he ho oh a IL peculiar plant new nell as Oil he supposed to lo this region HP HI wis 1111 to so o Interested that he got goat oft off hits his horse hor e and broke oft aft a n por portion tion llou of or the plant To ro his hilt surprise It exuded n a white whit gummy liquid mucilage but of or n 1 lighter color calor runt and still not as white while on till the thu fluid of at atthe the milk It was tuns but n a passing pa fancy tonci with Mi Mr tl Heck and while he rode rOe away awn hearing It In iii mind Im hI did 1111 not at nt that tune time think murk about It i He lie was wealthy Hut But In recent years eara parl ho hue began to notice the worldwide w discussion lon of ot the manufacture manu manufacture facture of or rubber and amid an the tha Increasing manifold uses lI e to which It II was 1111 being put In lit the Industrial world this Thin disruption discussion lon set fret him to thinking He ifs knew the plant nail and he hc knew Its 1111 substance Ru was wall w as He lie needed lIe dell money Mr tr Heck Beck concluded to 10 make maken n a test He lie went scent out In iii starch search of at the tho plant and anI found It with very M little tilt dif difficulty In tn various sections nf ot He lie demonstrated that It can eon be he h cultivated ted as 1111 surely lure as o wheat or corn The fh re results suits Rull of oC his tests In the tho laboratory stir mir passed etl his hla greatest expectations expectation The gum was extracted by b a ti process which he hc himself thought nut being a L chem chemist I I of ot nn little ability and converted Into rubber lubber halls balls which were rather rother hard to the tho touch ouch but bul not nol at all lint tie III and ond which when thrown upon the thc ground would bound as ns os rub rubber rubber ber her Auditor Another fact act of ot very Jr great Importance ImParlance lance tance Is t that hat the plant Is highly ht hl valuable ble hie for or IU tu properties Tests Test that were made under Mr tr Hecks Jock direction show ho that hut a mattress made from front It was Wait far tur superior to excelsior and will swill lust last longer than Iota horsehair hor Besides this Mier can be lie carded ns nit line as nil slik though lt Its particular value vahle Is for tor up upholstering holstering bolstering hotst and for tor or tho the padding of oC horse horsa collars as fiS well as a 11 score of oC other othor slat sim similar lint ilar uses use le as II It appears he ho asserts as n ertH calmly that the bark gives RIes out Intense heat t and antl will burn hurn tulle quite us liS long an as coal according to the thc experiments made mu l by h Mr Ir Beck He lie has hns given one ton 1011 n a thorough test teat and It burns equal equally ly I well swell In stove torl or grate In Ism putting the ashes to a chemical test Mr t Ir r Heck fleck a very Iri high percentage of ot marketable pot ani lL h lie Ho Is now noli endeavoring to organize a company compon to take tip up his invention Thu plant litant In is ns as stated found In profusion In the higher attitudes altitudes of ot this region and he ho says flOS he speaks knowingly when hen hi he says ars millions million of or tons of or It can Iw he h I cultivated as ns easily a ll as the thu root rent can be he 11 raised In lit Arizona The friends of or Mr Jr It neck Beck w will HI w wish Ish him hint all nil good luck In hits bin new nell enterprise e which hf he pictures to be lie the nucleus of fit tin till greatest Industry In established In time the I of ot Utah |