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Show THE CITIZEN gmuiiuimmHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinmniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiliiiiliiilliliiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiliiiiiimiiiiiiiiiininiiiiiiiiiiiiift UTAHS INDUSTRIES E iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiii c mm RAW RUBBER PRODUCERS MILK AMERICAN PUBLIC Washington, Jan. 18. The United States will never sanction any economic plan or agreement which contemplates foreign control of raw materials in exchange for American control of their manufacture, declares the Republican Publicity Association. That such a program is in the minds of certain interests seems evident from what has transpired and is still transpiring concerning crude rubber. For some years this country has been greatly inconvenienced and ruthlessly mulcted by the producers of raw rubber, an essential product which has a British monopoly. become well-nigThis condition of affaiis is partly due to our past shortsightedness, and partly to the tremendous demand for rubber which has arisen as a result of the automobile industry. The automobile made its advent about 1900, with about seven hundred machines. In 1900 we imported 49,000,000 pounds of crude e rubber, gutta percha, etc., totaled 30, 1923, our imports of crude ruber, gutta percha, etc., totaled and the bill came to over There were probably twelve and a half to fourteen million motor cars in operation this year in the United States, and it is said we own over 80 per cent of all the cars in the world. All of them must be rubbershod. Within the past five years we have imported no less than 2,780,000,000 pounds of raw rubber, plus a good deal of scrap. Looking at the tables of world rubber production we find that in 1900 the total production was about 121,000,000 pounds, or about 15 per cent of our fof last years imports. Nearly one-hit was produced in Brazil. That year the plantation rubber,, controlled by the British, was fh the experimental stage and only 9,000 pounds are recorded. But while Brazil and other countries were killing their trees, and we were letting them do it, the British were perfect ng methods to conserve the trees and building up the plantations in the East Indies. Ergo, twenty years later we find pounds produced. being h 810,-Jun- 810,-000,00- 0, $173,-000,00- April, 1923. About that time the American consumers of rubber in large volume began to protest, and now our Department of Commerce has five crews out studying possible rubber sources in various parts of the world, a step which should have been taken twenty years ago. The investigation has awakened the interest of the British ruber producers and one of them wrote to the ruber expert employed by the Peruvian Government, who replied: Nothing would please me betn ter than an arrangement that would eliminate the necesi. e., sity for American rubber-plantincontrol of production by the Brittish and control of manufacture by the United States. An arrangement on such lines would form a unit in the economic structure of these two h-speaking nations that should help to cement their interests to their mutual benefit. Meanwhile, may I respectfully suggest that the United time. The engineer must, therefore, select his type with ready repairs in mind. Even when possible to detour traffic the cost in extra fuel over a comparatively short space of time adds enormously to the cost of the pavement. Quick repairability is now much considered in county-roa- d design. BUSINESS OUTLOOK. Park City operators are looking for- ward to an active and prosperous year. Building of the Union Pacific branch r to Keetley at the Park Utah in the valley, the porbability that a great central milling plant will be built to handle the zinc ores of the dL UE( Tg acquisition of Ontario cont nuRING S Lambourne interests, n.ake outlook unusually prom' Hnming up tl Record of 1923, Coli ork City, st Boston Transcript If venpoits by C the Golden Rule toward gt 'year exce ing to her what we would record of do to us, we shall ceriainiimportB have ared'with $ alone. States. Th .oneyv has b since the w on of the Brl ... i He-be- Municipal ;i5 fiicse llWIIIIHHIIIIIiniHHHHIIIIHHHIlHIHIUHHHIHinillllinHUIIIIUIIIIIIIinillllllllllir I FLOWERS BOND Local HOBDAYS nt Ihcne Wasatch l ...... The on impi in Secuabrtioathat8g Central Irusrn countries. 8treet IrwestmcnlBoruk Main at First South) Thoi. Hobday, Prop. 3 3tates. is like is gj fReith Emporium) The Combined Metals, Inc., has increased its holdings by the purchase of five additional claims, and E. H. Snyder says the new territory joins the present Pioche property to the west. Mr. Snyder says that the zinc-lea- d ores have been treated successfully in Colorado, and he knows his company will have similar success in treating ores at the the refractory zinc-leanew plant under construction near Stockton. 192 This countr; ease in gold Flower Shop 246 South Main in 5,000,000, n country a cl d 0. 400 an 800, 000, 0( and all occasions BIG MINING DEAL. c Corporate" WEDDINGS FUNERALS States is at present carrying the of the world, and it is not money-bag- s wise to ridicule her atempts to produce her own rubbber or to call their bluff. Vice-Preside- ore than For Englis- be -- in edlum of cr Anglo-America- g, that Govemmef Salt Uk 987 s r City.Utih past silver amount country - illllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllUIIIIIIIIIIMB UIDBIlBllllllinsiO IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII d al ROAD BUILDING. so-call- ed 770,-000,0- 00 per cent of that rubber came from the British plantations, while Brazil trailed along with but very little more than in 1900. In June, 1920, the import price of crude rubber was up nearly to 46 cents a pound. It fell rapidly in 1921 because the general industrial depression here called for importations of but 357,000,000 pounds. In June, 1921, the import price wras about 17 cents. In this connection it is worth noting that the British soaked us to the limit for rubber during the Eighty-eigh- t World War, being unaffected by any hands-acros-the-s- ea sentiment un- less those hands w'ere in Uncle Sams breeches pocket. The fall of 1922 witnessed an industrial renascence in this country, and again the British put the thumbscrews on us, rubber standing at 31 cents In Better city streets have taught ve- hicle users to demand be'ter suburban roads. The requirements for the country road are not as drastic as for the street in the municipality, but they are much closer than they were ten or fifteen years ago. For fast moving traffic city pavement must be smooth, not only to permit the rapid and comfortable movement of vehicles but to conserve fuel and tires. A slight saving in the operating cost per vehicle reaches a large aggregate when the vast number of motor cars is considered wrhich justifies a considerable outlay to obtain smoothness. This facor gets bigger every year, in county road specifications. Impact attracts the attention of engineers to an increasing degree. A wheel with a drop of 1 inch when in motion delivers a blow equivalent to six times the dead weight. City engineers, therefore, attach increasing importance to the resiliency of pavements to take up the shock of impact. County road engineers build more flexibly every year. It is now almost impossible to close an important street to traffic for any The Right of Way no office boy to stop you when you solicit! The buyer is never too busy to talk; has a previous appointment; never fails to give you his atter You have the right of way to his desk, his ear and If We THERES a divided interest. When the telephone instrument on your desk is in1 a semaphore giving you the right of way to speed yonr sage to the buyers mind, why not take full advantage oft let a competitor use the old fashioned way if he chooses PF : cal so? 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