Show A rubber bubble city mauros in brazil miles up the amazon river was a beautiful and prosperous city ten tell years ago with a gorgeous opera house and theaters and all the attributes of a real live european city today it Is in ruin its people have fled and its buildings are tottering how did this ruinous decline come about simply through def dedal lallon ion in tile the price of rubber in the effects of rubber plan planting ng in the far east ceylon java the he settlements malacca borneo bor lo 10 hegan egan to be feltar felt at manaos malaos wild rubber rub er took a bluin this rubber brought in f from rom the janeie would not fetch enough to pay off the loans made by the merchants to the rubber hunters bust busl nesa houses tailed failed by the dozens sul sui cl epi 1 ame common trade fell off little now it amounts to pv pr y V nothing there Is still a 8 little er coming out but it Is barely v onu its freight charges to this country or england |