Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-11 | Page 24 | Crude Rubber Much Improved

CRUDE RUBBER j IHfRQVEO Science is rapidly making crude rubber a barren field for souvenirs, once so abundant, according to the B. F. Goodrich Rubber company. Ten years ago when the Jungles of the Amazon In Brazil were the chief sourco of crudo rubber, It was a common com-mon occurrence to find bricks, fibrous fi-brous nuts from palm trees, iron weights, skull and bonca of animals, bullets, contipedes and even snakes in tho crude rubber cocoanuts. The na-l live Indians knew when they went Into the forests that if they did not return they would pay the price of their failure with their lives. It was this necessity of making a certain mark that caused the Indians to pad the rubber with heavy cores of foreign matter. Within the last tn years tho production pro-duction of rubber on plantations has Increased so remarkably that now about S5 per cent of all of it comes from plantations In the far east instead in-stead of from forests of tho Amazon. Of course, plantation rubber is so thoroughly inspected by scientific mchoda before shipping that there l.s small chance for bricks and bones to get into the boxes.