Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1911-11-26 | Page 27 | Utah-Mexican Rubber Co

UTAH MEXICAN RUBBER 00 CO Very few people realize tho the magnitude magnitude magnitude magni magni- tude of ot the Utah Mexican Rubber company's company's com corn pany's operations or foresee the thc Important important important im Im- im- im part It la is apparently destined to play pIny in the financial future of oC the state 1 From rom acres of dense Jungle eight years cars ago it has in increased increased In- In creased its holdings holding year b by year ear until it now owns about acres of ot choice land In the richest section of oC tropical Mexico with more acres actually actually actually actu actu- ally cleared an and ana utilized than th the thc origInal onig- onig inal tract embraced Besides Its acres of ot growing rubber the company has a banana plantation plantation plan plan- tation of oC a n. thousand acres one half of ot which Is In bearing another thousand acres of Improved pasture for tor the hundreds hundreds hun hun- of ot cattle which are being graded up to higher standards s and anti man many fields of ot corn on anti and other local ties In spite of ot unavoidable delays Incident incident inci mci- dent to er e-er every undertaking which de depends depends do- do on peon labor tho the company be began began began be- be gan tapping its older trees last fast year with satisfactory results results the tho yield and the quality of rubber obtained Justify justify- In lag ing ever every reasonable expectation To the tho great disappointment of or all aU concerned concerned con con- canned work was suddenly suspended because of oC the revolution the tho success of ot which Is responsible for tor the official changes an and needed reforms now being made During this period of transition the republic has been under martial law lawand and tho the company compan has been deprived 0 of of the labor Jabor of ot its men who became soldiers soldiers sol sol- diers at tho the beginning of ot the trouble D By reason of ot the compan company's s attitude it has tho the warmest friendship and support support support sup sup- port of ot time the new administration and will benefit b by tho the reforms and changes which are promised Tapping has been resumed as rapidly rapid as tho the release of Qt the peons could be bo secured and a a. shipment of high grade rubber is contemplated early carh In the year Attracted by b the thc success of oC older planters in Ia the tho Tabasco Tabasco-Chiapas re region Jc ic- glen gion and pleased with tho the general appearance appearance ap ap- of oC the tho Utah company's trees an English tIn syndicate which t had already acquired two Mexican rubber ma made e an offer of ot a million and a a. half dollars dollar In gold for tor th the Utah can plantation The board of directors declined to enter into these negotiations negotiations negotiations believing that future developments developments developments develop develop- ments would Justify their course Notwithstanding the distant location of oC the tho plantation and the discomforts of ot tropical travel tra more than half the members of oC the board buard aro are personally acquainted with the thc plantation and the culture of or rubber lIon Hon James Mack Mackof of ot the tile Ogden den Milling A- A Elevator compan company com coin pan pany one of ot the keenest and most conservative conservative con con- self made business men of ot the state has been on the thc company's compans property twice once at the start stort In 1905 and a again aln In 1910 The rho president of ot the tho company any the late Hon lion John Henry Smith has vI visited this antI and adjoining plantations Directors Director Grant ter and antI Neb Have been in the tIme rubber rubber rub rub- ber zone more than once and on the Utah Mexican property And the time lato Into Moses Thatcher one of ot the orl original di directors directors directors di- di rectors of tho time company compan was t also fa familiar familiar fa- fa with rubber culture In this sec tion President Joseph Josoph F. F Smith an another another another an- an other director of the company has haR a knowledge of oC tropical agriculture gained In th the tho Hawaiian archipelago o while Hon James T Hammond Is In Interested interested In- In In other tropical lands as well wen The remaining directors are Hon W. W S. S McCornick lIon Hon John S. S Bransford and Hon lIon V W W TV Miller Among Amun the stockholders ers and arid acreage owners are some of oC the tho leading men and r domen of oC Utah and states Thc They will doubtless be well rewarded for tor delays and disappointments disappoint disappoint- meats ments recent recently experienced as the de demand demand do- do mand for crude rubber Is Js constantly Increasing and the tho price will scarcely drop under tho those c conditions