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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



March i, 1907. 



Steam Plant of tiik Coxtinextal Factukv, at Torreon, 



various guayule processes. It is safe to say, however, that l)i.-t'ii running but are now shut tloun, and several factories that 



none of them as a whole is in use to-day, and many of them arc now in process of construction. The bulk of the business is 



never went beyond the experimental stage. Speaking generally, done by three large companies, controlled by interests that arc 



the extraction of the rubber resolves itself into two processes : briefly known as the Continental, the Madcro, and the Angio- 



Onc that is purely mechanical, and another that is partly me- Mexicana. 



chanical and partly chemical. Both of these have been got down The Continental (Continental-Mexican Rubber Co.) at the 



to quite a simple basis, and the early attempts for extraction by present time seems to be consolidating everything at their great 



means of such solvents as bisulphide of carbon have been plant at Torreon. They own other factories, however — one at 



given up. Saltillo, another at Ocampo, and the two factories that came with 



their purchase of the Pena interests, one at Gomez Palacio and the 



1 ■■ • . GUAYULE RUBBER EXPORTS FROM MEXICO. „»!,„,. „t T n^ „;.4„ „ Tl, 4-U T-. l r j t 



.',...- other at La Grunidora. Ihey own the Delafond, Lawrence, 



oun< b. Hunicke, Aldrich, Baconnier, Martin, Pena, and other patents. 

 Prior to fiscal year 1905-06. ( Estimated) 500,000, Hic present product of their factory at Torreon is 8 tons of rub- 

 Fiscal year 1905-06. Considering the increase in total her per day. Of the great properties that they own one is the 



exports (official) over precedmg years 2.200,000. i ■ j c . /- . i- a 11 <.tn 1 



Julv 1 to December 31. 1906. Based on New York hacienda Santa Catalma y Arrepas, commonly known as Del 



arrivals, giving Europe 35 per cent, of total 2,700,000. l^'o^ ' and they have recently purcha.sed also the Ccdros hacienda 



January, 1907. (Estimate) 700,000. containing some 2,000,000 acres and much shrub. 



^ ~ ITie Madero interests comprise their original manufacturing 



' company, which is Compauia Explotadora Coahuilense S. A., has 



The extraction plants for guayule are some twenty in number ; its headquarters at Parras, on the Coahuila and Pacific division of 



tbat is, when you count all those in operation, those th.it have tlie Mexican Central railway. The company is owned by the 



Water Taxks at the Contixextal Factory, Torreon. 



