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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[December i, 1905. 



SCLNt IN woibuw, A nUdbCH TKADiNu CtNTtB. 



water, and soon canoes began to arrive bringing only ' chaza," 

 as this class of rubber, in view of the superior price it brought 

 in the foreign markets, was paid 

 for at much higher rates than the 

 ordinary cakes. This stimulated 

 the negroes and about nine or ten 

 years ago they began to plant rub- 

 ber, until to-day of the estimated 

 population of 80,000 negroes in the 

 Choco, he is the exception who 

 has not. if not bearing, at least a 

 few dozen trees planted. And 

 some of them have as high as 4000 

 trees in a plantation. 



" Now, in the rubber shipped 

 from Choci) the cake is the excep- 

 tion and chaza the rule. 



"The products of the Choco are 

 shipped by the steamer CondariinA 

 a number of dory shaped schoon- 

 ers to Cartagena on the Atlantic 

 coast, and by dugouts to Buena- 

 ventura on the Pacific. The only 

 two vessels which have kept a record o( their classified freight 

 for the past year are the steamer Condor and the schooner 



LUMBER AND WILD RUBBER CAMP. 



COLOMBIAN SCENERY. 



Tulia. Inquiiy from their owners resulted in the statement that 

 they carried during this period 71 and So tons of rubber re- 

 spectively. As there are a number of other schooners which 

 run to Ouibdo and are known to bring rubber, it is entirely 



reasonable to place their entire to- 

 tal at that of the Tulia, or a gen- 

 eral total to the port of Cartagena 

 of 231 tons per year. Senor Luis 

 Durier of the firm of Zuniga iS: 

 Diaz, at present manager of their 

 Cartagena house, who has had ex- 

 tended experience in the province 

 of San Juan, says that unquestion- 

 ably this region shops as much as 

 the Atrato. But if it shipped far 

 less we would still have a product 

 of over a ton a day, the great ma- 

 jority of which is chaza, or the pro- 

 duct of standing cultivated trees. 



'• It is an accepted fact that in 

 five, or even four years if well cared 

 for. a rubber tree in the Cho(6 

 will give a total annual product, of 

 various cuttings or tappings, of a 

 pound of chaza. and that if care 

 is taken not to injure the tree, this amount will annually in- 



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