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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[October i, 1908. 



Exhibit of the State of Amazonas, Brazil. 



[The specimens of rubber shown exceed lo tons.] 



Rubber Tappers' Hut, From the Purus, Upper Amazon. 



BRAZIL. 



The principal representation of Brazil was made by the Asso- 

 ciacao Commercial do Amazonas, of Manaos, with the support 

 of the Amazonas state government, in charge of Senhor Nicolaus 

 H. Witt, as special commissioner of the association, which had 

 erected a pavilion for the purposes of the display. There were 

 specimens of rubber from the rivers Acre, Jurua, Solimoes, Purus, 

 Madeira, Javary, and Negro, of the various grades — fine, entre- 

 fine, weak fine, sernamby (negroheads), and caucho (Peruvian) 

 ball and slab — 17 lots weighing altogether 10,046 kilograms 

 [^22,111 pounds]. The largest lot was one of 1,471 kilos of 

 fine rubber from the river Acre. There was included a complete 

 outfit used in tapping trees on the Amazon, collecting latex, and 

 smoking the rubber, the dcfumador shown being one which had 

 actually seen use. So full was this display that it included even 

 specimens of the apparel worn by the seringueiros while at work 

 in the rubber fields. There were maps of the state of Amazonas 

 marked to outline the rubber regions, and photographs of rubber 

 working scenes. 



The exhibit from Para was less distinctive, but a representative 

 large and choice collection of rubbers from the lower Amazon 

 was sent by J. Simar da Costa. Auguste Ferreira Dias, of Para. 

 Sent a pair of native rubber boots made and worn by Indians on 

 the rio Yaco. 



The federal government of Brazil exhibited in a pavilion a 

 variety of specimens of Brazilian rubber, arranged for by the 

 permanent exhibition committee of that republic in Europe. 



Mello & Co., of Para and Manaos, exhibited through their 

 Liverpool agents a pelte of fine hard cured rubber weighing 262 

 kilograms, produced on one of their estates on the upper Jurua 

 river. 



The Brazilian Rubber Trust, Limited, of London, owning and 

 working extensive rubber estates on the island of Marajo, in the 

 state of Para, had an exhibit (No. 67) in the commercial section, 

 of specimens of Para rubber from their properties, and of the 

 implements used in preparing rubber, together with excellent 

 photographs of rubber working in the forests. 



GTTATULE RUBBEH, 



Ed. Maurer (exhibit No. 82), New York, made an exhibit of 

 specimens of guayule from factories of the following companies 

 in Mexico : 



Compania Explotadora Coahuilense, S. A., at Parras. 



Salvador Madero & Co., S. e. C, at San Tiburcio. 



Compania Ganadera de la Merced, at Torreon. 



Fabrica de Hule Australia, at Cuatro Cienegas. 



Fabrica de la Delicias, at San Pedro. 



These factories are controlled by the important Madero estate, 

 and have a combined capacity of ir tons daily. The exhibit in- 



cluded also finished goods made of guayule rubber, with or with- 

 out other rubbers; also deresined guayule and combinations with 

 other rubbers made both with deresined rubber and crude guayule; 

 also an exhibit of the guayule plant. 



Elias Delafond (No. 44), of Mexico City, showed guayule with- 

 out resin obtained by a new process referred to as giving it a 

 quality similar to Para and causing it to retain its quality indefi- 

 nitely. 



TKAVANCOEE (SOUTH INDIA). 



The Periyar Rubber Co. exhibited a box of rubber. The 

 Shaliacarry Rubber Co. sent a sample of plantation rubber which 

 had taken the gold medal at the Ceylon rubber exhibition. It 

 was grown at an elevation of 3,500 feet. Several other firms 

 exhibited either tea samples or tea estate requisites. 



MEXICO. 



An important collection of samples of plantation rubber 

 iCasiiUoa) of which advices had been received had not arrived 

 in London when these notes were prepared. There was an ex- 

 hibit, however, representing the estate "La Esperanza," in Oaxaca 

 State, owned by The Mexican Rubber Co., Limited, of London. 

 Mexico was further represented in connection with the guayule 

 rubber industry. 



COLOMBIA. 



Nieto Rocha & CiA., of Bogota, made an exhibit of virgin 

 rubber (Sapium higlandulosum) from their plantation "El Do- 

 rado," at Tolinia. 



THE KEW GARDENS EXHIBIT. 



The director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, exhibited a 

 selection of herbarium and museum specimens and figures and 

 living plants illustrative of the principal genera yielding rubber of 

 commercial importance. The plants referred to are those named 

 below, and the display under each heading was very liberal, the 

 whole illustrating practically the whole world of commercial rub- 

 ber production to-day : 



1. IViUuglibeia Hrma. Malay archipelago. "Getah Singgarip," or 

 "Getah gerip." 



2. Clitandra Hcnriqucsiaua. South central tropical Africa. "Root 

 rubber." 



3. Landolphia Thollonii. Sovithern Congo. "Root rubber." 



4. Laudolf^hia Owariensis. West tropical Africa. 



5. Landoltltio Kirkii. East tropical Africa. 



6. Landolphia Biichananii. East tropical Africa. 



7. Funtunmia clastica. Tropical Africa. *'Lagos" rubber. 



8. Raphiouemc utilis. South Angola. "Ekanda." illustrated in The 

 India Rubber World, July i, 1907 (page 300) ; tuber rubber. 



9. Urceola elastica. Malaya. 



10. Urceola csculenta. Malaya. 



11. Hymenoxys sp. Colorado, United States. "Colorado" rubber, or 

 "rabbit weed." 



12. Farthenium argentotum. Mexico and southern United States. 

 "Guayule" rubber. 



13. Hevea Bra.'ilensis. Brazil Amazon valley. "Para" rubber. 



