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DR. HUBER ON THE RUBBER OUTLOOK IN BRAZIL. 



fX the January issue of this publication there ap- 

 *■ peared a digest of the paper read by Dr. Jacques 

 Huber, director of the government museum at Para, 

 on "The Present and Future of the Native Hevea Rub- 

 ber Industry." In the same number there was an 

 editorial referring to the importance and value of this 

 contribution to the literature of an exceedingly inter- 

 esting subject. 



In -this issue this paper will be found in full, and 

 will undoubtedly be read attentively by everyone in- 

 terested in the rubber industry. At the present rate 

 of increase in the production of wild rubber in the 

 Amazon basin, and in the output of the Eastern plan- 

 tations, it is highly probable that the present year will 

 see the plantation product overtake the volume of rub- 

 ber shipped from Para. 



While there has been a material increase in the ex- 

 ports of rubber from Para in the last fifteen years — an 

 increase amounting very nearly to 100 per cent. — the 

 increase during the last five years has been slight, 

 while the increase in the plantation output has been 

 constant and large. To go a little more into detail, 

 the total shipments of rubber from Para fifteen years 



ago were a little less than 22,000 tons. The volume 

 rose steadily for four years until in 1901 it was 30,000 

 tons. It remained practically at this figure for four,, 

 years, when in 1905 it began slowly to increase and 

 grow steadily larger each year until it reached 39,000 

 tons in 1909. It then fell back in 1911 to less than 

 36,000 tons, or less than the output four years earlier. 

 In 1912 it reached its highest point — 43,000 tons. 



Hut in the meantime Eastern plantation rubber has 

 increased by leaps and bounds. In 1906 the Eastern 

 plantation output amounted to 510 tons; the next year 

 it nearly doubled, being 1,010 tons. In the follow- 

 ing year it nearly doubled again, reaching the figure 

 of 1,800 tons. The next year, 1909, it increased con- 

 siderably over 100 per cent., amounting to 3,850 tons. 

 In 1910 it showed another increase of over 100 per 

 cent., reaching the substantial figure of 8,230 tons. In 

 1911 it was over 14,000 tons; and for 1912 the planta- 

 tion output will doubtless prove to be over 28,000 tons. 

 Careful estimates for the next few years, made by 

 competent observers, place the product of the Eastern 

 plantations at 40,000 tons for the present year, 55,000 

 tons for next year, and 70,000 tons for 1915. 



The slow and by no means uniform increase in the 

 Para output during the last five years would seem to 

 substantiate the contention made in many quarters 

 that the production of South American wild rubber 

 had about reached its maximum, while no one would 

 care to hazard a conjecture as to when the output of 

 plantation rubber will reach its limit. If the Amazon 

 basin, therefore, is to compete in volume with the plan- 

 tations of the East, it must do so from plantations of 

 its own. Obviously it has the soil and the climate, as 

 it is the native home of the Hevea. What it needs is 

 capital, management and labor, chiefly the last. But 

 if the Eastern planters have succeeded by carrying 

 the trees to the place where there was labor in abun- 

 dance, the South American planters will have to suc- 

 ceed by carrying labor to the place where nature has 

 placed the trees. 



THE LATEST REPORT FROM PUTUMAYO. 



IN July and August of last year the whole English- 

 •*• speaking world was shocked by the astounding 

 disclosures of the cruelties practised in the Putumayo 

 district in the gathering of rubber in the concessions 

 owned by the Peruvian-Amazon Co. For several 

 weeks the press of England and America was full of 

 the story of these atrocities. A summary of the situ- 



