October i, 1901.] THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 29 



THE RUBBER TREE IS KING 



OF ALL VEGETABLE PRODUCTS. 



WHY? 



BECAUSE ITS MILK, GATHERED AND COAGULATED INTO THE CRUDE 

 RUBBER OF COMMERCE AT A COST OF ONLY FIVE OR SIX CENTS A POUND, 

 IS WORTH TO-DAY, ACCORDING TO QUALITY, FROM 60c. TO $1.00 A POUND— 

 FROM $1200 TO $2000 PER TON. WHAT OTHER RAW, UNMANUFACTURED 

 VEGETABLE PRODUCT IS WORTH ONE-THIRD AS MUCH? 



WHY IS THE RUBBER TREE KING? 



BECAUSE OF THE ENORMOUS DEMAND FOR RUBBER in the Arts, a demand 

 growing so rapidly that it has practically doubled in the last six years ; 



BECAUSE MILLIONS OF WILD RUBBER TREES ARE DESTROYED ANNU- 

 ALLY in supplying the market demand, until the remaining areas of wild rubber trees are now so 

 remote and inaccessible from the markets of the world, and the product has become so costly to 

 gather, that the price of crude rubber has increased more than 60 per cent, since [894. 



Is it then true, you will naturally ask, that prohibitive prices for the crude product will shortly 

 drive rubber out of many of its present uses in the Arts ? No, this is not true ; on the contrary 

 THE GROWING OF THE RUBBER TREE IN WELL-ORDERED PLANTATIONS, in 

 regions where the best varieties of the rubber tree are indigenous and grow wild, HAS NOW 

 BECOME NOT ONLY A THOROUGHLY WELL ESTABLISHED AND DEMON- 

 STRATED BUT AN ENORMOUSLY PROFITABLE INDUSTRY— INDEED IT HAS 

 BECOME IN TRUTH THE MOST PROFITABLE INDUSTRY OF ANY FORM OF 

 AGRICULTURAL OR HORTICULTURAL INVESTMENT 



MATURE RUBBER TREE PLANTATIONS 



on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, demonstrate that as many as 200 mature trees to the acre may be advantageously planted, and that on the 

 seventh year after they are planted and for each of every fifty years thereafter these trees will produce from two to six pounds of net, crude 

 rubber to the tree, worth to-day 70 cents a pound, at the Plantation. Since it costs only from 5 to 6 cents a pound to gather the milk 

 and coagulate it into commercial crude rubber, no figues are needed to demonstrate the unusual profits this industry is to-day paying. 



THE ISTHMUS RUBBER COMPANY 



has 10,000 acres located near the center of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, its lands being traversed for 

 four miles by the National Tehuantepec Railway. Its transportation facilities are unequalled by any 

 tropical agricultural region in the world, since it is able to ship from its own station on the Planlation to 

 New York at the rate of y^ cent per pound, or $10 a ton. 7000 acres of this land are being planted in 

 rubber at the rate of 200 trees to the acre, while on each acre so planted from 300 to 500 cofYee trees 

 are being planted, the coffee being a low shrub which thrives best in the shade and for which abundant 

 room is had between the. high branching rubber trees. The remainder of this land the Company is 

 planting in sugar-cane, pineapples and other short crops which pay from $200 to $500 per acre and which, 

 maturing within twelve to eighteen months from the date of planting, form a source of steady dividends 

 through the period required for the rubber trees to reach matnrity. 



This Company is now offering certain of its 



STOCK FOR SUBSCRIPTION 



under conditions which place the investment within the reach of any one. No form of investment so absolutely non speculative, may be 

 safely relied on to pay such large dividends. If you are interested full information and various boolcs descriptive of this particular industry 

 and also descriptive of various profitable investments in Mexico, may be had by writing to or calling at the offices of 



The Isthmus Rubber Company, 



Boston Office: 318 Weld Building. No. 29 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. 



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