NovEMBEl! I, igio.l 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



47 



Herbert A. Riker. 



tree was without a doubt one of the grandest enterprises that 

 could be gone into ; so we continued to plant. At first we made 

 many errors and lost much time and money before we became 

 skilled in the selection of the quality of land, and when and how 

 to plant the rubber tree so as to obtain the best growth and the 

 greatest yield of milk 



We have over twenty years' experience in the cultivation of 

 rubber — not theory alone, but practical knowledge, from cutting 

 down the virgin forest all through the processes to the smoking 

 of the latex — and therefore have a great advantage over those 

 who are now commencing to plant. One pound of rubber taken 

 out here is worth many pounds taken out on the seringoes of 

 the upper rivers. Here we do not have to contend with the falls, 

 impaludismo, the attacks of wild Indians, the continued war with 



Daviii 1'>, Rikf.k. 



the rubber cutters and where the Winchester and Mauser are' 

 "law." Here at Santarem w-e have health. Good authorities 

 govern with justice the miinicipio and town, so one's rights are" 

 guaranteed. We are in direct telegraphic communication with' 

 the world, and steamers of all sizes and nations come in porf 

 and cast anchor in the blue waters of the Tapajos. 



Dr. Joao Antonio Luiz Coelho, the present governor of the 

 state of Para, has had passed a law paying a premium of one 

 milreis, or 50 cents, per rubber tree planted. Dr. Coelho has 

 done this to stimulate the cause, for he sees the grand importance 

 that the tree that yields gold should be cultivated. Dr. Coelho, 

 like Washington, seeing far into the future over the heads of his 

 countrymen, is a man of high intellectual capacity, a lover of his 

 country and his people, a defender and lover of progress and 



Old Rubber on Border of Stream. 



Old Tapped "Hevea" Trees. 



