June' 1, 1911. 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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The Maderos, Mexico and the Situation. 



THE Maderos, wlio have conio into special prominence the 

 world over in connection with the recent revolution in 

 Mexico, are a most interesting family. Their head, Don 

 Evaristo Madero, who recently died in Los Angeles, California, 

 was, during the early days of border warfare, very much of a 

 leader of men, and is said to have had at one time 800 men 

 under arms. He became an immense land owner, and it is said 

 at the time of his death he was worth something like $20,000,000. 



His sons, Francisco I. Madero and Ernesto Madero, are 

 broadly educated, have held high diplomatic positions, and are 

 thorough men of the world. The last named is slated for a 

 cabinet position under the new regime. They are known to the 

 rubber trade chiefly through their great holdings of land where 

 the guaj'ule shrub flourish.cs and by their various extracting 

 plants for the manufacture of guayule rubber. 



Francisco I. Madero, Jr., who announced himself provisional 

 president and carried on a successful fight against the Diaz 

 regime, is grandson to Don Evaristo. He is also a man of 

 broad education, and has done what he believes to be his 

 duty in bringing civil war upon his country. The Madero 

 family have suffered much financial loss through the war, their 

 various factories being closed, the laborers scattered, and as 

 an act of reprisal the burning of the Madero factory at Parras", 

 Coahuila, late this month. This factory was said to have an 

 output of $150,000 worth of guayule each month. A cotton mill 

 also owned by the Maderos, with an output of $200,000, was 

 likewise destroyed. 



It is to the credit of the revolutionists that business sufifered 

 so little, that trains ran so regularly, and that foreigners were so 

 little molested during the long period of strife that now seems 

 to be about over. The guayule factories shut down largely 

 because there was no one to bring in shrub. So far there has 

 been reported the destruction of only one plant, that cited above, 

 which belonged to a Mexican. Down in the Ticrra Caliente, 

 where the Castilloa plantations are, things have gone along 

 practically as if there were no war. One of our correspondents 

 writes : 



"The information we have been receiving right along from 

 our plantations in Mexico would indicate that the newspaper 

 reports regarding conditions down there are very much exag- 

 gerated. Everything is entirely quiet in our district and has 



entirely with the government and not witli the people or for- 

 eigners. I judge from the papers the last day or two that they 



Parras Factory of the Cia. Explotadora, Coahuilense, 



S. A. 



been. In Tabasco there was a company of insurgents who 

 took peaceful possession of a number of towns and government 

 offices, but they committed no depredations or seemed disposed 

 to destroy anyone's property. Tlieir grievances seem to be 



Francisco Madero. 



[Courtesy of Hampton's Magaciiic, N€ic York.] 

 [Plioto furnished bx George Granttiam Bain, Neiv i'tJrfr.] 



are going to get their grievances settled, and that the country 

 will settle down to its usual state of calm." 



UNITED STATES STATISTICS TO MARCH 31, 1911. 



