179 
Guatemalan United States 
currency. currency. 
One cleaning vnd Je from fourth $ $ 
to sixth, inclusi 1300 -... 2 
ient on ‘vented capital, at 10 per 
ent. for ten years 68.18. ... 290.19 
ii gemeot, ete. S Di e 4238 ..  L93 
es Aud in Rabie se (200 per 
m is ruling rate on 
gold to- $us of - trees occupy- 
ing a manza eis and 
10 years oa TA nm 150.00 $ 66.00 
s vie the foregoing caleulation it may be seen that a plantation 
of, say, 100,000 trees requires caballerias - ground (besides 
ae whieh may be necessary for bev euro etc.), and would 
cost, after ten years, about $95,000 ($41,700). 
If the annual yield of each tree after ten years is 1 pound of 
rubbar of good class, 100,000 trees would give 1,000 centals per 
year of good appar, At p hea Ib T the article these 1,000 
would valued in Paal mon to-day’s exchange 
8202, 500 ) (8115238). There i is ie: bs deducted from this 
Guatemalan United States 
— — 
Cost of extraction and collection of $ $ 
the milk and manufacture of pro- 
duct (which together may - 
culated at 30 c xs pound of 
rubber) for 1,000 cen 30,000 ... 13,170 
Expense of TRAE Ee to point of 
shipment (which varies in each 
case, but can be calculated in lands 
situated on the Pacific coast at 
xe 90 t = $2 per ay for 1,000 
LOU .. 768 
Eas. for embarking, more or less, 
80 cents per cental, or, for 1,0 
centals BE veh 355 
Ocean freight, insurance, commission 
sales, and other Ss ip 
proximately . 40,000 ... 17,560 
Total -z E ji. uec 225859. o SERS 
« Deducting the cost of $72,559 ($31,853) from the income, leaves 
a vds of $189,941 ($83,385). 
ccording to these caleulations, one eM after ten yum will 
sodile double the amo ed expended during that time. Even 
incomparably more remunerative 
the best and un: eeu croumstances can yie 
