It will therefrom be observed that in 1885 this 

 industry increased to a value of ^^35,471. 



Further, I learn from many sources that the greatest 

 activity prevails now in rivalry among rubber-hunters 

 and collectors. Further, experienced hands from 

 Sierra Leone and elsewhere have established at 

 certain centres in the Colony as instructors, at so 

 much for so many lessons in the art of best collecting 

 and dealing with the juice of rubber-producing trees. 



And as of interest and moment I here quote an 

 extract from a Report of Mr. Thompson, late an 

 Assistant-Inspector of the Gold Coast Constabulary, 

 who in January of 1883 visited the country of Wassaw 

 of that Colony : — 



" Mr. J, A. Dawson of Cape Coast is here engaged 

 in the manufacture of india-rubber. He pays the 

 natives gd. per quart for the juice of the rubber vine, 

 and with the assistance of one man boils and dries it, 

 obtaining about twelve hundredweight of india-rubber 

 per week. 



" He sent a consignment to England in September 



