have accommodations for first and third class passengers, are 
lighted by electricity, have an artificial ice plant and make the 
voyage from Manaos to Porto Velho and St. Antonio in about 
five days, at the average speed of ten miles an hour, calling at 
the small Amazonian ports and cities situated on the banks of 
the Madeira River. In descending the river both the large and 
small steamers make the voyage in from three to four days. 
The rubber from St. Antonio on the Madeira River is of the 
same physical and chemical constituents as all the rubber of the 
Amazon Valley. This is worth remembering, when we think 
of this new municipality in the State of Matto Grosso, being 
the frontier of the States of Amazonas and Para. 
In the Manaos market, where the rubber comes by way of 
the Madeira River, and in that of Para, which it reaches by way 
of River Tapajéz, it is always quoted at the same price and 
under the same conditions as those produced in the regions of 
the Amazon proper. 
The production has been increasing annually since 1906 and 
is actually about 2,000,000 of kilos annually. This will cer- 
tainly increase to an amount that cannot be foretold, with the 
completion of the Madeira-Marmoré Railway, the wagon road 
and telegraph line and the constant improvements in navigation. 
During the first six months of the current year, the produc- 
tion of rubber was greater than for the same length of time in 
any year since 1907, as can be verified from the report annexed. 
In those regions, between Cuyaba and the new municipality, 
there exist rubber (seringa) forests capable of producing in one 
year, more than 40,000,000 of kilos of rubber. 
To attain this ideal, it is only necessary that the captains of 
industry should join in the development of extraction. This 
fountain shoots forth from the earth spontaneously without the 
necessity of cultivation. To encourage and stimulate those who 
wish to employ there, their endeavors and capital, the law of the 
State of Matto Grosso offers special favors. These are offered 
to those who wish to develop the vast forests of rubber existing, 
as well as to those who wish to plant and cultivate the Sypho- 
nia elastica. ao ; 
Speaking of the Rubber Exposition soon to be held in New 
York, it is proper to call attention to the well-known fact that 
already the capitalists of North America have begun the develop- 
ment of that region. . 
The large capitalist, Percival Farquhar, of North America, 
has already incorporated two rubber companies, the Muller and 
Guaporé, under the social terms of July, for the purpose not 
only of developing the extraction industry of the hevea brazil- 
iensis, but also for the different branches of agriculture necessary 
for the making of sugar, petton: cleih etc, 
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