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A VISIT TO RUBBER PLANTATIONS 
on the place with him, and they seem as happy and healthy as if they 
were running a farm in a northern clime. 
After looking over the Sim Iron plantation, we visited Daytonia, 
now the Rubber Grove plantation, where there were some very good 
trees, although it was explained that the man who started the planatation 
sold something like two hundred thousand dollars of stock, and spent 
IN THE SHADE OF A RUBBER TREE. 
[Named from right to left : Sim Iron, S. W. Sinclair, J. A. Belanger, 
Charles H. Arnold, Arthur F. Townsend, The Cook, Henry C. Pearson.] 
only thirty thousand dollars in planting. He was later prosecuted for 
fraud and was sent to jail in some one of the United States. The planta- 
tion was then taken over by a local company, who are getting it into 
good shape. 
After leaving Daytonia, we visited some small private plantations. 
