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canoes began to arrive bringing only chaza, as this class of rubber, in 
view of the superior price it brought in the foreign markets, was paid 
for at much higher rates than the ordinary cakes. This stimulated the 
negroes, and about nine or ten years ago they began to plant rubber, 
until today, of the estimated population of eighty thousand negroes in 
the Choco, he is the exception who has not, if not bearing, at least a few 
dozen trees planted. And some of them have as high as four thousand 
trees in a plantation. 
Now, in the rubber shipped from Choco, the cake is the exception 
and chaza the rule. 
The products of the Choco are shipped by the steamer Condor and 
a number of dory shaped schooners to Cartagena on the Atlantic coast, 
and by dugouts to Buenaventura on the Pacific. The only two vessels 
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which have kept a record of their classified freight for the past year 
are the steamer Condor and the schooner Tulta. Inquiry from their 
owners resulted in the statement that they carried, during this period, 
seventy-one and eighty tons of rubber respectively. As there are a 
number of other schooners which run to Quibdo and are known to bring 
rubber, it is entirely reasonable to place their entire total at that of 
the Tulia, or a general total to the port of Cartagena of two hundred 
and thirty-one tons per year. Senor Luis Durier of the firm of Zuniga 
and Diaz, at present manager of their Cartagena house, who has had 
extended experience in the province of San Juan, says that unquestion- 
ably this region ships as much as the Atrato. But if it shipped far less 
we would still have a product of over a ton a day, the great majority of 
which is chaza, or the product of standing cultivated trees. 
