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The upriver article comes from the head waters of the rivers 
Madeira, Purees, Jurua, and Javary as far as 3,600 miles from here. 
The cost of Islands Rubber is from is. 2 d. to 2s. per lb. The 
cost increases with the distance. 
No system of cultivation exists, nor is any being attempted. 
For more information 1 would refer you to the following Con- 
sular Reports : — 
State of Para No. 2,140 of 1898. 
State of Amazonas No. 530 0^1900. 
I regret I cannot supply them to you, as I have no duplicate. 
I have &c., 
(Sgd.) H. B. S. Churchill, 
Consul. 
The Secretary , Chamber of Commerce , 
Singapore, 
H. B. M. Consulate, 
Mexico City, D. P. 
September 7th, 1901, 
Sir, — I have been requested by His Majesty’s Consul to acknow- 
ledge the receipt of your letter of the 25th of July, and to inform 
you that there is practically no rubber at present exported from 
Mexico, forty tons of wild rubber having been shipped from the 
State of Chiapas, and ten tons from Coatzacoalcas, a port in the 
State of Vera Cruz. 
2. The cost cannot be estimated, as the wild rubber is collected 
by the Indians and sold by them to Traders at the mouths of the 
Rivers. 
3. A very large acreage is being put into rubb r there being 
several plantations, which have from two to four hundred thousand 
trees, none of these plantations have been in existence for seven 
years which is the time needed in Mexico for rubber to give results, 
so their ultimate future is problematical. 
I may add that the acreage is being greatly increased, the 
majority of Companies and individuals who are planting rubber are 
Americans. 
The average number of trees planted to the acre is 180, Ameri- 
can investors seem to have every confidence that rubber in Mexico 
will give large profits, but up to the present moment no results 
have been given, which would justify these beliefs. 
Chamber of Commerce , Singapore. 
H. Hastings Horne, 
Pro Consul. 
Part was produced outside tihs State. 
