. India rubber world. llashitist^- Tn Front of the Municipal Building, Quito, 468 THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD [June 1. 1914. port; the abundant water-power will supply opportunity forelectrical development and manufacturing on a large scale, thusfurnishing a market for great (juantities of mechanical rubbergoods. The primitive agriculture of the high country will ini-IJrove and become far more profitable, with the growing citiesand tlie rich coast land for markets. Still more prolitalile wi 1be stock-growing; and the shepherds, herdsmen and farmers,who. since the ti^nie of the Incas, have
. India rubber world. llashitist^- Tn Front of the Municipal Building, Quito, 468 THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD [June 1. 1914. port; the abundant water-power will supply opportunity forelectrical development and manufacturing on a large scale, thusfurnishing a market for great (juantities of mechanical rubbergoods. The primitive agriculture of the high country will ini-IJrove and become far more profitable, with the growing citiesand tlie rich coast land for markets. Still more prolitalile wi 1be stock-growing; and the shepherds, herdsmen and farmers,who. since the ti^nie of the Incas, have lived and done nothingmore, will now liave nmney to spend. Is there any doubt thatthese people, whose only climatic enemy is the frecpicnt occur-rence of torrential rains—often cold and always wet—will berejoiced to learn of the existence of rubber coats, which willinsure dry skins while they arc at their outdoor tasks ? cocoa-drinker wants his breakfast drink ; the planter. (of^yn^lil b\ i r.,]crn;ood <!r Cntterziootl. Gathering in Ecuadcr. of the coast wants the potatoes and mutton of his countrj-suplands; the grower of these commodities wants his rubbercoat. So the cacao is sent across the ocean, ground, and sentback to America with freights and profits added; the rubberof the forests makes two journeys across the Atlantic, and theAmerican manufacturers in both lines let this prolitable businessgo by. and busy themselves looking after the home market,like the islanders who made money by taking in each otherswashing. The rapid rise of wealth in the cities and amongthe planters means a greatly increased market for druggistssundries and articles of luxury, and this market can be foundby visiting Guayacpiil and the towns on the railroad runningfrom that port. With newly foimd prosperity among tlie poorerclasses, they also will have wants. enterprising manufac-turer could derive no mean profits from the sale of toys andrubber balls among thes
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