. India rubber world. ery convincing, as the true Manhat-tanite believes that there are very few things in the worldlarger than his island. Or to put it in another form, if the4,000,000 trees now on the estate were planted in a row, 19 feetapart—the shortest distance between any two trees in the plantation—they would reach 14,000 miles, or farther than from Ne\ to Sumatra. And all this great enterprise is the result ofless than four years work. It will be remembered that in the spring of 1910 the price ofcrude rubber soared to the three dollar mark, but for eighteenmonths before that tim
. India rubber world. ery convincing, as the true Manhat-tanite believes that there are very few things in the worldlarger than his island. Or to put it in another form, if the4,000,000 trees now on the estate were planted in a row, 19 feetapart—the shortest distance between any two trees in the plantation—they would reach 14,000 miles, or farther than from Ne\ to Sumatra. And all this great enterprise is the result ofless than four years work. It will be remembered that in the spring of 1910 the price ofcrude rubber soared to the three dollar mark, but for eighteenmonths before that time it had been climbing with a rapiditymost inauspicious for the manufacturer. It was most natural,therefore, that the directors of the United States Rubber ask themselves why it was necessary for a great manu- facturing organization using from one-fourth to one-third of allthe crude rubber coming into the United States to be at the mercyijf the capricious seriiigueiro and the almost equally irresponsible. INDIA RUBBER WORLDDEC. 1913 Map of Sumatra. .Siu;n- \\lli Pointing Arrow Showing Location of the Plantation. aviador. It was natural that they should ask themselves why,with their great manufacturing and distributing system, theyshould not their organization until they controlled rub-ber from the ground up, or, to grow alliterative, from the soilto the sale. They concluded it was worth investigating, and they sent B. Davis—who in his private travels had visited theMiddle East extensively and was already quite familiar withthat part of the world—over to the Malay Peninsula and theadjacent territory to reconnoitre. Obviously this was an enter-prise that required not only American gumption but the bestIcical experts, thoroughly at home in plantation matters. Con-
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