India rubber world . njured the fruiter on which we finallyembarked was a Norwegian of about700 tons and carried 10,000 bunchesof bananas. As we were the onlythree passengers, we took possessionof the bridge and also of the cap-tains quarters and lived high ineverything except food. We wentout in the face of a norther and raninto one after another during thewhole passage. The boat had norefrigerating apparatus, and to savethe fruit both the fore and after hatches were kept wide open,and It was a constant matter of wonderment to me that someof the big green seas didnt topple over our
India rubber world . njured the fruiter on which we finallyembarked was a Norwegian of about700 tons and carried 10,000 bunchesof bananas. As we were the onlythree passengers, we took possessionof the bridge and also of the cap-tains quarters and lived high ineverything except food. We wentout in the face of a norther and raninto one after another during thewhole passage. The boat had norefrigerating apparatus, and to savethe fruit both the fore and after hatches were kept wide open,and It was a constant matter of wonderment to me that someof the big green seas didnt topple over our bow and swamp us,but they didnt, and we sailed on by Cape Gracias a Dios,through squall after squall, the temperature all the time in theeighties, and finally, missing the delta of the Mississippi by awide margin, ran almost to Mobile before we got our finally got right, however, and went up the Mississippiand landed in New Orleans just in time to enjoy the fireworkswith which they usher in Christmas LARVAE OF CASTILLOA BORER 334 THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD [July i, 1905. ONE POUND OF COLORADO RUBBER. ONE RUSSIAN CONSTITUTION.• THE Salida (Colorado) Mailol June 2 contained the follow-ing highly important item of news: Mr. F. E. Hodding,president of the Rocky Mountain Crude Rubber Co., operatingan extraction plant in this city, announces that his company isseriously considering an ofTer from Buena Vi^ta tocome to thatcity. Mr. Hodding says the power of the engine and boiler isinsiifTicient to pull the extractor, and Buena Vista offers a bonusof $2000 to have the plant locate there. This sum would startthem in first class condition. A test run was made Wednesdayand one pound of rubber was extracted from ten pounds ofroot, showing it to contain 10 percent, of the crude Hodding siys the extractor worlds entirely satisfactoriallyand with more power the company could produce several hun-dred pounds of rubber per day. AMBRICAN PRODUCTION CO. The American Pro
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