India rubber world . RESIDENCE OF SIM IRON. level, and as a rule, soil was very rich and very well of the first plantations that we visited was one owned by I, 1905.] THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 331. SIM IRON S RUBBE i PLANTATION. a genial old gentleman from Virginia by the name ol Sim runs his place himself and has about 17,000 trees betweenthree and lour years old. Ilis ranch houses were more pictur-esque than those o( the Manhattan in that they were palmthatched and built largely in the native fashion. During a partof the year the old gentleman has his wife on the place
India rubber world . RESIDENCE OF SIM IRON. level, and as a rule, soil was very rich and very well of the first plantations that we visited was one owned by I, 1905.] THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 331. SIM IRON S RUBBE i PLANTATION. a genial old gentleman from Virginia by the name ol Sim runs his place himself and has about 17,000 trees betweenthree and lour years old. Ilis ranch houses were more pictur-esque than those o( the Manhattan in that they were palmthatched and built largely in the native fashion. During a partof the year the old gentleman has his wife on the place withhim and they seem as happy and healihy as if they were run-ning a farm in a northern clime. After looking over the Sim Iron plantation we visited Day-tonia, now the Rubber Grove plantation, where were somevery good trees, although it was explained that the man whostarted the plantation sold something like $200,000 of stockand spent only $30,000 in planting. He was later prosecutedfor fraud and was sent to jail in some one of the United plantation was then taken over by a local company whoare getting it into good shape. After leaving Daytonia we visited some small private planta-tions, all
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