India rubber world . the horse, and after lunch quite a party of us startedthrough the typical forest trail toward the cleared and plantedland at the further side of the estate. At length we emergedinto the open, and found ourselves on a ridge from which wehad a view of hundreds of acres of rich rolling land, all coveredwith Castilloa trees about a year old. We rode over this wholeplanting, visited the four camps where the native workmenlive in pilm thatched houses, and examined the rubber treeson the hilltops, on side hills, and in the valleys, and when wewere told that the stand of rubber em
India rubber world . the horse, and after lunch quite a party of us startedthrough the typical forest trail toward the cleared and plantedland at the further side of the estate. At length we emergedinto the open, and found ourselves on a ridge from which wehad a view of hundreds of acres of rich rolling land, all coveredwith Castilloa trees about a year old. We rode over this wholeplanting, visited the four camps where the native workmenlive in pilm thatched houses, and examined the rubber treeson the hilltops, on side hills, and in the valleys, and when wewere told that the stand of rubber embraced 1500 acres, allcleared, burned, and planted in one short season, and that therewere fully 2,030,000 healthy trees, we fell to congratulatingManager Luther on the accomplishment of so marvelous atask. It took so long to do the whole of the sightseeing thatit was dark when we entered the forest again for our two orthree mile return ride. Our horses knew the way, however, 336 THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD [July i, PIECE OF ROAD ON PLANTATION RUBIO. and brought us safely through, and an hour later we were onthe launch steaming back to Minatitlan. The voyage waswithout special incident, unless one were to cite the clouds ofwhite moths that tilled the air until it looked as if it weresnowing, and which finally drove us to cover in the cabin. The next day we took in a plantation far up the Coachapariver, owned by a wealthy native, Sefior Sanchez. His inter-ests were chiefly in cattle, although he had a little grove ofwild seedling Caslilloas about ten years old, which were [6 to18 inches in diameter, and perhaps 30 feet high. These wetapped in all sorts of ways, andgot an abundance of milk, andincidentally proved that nei-ther native nor white man cantap a tree successfully withoutmuch practice and skill. Indeed the next great prob-lem that is to confront the rub-ber planters is that of tappingand preparing for market. Onehas only to look at the wildtrees in the forest, and see
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