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Title: India rubber world
Year: 1899 (1890s)
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Subjects: Rubber industry and trade
Publisher: (Philadelphia, Bill Brothers Publishing Corp.)
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
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ORLD (June 1, 1914. mules gracefully filing around corners on ledges eighteen incheswide above chasms a thousand feet deep; or, perhaps, a dark,long-haired native crossing a similar abyss on a rope-bridgeand carrying on his shoulders a chair in which sits a fair andmeditative senorita. It is all right in pictures, he says, awfullyinteresting in reality, but he does not, as in his youth, hankerfor tlie pleasure of personal experience. We may at onceadmit tliat he is entitled to his prejudices, and suggest that ifhe wishes to visit Quito in less trying fashion he may take atrain on the newly-built railroad from the seaport, hand up histicket to an American conductor, and, when he arrives atQuito, get off and go to a hotel. That is the way they do itnow, and the distance is less than 300 miles by rail. Ecuador has an area about as great as that of Nevada, witha population fifteen times as great. A majority of the popula-tion are of Indian, or partly Indian, descent, but wholly civilized.
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Courtesy of The Pan American Union, Washington. The M.\rket Place in Quito, Ecu.^dor, and such peaceful occupations as agriculture and stock-raisingfurnish employment to the greater number. In the productionof cacao Ecuador leads the world. This valuable article of foodand drink was first exported from Ecuador less than fortyyears ago, but the planters have found such profit in it that theproduction has risen to a hundred million pounds. This sup-ply, great as it is, is less than the consumption in the UnitedStates. Much of it goes to Europe, and then back across theocean to us. There is no reason why this should continue. Thecrude product realizes to the grower only about ten cents apound, and enters our ports duty free. When it reaches theconsumer as chocolate, cocoa or cocoa-butter the price has beenadvanced by an average of 500 per cent. With the opening ofthe Panama Canal the seeds should be shipped directly fromthe plantation to the American factory, and the food productssold at

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