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Project Gutenberg's The Romance of Rubber, by United States Rubber Company This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: The Romance of Rubber Author: United States Rubber Company Editor: John Martin Posting Date: September 4, 2009 [EBook #4759] Release Date: December, 2003 First Posted: March 13, 2002 Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ROMANCE OF RUBBER *** Produced by Robert Rowe, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. HTML version by Al Haines. THE ROMANCE OF RUBBER EDITED BY JOHN MARTIN EDITOR OF JOHN MARTIN'S BOOK THE CHILD'S MAGAZINE PUBLISHED BY UNITED STATES RUBBER COMPANY CONTENTS 1 THE DISCOVERY 2 CHARLES GOODYEAR 3 THE HEVEA TREE 4 WICKHAM'S IDEA 5 PLANTATION DEVELOPMENT 6 PLANTATION LIFE 7 HARVESTING THE RUBBER 8 A LAST WORD AN INTRODUCTORY NOTE We have undertaken to print this booklet, telling you how rubber is grown, gathered, and then made useful, for this reason: The United States Rubber Company, as the largest rubber manufacturer in the world, wants the coming generations of our country to have some understanding of the importance of rubber in our every day life. We hope to interest and inform you. We believe the rubber industry will be better off if the future citizens of our country know more about it. CHAPTER 1 THE DISCOVERY If you were asked, "What did Columbus discover in 1492?" you would have but one answer. But what he discovered on his second voyage is not quite so easy to say. He was looking for gold when he landed on the island of Hayti on that second trip. So his eyes were blind to the importance of a simple game which he saw being played with a ball that bounced by some half-naked Indian boys on the sand between the palm trees and the sea. Instead of the coveted gold, he took back to Europe, just as curiosities, some of the strange black balls given him by these Indian boys. He learned that the balls were made from the hardened juice of a tree. The little boys and girls of Spain were used to playing with balls made of rags or wool, so you may imagine how these bouncing ball
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