p. 9 | Rubber Made from Texas Oil

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 6, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 32.

Rubber Made from Texas Oil

A REPORT from Texas states that a high grade of rubber has been produced from the refined product of the Beaumont oil wells combined with cotton-seed oil. For a long time scientists have been looking for a substitute for rubber, as the natural supply is insufficient, and in danger of a decrease. The bicycle, the automobile, the electric cable, and many other modern inventions, have made a constant and increasing demand upon the products of the rubber forests, until it has been predicted that the termination of the rubber supply was in sight. If the Texas report is true, it is one of the most important discoveries of the present time.