橡胶的一个角落。
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橡胶制造商之间有令人沮丧和愤怒。投机者坚持整个南美生产的绝对控制，并确定原材料价格以适应自己。1879年，原始印度橡胶或卡路楼，每磅75美分。在那一点上，投机者抓住了它，并且作为临时力量的考验，价格高达每磅1美元。在这种压力下，通过他们尚未获得控制的渠道将数量拖入市场中，而且在1880年春天的价格下降到80美分。然而，它从未如此低，因此对于投机者发展强度而言足以覆盖整个地面，并取得了他们高兴的东西。刚才'他们以前高。周四，他们从每磅1.17美元到1.23美元。昨天买家拒绝持有人的价格，即市场上没有股票的借口，在下一个蒸笼到达之前无法命名。然而，这是肯定是不真实的，正如据说来自帕拉的最后一个蒸笼的大约1200例橡胶，现在才被举行，直到制造商的必需品将迫使他们提交给另一个沉重的时间 advance. It is feared that the price will go up to $1.50 before there is any drop. In this extremity the manufacturers have been spurred to an attempt at concerted action to protect themselves, and have called a meeting, which is to be held on the 18th inst., to devise measures for neutralizing in the future the power of the present speculators. The great trouble, they say, is that the men now controlling the supply of rubber practically own the Indians and small traders of the interior of Brazil, in the Amazon valley, whence the material comes, having got a firm hold upon them by advances and systems of keeping them in debt, such as the Hudson Bay Company used to employ in dealing with the Canadian Indians. To meet this condition of affairs, the manufacturers expect to be compelled to form a colony in Brazil, establish trading posts of their own, and so open up a rivalry in dealing directly with the Indians.
