One Thousand Ways to Make Money by Page Fox

349. ARTIFICIAL INDIA RUBBER.--A man while experimenting recently with

cottonseed oil for the production of a varnish, obtained to his surprise, not a varnish, but a rubber. By its use, with fifteen per cent. of genuine rubber, an article can be produced so exactly like the real as to defy detection. The process is so simple that a patent is not obtainable. So, manufacturers, the field is open. Rubber is high and in great demand.