Crossword-Solution: CHICLE 6 letters, 43 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

Carefully paring the fuzzy tuft of hairs off the top of it--it looked to me very much like the tip of a cactus plant, which, indeed, it was--she rolled it into a little pellet and placed it in her mouth, chewing it slowly like a piece of chicle.

Among the 115 or more species of timber and wood for constructional purposes are oak, pine, mahogany, cedar, and others, whilst the list of fibrous and medicinal plants, gum-bearing trees, as india-rubber, _chicle_, &c., tinctorial and resinous trees, edible plants and fruits, is of much interest and value.

The principal products, however, are the dyewoods--famous for their quality--and timber, including cedar and mahogany; sugar-cane, maize, and rice are produced, and the inevitable _chicle_--chewing gum--for export to New York, whilst the numerous fruits of the tropical zone are freely raised.

From there they are transported by car, river and horse into the dense chicle forests in the mountain regions, then across the Guatemalan border into Chiapas and Campeche.

But if the Mexican Government will instruct its air squadron to go to Campeche and fly forty miles north of the Rio Hondo and a little west of Quintana Roo border, they will find a completed airport in the heart of the chicle jungle; and if they will fly a little due west of the small villages of La Tuxpena and Esperanza in Campeche, they will find two more secret airports.