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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[October i, 1905. 



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Willard M. Ellwood, Elkhart, Ind., treasurer. The investors 

 in the old company are informed that the new company will 

 have direct charge of operations in Mexico, instead of the 

 plantation being managed through contract with a develop- 

 ment company as heretofore by La Trinidad Mexican Pfanta- 

 tion Association. Mr. Pearson, of The India Rudher World, 

 spent some time on the company's hacienda " Ixtal " in the 

 early part of 1933. and photographic views of the plantation 

 appeared in the August issue of this Journal in that year. 

 Treasurer Ellwood now writes : "We have the oldest rubber 

 so far as we know on the gu'.f coast in the Isthmus territory but 

 do not expect to commence tapping commercially for two or 

 three years." 



ORIZABA RUBBER PLANTATION CO. 



[ Plantation " El Cliival," Salto de Agua, state of Chiapas. Mexico. Office : No 21 

 Quincy street, Chicago, Illinois. See The India Rubrbr World, March 1, 

 1904— page 1S5.] 



The last report by an inspector chosen by the shareholders, 

 dated September i, 1905, is 

 signed by W. S. Sweeny, prin- 

 cipal of a public school in Jer- 

 sey City. He arrived at the 

 company's plantation on July 

 25, and his report gives de- 

 tailed statements in regard 10 

 the various features of the 

 plantation, which is princi- 

 pally devoted to rubber. He 

 concludes his report on the 

 condition of the plantation: 

 " Nothing short of a convul- 

 sion of nature or the worst of 

 bad management can make it 

 a failure." Mr. Sweeny's re- 

 port includes notes on a num- 

 ber of other company and pri- 

 vate plantations of rubber 

 which he saw while in Mexico, 

 the condition of which on the 

 whole further encourages him 

 in the hope that rubber plant- 

 ing there promises ultimately 

 to be exceedingly successful. 

 For instance, he mentions " La 

 Ventura" plantation [in 

 charge of Mr. James C. Har- 

 vey], who, after tapping ex- 

 perimentally some six year old 

 rubber trees to determine the 

 quality of the rubber, submit- 



RUBBER TAPPING IN NICARAGUA. 



The tapping of six year old Castilloas at the " Canada" plantation, 

 Bluefields, Nicaragua, shown in the illustration, is along lines worked 

 out by Mr. Gordon Waldfon, resident manager and largest owner. The 

 tool used is made from a machttt, and is of the chisel type. Under the 

 cut is placed a tin cup, twelve cups to the tree. When the flow ceases 

 the latex in the cups is poured into a pail of water, and the cup rinsed 

 out. Coagulation is effected by boiling. 



RUBBER AT THE PENANG (MALAY STATES) SHOW. 

 The second yearly Agri- Horticultural Show of the Federated 

 Malay States was opened at Penang on August 9, by the gov- 

 ernor, Sir John Anderson, k. c. m. g., with a very encouraging 

 attendance. The local newspapers devote special attention to 

 the very large and varied exhibit of rubbers produced from plan- 

 tations. The Malay A/ai7 says : " The interval of a year since 

 the Show was held here has made an enormous difference in the 

 state of rubber preparation. A year ago our planters were 

 working more or less in the dark, and it was only then at the 

 Show itself that the washing machine which appears to have 

 such a great future before it was brought before the public gaze. 

 [See The India Ruhher World, October i, 1904— page 12.] 

 Here the exhibit of rubber was but small, but according to 

 information to hand ample amends appear to have been made 

 in this respect at the Show now pursuing its successful course 

 in the northern colony." The governor in his address spoke 



of the great advance made by 

 the rubber planters in the pre- 

 paration of their rubber since 

 last year. He said that the 

 success with rubber had had 

 the interesting effect of at- 

 tracting the company promo- 

 ter, a very astute gentleman 

 whom he warned the planters 

 to be very careful in dealing 

 with ; however other people 

 come out, a company promo- 

 ter will always come out well. 

 He reminded the planters that 

 what is good to sell is gener- 

 ally good to keep, and that 

 they should not be in too great 

 haste to dispose of their plan- 

 tations. He would rather see 

 a planter looking after his own 

 estate than a manager looking 

 after the land on behalf of an 

 absentee company. Mr. W. R. 

 Span showed a machine for 

 preparing rubber, which is de- 

 scribed as not unlike a clothes 

 wringer except that it has 

 three rollers working at vary- 

 ing speeds. The rubber is 

 drawn through the rollers, 

 which extract the water, and 

 comes out in thin dry sheets. 



ted samples of the product to rubber merchants who offered 

 him $1.05 gold for such rubber in large quantities. Mention 

 is made of Sefior Pedero, who claimed to have 2000 cultivated 

 rubber trees 14 years old, which he had tapped for several 

 years, selling the product, and that there were several other 

 plantations in his neighborhood of from 10,000 to 50,000 trees 

 from which rubber had been shipped for years. The report 

 adds: "Juan Roviera has a plantation 30 miles north of Hui- 

 manguillo, which contains 2000 cultivated trees 12 years old. 

 When the trees were nine years old he took one pound of rub 

 ber from each tree and sold it for $2200 gold." Dr. George B. 

 Abbott, who has been mentioned before in these pages as the 

 plantation manager, is about to retire after several years' resi- 

 dence in the tropics and be succeeded by Mr. P. L. Barrerquy, 

 who is mentioned as having had 15 years' experience in trop- 

 ical agriculture. 



The machine was awarded a diploma and the handsome cup 

 presented by members of the Engineers' Institute. 

 NEW CEYLON PLANTING COMPANIES. 



Ratnapura Rubber Co., Limited, with a nominal capital of 

 250,000 rupees [= $81,100] has purchased Kosgalla and Gabella 

 estates, at Ratnapura in Kuruwita district. There are 563 acres, 

 of which i3S,on Kosgalla. are in tea, which is tobe interplanted 

 with rubber, and the rest is forest land which will be developed 

 in rubber later. The first directors are R. F. S. Hardie, R. W. 

 Harrison, M. F. Khan, and E. M. Shattock. 



= Kapar Para Rubber Estates Co. .Limited, registered in Lon- 

 don August 28, 1905, with/ 50,000 capital, to adopt an agree- 

 ment with J. B. Fletcher.W. W. Bailey, and W. Newett, provid- 

 ing for the acquisition of certain property in the Federated 

 Malay States, and to carry on the business of rubber planters. 

 Registered office: 81, Gracechurch street, E. C, London. 



