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IHE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[September t, 1906. 



Washington an application for seeds o{ Sapium which it has 

 decided, on his recommendation, to plant experimentallj- on 

 lands in the soutli of Florida, which he visited and reported 

 on for another ])urpose a few j-ears ago. 



A $l,iOO,0OO PLANTING COMPANY. 



TiiK largest rnboer company yet formed in respect of the 

 Far East is the Highlands and Lowlands Para Rubber Co., 

 lyimited, registered in London June 6, with a capital of 

 /^3io,ooo [ = 51,508,615], in £1 shares. The company takes 

 its name from the "Highlands" and " Lowlands " estates 

 belonging to Mr. W. W. Bailey and his associates, near 

 Klang, Selangor, Federated Malay States, described by 

 Mr. Pearson in The India Rubbek World, September i, 

 1904 (page 407). These are among the best developed prop- 

 erties in existence and figure in the merger at /i2o,ooo. 

 The various neighboring estates already brought under the 

 control of the Batu Unjor Rubber Co., Limited, come in at 

 ^66,000. Recently a syndicate of Mr. Bailey's acquired 

 from the government 10,000 acres between Klang and Kuala 

 Lumpur, which goes in at ^{^40,000, and the remainder of 

 the ^310,000 is to be working capital, for developing the 

 10,000 acre block. It is understood that the subscriptions 

 to the capital reached five times the amount offered to the 

 public. 



MEXICAN I'LANTING NOTES. 



The plantation " La Esmeralda, " of The Vera Cruz Devel 

 opment Co., (Canton. Ohio), consisting of 3600 acres of land in 

 the state of Vera Cruz, Mexico, with sugar mill and equipment, 

 was sold under an order of court at Canton, on July 16, to 

 A. J. Ault, for $29,000. Mr. Ault writes to The India 

 RiBBER Would from Costa Rica, Ohio, that the company 

 will be reorganized soon. The company was organized in 

 1901 and has planted .some rubber, but it is mainly a sugar 

 enterprise. 



YIELD OF A MALAY STATE PLANTATION. 

 At the second annual meeting of shareholders of The Val- 

 lambrosa Rubber Co , Limited (Edinburgh, July 23), the 

 report presented showed that 39.113 pounds of rubber har- 

 vested during the business year netted ^10,745, or about 5.?. 

 6;^rf. [$1,343! per pound. This crop was obtained from the 

 light tapping of 557 acres ; 68,235 trees were tapped — 28,460 

 during two periods in the year, and 39,775 only at one sea- 

 son. The same trees are expected to yield 75000 jiounds 

 this year, and 373 acies of younger trees will be tapped for 

 the first time. The company have i 134 acres under rubber. 



RUBBhR PLANTING IN THE FAR EAST. 



In announcing a new edition of their " Cej-lon Handbook 

 and Directory-, " the publishers of T/ic Ceylon Observer state 

 their returns for this year relate to no less than 60 new rub- 

 ber plantations, covering nearly 14,000 acres of actual plant- 

 ing. Besides, nearly every rubber estate mentioned last 

 year appears to have increased its acreage since. 



In his first annual report as director of agriculture of the 

 Federated Malay States, Mr. J. B. Carruthers estimates that 

 38,000 acres have been planted to rubber to dale in the 

 States while a total of 100,000 acres has been alienated for 

 rubljer planting. 



In a column of good sound sense in the way of caution 

 against extravagant estimates of profits possible from rub- 

 ber culture, Mr. A. Bethune writes to The Times of Ceylon : 



"We know that a rubber plantation can be brought into 

 bearing for some ^20 [=$100]. If we can get a profit per 

 annum of that amount per acre, it means 100 per cent., and 

 that is a good enough return for most of us." At any rate 

 he would be satisfied with verj' much less than /^lao per 

 acre, as estimated bj- some optimists. 



The first tapping by the Cicely Rubber Estates Co., Lim- 

 ited, in Ceylon, was done during the year ended March 31 

 last, when 9184 pounds of rubber were obtained from 6919 

 [fevea trees. It was .sold at an averageof 5^. 6rf. [=$i.33?4 ] 

 per pound. This works out at about $1.77 per tree, before 

 the end of the eighth year. The oldest planting dates from 

 1898. The first year's dividend is 10 per cent, on the prefer- 

 ence and 5 per cent, on the ordinary shares. 



RUBBER PLANTING IN NEW Gl INKA 



The business report of the New Guinea Compagnie (Ber- 

 lin) for the business year 1904-05 goes into detail regarding 

 the amount of rubber planted to date by the compau}-, bj- 

 species and ages, as follows : 



Age. Castiltoa. Ficus. Hevea. TotaL 



[year 50,874 44.207 13.527 108,698 



2 years 123,670 44.231 167,001 



3 years 23,786 200(14 5,010 57,860 



4 years 51,347 5.366 1.9S1 58.694 



5 years 28,061 2,480 30,541 



6 years 12 2,738 2,750 



7 years 11 62 400 473 



Total 277,761 125,23s 2c,oi8 426.Q17 



This company' was founded in 1885; its capital amounts 

 to 6,000,000 marks [=$1,428,000] ; some revenue has been 

 derived from the sale of copra and other products. 



AN AMERICAN TAIPING HUBBLR IN CEYLON. 



[The culUnff is beiiiK done I)y Mr. E H. Parrish. vice president of the Gorhain 

 Rubber Co., San Francisco, Calilnrnia.] 



