December i, 1908.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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The Rubber Planting Interest. 



YIELD OF ••CASTiLLOA ELASTicA." l,ands of I'll Palmar Estates, incorporated March 28, 1908, under 



A RECENT bulletin issued by Hacienda del Corte, Inc. (Mil- the laws of New York, with $900/x)0 capital. The officers are 



waukee, Wisconsin), gives the following result of ex- Walter J. Raymer (Chicago), president; Wallace T. Jones (New 



perimcntal tapping of cultivated Castilloa rubber on their York), vice-president; John C. Sanders (Cleveland, Ohio), 



estate in Oaxaca, Mexico. Three groups, each of 16 trees, were treasurer, and George A. Tailer (New York), secretary. The 



tapped twice — on July 24 and August 24, 1908 — three different financial agent is John A. Barnes, Monolith building. New York, 



methods of tapping being employed, and the average weight of The further development of the estates is in the hands of the 



rubber per tree is stated to have been : Tropical Products Co., incorporated by identical interests under 



First group : Spiral tapping 4.69 ounces ''^"^ '^^^ °^ N'^"' York, March 28, 1908. The shares of El Palmar 



Second group: Herring lone tapping 4.42 " Estates will be placed in trust with the Windsor Trust Co. (New 



Third group: V-eut tapping 4.33 " York) until the development now in prospect has been com- 



The age of these trees is not stated, but from reference to the ploted. 



estate— formerly the Isthmus Plantation Association of Mexico— rubber show at kuala XUMPUR. 



which have appeared in The India Rubiser World, it seems that At the fifth joint annual Agri-IIorticultural Show of the Ma- 



the initial planting was in 1900, and the trees experimented on lay peninsula, held this year in August at Kuala Lumpur, the 



are probably 8 years old. number of entries of plantation rubber was smaller than last 



EL PALMAR ESTATES-A NEW MEXICAN COMPANY. >'^='''' ''"' °" "'"^ ^'^"'"^ ^''^ ^''^^^^ "'^/^ 7^= ^\".=,d and interest- 



mg. iwenty-one awards were made for exhibits of rubbei. 



A COMPANY has been formed to take over the control of "El ^-,^g Governor's cup, for the best sample of rubber in the show. 



Palmar plantation m the State of Vera. Cruz, Mexico, on which ^^,.^^ ^^^^^^^ ^^ j^^^„g ^^^^^^ i^ p^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^ 5^,,^^,^,^ ^^,p ^,^ 



rubber culture was begun ten years ago, m connection with su- Kamuning estate. Six awards were made for gutta-percha, ^ 

 gar and other products. The estate embraces 4,682 acres, part ^^^ ^jj ^^^^ p^^- ^^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^ ^^^ ^^,^^^^ ^^ppj^^ ^^^.^^ ^^^j 

 of which has been planted already to rubber (Castilloa elastica), , j^^ machinery in connection with the preparation of rubber, 

 and the purpose of the new management is to make rubber plant- 

 ing the chief interest in future. Reference has been made already rubber on ceylon railways. 

 to the rubber product of "El Palmar," in which have been inter- The official railway returns of Ceylon are beginning to men- 

 ested the important Mexican firm. Lions Hcrmanos y Cia (Lions tion rubber specifically as an article of traffic and the record 

 Brothers & Co.), of Pueblo. The new administration is in the runs: 12 tons in 1905; 13 tons in 1906; and 112 tons in 1907. The 





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View on Estate of Oiuzaba Rubber Plantation Co.. in Mexico. 



[Planted Castilioa clostica, three years old, avcrasi'ig i" inches in circumference.! 



