March i, 1909.J 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



215 



What The Rubber Planters Are Doing. 



"CASTILLOA" KUBBER RESULTS IN MEXICO. 



AN American crude rubber merchant in Boston advises The 

 India Rubber World: "Shipments of CastiUoa from 

 Mexican plantations have now begun to come forward 

 with regularity, and I think the increase in the amount will be 

 about the same as that of the Hevea has been from Malaya and 

 Ceylon." He mentions the recent receipt and sale of 2,000 pounds 

 of plantation CastUloa rubber from one plantation in Mexico, 

 which realized go cents a pound for "grcna" and $1.05 for 

 "biscuits," the latter being exceptionally fine. Shipments from 

 two other plantations are mentioned, which also brought good 

 prices. Our correspondent adds : "All these plantations will tap 

 a much increased quantity this season ; in fact, one, I expect, 

 will tap something like 15,000 or 20,000 pounds." This informa- 

 tion is communicated with reserve as to the particular plantations 

 involved. On this page appears an illustration from a photo- 

 graph of a lot of cultivated CastUloa rubber gathered by La 

 Zacualpa Rubber Plantation Co. on their estate in Mexico, 

 and placed on exhibition for some time doing December in the 

 store cf the Goodyear Rubber Co., Nos. S73-57P Market street, 

 San Francisco. The shipment amounted in weight to 10,000 

 pounds, and is referred to as covering the collections for six 

 weeks. 



LA ZACUALPA "PLANTATION" RESULTS. 



Some details of rubber yields of the La Zacualpa Plantation 

 Co., on their Mexicin estate, appeared in The Indi.-v Rubber 



"Castilloa" Rubber from "La Zacualpa." 



[A shipment of 10. coo pounds on exhibition at llie Goodyear Rubber Co.'s 

 store in San Francisco.] 



World August i, 1908 (page 374), the salient point being that 

 in the collection of 40,600 pounds of rubber in 1907 the yield per 

 tree, averaging slightly under 6 years old, was 2.52 ounces from 

 each tapping. Most of the trees in question were tapped only 

 once. .\ later report signed by O. H. Harrison, vice-president 

 and resident director of the company, states that as an experi- 

 ment some 7-ycar-oId trees, 4 months after having yielded 3 

 ounces of rubber each, were subjected to "severe tapping" and 

 gave from 8 to 11 ounces each of rubber as treated by the com- 

 pany's process, which is stated to be equal to 10 to 14 ounces 

 of the rubber ordinarily obtained from CastUloa, and of the 

 character upon which usual estiinates of yield are based. The 

 report points to the assurance of the company that CastUloa 

 trees 6 or 7 years old will stand three tappings a year, giving a 

 total of 6 ounces per tree. Mr. Harrison states that bis com- 



pany shipped on account of the 1907 dividends, in addition to the 

 40,600 pounds referred to already, 15,900 pounds from wild trees 

 on the company's property, and neighboring lands of his own. 



RUBBER PLANTERS OF HAWAH. 



The second annual meeting of the Hawaiian Rubber Grow- 

 ers' Association (Honolulu, November 19) was well attended, 

 and the members appeared enthusiastic over the results ob- 

 tained up to date and the prospects for further develop- 

 ment. Dr. Wilcox, in charge of the government experiment 

 station, read a report on experiments conducted under his direc- 

 tion, which convinced him that rubber as now grown in the 

 territory would yield an assured profit. The meeting was at- 

 tended by a number of citizens other than rubber planters, who 

 commented upon the desirability of having other industries than 

 sugar in Hawaii, and the whole population seem to look forward 

 to good results being derived from rubber. 



Mr. F. T. P. Waterhousc, one of the members present, had 

 published during the year a report of a visit to the rubber plan- 

 tations of Ceylon, Malaya, and Java. Hugh Howell, an officer 

 nf the association, was referred to as the father of rubber plant- 

 ing in Hawaii. The original Ceara rubber trees planted by him 

 about 10 years ago at Nahiku, on the island of Maui, are still 

 alive and flourishing. The meeting wound up with a banquet. 



The ofiicers chosen for the ensuing year were Dr. E. C. Water- 

 house, president; H. A. Baldwin, vice president; D. C. Lindsay, 

 secretary and treasurer ; Hugh Howell and F. L. Waldron, trus- 

 tees. A report of the first meeting of the association appeared 

 in The India Rubber World December I, 1907 (page 87). 



The interest of the Hawaiian territorial government in the 

 fiubject of rubber culture is indicated by the fact that the per- 

 sonnel of the agricultural experiment station includes an ofiicial 

 designated as "assistant in rubber investigation." 



NEW PLANTINfi COMPANY IN HAWAII. 



A cnuroRATiON has been formed for planting rubber at Puna, 

 on the island of Hawaii, known as the Pacific Development Co., 

 Limited. The authorized capital is $30,000, and its officers E. C. 

 Brown, president ; F. L. Waldron, vice president ; B. von Damm, 

 secretary and treasurer.. They have planted to date 36,017 Ceara 

 rubber trees on 113 acres and 8,700 Hevea on 47 acres. The 

 company have also planted some pineapples and cocoanuts. 



RETIREMENT OF SIR DANIEL MORRIS. 



Sir Dakiki. Mokkis, k. c. m. g., d. sc, has retired from the 

 post of imperial commissioner of agriculture for the British West 

 Indies, which he had occupied with conspicuous success since 

 August, 1898. Dr. Morris had previously been assistant director of 

 the royal botanic gardens at Kew. He was the author of the 

 "Cantor lectures" on india-rubber, before the Society of Arts 

 in London, in .\pril, iSoS, a notable contribution to the litera- 

 ture of rubber, and in his official position encouraged the 

 development of rubber culture in the West Indies. Sir Daniel 

 has been succeeded by Dr. Francis Watts, c. M. c, late superin- 

 tendent of agriculture for the Leeward islands. 



THE WEST INDIA COMMITTEE. 



Sir Henry Katz Davsox, recently elected cliairman of the im- 

 portant West India Committee in London— after having been 

 vice chairman since 1898, was born in Berbice, British Guiana, 

 where his family in 1816 founded a successful business firm of 

 which he is now the head. In 1845 Sir Henry entered the 

 colonial service, in which be won distinction. He concerned 

 himself with the development of British Guiana resources, and 

 was a pioneer in the balata trade which, in that colony, bad its 

 begimiing in Berbice, Sir Henry's native district. The West 

 India Committee are stimulating the planting of rubber, and 



