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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[March i, igog. 



made a notable display at the London Rubber Exhibition last 

 September. 



Rubber of the Castilloa species was first planted on the island 

 of Tobago about 20 years ago, by Captain Short, for shading 

 cacao. Some of the trees are now 7 feet in girth. About 10 

 years ago the West India Rubber Plantation Syndicate, Limited, 

 commenced planting Castilloa on the "Louis d'Or" estate, where 

 they are now tapping. They use centrifugal coagulating process 

 of Biffen and Howard, turning out, it is said, fine rubber. 



On the island of Trinidad there are about 50 plantations of 

 Castilloa rubber, from a few of which exports of rubber have 

 been made. 



TAPPnfG TOOL FOR "CASTILLOA." 



The illustration shows a new type of tapping tool for use on 

 Castilloa rubber trees.. The blade is so arranged that it can be 

 slipped up or down, away from the guard, enabling it to make 



either a deep or shallow cut. 

 That is about all the description 

 that is needed with the illustra- 

 tion. It is in use on the Mexi- 

 can plantation of The German- 

 American Coffee Co., of New 

 York. 



RUBBER PLANTING IN MEXICO. 



Mr. J.-iiiES C. li.\RVEY has re- 

 signed his connection with the 

 Mexican Mutual Planters' Co. 

 (Chicago) as general manager 

 of "La Junta" plantation, in 

 Vera Cruz, Mexico, to be able 

 to devote more time to his pri- 

 vate planting interests. [See 

 The India Rubber World, Feb- 

 ruary I, 1909 — page 184.] 



Mr. C. E. Lyman, president 

 and manager of Batavia Co., Inc. 

 (Milwaukee, Wisconsin), while 

 visiting Mexico recently, in- 

 formed Tlic Mexican Herald 

 that experimental tappings just 

 made on their plantation in Oaxaca gave very satisfactory indi- 

 cations as to the yield of rubber to be expected when the trees 

 are more mature. Mr. C. A. Coe, general manager of Mexican 

 Development and Construction Co. (Oshkosh, Wisconsin), is 

 reported by the same paper to have made similar statements 

 regarding his company's plantation "El Modelo" in Oaxaca. 



The annual meeting of the shareholders of Hacienda del 

 Corte, Inc., owners of "Del Corte" rubber plantation in the state 

 of Oaxaca, Mexico, will be held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on 



Ri.'DEER Tapping Tool. 



March 3. 



PLANTING MORE RUBBER IN BORNEO. 



New rubber planting enterprises continue to be formed in the 

 territory of the British North Borneo Co., a chartered company 

 having sovereign and territorial rights over the whole of the 

 state of British North Borneo. This chartered company has 

 granted concessions on favorable conditions to a number of 

 companies for planting rubber, tobacco, and other crops. The 

 rubber companies so formed to date are: 



Sapong Rubber and Tobacco Estate, Limited. Formed April, 1905: 

 offices, London; capital issued, £75,000; rubber planted, 750 acres. 



British Borneo Para Rubber Co., Limited. Formed April, 1905; ofifices, 

 Glasgow; capital issued, £30,000; rubber planted, 1,000 acres. 



Tenom (Borneo) Rubber Co., Limited. Formed January, 1906; offices, 

 Glasgow; capital subscribed, £43,000; rubber planted, 1,000 iicres. 



Manchester North Borneo Rubber Co., Limited. Formed February, 1906; 

 offices, Manchester; capital subscribed, £54,000; rubber planted, 900 acres. 



Langkon North Borneo Rubber Co., Limited. Formed March, 1906; 

 offices. I.ondon; capital subscribed, £60,000; rubber planted, 600 acres. 



Beaufort Borneo Rubber Co., Limited. Formed June, 1907; offices, 

 London; capital subscribed, £61,000; rubber planted, 600 acres. 



Sekong Rubber Co., Limited. Formed June, 1908; offices, London; cap- 

 ital allotted, £60,007; rubber planted, 300 acres. 



North Borneo State Rubber, Limited. Formed November, 1908; offices, 

 London; capital subscribed, £100,000; rubber planted, 200 acres. 



The authorized capital of the eight companies is £760,000; the amount 

 of capital issued, as shown above, £483,007. The acreage of rubber planted, 

 at latest accounts, mosti • Hervea, was 5,350. Some of these companies 

 are planting more or less tobacco. 



YIELDS OF PLANTED "HEVEA" RUBBER. 



Ten rubber plantations in Ceylon and Malaya report officially 

 the yields, for three calendar j-ears past, indicated in the fol- 

 lowing table. The companies named are among the largest 

 producers, but the choice of these ten has been made for no 

 other reason than that complete figures relating to them happen 

 to be in hand at the moment of this writing. Presumably other 

 companies have made corresponding progress in the rate of yield, 

 and the management of the companies in this list would appear 

 to be justified in arranging their affairs in the expectation that 

 when more of their trees are tapped they will obtain proportion- 

 ately larger yields. 



Anglo-^NIalay Rubber Co 9i,7i3 224,150 0349,450 



Linggi Plantations I7>228 110,740 271,500 



Damansara (Selangor) Rubber Co. .. 11,904 57.3/6 124,710 



Consolidated Malay Rubber Estates. 32,623 63,615 111,585 



Selangor Rubber Co 70,577 120,524 {1186,096 



Lanadron Rubber Estates 97.193 181,156 



Sumatra Para Rubber Plantations... 13.419 43.852 64,030 



Malacca Rubber Plantations 14.500 9,000 46,534 



Vallambrosa Rubber Co 156,922 222.459 262,459 



P. P. K. Ceylon Rubber Estates 8,305 14.800 29,000 



Total (ten companies) 417.191 963.8091,626.500 



a — Including 2,456 pounds held over from last year. 

 b — Including 1,920 pounds "rambong" rubber. 



RUBBER PLANTING MISCELLANY. 



The Federated Malay States, which are under British control, 

 do not embrace all the rubber plantations in Malaya. In the 

 native governed state of Kelantang about 22,000 acres have 

 been planted to rubber. Much planting has been done also in 

 the native state of Johore, including the "Lanadron" estate, 

 owned by Pears's soap interests, and already largely productive. 

 Account must be taken, also, of the plantations in the Straits 

 Settleinents, a British colony distinct from the Federated Malay 

 Sitates. 



The samples of plantation rubber from Ceylon shown at the 

 Ceylon court at the Olympia rubber exhibition last fall were 

 transferred to the Colonial Exhibition at Liverpool, after which 

 they were sold, in spite of having been tossed about, packed 

 and unpacked time and again, at prices up to 5J. 2d. for worm 

 crepe, 5.f. 3rf. for sheet, and 5J. 5d. for biscuits. The Ceylon 

 Observer's London correspondent would not be surprised, in the 

 face of these results, if the Ceylon exhibitors should turn out to 

 have netted a direct profit on their participation in the Olympia 

 show. 



NEW "SAN MIGUEL" INDICTMENTS. 



Some months ago the United States grand jury at Qiicago 

 returned indictments against two officials of the San Miguel 

 Plantation Co., upon an alleged charge of using the mails to 

 defraud. The parties referred to were Talton Embry, vice 

 president, and Hiram E. Rose, secretary, of the company. [See 

 The India Rubber World, September i, 1908 — page 403.] 

 Later, in the United States district court at Chicago, demurrers 

 in these cases were filed, and on December 11, 1908, sustained 

 by the court. New indictments were then found against Embry 

 and Rose, upon the same charge, and also against Richard 

 Walsh, president of the San Miguel company, the whole being 

 docketed as Case No. 4,132 in the district court. FoUow^ing 

 the new indictments bench warrants were issued for the arrest of 

 the defendants, and appearance bonds given by each. No 

 further action had been taken in the case at last accounts. 



