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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[June i, 1909. 



Young "Hevea" Rubber on the Pahang Plantation, May, 1909. 



AMERICANS PLANTING RUBBER IN THE EAST. 



READERS of The India Rubber World are familiar with 

 the prominence of the Waterhoiise family in the Cear,\ 

 rubber plantations that have been installed in the territory of 

 Hawaii. They may not perhaps be so well aware that the 

 same enterprising Americans have taken up 

 land in the Malay States and have already 

 made notable progress in planting Hevea 

 rubber. They have done this by incorpo- 

 rating two comfianies, the capital being sub- 

 scribed by business men in Hawaii. 



One of these plantations, owned by the 

 Tanjong Olak Rubber Plantation Co., 

 Limited [see The India Rubber World. 

 November i, 1907 — page 43], with 1,450 

 acres on the Muar river, in the state of 

 Johore, now employs some 600 men and has 

 1,000 acres planted to Hevea. The oldest rub- 

 ber on this plantaiton is 2}^ years old. After 

 experimenting with Chinese and Malay la- 

 bor, the company has finally settled down to 

 the use of Javanese coolies. The company is 

 capitalized for $200,000 gold, all paid in. 



The second company operated by the 

 same group — The Pahang Rubber Co., 

 Limited [see The India Rubber World, 

 February i. 1907] — owns some 2,000 acres 

 of land in the state of Pahang, about 60 

 miles from Kuala Lumpur, and is connected 

 with that center by an e.xcelleiit automobile 

 road over which an auto 'bus makes regular 

 trips. This company is incorporated for 



Pahang Plant.^tion. 

 [Hevea rubber at i8 months. 1 



SijO.cco. Both of the plantations are well situated and are under 

 the direct charge of experienced Scotch superintendents. ' 



While thus active in planting rubber in the East, the Messrs. 

 Waterhouse and their associates in Hawaii continue their in- 

 terest in the plantations established by them some years ago in 

 that territory, and are active members of the local Rubber 

 Growers' Association. Mr. F. T. P. Water- 

 house, who recently published an informing 

 report on rubber cultivation in Ceylon and 

 Malaya, after a visit to those regions, recent- 

 ly spent some weeks in Mexico, presumably 

 in a study of the plantations of Castilloa 

 clastica. 



The February Philil>pinc Agricultural Re- 

 vieiv (Vol. II., No. 2) is devoted mainly to 

 india-rubber, prominence being given to a 

 reprint of Mr. F. T. P. Waterhouse's report 

 on rubber cultivation in Ceylon and Malaya 

 [see The India Rubbeji World, February i, 

 1909 — page 172]. The Review also quotes 

 from a report by Mr. Jared G. Smith, of the 

 Hawaii agricultural experiment station, on 

 "Systems of Tapping Ceara Rubber Trees." 

 Gradually a very interesting volume of lit- 

 erature relating to rubber culture is being 

 compiled under United States auspices. 



For example, the Philippine Agricultural 

 Review mentions the Compania General de 

 Tabacos de Filipinas. the owners of largo 

 tracts of land in the province of Tarlac, as 

 contemplating the planting of rubber, either 

 Castilloa or Hevea, and many other evidences 

 exist of interest in the Philippines in rubber. 



Tanjong Olak Rubber Plantation. 



[Nursery of Hevea at 3 months. Coolie lines on the right.] 



Tanjong Olak Rubber Plantation. 



[Hevea at 2^ years. One of the drains.] 



