JULV I, 1909.] 



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connection with rubber interests, as indicated by his share in 

 the organization of Mombiri Rubber Plantations, Liitiited, with 

 £52,000 capital registered in London, April 20, 1909. The object 

 is to acquire the benefit of a lease granted to Mr. Wickham of 

 an estate in Collingwood Bay, East coast of Papua (New 

 Guinea), to adopt agreements with Mr. Wickham, and to carry 

 on the business of rubber culture. One of the signatories is Mr. 

 Wickham, whose address now is 9 James street, Westbourne 

 terrace* W.. London. 



• ' DISTANCE IN RUBBER PLANTING. 



The Tehuantepcc Ruliber Culture Co. (New York) established 

 their plantation "Rubio," in Mexico, on the plan of setting 

 their rubber 6x6 feet at the beginning, with the idea of thinning 

 the trees later. They issue under date of May i a report on 

 experimental thinning, giving dimensions of trees under varying 

 conditions. The report says : "It will be observed that the differ- 

 ence in growth as between plantings at 6x6, 9.X9, 6x12, 12x12 

 and 18x18 is so small as to show no decided advantage in favor 

 of any particular distance between trees, indicating that no 

 general cutting out at this time is advisable." Any further 

 original planting, however, will be done at various distances 

 apart greater than 6x6 feet. 



RUBBER YIELDS IN MEXICO. 



The Mcridcn Rubber Corporation shipped recently from their 

 plantation in Vera Cruz, Mexico, a lot of Castilloa plantation 

 rubber, which weighed 568 pounds in New York. The sheet 

 rubber sold at $1 a pound ; 25 pounds mixed with scrap brought 

 97 cents a pound. Neighboring planters shipped 1,782 pounds 

 with -the same consignment. 



.\ report on the estate in Mexico of The Tolosa Rubber Co. 

 (Boston), made by W. L. Wadleigh, general manager, states that 

 the tapping of 160 planted Castilloa trees aged 6 years and 8 

 months, and measuring 20 inches or more in girth, yielded 20^ 

 pounds of dry rubber, or an average of 2 ounces per tree for 

 one tapping. He recommends the tapping, toward the end of 

 this year, of all their trees of this size. 



AMERICAN ENTERPRISE IN BORNEO. 



This paragraph appears in Dc Indischc Mcrcuur, of .Am- 

 sterdam : "According to information received by the Java Bode 

 (Java "Messenger"), an American syndicate is to be organized 

 for the purpose of cultivating caoutchouc on a large scale in the 

 eastern and southern portions of Borneo. Preliminary investi- 

 gations, such as are necessary in the selection of forest lands 

 best suited, have already been commenced." 



RUBBER PLANTING NOTES. 



As indicating the rapidity with which rubber estates are 

 reaching the tapping stage, the Malay Mail recently mentioned 

 that at that time no latex cups were to be had in Kuala Lumpur, 

 Singapore or Penang. One Kuala Lumpur firm had sold 400,000 

 cups within a few months. 



The Malacca Rubber Plantations, Limited — a company in the 

 flotation of which, in 1905, some Americans were concerned — has 

 become one of the important rubber-producing companies. The 

 March outturn was 12,500 pounds. At recent London auction 

 sales 18,400 pounds of the company's rubber realized an average 

 of 5.f. 4^rf. [=$r.30j4] per pound. 



The London Financial Neti'S of May 5 printed a list of 46 

 shareholders in the General Ceylon Rubber and Tea Estate, 

 Limited, who had recently made transfers of shares. The num- 

 ber transferred was 14,584; the number retained by the 

 same holders was 14,408. The total number of shares issued 

 to date is 125,366. The pertinence of the list of sales is not 

 plain, though it may be implied that some persons prominent 

 in financial circles are unloading their holdings in this par- 

 ticular company. 



The Rio Cimmarrones Plantation Co., incorporated under 



the laws of California, to develop a plantation of rubber, 



.cacao, and tropical fruits, in Mexico, is capitalized at $75,000. 



The directors are R. C. Shaw, Z. P. Smith, and O. M. Bennett, 

 all of Berkeley, California, in which city the company will 

 have headquarters. 



A report on plantation rubber (Castilloa) from Colombia 

 appears in the official paper published at Bogota. It relates 

 to rubber produced by Sefiores Angel, Ferrer, and Tuluk, 

 whose plantations near Quibdo were mentioned in The India 

 Rubber World December i, 1905 (page 75). The rubber was 

 sent to London, where it was declared to be worth 3s. lod. 

 to 4s., with Para fine at 4^. 8d. 



The Pennsylvania Obispo Plantation Co. (Scottdale, Pennsyl- 

 vania) report the measurement on their plantation "EI Cedral," 

 in Mexico, of Castilloa rubber trees 3V2 years old from seed, 28y2 

 inches in circumference, 18 inches from the ground. They have 

 about 190,000 trees of this age. 



In a recent article on the "manigoba" rubber plantations of the 

 Brazilian Rubber Plantation and Development Co., of New 

 York, in Piauhy, Brazil [sec The Indi.v Rubber World, May i, 

 1909 — page 279], the fact was omitted that they cover 728,95 

 hectares .[=1,801.24 acres]. 



RUBBER GOODS FOR NEW YORK CITY. 



'T'HE City of New York, the .yearly expenditures of which far 

 *■ exceed those of any other city, is a very considerable 

 buyer of rubber goods, which are required in great variety. In 

 a single recent issue of The City Record, tenders are invited for 

 rubber goods for the Borough of Brooklyn ; for rubber boots 

 and rubber coats for the department of water supply; for rub- 

 ber insulated submarine telephone cable, for the police depart- 

 ment; rubber boots for the bureau of sewers, and so on. Such 

 advertisements appear almost daily through the year. The larg- 

 est single article of purchase, perhaps, in the way of rubber goods, 

 is hose for the fire department. The city must buy tires for its 

 hundreds of automobiles, in addition to many horse-drawn 

 vehicles and bicycles. The item of rubber stationers' sundries 

 required in the public schools alone runs into a lot of money ; 

 likewise the rubber supplies for the city hospitals and charitable 

 institutions. 



INDIA-RUBBER GOODS IN COMMERCE. 



EXPORTS FROM THE UNITED STATES. 



OFFICIAL statement of value of exports of manufactures of 



india-rubber and gutta-percha for the month of April, 



1909, and the first ten months of five fiscal years, beginning 

 July I : 



Belting, Boots .Ml 



Months. Packing and Other Tot.\l. 

 and Hose. Shoes. Rubber. 



April. 1909 $172,124 $67,782 $359,182 $599,088 



July-March i,053.7S8 1,071,489 2,805.914 4,931,161 



Total $1,225,882 



Total. 1907-08 . 1,141,634 



Total, 1906-07 . 1,040,560 



Total, 1905-06 . 1,035,705 



Total, 1904-05 . 794,256 



$1,139,271 $3,165,096 $5,530,249 

 1,365,616 3,122,544 5,629,794 

 1,007,935 3,015,892 5,064,387 

 1,360,346 2,369,480 4,765.531 

 1,100,093 2,064,066 3.958,415 

 The decline in the exports of rubber goods which occurred dur- 

 ing the financial depression some time ago has well nigh been 

 recovered from. The above table permits this comparison to be 

 made of conditions for the past 10 months, as against the preced- 

 ing period : 



Decrease in boots and shoes $226,345 



Increase in belting, etc $84,248 



Increase in miscellaneous 42,462 126,710 



Net decrease $99,635 



It would appear from the table that the exports of boots and 

 shoes are less stable than in other rubber lines. Thus 1906-07 

 showed a marked falling oflf in rubber footwear, while the mis- 

 cellaneous column showed a gain of more than 27 per cent. 



