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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[August i, 1909. 



capital, to acquire and further develop an estate in Johore, Malay 

 peninsula, on which 1.884 acres have been planted to rubber, 

 but mostly among pepper and tapioca. (4) Jamaica Estates and 

 Rubber Plantations, Limited, with £300,000 [=$1,459,950] capital, 

 to acquire properties in Jamaica and elsewhere and plant or 

 deal in sugar, bananas, rubber and hardwood. Sir Henry 

 Arthur Blake, g. c. m. g.^ formerly governor of Jamaica and 

 late governor of Ceylon, is one of the directors, (s) The Rembia 

 Rubber Estates, Limited, with i6o,ooo [^251,990] capital, to 

 acquire a group of estates in Malacca, Malay peninsula, on which 

 754 acres are now planted to Hcvea rubber. 



COMPARATIVE RESULTS. 

 [See The India Rubber Wurld, June i, 1909 — page 311.] 



BuKiT Rajah Rubber Co., Limited. — Federated Malay States: 



1907. 1908. 1909. 



Yield (pounds) 118,982 163.521 210,081 



Selling price, gross 5/3.62ii. 3/8.87^. 4/9. 84^. 



Dividends 30% 30% 55% 



Trees tapped last year, 94,600; average per tree, 2.22 pounds, 



or I ton per 1,000 trees. 



Vallambrosa Rubber Co., Limited. — Federated Malay States : 



1907. 1908. 1909. 



Yield (pounds) 156,922 225,302 281,183 



Selling price, net 5/1. 5J. 3/7'^- 



Dividends S57o 55% 8d% 



Federated (Selangor) Rubber Co., Limited: 



1907. :go8. 1909. 



Yield (pounds) 7.871 23,618 59,694 



Selling price, net ill-ii- A/i-7S<i. 



Dividends nil 8% 30% 



Trees tapped last year, 34,072, including 5,000 tapped two months 



only; average yield, i54 pounds per tree. 



Cicely Rubber Estates Co., Limited. — Federated Malay States : 



1907. 1908. 1909. 



Yield (pounds) 19,069 43,695 54. 300 



Selling price, net .... 3^. 6d. 4s. yd. 



Dividend, preferred 2o'/c 42!^% 55% 



Dividend, ordinary 1 5% 37% 50% 



RTTBBEK PLAUTING IN BRITISH BORNEO. 



The British North Borneo Co., a chartered company having 

 sovereign and territorial rights over the whole of the state of 

 British North Borneo, continues to report favorable progress. 

 The revenue for 1908 was £152,946, and the dividend declared 

 4 per cent. 



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 in its 

 territory are : 



Sapong Rubber and Tobacco Estates, Limited, Formed April, 1905; 

 offices, London; capital issued, £71,378; rubber planted, 730 acres. 



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

 Glasgow; capital issued, £28,000; rubber planted, 900 acres. 



Tenom (Borneo) Rubber Co., Limited. Formed January, igo6; offices, 

 Glasgow; capital subscribed, £60,000; rubber planted, 1,300 acres. 



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

 offices, Manchester; capital subscribed, £50,000; rubber planted, 700 acres. 



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

 offices, London; capital subscribed, £60,000; rubber planted, 950 acres. 



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

 capital subscribed, £60,000; rubber planted, 700 acres. 



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

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



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

 London; capital subscribed, £100,000; rubber planted, 400 acres. 



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

 the amount of capital issued, as shown above, £489,385, in addi- 

 tion to £38,622 in debentures. The acreage of rubber planted, 

 at latest accounts, mostly Heira, was 6,000. Some of these 

 companies are planting tobacco temporarily. Rubber has been 

 tapped on the Sekong estate for two years past, some of the 

 product selling in London on June 25 at 6^^. io}^d. 



RUBBER PLANTING IN INDIA. 



Little attention ha,s been attracted to the rubber planting in 

 southern India as yet, for the reason that the estates there have 

 not become productive. But considerable rubber is being planted 



there, and with good prospects. The Travancore Rubber Co., 

 Limited, an Edinburgh company, with £40.000 capital, have an 

 estate in the state of Travancore, which is in the same latitude 

 as northern Ceylon, on which are 19,367 Hevca trees planted in 

 1905, 167,433 planted in 1906, and 18,075 planted in 1907, besides 

 20 acres planted to Ceara rubber in 1906. It is anticipated that 

 7,000 pounds of rubber will be secured next year. The estate 

 outlay in 1908 was £3,448. 



BRIEF MENTION. 



At a special meeting of shareholders of Manchester North 

 Borneo Rubber, Limited (Manchester, May 21), it was voted 

 to increase the capital from £65,000 to £100,000, to provide for 

 increasing the company's area under rubber. The company is 

 planting tobacco largely as a temporary crop. 



Rubber Estates of Johore, Limited, began planting in March, 

 1907, and at the last annual meeting (London, May 4) it was 

 reported that over 3,300 acres had been placed under rubber. The 

 oldest rubber had cost to date about £14 los. [:=$70.56] per acre. 



Kautschuk-Plantage Mombo, G. m. b. H., has been registered 

 at Arnstadt, Germany, with a capital of 510,000 marks 

 [=$121,380], to plant rubber at Mombo, in the Wilhelmstal dis- 

 trict, German East Africa. It is formed to develop a planta- 

 tion already started by Robert Trautman, of Arnstadt, and Gus- 

 tav Weisflog. of Erfurt, Germany, who are the organizers of the 

 new company. 



Mr. H. A. Wickham, who will be remembered in connection 

 with the original introduction of the cultivation of Hevea rub- 

 ber into the Far East, is still active in connection with rubber 

 interests, as indicated by his share in the organization of Mom- 

 biri Rubber Plantations, Limited, with £52,000 capital, registered 

 in London, .^pril 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. 



SMOKED PLANTATION RUBBER. 



IV^UCH interest has been expressed in the London market in 

 ^'•^ the smoked sheet rubber from "Vallambrosa" and other 

 ;\Ialay States plantations. Some lots have been received also 

 from British North Borneo. Gow, Wilson & Stanton Co., Limited 

 (London), advise: "The high prices recently obtained for fine 

 smoked sheet have attracted considerable attention, but we would 

 strongly urge that the utmost care should be taken in the prepara- 

 tion of such rubber, which should be kept absolutely clean and 

 uniform, as varying and unsatisfactory shipments coming on the 

 market would be liable to prejudice buyers." 



The plantation managers are striving earnestly to produce 

 rubber of the highest possible quality, and the fact that they are 

 experimenting with the smoking process is evidence of an idea 

 being entertained that the superiority in some respects of .Amazon 

 Para to plantation rubber may be due to the use of smoke in 

 the coagulation of the latter. At the recent meeting in London 

 of the Lanadron company the chairman called attention to their 

 having consulted chemists with regard to the production of their 

 rubber. The London correspondent of The Times of Ceylon 

 recently telegraphed his paper : 



"The leading rubber companies are supporting a scheme to 

 send a chemist to the Straits, independent of government, to 

 improve the curing of rubber. It is probable that the scheme 

 will be extended to Ceylon." 



The Dutch government have conferred upon Dr. A. G. N. 

 Swart the decoration of an officer of the Order of Orange- 

 Nassau, as a recognition of his services as president of Nether- 

 lands commission to the International Rubber and Allied Trades 

 Exhibition at London last vear. 



