October i, 1904.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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RUBBER PLANTING AND EXPLOITATION. 



THE OHIO RUBBER CULTURE CO. 

 Ll'lanlation near Coatzacoalcos, caiitcui ol" Manitillan, slate of Vera Criiz, 

 Mexico, Olticc : Camon, Ohio.] 



INCORPOI'iATED August 27, 1904 under New Jersey lawf. 

 with a ca()ital stock of $275,000 and an authorized bond 

 issue for improvement purposes of $2,250,000. The com- 

 pany own 3671 acres of carefully selected rubber land on 

 the isthmus of Tehuintepcc, adjoining the property of the 

 Tehuantepec Rubber Culture Co. (New York). The company's 

 land is located on the Coachapa river, tributary to the Coatza- 

 coalcos. and but five hours by boat from the Gulf. They pro- 

 pose to plant and cultivate 1,000,000 rubber trees and by Octo 

 ber I e.xpect to be ready to offer their securities to the public. 

 The following officers were elected to serve a term of one 

 year : William L. Davis, president ; L. E. Sisler, vice president ; 

 Henry C. Eyman. second vice president ; Hon. John 15. Mosby, 

 third vice president ; Grant S. Pike, secretary and treasurer; 

 T. Frank O'Brien, assistant secretary. 



THE TROPICAL DEVELOPMENT CO. 



[I'lanlation " Monta Rosa," near Playa Vicente, district of Tuxtepec, state of 

 Oaxaca, Mexico. Office : Canton, Olli?] 



Incorpouai'KD under Ohio laws, August 00, 1904. Have 

 acquired 11,000 acres in Oaxaca, on the north bank of the 

 Playa Vicente river, nine miles west of the town of Playa 

 V^icente. It is intended to plant rubber extensively, and also 

 sugar cane, and other tropical staples, and also to devote a lib- 

 eral area to pasturage. A sugar mill is to be installed. The 

 plantation manager, I. N. Kinney, has been for some time 

 superintending the erection of buildings of lumber shipped 

 from New Orleans. The officers and directors are business 

 men of Canton and neighboring towns in Ohio. J. E. Carna- 

 han, a steel manufacturer, is president; Atlee Pomereine, an 

 attorney, treasurer; and A. S. Griffin, secretary of a steel cor- 

 poration, secretary. 



THE OAXACA ASSOCIATION. 



[Plantation: Buena Vista, canton of Acayucan, state of Vera Cruz, Mexico 

 Onice ; Royal Insurance building, Ciiicapo, Illinois.] 



The latest inventory of this company, of date of April 301 

 1904, shows the following number of rubber trees growing, at 

 different ages : 



7 years i,2oo 4 years 18,000 i year 60,000 



6 years 1,200 3 years 53. 500 — 



5 years 13.500 2 years 388,1,00 Total ... .535,400 



These are valued in the company's balance sheet at $i73,84o_ 

 The company have also 231.900 coflee trees, of ages from 2 to S 

 years, the latter of which have yielded fine crops. 



CHIAPAS RUBBER PLANTATION CO. 



[Plantltion " San Luis," near Palenque. department of Palenque, state of Chia- 

 pas, Mexico. Offices: Crocker building, San Francisco.] 



ISeeTMH fMHA Rui'.REK World, March l, 1904 — pa^e i>^-,.] 



The annual election, early in August, resulted in the election 

 of George T. Hawley as president, succeeding L. H. Bonestell. 

 Mr. Hawley was formerly a vice president, together with L. S. 

 Sherman and E. A. Girvin. There are now only two vice pres- 

 idents, Mr. Sherman being elected as first and Mr. Girvin as 

 second. The following were reelected : F. F. Bostwick, secre- 

 tary ; Charles Fredericks, treasurer ; C. A. Westenberg, man- 

 aging director. The remaining directors are Messrs. Field, 

 Shreve, Winn and Washburne. The shareholders selected Dr. 

 P. R. Watts, of Sacramento, California, to make the annual in- 

 spection of the plantation, which he will visit in October. Work 



on the plantation is reported to be progressing satisfactorily, 

 the monthly disbursements for some time past having averaged 

 $20,000, Me.-ican. 



RUBBER PLANTING IN NICARAGUA. 



Among the rubber plantations owned in the United States 

 and located in Nicaragua is one of about 15,000 four year old 

 trees, on a tract of 252 acres, situated 21 miles north of Blue- 

 fields, near Cukra Landing, on one of the many lagoons along 

 that coast. It is owned by a small group of citizens of Mem- 

 phis, Tennessee, organized as The Memphis Tropical Fruit and 

 Rubber Co., of which Dr. H. T. Lynch is secretary. The plan- 

 tation was formed by a former owner of the land, and was pur- 

 chased as a result of a visit which Dr. Lynch made to Nicara- 

 gua for the purpose of investigating rubber culture. He in- 

 forms The India Rubber World that the trees on this prop- 

 erty are in first class condition, and he is encouraged at the 

 prospects of rubber culture in Nicaragua. The resident mana- 

 ger of the property is D. H. McCulIough, a Memphis man. 



CEARA RUBBER IN MYSORE (INDIa). 

 The superintendent of the gf)vernment gardens in the native 

 state of Mysore publishes in the .Ifysore Gazette a note on the 

 growth in that region of the Ceara rubber tree {Manihot lUaz- 

 iovi'i), the prospects for which he regards as highly encourag- 

 ing. It appears that from the beginning the tree grew finely in 

 Mysore, but that the tapping in the earlier years yielded most 

 unsatisfactory results. With increased age, however, a liberal 

 yield has been attained. It is asserted that one tree in the 

 government gardens, 16 years old, tapped on S3 days last year 

 gave 7 pounds of dry rubber, estimated by a London broker to 

 be worth 3 shillings a pound, or a total of 21 shillings [ = $5.11], 

 Considerable planting has been done, and the superintendent 

 above quoted recommends further planting. 



A NEW COMPANY TO EXPLOIT RUBBER IN PERU. 

 The Carabaya Rubber and Navigation Co. was incorporated 

 August 4, 1904, under Maine laws, with $2000,000 capital 

 authorized, for the purpose of exploiting rubber and mineral 

 resources, and conducting incidentally a transportation busi- 

 ness, in southeastern Peru. The company is to acquire a large 

 area of rubber lands lying in the province of Carabaya. The 

 land is traversed by the river Inambari, and is within a prac- 

 tical working distance of the railway which extends from Mol- 

 lendo, on the Pacific C03st, to the city of Cuzco. It is esti- 

 mated that the lands which the company itself will hold con- 

 tain at least 1,200,000 rubber trees of mature size, and some 

 30,000 of these have already been tapped. The first purpose 

 of the company will be to open up as rapidly as possibly the 

 rubber trees and collect the product and ship. The company 

 expects at once to place a small steamer on the Inambari river 

 and collect the rubber which may be obtained by tappers on 

 properties other than their own along the Inambari and Madre 

 de Dios rivers, paying for them in food and other supplies 

 which the steamer will take along with it. The road which the 

 company controls to their property and to the Inambari river 

 makes the shortest and most inexpensive route to take rubber 

 from these rich forests to the market. The following are the 

 officers of the company : Hon. James A. Roberts, former state 

 comptroller of New York, president; Dr. C. S. Merrill, of Al- 

 bany, New York, vice president; H. D. Selleck, secretary; 

 Frank Squier, president of the Queens County Trust Co., 



