March i, 1905.] 



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on at a number of plantations, as Yankolomba, La Maria, Sa- 

 laqui, Bebara. and Tangui. The practice here is to cut the 

 bark lightly with the machete, so as not to pass to the wood ; 

 the cut fills up with gum, which coagulates and is gathered the 

 following day. Careful growers cut but a small portion at a 

 time, so as to avoid weakening the tree, but can repeat the op- 

 eration every two weeks or month, as desired. The strips, 

 called ' chaza,' are gathered from the gashes and rolled to- 

 gether, and bring about 75 cents a pound in the New York 

 market. Trees as young as 3 years are bled in some cases, 

 but it is preferable to allow them to grow undisturbed for two 

 years longer. Cultivated rubber here does not produce as 

 much at a cutting as wild rubber, but the annual product is at 

 least as great." 



A VIEW OF CULTIVATED RUBBER IN MEXICO. 

 There has been distributed to the shareholders of The 

 Obispo Rubber Plantation Co. a printed statement regarding 

 the progress made on the estate of that company in the canton 

 of Tuxtepec, state of Oaxaca, Mexico, during the last three 

 years, under the management of the Republic Development 

 Co. The principal feature of the book, however, is a series of 

 24 pictures reproduced 

 from photographs taken 

 on the property and de- 

 signed to illustrate the 

 progress of develop- 

 ment from the first camp 

 structures and the fel- 

 ling of the forests which 

 then covered the prop- 

 erty, to the setting out 

 of the first rubber trees 

 by the company and 

 their growth to the pres- 

 ent time. One comment 

 which has been made 

 regarding this book is 

 that "Anybody can 

 make photographs, but 

 in order to photograph 

 rubber trees the trees 

 must first exist." There 

 is reproduced on this 

 page, on a small scale, 

 one of the pictures re- 

 ferred to, regarding which the management state that it is a 

 typical view of their planted rubber at the age of i years and 8 

 months, being a fair illustration of the even, clean, and sturdy 

 growth of cultivated Castilloa elastica all over their prop- 

 erty. These views indicate a healthful condition of the trees, 

 and from their apparent size the soil must be very favorable. 

 This plantation is the outgrowth of the work of Mr. Maxwell 

 F. Riddle, whose connection with rubber culture and particu- 

 larly with the companies above named has been referred to 

 frequently in this Journal. The book of views here mentioned 

 is copyrighted by Mitchell, Schiller & Barnes (New York i, 

 who have successfully financed' the Obispo company. 



WISCONSIN RUBBER CO. 



f Plantation near El Salto, department of Palenque, state of Cliiapas, Mexico. 

 Office: Fairchikl block, Madison, Wisconsin]. 



[Seethe India Rubber World, September i, 1903, page 426. ]. 

 At the first annual meeting of shareholders held at Madison 

 on February i, the reports showed that 1300 of the 5000 shares 

 had been sold. John R. Markley, president, and Isaiah B. Mil- 

 ler, treasurer, of the Mexican Development and Construction Co. 



VI£W OF RUBBER ON THE OBISPO PLANTATION. 



(Chicago), who are developing the Wisconsin companys' planta- 

 tion under contract, were present, and received the thanks of the 

 company for the way in which the work had been carried on. The 

 officers of the Wisconsin were reelected : Professor Rasmus B. 

 Anderson, president; Charles H. Hall, m. D., vice president; 

 Samuel D. Merrick, secretary and general manager; Frederick 

 C. Hutson, treasurer. The shareholders elected one of their 

 number— Robert Hall, mayor of Brandon, Manitoba, Canada — 

 to make the annual inspection of the plantation. 

 TO PLANT RUBBER IN HAWAII. 

 The Nahiku Rubber Co., Limited, incorporated at Honolulu 

 on January 25. with $150,000 capital authorized, are the first 

 company formed thus far to plant rubber upon territory of 

 United States. The company have secured 800 acres of land 

 at Nahiku, on the island of Maui, where the yearly rainfall is 

 from 300 to 400 inches, and there is good drainage. There are 

 now on the ground a number of Ceaid rubber trees planted ex- 

 perimentally two, four, and six years ago, the yield from which, 

 together with that of some varieties of Ficus in dilTerent parts 

 of the territory, has encouraged the organizers of this company 

 to undertake planting on an important scale. The company 



purpose planting 60,000 

 Ceata rubber trees this 

 year and 200,000 trees of 

 ditTerent species next 

 year, including H,vea. 

 CasU'lloa.anA I'iciis elas- 

 tica. The officers of the 

 company are William 

 W. Hall, president of 

 the hardware firm C. O. 

 Hill & Son. Limited, 

 president ; W. E. Shaw, 

 vice president; Robert 

 H. Anderson, director 

 and manager; Dr. E. C. 

 Waterhouse, director ; 

 Mr. Howland, auditor; 

 H. L. Shaw, incorpora- 

 tor. Mr. Anderson is 

 described as a practical 

 rubber man with several 

 years experience in 

 Mexico, and both he and 

 Mr. Hall, the president 

 of the company, have written to The India Rubber World 

 enthusiastically in regard to the prospects of the new enter- 

 prise. The Honolulu Commercial Advertiser, of January 26, 

 referring to the product of the txperimentally planted trees, 

 says that they " have developed a quality of rubber which was 

 pronounced yesterday by a representative of one of the large 

 mainland rubber companies to be of the very best." 

 KAMERUN (GERMAN WEST AFRICA). 

 The latest report by the governor of this colony gives the fol- 

 lowing details regarding the exports of India-rubber, by dis- 

 tricts, for three full calendar years and the first half of 1904 : 



Year. Duala. Victoria. Kribi. Total. 



I901 /t/'/w 72.108 50.342 383,712 506,162 



Iqo2 24,662 46.481 283,166 354.309 



ig03 .. 35,516 26.924 564,071 (126.511 



1904 (6 mos.) 15,730 20,732 356,219 392.681 



The principal source of Kamerun rubber is in the southern 

 districts, which, year after year, produce a larger percentage of 

 the total output. The governor predicts that the exportation 

 of rubber from the colony will increase for some time to come, 

 and that the cost of obtaining it will also increase, as it becomes 



