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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[March i, 1905. 



necessary to go further inland for supplies. His report says : 

 " On account of the growing exportation, those regions which 

 are nearest the coast will become more and more exhausted, 

 as the destructive method of gathering has been practised 

 everywhere up to the present time. But this abuse will tend to 

 be suppressed by the administration, through appropriate re- 

 strictive measures and instruction which the administration is 

 going to give to those engaged in the industry. It is also intend- 

 ed to systematically replant those regions in the neighborhood 

 of the coast, and partial measures necessary to this end have 

 already been commenced." 



" HEVEA " RUBBER IN MEXICO. 



To THE Editor of The India Rubber World: We are 

 pleased to inform you that we have on Hacienda Batavia a 

 hundred Hnita rubber trees, planted in June, 1900. A meas- 

 urement of a number of these trees shows a circumference, 3 

 feet from the ground, of 11 to 18 inches. Four year old Cas- 

 tilloa elastica show circumferences of 17X to 27^^ inches. 

 These figures may be of interest for comparison with the meas- 

 urements taken on your interesting trip to Ceylon. Wishing 

 you the compliments of the season, I am, Youis truly, 



EDWARD A. KUMMEL. 

 Resident Manager Batavia Co. (of Milwaukee, Wieconsin). 

 Jalapa de Diaz, Oaxaca, Mexico. January 7, 1905. 



LECTURES ON INDIA-RUBBER IN IOWA. 

 The University of Iowa, at Iowa City, has inaugurated a 

 " university extension " course of lectures, to extend through- 

 out the state, which has embraced this winter a series of talks 

 on the " Plants that Serve," the idea being to supplement the 

 study of botany at the university with suggestions of how sys- 

 tematic knowledge of plants and their products may be made 

 of general utility. One of the lectures in the series, given by 

 Professor Thomas H. Macbride, of the university, relates to 

 the India-rubber tree, and the Cedar Rapids Republicati men- 

 tions that this lecture was listened to by a large audience in 

 that city on the evening of February 13. Iowa is far from being 

 suited for the cultivation of any known rubber yielding species, 

 but very many citizens of that state have become investors in 

 companies formed to plant rubber in the tropics, and doubt- 

 less are prepared to listen with interest to any authentic infor- 

 mation regarding the rubber tree, besides which they will prob- 

 ably be more interested than hitherto in the chief raw material 

 entering into any rubber goods which they may wear or use 

 otherwise. Professor Macbride's lectures are liberally illustrated 

 by means of a series of lantern slides. 



RUBBER FROM UGANDA. 



The general report on the Uganda Protectorate, of East 

 Africa, for the year ending March 31, 1904, made to the British 

 colonial office, while indicating a very considerable general in- 

 crease in imports and exports, fails to show an improvement 

 in the output of India-rubber, though there is a possibility that 

 in connection with the land survey now in progress, and the 

 incidental systemization of the licensing of rubber gathering, 

 a larger production will result. The report says on this point : 

 " Rubber has fallen from /3431 to ;£2795, entirely owing to the 

 mortality from sleeping sickness on the Sesse group and other 

 islands on the north of Lake Victoria, where the rubber indus- 

 try first started and developed, and where the richests forests 

 are situated. During the year permits to collect rubber in sev- 

 eral of the inland forests were issued, but these have not yet 

 had time to be thoroughly worked."- ^=^The administration is 

 active in its efltorts to have the native chiefs interest their sub- 

 jects in the exploitation of rubber, and also in experimenting 

 with the cultivation of various species, in addition to the native 



Landolphia. The Pari rubber tree has shown an encouraging 

 rate of growth and three acres have been planted to this species 

 in the government botanic gardens. 



GERMAN NEW GUINEA. 



The Neuguinea- Kompagnie, engaged in extensive planta- 

 tion enterprises, had rubber trees under cultivation at the end 

 of 1903 as follows : 



Herbertshobe '. *i559 



Friedrich Wilhelmshofen 81,000 



Stephansort 130,485 214,044 



FEDERATED MALAY STATES. 



Batu Caves Rubber Co., Limited, registered in London 

 December 21, 1904; capital ;£3o,ooo ; to acquire the Batu Caves 

 estate, in Selangor, and to grow India-rubber and other pro- 

 duce in Selangor or elsewhere. No initial public issue. Direc- 

 tors : T. N. Christie, J. McEwan, H. K. Rutherford, and R. 

 Williamson. Registered office : 10 and 11, Limes street, E. C, 

 London. 



=Cicely Rubber Estates Co., Limited, registered in London 

 December 20, 1904; capital ^^i 2,000; to acquire and develop 

 the Cicely estate near Telok Anson, in Perak, held from the 

 government by H. A. W. Aylesbury. Directors: Dr. S. RIdeal, 

 C. De Winton, C. F. Deane-Drake, and H. W. Brett. 



= Patent rights in Pahang have been granted to Mr. Fritz 

 Freudweiler, a planter of Bila, in Sumatra, for his invention of 

 a new punch for tapping rubber trees. It is claimed that by 

 the use of this punch the trees can be so tapped for the ex- 

 traction of the latex as to cause no damage. — Straits Times, 

 December 24. 



= The well known Mount Austin Para rubber estate, in 

 Johore, the property of the Tebrau Planting Co., Limited, has 

 been sold by private contract to a local merchant firm, through 

 Messrs. H. E. Coghlan & Co., estate agents. — Straits Times, 

 December 22. 



BRAZIL. 



Mr. JosS Pereira Cavalcante has paid to the tax collec- 

 tor [at Mandos] the sum of 5000 milreis, being the transfer tax 

 of 5 per cent, on the amount of 100,000 milreis [= about 

 $28,000 at the then current rate of exchange] for which Messrs. 

 B. A. Antunes & Co. [of Para] have purchased the Sant' Anna 

 and Santa Luzia seringaes [rubber estates], both situated on 

 the river Jurua. — Folha do Norte, January 17. 



^According to statistics which have been compiled, the mu- 

 nicipality of Maranguape (Ceard), has, during the year just 

 ended, produced 220,000 kilos of crude Manitoba rubber, there- 

 by exceeding the production of former years. — Folha do Norte, 

 January ij. 



COLOMBIA. 



Adornada Rubber Co., Limited, registered in London, Jan- 

 uary 13, 1905; capital, ^8000; to acquire the interest of A. 

 Jouve, of Bogota, republic of Colombia, over certain lands con- 

 taining rubber trees, and to carry on the business of growers 

 and exporters of rubber. No initial public issue. Directors : 

 H. Aigoin, P. Dujardin, and T. Bonhote. 

 ZANZIBAR. 



The rubber trade consists of importations from the east coast 

 of Africa, and exports to Europe. Custom house figures for 

 six years show : 



1897 642,404 pounds imported ; 312.489 exported. 



i8g8 251.539 " " 234.522 



i8q9 322,521 " " 3>3.773 " 



iqoo igo,520 " " 190,311 " 



1901 223,474 " " 219,703 ' 



1902 287,491 " " 305.105 " 



Total... 1,917,949 



-575.900 



