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THE INDIA RUBBER ^VORLD 



[Mav 



1905. 



tate, in the Kalutara district, estimated at 4000 pounds, has 

 been sold at 4.50 rupees [=$1.46.] 



VV. P. MetcaKe, well known in Ceylon as a leading planter 

 and later one of the pioneers of rubber cultivation in the Fed- 

 erated Malay Slates, is mentioned by the Times of Ceylon as 

 having returned to England after 30 years residence in the Far 

 East, in the belief that, having brought 260 acres of rubber to 

 bearing, he can now afford to give up work for the rest of his 

 life. Mr. Metcalfe estimates that between 70,000 and 80,000 

 pounds of rubber will be produced in the Malay States this 

 year and he has no fear of overproduction, at least for a long 

 time to come. 



The Pelepah Rubber Co., Limited, has been formed, with 

 the equivalent of $100,000 capital [ = $50,000, gold] to acquire 

 600 acres of virgin jungle, on the Pelepah river, m the state of 

 Johore, on a 99 years lease, and plant it to Para rubber. It is 

 expected to plant 100 acres this year — 200 trees per acre — and 

 at about the same rate hereafter, the capital being called in as 

 needed for development work. There having been no promo- 

 tion fees, the land costing practically nothing, and the super- 

 intendence to be practically without expense — the company 

 being composed of persons having incomes from other sources 

 — the hope is entertained of very liberal returns on the capital- 

 J. G. Boyd is secretary, and the principal offices are in Singa- 

 pore. 



I'L.\NTING IN SOUTHERN INDIA. 



The first annual meeting of the Rani Rubber Co., Limited 

 See The India Rubber World, May i, 1904— page 272] was 

 held at Colombo, on February 3. The report stated that the 

 214 acres of rubber already planted showed satisfactory results, 

 and that during the year it was intended to 450 acres addi- 

 tional. The plantation is located in the native state of Travan- 

 core, in southern India, near the island of Ceylon. 



Drummond Deane, writing from Travancore to a Ceylon pa- 

 per, says that he has 40 acres planted to rubber 9 months and 

 doing well, and is opening 120 acres more for rubber. Mr. 

 Murphy has 120 acres planted 6 months and is opening 200 

 acres. H. M. Knight and H. S. Holder are also mentioned as 

 planting rubber, in addition to the Rani Rubber Co., Limited. 



At the annual meeting of the Travancore Tea Estates Co., 

 Limited (London, March 15), Mr. H. K. Rutherford, the chair- 

 man, stated that their manager had planted a fair number of 

 Castilloa elastica.hwl it was too early yet to say if this would be 

 a success. Their part of Travancore was believed to be too 

 high for planting Pard rubber. Mr. Rutherford is interested 

 in several tea plantmg companies in Ceylon and the Straits that 

 are planting Para rubber on an important scale. 



The 1500 shares of the Shaliacary Rubber Co.. Limited, who 

 own 673 acres in southern India, were allotted late in February, 

 having been over applied for. The Colombo Commercial Co. 

 are the agents and secretaries. The provisional directors are 

 J. G. Wardrop, W. Shakespeare, A. A. Prideaux, and G. N. 

 Thomson. 



THE NAHIKU RUBBER CO., LIMITED. 

 [See Tub India Rubber Wom.u, Marcli i, 1905— page 1S9 1 



The Portland (Maine) Times gives some details regarding 

 the above named company, recently incorporated at Honolulu 

 to form a plantation in the Hawaiian Islands. It appears that 

 Robert H. Anderson, the manager and a director of the com- 

 pany, it a native of Portland, which city he left three years ago 

 to study rubber cultivation in Mexico and Central America, 

 after which he went to Hawaii with the intention of forming a 

 rubber plantation there, and the Nahiku company is mentioned 

 as the result of his efforts to interest Hawaiian capital in this 

 business. Associated with him in the new enterprise — as sec- 



retary of the company — is his brother, Wilbur A. Anderson, 

 who, after being graduated from the Portland high school, took 

 the full course at Amherst College, where he was for four years 

 president of his class. In 1902 he took the examinations for 

 teachers in the Hawaiian islands, and is now professor of mathe- 

 matics and psychology in Ouha College, besides being presi- 

 dent of the Honolulu Athletic Club. Last year Mr. W. A. 

 Anderson was married to a young lady of Portland, and the 

 Times presents a view of the handsome bungalow in which 

 they live in the suburbs of Honolulu. 



COLISEO SUGAR PLANTATION CO. 



( Plantation " Coliseo,'' near Medias Aguas, state of Vera Cruz, Mexico. Offices ; 

 408 Pabst building, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.] 



Incori'Okated under Wisconsin laws, with $200,000 capital. 

 Own 5000 acres adjoining the National Tehuantepec railway, 

 near Medias Aguas station, 60 miles from the Gulf coast. The 

 first annual inspection was made in February by a shareholders' 

 committee, who report that 250 acres of land had been cleared 

 and 200 acres planted to rubber in the summer of 1904, part of 

 which tract was also planted to corn, the first crop yielding 

 1200 bushels, worth 3' to 4 cents (Mexican) per pound. A 

 second crop of corn had been planted on the same ground, and 

 the committee reported clearing in progress for the planting 

 of 500 acres additional to rubber. While it is intended to plant 

 sugar extensively, this has been postponed with a view to ar- 

 ranging for the sale of cane to a neighboring mill. Officers : 

 A. IV. Priest, banker, Appleton, Wisconsin, president and 

 treasurer; D. C. Burdick, wholesale merchant, Oshkosh, vice 

 president ; E. A. Baker, attorney, Milwaukee, secretary. A. B. 

 Coate is plantation manager. 



THE TEHUANTEPEC RUBBER CULTURE CO. 



[Plantation '* Rubio," Coalzacoalcos. canton of Manatitlan state of \*era Cruz, 

 Mexico. Offices: No. 81 Wall street. New \ork. Sec The India Ri-'buer World, 

 May I, 1904 — pa*;e i;?!.] 



Last year the report submitted by the official inspector 

 chosen by the subscribers to the bonds of this company to visit 

 Plantation " Rubio " was commented on in these pages for its 

 definiteness and comprehensiveness. The report recently 

 made by Mr. Theodore M. Bates, of Cleveland, who visited 

 " Rubio " in a like capacity, is of the same general character. 

 Regarding the acreage of the several plantingsand camps, these 

 figures are given : 



Cam!'. 1902. 1903. 1904. Total. 



Loma Grande 412 205 107 724 



Ojode Agua 503 122 84 709 



Segundo Semillero 194 30 .. 224 



Tio Victon 390 .. gg 489 



Santos Road 163 .. 163 



Total 1499 5^0 2go 2309 



Facts are given regarding the condition of the different plant- 

 ings, a better appearance being made on the hillsides than in 

 the lower levels, and the trees grown from seeds at stake being 

 much further advanced than those transplanted from nurseries. 

 Measurements of many trees were made to indicate the aver- 

 age size of the different plantings. A new system of weeding 

 introduced by Manager A. B. Luther is more efficient and 

 economical than the old. The introduction of Japanese labor 

 proved unsatisfactory. The total days worked on the planta- 

 tion proper was 215.699, and the expenditure for labor, super- 

 vision, and subsistence, $349,27990, Mexican — not including 

 cost of permanent improvements, live stock, taxes and insur- 

 ance, and salary of manager. The policy of the company is to 

 devote its energies to planting rubber, except that about 3800 

 bushels of corn were harvested in 1904, and the second crop 

 on the ground, seen by the inspector, was about half as large. 

 This is for use on the plantation. 



