300 



THB INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[June 



190s- 



in accordance with native methods, and to push their work along, seemed 

 to make it impossible for them to do an equal amount of work with the 

 natives, and their employment was discontinued in January of this year 

 [1905]." 



Several pages in the report quoted give the results of meas- 

 urements of trees in the various camps and planted in diflterent 

 years. Extra large trees planted in 1902 were found to meas- 

 ure 18 feet 7 inches in height with a girth of 21 inches or more 

 at base and 16;+ inches 5 feet from base. The following table 

 of average measurements of the 1902 planting is given : 



Cami-. .Acres. flei^lu. Ginh, base. Ciirlh, 5 ft 



Tio Victon 390 I2}3 13^4 &U 



OjodeAgua 503 10% 12% 8 



Loma Grande 412 10!^ \l% 6^ 



SegundoSemillcro 194 8j| 9^ S^ 



Total I49<) lO'^' '^i,; -jyz 



The average measurement given (or the planting of 1903 and 

 1904 were equally satisfactory. 



SAN MARCOS RUBBER PLANTATION CO. 



■ [PUntation neat Monieciislo, department of Paleoque, slate of Chiapas, Mex- 

 ico. Offices: No. 817 Ashland Block, Chicago, Illinois. See The India Rubbkr 

 WoKLU, October i, lyoz.— page 16I. 



A REPORi to the directors made by James R. Hardy, secre- 

 tary and general manager, as the result of a recent visit to the 

 plantation, in company with several shareholders, has been 

 printed in pamphlet form. The number of rubber trees under 

 cultivation, of various ages up to two years, is stated at 500,- 

 000, and photographic views indicate them to be in good con- 

 dition. Additional planting has been planned for this year. 

 Robert G. Hardy has become plantation manager. 



THE GRAND CENTRAL CEYLON RUBBER CO., LIMITED. 



This company has been formed at Colombo, with an author- 

 ized capital of 5,000,000 rupees [ = $1,622,166.67, gold], to ac- 

 quire about 16,400 acres in the Kegalle district for the purpose 

 of planting rubber and other suitable products. The initial 

 issue of shares amounts to 3,000,000 rupees, of which the ven- 

 dors of the land accept 1,350,000 rupees, besides subscribing 

 for 650,000 rupees in shares, and the remaining 1,000,000 was 

 offered to the public at the beginning of April. It is under- 

 stood that the shares were promptly subscribed for. The prop- 

 erties taken over include the Urumewella estate of 1400 acres, 

 of which, according to the contract, 1000 acres will be planted 

 to rubber by June i, 1905, the date of the transfer, the date of 

 the plantings being as follows : 



1902. 1903. 1904. 1905. Total. 



Acres.. 112 249 308 331 1000 



The remaining lands are all uncultivated as yet, but the com- 

 pany's prospectus outlines a program for planting as capital is 

 called in, up to 1913, after which it is expected that the income 

 from production will be ample for continued extension of the 

 work until the whole area has been planted. It is expected 

 that the 1902 planting will come into bearing in 1908. This 

 appears to be the largest company that has ever been floated 

 in Ceylon, and it is stated that its funds are to be devoted en- 

 tirely to rubber cultivation. First directors : Hon. J. N. Camp- 

 bell (chairman), J. P. Anderson, William Forsythe, Joseph 

 Fraser, James Forbes, W. S. T. Saunders, \V. Shakespeare. 

 Agents and secretaries : Carson & Co., Colombo. 



GENERAL CEYLON TEA ESTATES, LIMITED. 

 At the eighth annual shareholders' meeting (London, May 

 I) the chairman reported for 1904 the largest crop of tea yet 

 produced by the company — 2,549.237 pounds — but owing to 

 the lower prices the returns were not proportionately larger 

 than in former years. The company's directors in Ceylon had 

 urged the interplanting of all their tea with rubber, but the 



London management thought it best to go slow in this regard, 

 for the reason that the best cannot be had from both plants 

 on the same soil at the same time. They had planted some 

 Para rubber, however — reported at 83,750 trees, now i to 7 

 years old, on about 419 acres — and 276 acres more would be 

 planted during this June, and the planting of 1000 acres had 

 been planned for the next two seasons, when they would have 

 1700 acres in rubber exclusively. Last season they harvested 

 1627 pounds of rubber from some of their 7 year old trees and 

 sold it at a profit of ^425 [ = $2068.26], or at the rate of 5.1. 

 3}4'^- per pound. This season they expect to gather 2200 

 pounds from the same trees. 



RUBBER PLANTING PROJECTS IN BORNEO. 



The British North Borneo Plantations Co., Limited, regis- 

 tered in London, April 12, 1905, with ^52,500 capital, to carry 

 on the business of planting and dealing in tobacco, Pard rub- 

 ber, and similar products. One of the board is W. C. Cowie, 

 managing director of the British North Borneo Co., and two 

 others are members of the board of the United Lankai Plan- 

 tations Co., Limited. The new company will acquire from 

 British North Borneo Co., Limited, about 27,650 acres of se- 

 lected tobacco land, in the Darvel bay region, part of which 

 has been cultivated, producing a high grade of tobacco. While 

 its business proper will be the cultivation of tobacco, the new 

 company intends to plant rubber to a considerable extent, be- 

 lieving that, on account of the available native labor and the 

 fact that work on a rubber plantation is very light, rubber can 

 be produced at a minimum cost, without interfering with the 

 growing of tobacco. Registered offices: 2 Tokenhouse build- 

 ings, E. C, London. 



= The Sapong Rubber and Tobacco Estates, Limited, regis- 

 tered in London, April 13, 1905. with ;{[ioo. 000 capital, to ac- 

 quire from the British North Borneo Co. 20,000 acres of land 

 near Sapong, now occupied by the Borneo Tobacco Estates, 

 Limited, and to plant and deal in tobacco, rubber, cotton, and 

 other products. The directors are members of the board of 

 the New London Borneo Tobacco Co., Limited. A portion of 

 the estate is already under tobacco, and it is intended during 

 the first two years to plant 500 acres with Para rubber and to 

 continue afterwards at least at the same rate. The prospectus 

 states that experiments made in the government gardens at 

 Tenom during the past four years show the adaptability of this 

 region to the successful growth of Pard rubber and it is figured 

 that with the selling price of only 2s. 6J. [ = 6ocents] per pound, 

 rubber will yield a profit. Registered offices : loi Leadenhall 

 street, E. C. London. 



YIELD OF CEARA RUBBER IN CEYLON. 

 Francis J. Hollowav, manager of Kepitigalla estate. Ma- 

 tale, Ceylon, reports in T/if Times of Ceylon (March 31) the 

 details of tapping 20 Ceara rubber trees (Man/hot iHaziovii), 

 growing at an elevation of about 2000 feet, and ranging in girth 

 from 14 inches to 24 inches, 3 feet from the ground, but their 

 age is not mentioned. The trees were tapped daily for six 

 weeks in January and February, and yielded 22 pounds of dry 

 rubber, which was sold in Colombo at 4.70 rupees [ = §1.521-2, 

 gold] per pound. This may be regarded as equivalent to about 7 

 shillings on the London market. Mr. HoUoway is understood 

 to have devised an improved tapping tool, for which he has ap- 

 plied for a patent. 



RUBBER PLANTATION COMPANY PUBLICATIONS. 



The Obispo Rubber Plantation Co., New York. = Fourth Annual In- 

 spector's Report [By William H. Martin] and Financial Statement of 

 the Rubber Development Co. 1905. 28 pages. 



