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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[September i, 1905. 



planting is planned for this year. Directors : Hon. J. N. Camp- 

 bell, J. P. Anderson, W. Forsythe, Joseph Frazer, and W. 

 Shakespeare, all of Ceylon. The prospectus originally issued 

 involving a capitalization of 5.000,000 rupees [See The India 

 Rubber World, June i, 1905 — page 300] was withdrawn, and 

 it IS understood that another company will be formed to acquire 

 the remaining lands involved in the first transaction. 



=The Rubber Plantations of Kalutara, Limited, gazetted at 

 Colombo, July S ; nominal capital 300,000 rupees [ = $97,329 98I . 

 to purchase 118 acres specified in the prospectus, and other 

 lands as occasion may oflfer. No prospectus issued, and no ap- 

 peal to the public. 



= Panawatte Tea and Rubber Estates, Limited, registered in 

 London on June 19, with a capital of _£6o,ooo [ = $291 ,990] in £c, 

 shares, to acquire properties in Ceylon as follows : Panawaiie 

 estate, in Yatiyantota, comprising 942 acres, including 605 acres 

 in tea interplanted with rubber ; Yogamma estate, in Dehiowita 

 consisting of 11 86 acres, of which 483 are in tea, interplant< d 

 with rubber, besides 140 acres lately planted in rubber alone 

 The members of the board are resident in London with the ex- 

 ception of J Forbes, broker, of Colombo. 



^Uddbage Plantation Rubber Co., Limited, registered in 

 London July 24, with ;r25.ooo [=$121,682.50] capital, in £1 

 shares, to acquire the Udabage tea and rubber estate, of 1140 

 acres, in the Kelani valley, Ceylon, and other properties, and 

 to grow India-rubber and other products. Registered office ; 

 lor, Leadenhall street, E. C, London. 



TRACING RUBBER TO ITS SOURCES. 



The fact that plantation rubber from Ceylon and the Straits 

 has become an established commercial commodity of impor- 

 tance is indicated by the regular cabling of reports of sales of 

 such rubber in London to the Far Eastern newspapers. A spec- 

 imen telegram of this nature appears in The Times of Ceylon 

 of Colombo, as follows : 



London, July 21. — The rubber market is quiet. Plantation pricts 

 are 6j. ^2.d.Xobs.^id ; and fine Para 5^. 4^0'. The p> ices (findividujl 

 makes are : Ileatherly, 6.t. y{.\ Ballagalla, 6.t, jji/. ; Culloden, 6.f. ly^J. 



The names appearing in this dispatch are those of important 

 and well known estates in Ceylon, regarding which Ferguson's 

 " Ceylon Handbook " published a year ago contains the follow- 

 ing details : 



Heatherly estate, Naboda postoffice, Kalutara district. Owned by 

 Rosebaugh Tea Co., Limited ; R. W, Harrison, resident manager ; 

 area 520 acres ; 340 acres in tea ; 64 acres in rubber, besides rubber 

 interplanted with the tea. 



Ballagalla lincluded in Glen Alpine) estate, Badulla posfoflice, Badul- 

 la district. Owned by Ouvah Coffee Co., Limited, London ; John 

 Rettie, resident manager: area of Glen Alpine, 1971 acres ; other 

 details lacking. 



Culloden estate. Nebodapostoffice. Kalutara district. Owned by Rose- 

 bairgh Tea Co., Limited ; R. W. Harrison, resident manager; area 

 t4SS acres ; 837 acres in tea ; 358 acres in rubber, besides 1 78 acres 

 of tea interplanted with rubber. 



It will thus be seen that the newspaper readers of Ceylon are 

 kept informed not only in regard to prices obtained for rubber 

 produced there, but also of the result realized for the product 

 of each plantation. All of which points to the time, probably 

 not distant, when individual planters, having established a rep- 

 utation for a given quality of product, will be in a position to 

 supply manufacturers direct with raw rubber " to specifica- 

 tions." 



CEYLON AND STRAITS PLANTING NOTES. 



M. Sidney Perry of Selangor, in the Federated Malay 

 States, in an interview in The Times of Crylon. was reported 

 as follows : 



He considers that it has been completely proved that light tapping in 



the sixth year improves the latex yielding of the [rubber] tree later on ; 

 and quotes as a convincing demonstration of the fact that, out of 153 

 trees, 33 were lightly tapped in their si.\th year, J^ pound of rubber be- 

 'ng got from each. The rest of the trees were not touched. In the fol- 

 lowiog year the 33 trees yielded 1.45 pounds of rubber in thirty days, 

 and the 120 trees only 11 ounces [average]. 



— Mr. J. B. Carruthers, formerly of the public scientific ser- 

 vice in Ceylon and lately appointed director of agriculture and 

 government botanist in the Federated Malay States, after hav- 

 ing spent a few months in Europe for the study of problems 

 relating to rubber, assumed the duties of his appointment on 

 June 10. 



= Mention was made in The Times of Ceylon of July 10 of 

 over 7000 acres of crown lands, in diflerent provinces in Cey- 

 lon, being under application for planting with rubber, over fif- 

 teen government surveyors being at work in locating the same. 

 The Times remarks that " The rubber boom has come to stay," 

 and mentions " its permanent hold on the planting and com- 

 mercial communities." 



•=The Bukit Rajah Rubber Co. is, says a trade journal, send- 

 ing out to their estate a Passburg vacuum dryer to dry the 

 crude rubber after coagulation of the latex. The speedy drying 

 of the rubber by artificial means will save not only the neces- 

 sity for erecting Urge storage room, but also make it unnecessary 

 to wash the rubber, as this latter is only being done by some 

 growers to hasten the drying process. — The Straits Times. 

 THE MERIDEN RUBBER PLANTING CORPORATION. 



[Plantation " El Meriden," TuU, state of Vera Cruz, Mexico. OHice : Meriden, 

 Connecticut.] 



This company, formed early in 1902 with a small capital, to 

 acquire a privately formed rubber plantation, continues to make 

 favjrable reports of progress, through monthly bulletins sent 

 out by the resident manager, Mr. J. Herbert Foster. These 

 reports, by the way, have been so explicit and informing as to 

 have attracted favorable attention from cultural journals 

 around the . world. This gentleman left Meriden when the 

 company was formed, to take charge of the estate, and was ab- 

 sent for more than three years, returning to attend the recent 

 annual meeting, when the original officers were all reelected : 

 E.W.Smith, president; D. C. McMahon, vice president; F. 

 E. Bemis, secretary ; Frank A. Stevens, treasurer. Mr. Foster's 

 family, who had been with him in Mexico, accompanied him on 

 his visit home. The company has at no time offered any 

 stock to the public. 



THE SAMOA COMPANY REORGANIZED. 



[See The India Rubijsr World, April 1. 1905 — p ige 232,1 



The company organized early in the year as the Samoa- 

 Kautschuk Compagnie, with headquarters in Berlin, with an 

 authorized capital of 1,700,000 marks, for the purpose of plant- 

 ing rubber in Samoa, by a resolution of July 21 modified its 

 title and articles. The new name is Kautschukkultur-Syndicat, 

 G. m.b. H. The object of the enterprise is now stated to be 

 the introduction of the culture of Caoutchouc in tropical 

 countries, and especially in the German colonies, said culture 

 to include the plantation system, as well as later on planting 

 by the natives. Carl Boehmer, a merchant of Berlin, has been 

 appointed deputy business manager, W. Mertens remaining 

 in the position of manager. 



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Rudolph A. Adler, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, sailed 

 from New York on July 29 for Nicaragua, to become superin- 

 tendent of the " La Taz " rubber plantation, in the department 

 of Leon, which is owned by J. M. Barris and others of Lynn, 

 Mass . and which is devoted to the cultivation of Ceaid rubber 

 (Afanifrot iHaziovii.) 



