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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[July i, 1901. 



THE RUBBER PLANTING INTEREST. 



THE shareholders in the Commonwealth Mexican Planta- 

 tion Association of Chicago are entitled once each year 

 to select one of their number to visit and report upon 



the condition of the rubber and sugar plantation of the 

 company near Tlacotalpam, Mexico. The choice fell last win- 

 ter upon Wesley H. Holway, the owner of 50 shares in the com- 

 pany, who reported to the other stockholders: "The land is 

 there as represented. The climate, soil, and everything are 

 exactly as they have been represented to you. There is but 

 one thing necessary, and that is an abundance of capital, and 

 for that they must look to you. You sent me to Mexico to in- 

 vestigate the proposition for you, and I have endeavored to 

 look the ground over thoroughly and give you an honest opin- 

 ion, and if my opinion is worth anything to you, it is that the 



plantation plan is a perfectly feasible one. So thoroughly 



satisfied do I feel with my investment, that I am making plans 

 now to pay for the whole of my stock in advance " — and the 

 report advises the other shareholders to do the same thing, in 

 order to provide means for the earlier development of the 

 plantation. In regard to rubber, Mr. Holway wrote: "Land 

 on our place is now being prepared for about 50,000 to 75,000 

 rubber trees, which will be planted during the coming summer. 

 We have now in the nursery about 1 5 000 to 25.000 rubber trees 

 of six months' growth. These trees show a very rugged and 

 hardy growth, and I am convinced from the diflferent planta- 

 tions that I visited, and the rubber trees that I saw growing, 

 that it is just as easy to raise a rubber tree in this part of Mex- 

 ico as it is to raise an apple tree in Illinois." This plantation 

 is in the center of what Mr. Holway calls an American colony, 

 where he says that between 100,000 and 200,000 rubber trees, 

 planted within the past three years, are growing well.==One 

 of the directors, and a prominent shareholder, of the above- 

 named company is Maxwell Riddle, who is also general mana- 

 ger of the Republic Development Co., engaged in developing 

 another rubber estate. 



TEHUANTEPEC RUBBER AND COMMERCIAL CO. 

 [PlantatioD in ihe canton of Juchitan, state of Oaxaca, Mexico, Offices; No. 

 115 Monroe street, Chicago.] 



Incorporated under Illinois laws, 1900. Will develop 1000 

 acres purchased from the Mexican Tropical Planters' Co. (Kan- 

 sas City) — a part of the " Dos Rios'' estate — of which 900 acres 

 are to be planted in rubber, at the rate of 180 acres per year_ 

 Eight hundred trees will be planted to the acre ; 600 of these 

 (the excess) will be destroyed at the age of five years by ex- 

 tracting all the rubber milk, and thus making room for the de- 

 velopment of the permanent trees (200 to the acre), from which 

 no rubber will be taken until the tenth year. The company 

 oflfer $500 bonds, to be paid for in yearly instalments of S'oo. 

 together with $500 worth of stock free of cost. C. C. Bartlett 

 is president, S. M. Seator vice president, John Ware Page sec- 

 retary, and S. R. Frazier treasurer. The Chicago Title and 

 Trust Co. is trustee and depositary of funds. 



MEXICAN MUTUAL PLANTERS' CO. 

 LPlantatioa : La Junta, state of Vera Crux, Offices : New York Life building, 

 Chicago.] 



This company offer profit sharing bonds, to be paid for with- 

 in six years. The bonds are reported to have been nearly all 

 sold. A letter from the head office states: " We are now plant- 

 ing, and at the close of this year expect to have under cul- 

 tivation, about 1400 acres, containing 500,000 rubber trees, 15,- 

 000 cacao trees, and 250,000 coffee trees. The coflfee trees will 



bear a good crop two years from this fall. We have on our 

 plantation about fifty buildings, eighteen of them being brick. 

 We have a brick and tile machine, and have made this season 

 something over 200,000 bricks, and are now erecting nothing 

 but brick buildings." The rubber trees now being planted from 

 the nursery are one year old and average about 6 feet hign. 

 This company plant rubber in the open, 800 trees to the acre, 

 with the idea of largely reducing the number at four years' 

 growth. 



THE SOCONUSCO RUBBER PLANTATION CO. 



[Plantation to be located near San Benito and Tapachula, department of Soco- 

 nusco, state of Chiapas, Me.xico. Office : No. 314 Montgomery street, San Fran- 

 cisco.] 



Incorporated under California laws, October i6, 1900, 

 George S. Fife, president; G. Berson. secretary; Charles G. 

 Cano, general manager ; Teofilo Palacios, representative 

 director of the company in Mexico. The company owns 

 17,800 acres of land. It is proposed to plant rubber, one acre 

 for every share of the capital stock sold, the same to be kept in 

 condition until the age of production. Shares are offered at 

 $75, payable in installments. 



AN EAST INDIA PLANTER IN MEXICO, 



James Maunder, formerly an East Indian planter, and now 

 located at San Juan Evangelista, state of Vera Cruz, Mexico, 

 writes to Indian Gardening and Planting (Calcutta), commend- 

 ing the culture of India-rubber {Castilloa elastica) to the plant- 

 ers of southern India as better than growing coffee. He men- 

 tions having an interest in a nursery of 500,000 rubber trees to 

 be set out in July and August this year, when they will make 

 another nursery of 1,500,000 plants, requiring two tons of seed. 

 Mr. Maunder writes : " We could make rubber pay better here 

 than any kind of planting we know of, if we only had East 

 India coolies," and he is trying to arrange to import some, 



RUBBER PLANTING ON THE AMAZON. 



To THE Editor of The India Rubber World: I have 

 seen articles in your paper about rubber planting in Mexico 

 and elsewhere, and therefore write you to ask if something 

 could be done with capitalists in the United Stales to start 

 rubber plantations in the state of Para, Brazil, on the Amazon. 

 Land suitable for planting rubber can be bought at a low price, 

 from, say, 10 cents an acre up — according to locality, etc. Of 

 course, you know that the best quality of rubber is produced 

 on the Amazon river, and the production per tree is more than 

 any other place. Please let me know what you think of the 

 matter, and whether you could assist in starting a company or 

 interesting capitalists in the scheme. If you print this, I pre- 

 sume that any answers could be sent to me in care of your 

 oflice. S. B. 



Par^i, Brazil, May 25, 1901. 



PLANTING COMPANY PUBLICATIONS. 



La Zacualpa Rubber Plantation Co., San Francisco=La Zacualpa 

 (.the beautiful forest) of Soconusco. An Interesting and Authentic De- 

 scription of a Mule back Ride through the Quaint, Little Known 

 Department of Soconusco, Mexico. By Mr. and Mrs. Frederick H. 

 Colburn. Illustrated from Photographs taken by the Authors. 28 pp. 



Isthmus Rubber Co. of Ubero, No. 2g Broadway, New York=The 

 World Crying for Rubber. 40 pp. 



Aztec Plantation Co. (Inc.), Chicago=A Judicious Investment. Prin- 

 cipal Secured by Valuable Property. Dividends Guaranteed. A Perpet- 

 ual Income Procured by Small Monthly Payments. 24 pp. 



