August i, 1901.] 



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representing one acre. After development capital for imme- 

 diate use has been realized from the sale of shares at par, it is 

 intended to raise the price of the remaining shares. It is 

 planned to plant tobacco, sugar, and bananas, to yield an annual 

 income while waiting for thegrowth of cofTee and rubber. The 

 company's officers are : Ygnacio de la Torre y Mier (managing 

 director of the Bank of London and Mexico), president; Cam- 

 eron Currie (a banker of Detroit), vice president; Sidney A. 

 Witherbee, secretary; Charles G. Olds (of Detroit), treasurer 

 and assistant secretary. Sefior de la Torre y Mier, mentioned 

 above, is a son in law of President Diaz, of Mexico, whose 

 son, Captain Porfirio Diaz, a civil engineer, is also a director 

 in the company. 



UBERO PLANTATION CO. NO. 2. 

 [Plantation at Ubero, state of Oaxaca. Mexico. Office: Terre Haute, Indiana.] 



Incorporated under Indiana laws in January, 1901 ; owns 

 500 acres, purchased from the Mexico Coffee and Rubber 

 Co., of Indianapolis, adjoining the property of the original 

 Ubero Plantation Co., of Indianapolis. The capital of the 

 company is $500,000. They purpose planting rubber, coffee, 

 and pineapples. The officers are : Willard Kidder, president ; 

 J. P. VVorrall, m. d., vice president ; Oskar Durnweg, secretary ; 

 Bertis McCormick (cashier First National Bank of Terre 

 Haute), treasurer. The executive force at the plantation will 

 be headed by F. L. Torres, general manager of the other Ubero 

 properties, and of whom a sketch was published in The India 

 Rubber World of May i, 1901. 



THE NORTH AMERICA RUBBER CULTURE CO. 



[Plantation "Columbia," near Santa Lucrecia, canton of Juchitan, "state of 

 Oaxaca, Mexico. Offices: New York Life building, Kansas City, Missouri. 1 



Incorporated under Delaware laws, March 16, 1901 ; capi- 

 tals ■ 10,000. Officers : Delbert J. Haff president ; T. K. Hanna 

 and P. H. Showalter vice presidents ; T. F. Willis secretary ; 

 C. H. V. Lewis treasurer; Louis Kunz, plantation manager. 

 ==ln 1884 was organized at Kansas City, primarily to plant 

 coffee, the Mexican Gulf Agricultural Co., who established the 

 now famous " Dos Rios " plantation in Mexico. From an in- 

 itial capital of $50,000 they now have a paid up capital of 

 $500,000, net assets of $1,000,000, and control 20,000 acres of 

 plantation. In addition, from its resources and investors the 

 Dos Rios Planters' Association has been formed, with $450,000 

 capital. From the beginning the company paid attention to 

 India-rubber, with the result that in 1898 was organized, prac- 

 tically by the same parties, the Mexican Tropical Planters' 

 Co., which formed a rubber plantation on part of a large tract 

 bought for the purpose. For the purpose of improving another 

 portion of this tract, investing additional capital, and enlarging 

 the staff, the North America Rubber Culture Co. has been 

 formed. Mr. Haff is president of all the companies named, 

 and all the experience in tropical planting gained by the older 

 companies is at the disposal of the newest one."=^The com- 

 pany have issued $220,000 in 6 per cent, gold first mortgage 

 improvement bonds, redeemable in twenty years, one bond 

 ($500) and 2% shares (S250) being sold for S400, payable in five 

 annual instalments. The Fidelity Trust Co. (Kansas City) are 

 trustees. The investor may obtain a life policy in the Pruden- 

 tial Insurance Co. of America for an amount equal to the ag- 

 gregate of his payments. One half of the issue of securities 

 has been taken by the founders of the company. The company 

 hold 1000 acres of land in fee simple, to be developed under 

 contract by the Mexican Tropical Planters' Co., goo acres to be 

 planted in rubber, the other 100 acres to be devoted to build- 

 ings and to other crops, including such as may be necessary 

 for the subsistence of the laborers. 



tabasco plantation COMPANY. 

 [Plantation in the district of Tacatalpa, state of Tabasco, Mexico. Office : Min- 

 neapolis, Minnesota ] 



Incorporated June 13, 1901, under the laws of Delaware; 

 capital, $2,100,000. Have acquired a partially developed plan- 

 tation of 7000 acres, on the navigable river Macuspana, which 

 facilitates communication with the gulf. This property was 

 owned by Fernando & Leopoldo Sanchez, and is said to be one 

 of the best developed estates in Tabasco. The former pro- 

 prietors have taken an important part of the stock of the new 

 company. Various crops now growing on the estate, including 

 2000 rubber trees, one to six years old. Arrangements making 

 to plant 800 acres more in rubber. The officers are : S. H. Bow- 

 man, of the S. H. Bowman Lumber Co., president ; George P. 

 Lyman, assistant passenger agent of Chicago, Burlington and 

 Quincy railway, vice president ; J. de las Munecas Zimaville, 

 of San Juan Bautista, Mexico, second vice president ; James 

 C. Fifield, of the law firm Fifield, Fletcher & Fifield, secretary ; 

 W. V. Fifield, treasurer. Among the directors are Frank E. 

 Holton, of the Mettropolitan bank, and W. S. Jones, of the 

 Minneapolis Commercial Bulletin.^='\\\& same officers and 

 directors hold like positions in the Tabasco Land and Develop- 

 ment Co., incorporated at the same time in Delaware, for the 

 purpose of doing a general business in buying and developing 

 lands in Mexico. Their capital is $100,000, with authority to 

 increase to $10,000,000. 



THE OBISPO RUBBER PLANTATION CO. 

 [Plantation ** La Republica," state of Oaxaca, Mexico. Offices : Park Row 

 building, New York ] 



J. Herbert Foster, of Meriden, Connecticut, wrote on June 

 27 from Tuxtepec, Mexico, to the Mt.\\A^n Journal : "There is 

 one large rubber plantation just being developed along the line 

 of the Vera Cruz and Pacific railroad. It is called the Obispo 

 plantation and has 9000 acres. The manager has planted 800,- 

 000 rubber seeds and is now working on 700,000 more. He 

 expects to get at least 1,000,000 rubber trees, and they will be 

 up in a month or more. This is the largest place I have yet 

 seen and it looks well. They have 125 acres of corn and pine- 

 apples well along. I went over the undeveloped parts of the 

 place and found a profusion of wild rubber trees. "==The 

 Obispo Rubber Plantation Co. was incorporated February 25, 

 1901, under New Jersey laws, to cultivate rubber; capital 

 $2100. Incorporators : Maxwell F. Riddle, Byron E. Carl, 

 John H. Brewster, Jr. Principal office: No. 6 Depot square, 

 Englewood, New Jersey. This is the company which, ulti- 

 mately, will control the plantation now being developed by the 

 Republic Development Co., mentioned already in The India 

 Rubber World. 



the mexican plantation co. of wisconsin. 



[Plantation " La Crosse," state of Oaxaca, Mexico. Office ; La Crosse, Wis- 

 consin.] 



This company, mentioned in our issue of June i [page 270], 

 have issued a pamphlet prospectus containing a list of their 

 first 100 stockholders, who are representative business and 

 professional men throughout Wisconsin. The company own 

 2000 acres, on the line of the National Tehuantepec railway, 

 adjoining the " Ubero " plantations on the south. They pro- 

 pose to cultivate sugar and India-rubber, planting the latter 

 thickly, with a view to thinning out alter three or four years. 

 The company will erect a sugar mill and expect to begin grind- 

 ing cane in about two years. The company offer 6 per cent, 

 preferred and common stock, for cash or on installments. 

 Michael Funk is president, Henry A. Salzer vice president, 

 Albert Platz treasurer, Edward A. Funk secretary, and Eman 

 L. Beck plantation manager, Michael Funk and Albert P. 



