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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[April i, 1901. 



THE RUBBER PLANTING COMPANIES. 



TH E Isthmus Rubber Co. of Ubero, was incorporated March 

 10, under Delaware laws, with $3,500,000 capital, author- 

 ized to establish a rubber plantation near Ubero, state of Oax- 

 aca, Mexico, which is on the isthmus of Tehuantepec. This 

 is another outgrowth of the work done by William D. Owen 

 in connection with planting in Mexico, there being already 

 two "Ubero" companies at work, with headquarters respect- 

 ively in Indianapolis and Boston. The headquarters of this 

 new company are at No. 29 Broadway, New York. The officers 

 are: Robert W. Parsons, president; Edgar B. Bronson, vice 

 president; William D. Owen, general manager; W. I. Over- 

 street, secretary and treasurer. Mr. Parsons is identified with 

 a large hardware manufacturing concern in New York, after 

 having long been engaged in the coastwise shipping trade, and 

 having lived in Mexico. The company own the land needed for 

 the plantation, and nurseries have been formed already for 

 starting it. The plan is to offer shares, payable in instalments, 

 with the Continental Trust Co. (New York) as trustee. The 

 new company will have the benefit of the experience, for several 

 years past, gained on the other plantations with which Mr. 

 Owen is identified, including the services of F. L. Torres, who 

 has been connected with the rubber planting interests in Mex- 

 ico practically from its inception. 



THE OAXACA ASSOCIATION. 



[Plantation ; Buena Vista, canton of Acayucan, stale ol \'era Cruz, Mexico. 

 Office : Royal Insurance building, Chicago, Illinois ] 



A LETTER to The India Rubber World states: "While 

 we now have upwards of 500,000 rubber trees, ranging from 

 young trees to ^'/i years of age, the best showing on the isth- 

 mus [of Tehuantepec] is undoubtedly made by one of our 

 neighbors, B. Griffin, who has fully 30,000 rubber trees with 

 his coffee, of y/i and 4)^ years of age, closely followed by 

 J. C. Harvey, another neighboring planter, who has occasion- 

 ally written you articles on the subject." Rubber is planted 

 800 to the acre, with the idea of thinning out, by excessive 

 tapping of some trees, when old enough to become over- 

 crowded. The company's Bulletin No. 54 states that the last 

 share of treasury stock— the capital is $500,000— was placed in 

 January. Harvesting of sugar, tobacco, coffee, ginger, and 

 corn had begun, and first shipment of coffee was expected soon 

 at Chicago. The company favor rubber shade for coffee. Cul- 

 tivated trees are reported to be shorter but of larger diameter 

 than wild trees of the same age, and to yield more rubber 

 H. E. Caster is president, W. H. Kent treasurer, George R. 

 Kent secretary, and A. B. Coate general superintendent— the 

 latter on the plantation. 



CHIAPAS RUBBER PLANTATION AND INVESTMENT CO. 



[Plantation "San Luis," near Palenque, department of Palenque, state ol Chi- 

 apas, Mexico. Office : Crocker building. San Francisco.] 



Mr Lucian Nicholl, a recent visitor to The India Rub- 

 ber World offices, after having traveled in Chiapas, made the 

 following statements regarding the work of this company : The 

 company own a tract of 24,700 acres, watered Dy the river 

 Michol, which empties into the Tujila, and that in turn into the 

 Usumacinte, which enters the gulf near Frontera. The estate 

 is divided into three "fincas" — named "San Luis," "San 

 Francisco," and " Los Angeles " — the development of each of 

 which has been begun. Up to January between 900 and 1000 

 acres had been cleared, except that trees of 8 or 10 inches 

 diameter are allowed to stand. Planting was begun last year 

 resulting in about 60,000 trees now standing. In January there 

 were 50,000 or more nursery trees, to be transplanted this 



spring, when they would be a year old. Preparations are under 

 way for creating more nursery stock, in order to provide for 

 planting each season, as additional land is cleared. Trees are 

 planted 16 feet apart, each way, the ground being cleaned for a 

 space 5 feet square for each tree. It is estimated that one 

 clearing of these spaces per year will be sufficient until the rub- 

 ber trees have become large enough to dominate all other 

 growths. 



NEW TRADE PUBLICATIONS. 



A HANDSOMER or more tasteful catalogue has not been 

 issued at any time by a rubber manufacturing company 

 than the 1901 "Catalogue of Original Styles in Rubber Boots 

 and Shoes. Felt Boots, and German Socks, manufactured by 

 George Watkinson & Co., Philadelphia." It is prefaced ap- 

 propriately by the motto " Costly thy Catalogue as thy purse 

 can buy: but not expressed in fancy : rich, not gaudy, for the 

 Catalogue oft proclaims the manufacture." The illustrations 

 of styles are numerous, well executed, and on a larger scale than 

 in most catalogues of rubber footwear, besides which are given 

 views of the factory as first built, four years ago, and of the 

 present factory, with the successive enlargements, and several 

 interior views. The catalogue is further embellished with several 

 other attractive pictures, appropriate to the subject of the 

 book. [7X"X9X"- 66 pages.] 



New York Belting and Packing Co., Limited, issue a 

 new catalogue and price list of mechanical rubber goods of 

 their production, the number and variety of which have in- 

 creased steadily, since the company's origin in 1846, until the 

 list is as large or larger than that of any factory in the country. 

 The catalogue is illustrated from new plates, and includes much 

 information of value to users of the various rubber goods de- 

 scribed. The company make a specialty of elevator belting, 

 and give a list of 97 large grain elevators which they have 

 equipped with belting, besides they mention have sold belting 

 for over 2000 elevators in the northwestern states. All the 

 standard lines of mechanical goods stand out prominently, but 

 the numberless little rubber " essentials " are also extensively 

 represented. [5X"X7' • 112 pages.] 



Morgan & Wright (Chicago) after having attained so much 

 prominence in the tire trade, have gradually introduced the 

 manufacture of other lines in their well equipped factory, until 

 their illustrated " Catalogue of Mechanical Rubber Goods "' 

 [3/^" >< AH"- 175 pages] is about as complete as that of any of 

 the older factories, with the exception of the items of belting 

 and hose. Their 1901 " Trade Catalogue of Tires and Bicycle 

 Sundries " [3X' X 4/^". 112 pages] is also very complete. The 

 company send us also a dozen smaller pamphlets, each describ- 

 ing a special article or line, some of which are included in the 

 larger catalogues mentioned above. 



The Peerless Rubber Manufacturing Co. (New York) 

 have issued their catalogue No. 32 of " Mechanical Rubber 

 Goods," which is one of the most comprehensive publications of 

 its kind in the trade. The Peerless company's products embrace 

 many important special lines — of which their " Rainbow " pack- 

 ing is an example — besides the general list of mechanical goods. 

 The catalogue is tastefully printed in two colors and liberally 

 illustrated with good cuts. [5K" X 8)4". 136 pages.] 



ALSO RECEIVED. 



The Philip Carey Manufacturing Co., Lockland, Ohio= [Handsome 

 pocket memoranduin book, with valuable facts for reference and adver- 

 tising] Asbestos Magnesia Steam Pipe and Boiler Coverings. 



