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THE INDIA RUBBER V/ORLD 



[June i, 1901. 



THE RUBBER PLANTING INTEREST. 



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REPUBLIC DEVELOPMENT CO. 

 [Plantalion " La Republica," slate of Oxaca, Mejico. Offices: Pa'k Row hiiild- 

 in(j, New York.] 



>HERE have been some changes in this organization, 

 due to the introduction on its board of William H. 

 Robinson, vice president of the International (las En- 

 gine Co. (New York), who becomes president of the 

 Republic company. Robert B. Baird, of the Boston rubber 

 trade, is vice president ; Byron E. Carl, long associated with 

 the Mutua' Life Insurance Co. of New York, is secretary; and 

 Maxwell Riddle, treasurer. Mr. Riddle is the owner o( a rub- 

 ber plantation in Mexico, as also are two other members of 

 the board— Wyndham R. White, now a resident of Washing- 

 ton, D. C, after several years residence in Mexico, and A. G. 

 Weiss, formerly of Chicago, and now of Huimanguillo, Mex- 

 ico, who has 100,000 rubber trees planted on private account. 

 The plantation superintendent is G. A. Tucker, of Tuxtepec, 

 Mexico. 



ISTHMUS PLANTATION ASSOCIATION OF MEXICO. 



[" Hacienda del Corte," district of Juchitan, state of Oa.xaca, Mexico. Office: 

 Milwaukee, Wisconsin.] 



Not incorporated. Organized to grow tropical products 

 generally, including rubber, on a 10,000 acre tract at Palo- 

 mares, near the Coatzacoalcos river, beyond the Dos Rios es- 

 tate, as the river is ascended. Have been at work two years 

 and hope within eighteen months more to begin paying divi- 

 dends from other crops than rubber. The principal planting 

 to date has been cofTee. Cecelio Oest, the plantation superin- 

 tendent, on January i had 10,000 rubber plants set, with 30,000 

 in the nursery. Cacao is to be planted with the rubber. The 

 company oilers shares of stock, each representing two acres 

 to be planted, at $300 each, payable in monthly instalments. 

 The Chicago Title and Trust Co. are trustees for the share- 

 holders. 



PACIFIC RUBBER CO. 



[Plantation in the department of Soconusco., state of Chiapas, Mexico.] 



Incorporated under Maryland laws. May 9, 1901 ; capital 

 |i,ooo,ooo, in $10 shares. President and treasurer, George Sur- 

 burg, president Independent Match Co., New York; Secretary, B. 

 Franklin Bernstein, silk manufacturer, Hallstead, Pa.; Manager, 

 Luiz Velez Arriaga, c. 1:. Tapachula, Mexico; Superinten- 

 dent, Charles G. Cano ; C. E., Oakland, Cal. St<^ ck is being 

 offered by the United Securities Co., No. 66 Broadway, New 

 York. 



MEXICAN PLANTATION CO. OF WISCONSIN. 



Articles of incorporation filed April 18 at La Crosse, Wis- 

 consin ; capital, $700,000, divided equally into 6 per cent. cumu- 

 lative preference and common shares. Incorporators: M. Funk, 

 A. Platz. R. R. Schaeltle, J. I. Lamb, Charles E. Seiter, and 

 William F. Funk, of La Crosse, and Evan L. Buck, of Mexico 

 city. Mr. Beck is the plantation manager. The plantation is 

 on the isthmus of Tehuantepec. 



RUBBER PLANTING IN SOCONUSCO. 

 The Soconusco Rubber Plantation Co., incorporated under 

 California laws October 16. 1900, to develop a plantation in the 

 Soconusco department in the state of Chiapas, in the extreme 

 southern portion of Mexico., was organized by Mr. Charles G. 

 Cano, C.E., who is its general manager. The company own 

 17,858 acres and are preparing to plant rubber on an extensive 

 scale. They expect to ship considerable rubber this year from 



native trees on the property. This property is near the estates 

 of La Zacualpa Rubber Plantation Co., comprising 18,791 acres, 

 and which has been mentioned several times in The India 

 Rubber World. This company, besides planting largely on 

 their own account, have acquired a plantation formed ten 

 years ago or more, from which some rubber has been shipped. 

 In the same region is the rubber estate Los Cerritos. on which 

 40.000 trees were planted eleven years ago, and which was sold 

 recently by Rafael Ortega to Louis Tomalen for a large sum. 

 Still another enterprise there is the Dona Maria Rubber Plan- 

 tation Co., with 52S8 acres, owned by F. A.Quimby. Mr. Cano, 

 mentioned above, has also interested eastern capitalists re- 

 cently in forming the Pacific Rubber Co., for planting rubber, 

 which has just been incorporated under Maryland laws. Mr. 

 Cano is interested in the sale of other lands, on a large or small 

 scale, suited for rubber planting, either alone or in connection 

 with other crops, and may be addressed for the present in care 

 ol The India Rubber World. 



It is in this department, by the way, that the late Mexican 

 ambassador, Sefior Romero, made a rubber plantation in 1S73. 

 Some of the trees then planted still survive, in spite of long 

 neglect, and rubber gathered from them formed a part of the 

 Mexican exhibit at the Paris Exposition of 1900. The identi- 

 cal lands are now under control of Mr. Cano. 



RUBBER PLANTING IN SELANGOR. 

 The eighth annual report of the Selangor Planters' Associ- 

 ation, for 1900, issued from Klang, in the Malay peninsula, 

 states that " the planting of rubber has to some extent taKen 

 the foremost place in the attention of planters," whose main 

 crop now is coffee. During the year 1,146,870 Para rubber 

 seeds, imported or from local sources, were planted in the field 

 or in nurseries. Of the local seed, 75 per cent, germinated. 

 Seeds from Ceylon did not do so well, " but as, hitherto," the 

 report says, " we are indebted to Ceylon for a large percentage 

 of the rubber now flourishing in Selangor, we hope this will not 

 occur again." The termite (a white ant) has given the plant- 

 ers some trouble. Of ihe Ftcw; elasiica rubber, 52,147 plants 

 were set out. A sample of cultivated rubber of this sort 

 (Assam rubber) sent to London sold at y. 6d. (=84^ cents) 

 per pound. " There seems to be a tendency to extend the cul- 

 tivation o{ Ficus elastica," though Para rubber has received the 

 most attention hitherto. 



VENEZUELA. 

 A concession of valuable rubber lands on the Orinoco — ex- 

 tending seven miles on either side of the river, from the 

 mouth of the Guanini to the junction of the Casiquare arm 

 with the Orinoco— has been made in perpetuity to Sefior Don 

 Maximiliano Guevera, in consideration of the annual payment 

 to the government of 400 bolivars ( = $77.20) Free navigation 

 is permitted to the concessionaire, who is obligated not to 

 transfer his franchise to any foreign government. 

 PLANTING " LANDOLPHIA " IN AFRICA. 

 The Compagnie Anversoise des Plantations de Lubefu, 

 formed in Belgium in 1897 to trade in Africa, with 600,000 

 francs capital, and which have been shipping considerable rub- 

 ber from the Congo, are reported in Congo Beige as having 

 commenced a plantation of Landolphia rubber vines on the 

 river Lubefu, to cover 1000 hectares ( = 2471 acres), besides 

 which the company have an option on 4000 hectares more, for 

 the same purpose. 



