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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD. 



[December 1, 1910. 



Progress of Rubber Culture. 



BUBBEB PLANTING IN CEYLON. 



THE "Ceylon Handbook and Directory," the statistics in 

 which arc brought up to July 31, 1910, while delayed some- 

 wluit in publication this year, is on account of this delay 

 even more complete than has been true of this long established 

 and authoritative publication, which has been issued regularly 

 since 1863. A most important feature of this book is its review 

 of rubber planting in the colony, in preparing which the com- 

 piler has had the cooperation of all the lending planters The 

 extent of the interest of which this book is a directory is indi- 

 cated by these statistics for the past two years: 



X- u r I ■ '9CXX 1910- 



Aumbcr of plantations 1,731 i,7SS 



"lotal area 957.-49 975.425 



Area under cultivation 625,629 642,330 



Acres under rubber 174^000 m,ooo 



In reporting on the rubber acreage, it is stated that the area 

 planted to rubber alone is 142,685 acres, against 131,800 acres 

 last year. Where tea and rubber have been interplanted one- 

 half the acreage is credited to rubber. The figures given em- 

 brace 5,000 acres of rubber on small holdings owned by native 

 planters. 



The area now devoted to the planting of "ruljlicr alone" in 

 Ceylon— that is excluding the area interplanted with rubber 

 and tea and other crops— as stated in the "Handbook," is equiva- 

 lent to 223 square miles of artificial forest, which may not be 

 overrun or displaced by any other form of vegetable growth. 



FORWARD SALES OF RUBBER. 



Forward sales of plantation rubber continue to be made by 

 some of the producers in the East. A group of Malay States 

 companies having offices in common in London advised their 

 stockholders under date of September 27 of sales arranged, de- 

 liverie.-; at Colombo, to be equally distributed throughout 191 1, 

 the companies being — 



The Pataling Rubber Estates Syndicate, Limited. 



The Delaba Rubber Estates, Limited. 



The Anglo-Malay Rubber Co., Limited. 



The Golden Hope Rubber Estate, Limited. 



The London Asiatic Rubber & Produce Co., Limited. 



United Serdang (Sumatra) Rubber Plantations, Limited. 



The sales referred to are for two grades, at rupee prices 

 equivalent to 6s ltd. [=$i.68,'4] and 6s. 2'/:d. [$1.51] per pound, 

 London terms. Earlier in the year numerous forward sales were 

 reported at 9^. 6d. [=$2.30], and one contract for the whole of 

 191 1 still stands at ii.f. [=$2.67^4]. 



CONSOLIDATION IN CEVLON. 



Thkre is a confident tendency in the direction of consolidation 

 or rubber plantations in Ceylon. On the recent date the meetings 

 of five companies were held at Colombo for the purpose of voting 

 to wind up voluntarily, and the plantations involved, together 

 with a private plantation, have since been consolidated under the 

 style of The Grand Central (Ceylon) Rubber Estates, Limited, 

 with an authorized capital of £1,500,000 [=$7,299,750]. The 

 vendors take shares amounting to £1,013,211, and the remaining 

 shares are reserved for future issue as working capital may be 

 required. The various estates and the acreage planted to rubber 

 on each are as follows. 



Grand Central Ceylon Rubber Co., Limited 2,384 



Durampitiya Rubber Co., Limited 3,402 



Weyganga Rubber Co., Limited 3.738 



Southern Ceylon Tea and Rubber Co., Limited 1,786 



Arandara-Kegalle Rubber Co., Limited 500 



Karandana estate 661 



Total 12,471 



The number of rubber trees (Hevea) on the combined estates 

 is about 2,500,000. There is some production already, and it is 

 estimated that four years hence the total output will reach 

 2,500,000 pounds, with a gradual yearly increase. 



RUBBER PLANTING MISCTELLANy, 



The Ceylon Consolidated Rubber Estates, Limited, with an 

 estate in North Matale, purpose planting this year 100,000 Ceora 

 rubber seeds, with a view to obtaining a yield of rubber before 

 their extensive plantation of Hez^ea can become productive. 



The Mexican department of formento lately purchased a large 

 supply of rubber tree seeds for free distribution to land owners 

 wishing to plant the same. 



A SHIPPING news item in a New York paper ends with the 

 incidental mention that the steamship referred to had on board 

 $250,000 worth of rubber from Colombo. This detail might well 

 have had first place in the story, for there are few developments 

 in shipping of more prospective importance than the direct 

 importation of rubber from the Far East to the United States. 



According to De Indische Mercuur, of Amsterdam, there have 

 been introduced upon the market in that city the common stock 

 certificates of the Intercontinental Rubber Co. — the American 

 guayule company— through the Nederlandsch Administratie-en 

 Trustkantoor. The Mercxmr hears that the net receipts of the 

 company for January last were $216,525, and the total net receipts 

 for the year are expected to reach $3,250,000. 



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 [Manhattan I'l.-int,-ition.l 



"Heve.v" Tkee in Nic.\r.\gua. 



I Manliattan riantation.] 



