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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD. 



[June I, 1911. 



HIGH TAPPING OF CASTILLOAS. 



T^lII-: Mutual Rubber Production Co., Xo. 1, who operate Cas- 

 lilloa plantation at Chiapas, Tabasco, Mexico, have already 

 planted 50,000 cocoanut trees and have a nursery of 75,000 

 more. .After careful examination the Graves Brothers, who 

 operate the plantation, liave discovered that there is excellent 

 profit in cocoa in the location named, and expect to find it a 

 profitable adjunct to rubber. 



Few pl.iimrs of Ciislilli'n have worked harder to solve the 



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tapping problem than have the Graves brothers. They have 

 experimented on both wild and planted trees. For example, they 

 tapped 300 wild trees of varying sizes from 8 inches in diameter 

 upwards last year, tapping tliem three limes, and actually secured 

 an average of a pound of rubber per tree. They have found 

 that they can tap the tree up to 25 feet from the ground and 

 perhaps higher and that the latex from the upper reaches of 

 the tree is almost as abundant and as rich as it is nearer the 

 ground. The illustration shows a special truss ladder that they 

 have designed for this tapping. 



GREAT BEITAIN. 



T~'11E employees of the India Rubber Gutta Perclia and Tele- 

 •*• graph Works Co., Ltd., of Silvertown, London, E., have an 

 athletic club, known as the Silvertown Rubber Works Athletic 

 Club. They recently held their first annual sports meeting, 

 quite a number of events being contested and the Graysilver 

 Military Band furnishing the music for the occasion. 



The Midland Rubber Company, Ltd., Birmingham, contem- 

 plates a considerable enlargement of its factory, and for this 

 purpose has increased its capital from £28,000 to f80,000 

 {=$389,320.] 



Victoria Rubber Co., Ltd., Edinburgh, Scotland, with a working 

 capital of f 60,000 [=$291,000], made a profit, last year, of 

 £6.376 [=$29,828], from which a dividend of 7^2 per cent, was 

 declared. The sales increased considerably, but owing to the 

 speculative movement in crude rubber, the profits had not kept 

 pace with them. 



The Anglo-Continental Rubber Co. has been founded, with 

 offices at 5 New Brown street. Manchester. 



GERMANY. 



The Kabel und Gummiwerk Eupen, at a meeting of stock- 

 holders, increased its capital to 400,000 marks [=$95,200]. 



Deutsche Kabelwerke .\kt. Ges., Berlin. The regular general 

 meeting declared a dividend of 8 per cent, and elected Wilhelm 

 Kleeman, of the Dresden Bank, a member of the Board of 

 Directors. 



Land und Seekabehverke, Cologne-Nippes, in consequence of a 

 falling off in profits reduced the dividend from 8 to 5 per cent. 

 Fluctuations in the cost of raw materials are given as the cause 

 for the reduction. 



Rheinische Gummi and Celluloid Fabrik, Mannheim-Neckarau 

 had a net profit of 2,789,638 marks [=$663,933] to report for 

 1910, compared with 2,512,672 marks for the preceding year. 



Oldenburgische Auto-Bereifungs-Austalt "Anker," Varel, Old- 

 enburg, has been commercially registered, and will manufacture 

 non-skid tires. H. Hische and B. Lewin, Varel, are proprietors. 



Hannoversche Gummi-Kaumm Co., at their general meeting, 

 after disposing of routine affairs, fixed the dividend, for last 

 year, at 25 per cent, and decided to increase the capital 500,000 

 marks [=$119,000], the increase to be entitled to half dividends 

 for 1911. 



Supplementing the notice in the April 1 number of The Indi.a 

 Rubber World, of the formation of the firm of Julius Roempler, 

 A.-G., rubber manufacturers, Zeulenroda, it may be stated that 

 the members of the Board of Directors are Bank Director Max 

 Rcimer, Dresden, and Bank Director Wilhelm Bottgcr, Plauen 

 i. V. 



.ASBEST UND GUMMIWERKE .M.FREU C.\LMON A. C. 



Asbest und Gummiwerke .■Mfred Calmon, Aktiengesellschaft, 

 Hamburg, held, its regular general meeting on May 10, on virhich 

 occasion a report for the fifteenth business year was presented. 

 For the second time in the history of the concern the report 

 showed a gross loss amounting, on this occasion, to 1,566,645 

 marks, and deducting the balance of profits from 1909 and the 

 reserve account, a net loss of $644,505.21. Reasons for the fall- 

 ing oS are given in detail in the report, which concludes with 

 the hope that the period of sacrifices for the introduction of the 

 company's goods being passed and the sales on a steady increase, 

 better things are to be hoped for in the future. 



NOaWAY. 



The firm of Jacobsen & Braa.stad, manufacturers of men's and 

 boys' furnishings (founded in 1893: proprietors: O. H. Jacobsen 

 and M. A. Braastad), has taken up the manufacture of rubber 

 clothing 



