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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[Aug VST 1, 1911. 



The rainfall in the colony is all that could be ilesired for rubber facilitate matters and be much appreciated by rubber exporters. 



planting and one can get it in almost any quantity desired and 

 well distributed. It varies from 92 inches on the Essiquibo river 

 to 268 inches in the North West District. 



The shipping of rubber from British Guiana is surrounded by 



a ctrtain amount of rod tape that makes some of the new 



Professor Harrison told me of a very amusing instance of 

 planters' generosity in the Middle East. He had sent for some 

 Hevea seeds, giving the most minute directions as to their pack- 

 ing and shipment. For example, he specified a parcels post 

 package of eleven pounds, containing 500 seeds not closely 

 packed, with just a little ventilation, etc. The shipper, however, 

 {■ntnd that the postal cost for 800 seeds wouUl be just tlie same. 



Gorge Below the 700 Foot Fall ok Kaietelr. 



TuMATUMARI CATARACT, POT.ARO RiVER. 



arrivals rather restive. The course of procedure is about this. 

 The shipper goes to the Custom House and gets a supervisor to 

 weigh the lot. Receiving a memo of the weight he proceeds to 

 the Lands and Mines office to get permission to release the 

 rubber and also to secure a royalty blank. Then follows a visit 

 to the treasury department to pay the royalty. The receipt for 

 payment is then taken back to the Custom House for endorse- 

 ment. Then come two shipping bills which must be officially 

 signed. After this is the securing of the consular invoice and 

 the submission of all of the documents of the steamship company. 



so he put in the e.xtra 300, soldered them up tiglu to prevent 

 "shucking" and sent them along. Of course they fermented and 

 when they were opened drove everybody away by their fearful 

 stench. 



1 forgot to mention, in writing of the Safimii Jeniuaiii, that 

 Professor Harrison in experimenting finds that the latc.x de- 

 velops resin when the tree is tapped continuously. The first and 

 second tappings give excellent rublier, the third is slightly sticky, 

 while the fourth and fifth are decidedly resinous. 



Referring again to bal.-ita, the whole business has been beau- 



RaU UOAIi TO Ml.NES. 



Dk.meraka EssEoriiio Railway. 



Then follows the w-ait until the cargo is discharged before the 

 bill of lading is signed, and then the rush to mail it by the same 

 steamer that carries the rubber. It is true that few errors occur 

 and the <iuty on rubber is very low, only two cents per pound. 



tifully systematized since the formation in 1910 of the Con- 

 solidated Rubber and Balata Estates, Limited. This company 

 acquired 387 balata licenses and has greatly increased the output 

 There are some half dozen lesser companies operating in balata 



but if one official could be empowered to do all of the signing and about twenty that are really planting Para rubber, with 

 and the steamship companies would unbend a bit it would greatly prospects of a great many more in the near future. 



