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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[December i, 1909. 



from the latest despatches, as has been done in the table which 

 follows. The point to be made is that a steady increase in pro- 

 duction is shown, and that at a rate which insures the permanent 

 importance of Ceylon ami the Federated Malay states in the 

 production of rubber. The figures indicate weights in pounds. 

 The word "Limited" is omitted from the legal title of each com- 

 pany named : 



1908. 1909. 



Colconda Malay Rubber Co.: 



October 3.667 10,675 



1 ' 1 m mths to October 31 44,263 69,348 



Federated (Selangor) Rubber Co.: 



October 4,961 8,026 



Seven months to October 31 30,043 52,115 



Anglo-Malay Rubber Co.: 



October 32,52 1 53,394 



Ten months to October 31 280,524 417,178 



Harpenden Selangor Rubber Co.: 



October 2,212 



Ten months to October 31 15.738 



London Asiatic Rubber and Produce Co. : 



October 4,453 8.851 



Ten months to October 31 24,860 56,550 



Valambrosa Rubber Co. : 



October 26,245 34, 000 



Seven months to October 31 140,549 201,902 



Pataling Rubber Estates Syndicate: 



October 1 5,636 



Ten months to October 31 55,937 115,630 



Federated Malay States Rubber Co.: 



October 25,500 



Five months to October 31 108,690 



Kuala Lumpor Rubber Co.: 



October 39, 500 



Four months to October 31 136,100 



Mabiri Forest (Uganda) Rubber Co.: 



October 5.615 14,400 



Ten months to October 31 23,243 79,145 



Datnansara (Selangor) Rubber Co.: 



October t9.5i5 



Ten months to October 31 99,515 161,613 



Malacca Rubber Plantations: 

 October 24,000 



Perab Rubber Plantations: 



October 6,613 10,500 



Seven months to October 31 29,092 65,261 



Sumatra Para Rubber Plantations : 



October 4.704 10.640 



Four months to October 3! 21,842 38,872 



Bukit Rajah Rubber Co.: 



October 22,259 



Seven months to Octoher it 95,129 142,930 



Consolidated Malay Rubber Estates : 



October .' 10,501 21,030 



Ten months to October 31 81,505 162,775 



Highlands and Lowlands Para Rubber Co.: 



October 18,131 30,224 



Ten months to October 31 163,022 264,228 



Linggi Plantations: 



October 24,000 48,000 



Ten months to October 31 421,500 



SOME CEYLON RESULTS. 



The figures below relate to the first nine months of 1909, com- 

 pared with the same period of last year. The rubber sales were 

 at Colombo. The prices stated are in rupees, Rl being slightly 

 less than 32V2 American cents. 



Ceylon Planters' Rubber Syndicate, Limited. — Sold 57,124 pounds at 

 R 3 1 ; average, against 28,589 pounds at R 2.38 last year. 



• lyde Tea Estates Co., Limited. — Sold 10,322 pounds at R 3.61 average, 

 against 2,768 pounds at R 2.58 last year. 



Yataderia Tea Co. of Ceylon. Limited. — Sold 9,128 pounds at R 3.67 

 against 4,216 pounds at R 2.56 last year. 



L'dabagc Tea ami Rubber Co., Limited. — Sold 948 pounds at R 3.81 

 average; none last year. 



Ribu Rubber Co., Limited — Sold 22,410 pounds at R 3.60 average, net. 

 against 8,859 pounds at R 2.42 last year. 



KUALA LUMPUR RESULTS. 



The Kuala Lumpur Rubber Co., Limited, a Malay States 

 company, during the year ended June 30, 1909, obtained 196,121 

 pounds of rubber from 67,165 trees, or 2.92 pounds per tree. They 

 have 36.31)7 trees, aged 7 years and older; the other trees arc 

 younger. It is planned this year to tap 148,600 trees. Com- 

 parative results : 



1906 1 7 1907-08. 1908-09. 



Yield (pounds) 79.274 196.121 



Average price ss. 2'Ad. 3s. $d. 6s. 3'Ad. 



Net profits £7.61242 £5,11799 £43,033 



Dividend 3% 3% 20% 



During the first four months of the new year, to October 31, 

 the rubber harvest was 136.100 pounds. 



PATRIOTIC RUBBER PLANTATION EMPLOYES. 



The extent of the properties of La Zacualpa Rubber Planta- 

 tion Co., in Mexico, and the allied enterprises is indicated by a 

 poster which reaches The India Rubber World, issued in con- 

 nection with the celebration of the Mexican independence day 

 (September 15) by "La Junta Patriotica," formed of the planta- 

 tion forces. The celebration really lasted two days, and the 

 program indicates a wide range of musical and literary 

 entertainment, interspersed with patriotic addresses, showing a 

 degree of intelligence among the participants which would do 

 credit to any rural community in any country. A report from 

 the plantation states that some 3,000 persons attended the exer- 

 cises. While the "Junta" is organized among the employes, 

 with officials chosen from their number, the name of the superin- 

 tendent of La Zacualpa, Mr. W. S. Fisher, is mentioned promi- 

 nently on the poster in connection with the celebration exercises. 



MEXICAN RUBBER CULTURE CO. 



This company, with headquarters at Portland, Oregon, an- 

 nounce a series of measurements of planted Costilloa trees on 

 their plantation in Chiapao, Mexico, covering 25 each of the ages 

 of 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 years, the whole showing a very encouraging 

 rate of growth. Their acreage — all planted about 200 trees to the 

 acre — is divided about as follows : 



5 year old trees about 400 acres 



4 year old trees " 200 acres 



3 year old trees 250 acres 



2 year old trees " 450 acres 



1 year old tree " 200 acres 



Total about 1,500 acres 



The company advise The India Rubber World: "We expect 

 to commence our preliminary tapping next spring, and will push 

 this work just as rapidly as is consistent with good business 

 judgment." 



PLANTING "JEQUIE" RUBBER. 



The Jequie Rubber Syndicate. Limited, registered in London 

 in August, 1008, with £40.000 [= $194,660] capital, are reported 

 to have on their property in the state of Bahia, Brazil, some 

 420,000 planted trees of the highly approved Manihot dichotoma 

 species, with an equal or larger number of native trees growing 

 on land which it is proposed to clear and form into plantations. 

 Furthermore, it is proposed to plant extensively. The expecta- 

 tion is to derive about J4 pound of rubber per tree yearly, but 

 in view of the small size of the trees the acreage yield is ex- 

 pected to be very large. Tapping was to have commenced 

 during September, and washing and crepeing machines have been 

 forwarded to the estate. The board is headed by L. T. 

 Boustead, chairman of an important Malay States rubber plant- 

 ing company. 



RUBBER PLANTATION TOPICS. 



The Planters' Association of Malaya have made representa- 

 tions to the government regarding the desirability of licensing 

 and controlling dealers in india-rubber and gutta-percha. The 

 argument in favor of this is that already much loss has been 

 sustained by planters through thefts of rubber from drying rooms 

 and even of latex from trei s 



Arrangements have been made in London for sending a rub- 

 ber research chemist to the Federated Malay States, to start 

 in January and remain three years. A similar scheme is on the 

 tapis for Ceylon. 



The growing connection between the rubber producing and 

 rubber consuming interrsls is further indicated by a report of the 

 latest meeting of the Beaufort Borneo Rubber Co., Limited, in 

 London, which was presided over by Colonel Richard K. Birley, 

 c. B., who is the head of the famous rubber manufacturing com- 

 pany, Charles Macintosh & Co., Limited, of Manchester. The 

 company have 875 acres planted up to date, and purpose tapping 

 their older trees within six months. 



