February i. l'.iu. 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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"Rubio." the responses to which were largely in favor ot" the 

 change. Under date of January II another circular was issued 

 in which it was stated : "In accordance with the terms of our 

 circular, we have, upon authority of our board of directors, em- 

 ployed Mr. [James G] Harvey to proceed immediately to planta- 

 tion 'Rubio' and carry out the tapping experiments contem- 

 plated. This work will continue during the months of January 

 and February, and possibly the first two weeks in March, report 

 of which will be made at the proper time." 



RUBBER PLANTING DIVIDENDS. 

 An interim dividend of 15 per cent, on the capital of Bukit 

 Rajah Rubber Co.. Limited, for the business year 1909, was 

 payable on January 8. No dividend was paid the first year. The 

 figures since have been : 



For 1905 6% For 1907 30% 



For 1906 30% For 1908 55% 



Dividends paid for four full years by Linggi Plantations, 

 Limited, have been: (1) 7 per cent, on the preference shares 

 in each year; (2) dividends on the ordinary shares as follows: 



For 1905 4% For 1907 20% 



For 1906 15% For 1908 60% 



Two interim dividends have been paid on account of the 

 business year, aggregating 65 per cent. 



The Federated Selangor Rubber Co., Limited, have paid in- 

 terim dividends amounting to 30 per cent, on account of the 

 year which ends on March 31, 1910. Previous dividends have 

 been : 



For 1907 8% For 1909 35% 



For 1908 nil 



Vallambrosa Rubber Co., Limited, announce an interim divi- 

 dend of 66?^ per cent, (less income tax) for the year ending 

 March 31, 1910. Former dividends: 



For 1906 

 For 1907 



55% 

 55% 



For 1908 80% 



The directors of Pataling Rubber Estates Syndicate, Limited, 

 announce interim dividends amounting to 50 per cent, on their 

 shares for the year ending December 31, 1909. Former dividends : 



For 1905 20% For 1907 35% 



For 1906 40% For 1908 45% 



The interim dividend of Cicely Rubber Estates Co., Limited — 

 the year ends March 31 — is 25 per cent, but our report does not 

 state for what class of shares. The capital is in £10,000 ordinary 

 shares and £6,000 preference. The latter are entitled to a prefer- 

 ential dividend of 5 per cent, in each year and one-half the 

 remaining divisible profits. Former dividends : 



Preferred. Ordinary. 



For 1905 5 % 10 % 



For 1906 15 % 20 % 



For 1907 37/4% 42/4% 



For 1908 •. 50 % 55 % 



The directors of Malacca Rubber Plantations. Limited, sanc- 

 tioned the payment of an interim dividend, for the year 1909, of 

 10 per cent, on preference and ordinary shares, which required 

 £30,000 [= $145,995]. For the preceding year the disbursement 

 was 754 per cent, on the preference shares, of which the issue 

 amounted to £115.000. 



SOAP AND RUBBER. 



The important plantation enterprise, the Lanadron Rubber Es- 

 tates, Limited, as is generally known, is an outgrowth of the 

 cocoanut plantation in the Malay peninsula of the English cor- 

 poration. A. & F. Pears, Limited, makers of Pears' soap, in 

 which cocoanut oil is used. Their neighbors in Johore were 

 successful in rubber planting, and the Messrs. Pears took up 

 rubber, with the result that they have become important factors 

 in the planting interest. At the recent annual meeting of A. & 

 F. Pears, Limited, in London, the death was referred to of Mr. 



Andrew Pears, J. p., managing director. Mr. Francis Pears has 

 given his personal attention to the rubber undertaking, and is 

 the resident estates manager of the Lanadron company. Andrew 

 Pears was a great-grandson of the founder of the soap firm. 

 The capital of the latter, by the way, is £340,000 [= $1,654,610]. 

 For the last sixteen years the £20,000 in pr< .ares have 



earned 6 per cent, and the £320,000 in ordinary shares 10 per 

 cent, dividends. 



COTTON IN RUBBER GOODS. 



I X a letter on the cotton situation by Dick Brothers & Co. 

 * (New York) published in the Memphis Commercial-Appeal 

 the constantly increasing consumption of cotton for many pur- 

 poses is treated in detail. The warning is given that the South 

 must prepare to take care of even greater demands for consump- 

 tion. An important point in the letter occurs in the closing 

 paragraph : "Until the last twenty years cotton for centuries 

 has sold at a higher average price than wool. We are not 

 indulging in prophecy, but when one considers the countless 

 uses to which cotton is put, and figures on what might happen 

 owing to an accident curtailment of production, it is quite within 

 the bounds of possibility for history to repeat itself." 



It is estimated in the letter that the sale of cotton duck for 

 use in rubber belting and all kinds of rubber hose amounts to 

 50.000,000 yards annually. They estimate the demand for cotton 

 for use in automobiles at 325,000 bales annually, of which about 

 290.000 bales are required for the cotton duck basis for tires, 

 the rest going largely for the manufacture of artificial leather 

 cushions and seats. The use of cotton yarns or tape for insula- 

 tion work is also referred to. A member of the trade tells the 

 firm that the sales in the New York market alone amount to 

 400.000 pounds of cotton yarn weekly to the electrical industry. 



AMERICAN PRODUCT ON OF SULPHUR. 



C OME figures which follow, which may prove of interest 

 k -' in some branches of the india-rubber industry, are derived 

 from a statement of the mineral products of the United States 

 for 10 years, prepared by the United States Geological Survey. 

 The figures relate to tons of 2,000 pounds, and are for calendar 

 years : 



Year. Sulphur. Barytes (Crude). Asbestos. 



1899 tons 4,840 41,894 681 



1900 3.525 67,680 1,054 



1901 a 49,070 747 



1902 a 61,668 1 ,005 



1903 a 50,397 887 



1904 a 65,727 1,480 



1905 181,677 48,235 3,109 



1906 294,153 50,231 1.695 



1907 293,106 89,621 653 



1908 369,4-W 38,527 936 



a — Not reported separately. 



It will be noted that while the production of sulphur has in- 

 creased steadily, there has been a falling off with respect to 

 barytes, and no increase in the output of asbestos. Further sta- 

 tistics regarding sulphur will be found in The India Rubber 

 World, September I, 1909 (page 418). 



Official reports regarding the Congresso Commercial Indus- 

 trial e Agricola to be held at Manaos, Brazil, in February next 

 [see The India Rubber World, October 1, 1900— page 7], indi- 

 cate that the. proposal has met with encouraging responses from 

 the various commercial associations whose co-operation has been 

 invited, and that much interest has been expressed in other 

 quarters. 



Edward Olsen, a director in A. H. Alden & Co., Limited, india- 

 rubber merchants, London, died in that city on January 6. 



