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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[March i, 1910. 



There is a list in I'm I \ni \ Ki uber World office of every rub- 

 ber plantation enterprise in Mexico which it has been possible for 

 the office to become informed of — with details regarding them — 

 based upon the expenditure of a large amount of money. No 

 doubt the expenditure amounts to more than that all other 

 periodicals combined for a similar purpose. The future demand 

 for rubber depends upon cultivation rather than upon forest 

 production. For this reason this journal for twenty years past 

 has advocated plantations, and the condition of the market to-day 



seem to justify our position. But neither from personal visits 

 or from other sources has any information been gained that 

 would substantiate the story in The American Magazine [New 

 York: February, 1910. Pp. 546-555]. In fact, no details are 

 given by means of which that story can be vertified in Mexico 

 or elsewhere, as to plantation conditions. It is no news that 

 some so called plantation prospectuses have been fraudulent — 

 a detail not unknown in connection with gold mining, banks, and 

 so on. 



General News of Rubber Planting. 



HAWAIIAN INTERESTS IN RUBBER. 



WHILE a very substantial interest in rubber culture has 

 been exhibited in Hawaii, in connection with local enter- 

 prises, and while the Hawaiian Rubber Growers' Asso- 

 ciation maintains an active existence, there is also a disposition 

 among capitalists in that territory to consider rubber planting 

 propositions in the Malay peninsula. Two plantations in the 

 latter region from which promising reports come to hand are 

 owned entirely by Hawaiian capital, there being some 60 stock- 

 holders in the two corporations and with all the shares very 

 closely held. These are the Tanjong Olak Rubber Plantation Co., 

 Limited, in the native state of Johore, and The Pahang Rubber 

 Co., Limited, in Pahang, one of the Federated Malay States. 

 [See The India Rubber World, June 1, 1909 — page 312.] The 

 latest report regarding the Tanjong Olak company was that a 

 meeting was about to be held in Honolulu to consider exer- 

 cising an option which the company had acquired on Muar river 



Tanjong Olak Rubber Plantation 



[Hcvea at 254 years. Otie of the drains.] 



propertii adjoining their estate in Johore. They are adjacent 

 to one of the most important anil must profitable rubber plan- 

 tations in the world, and the shareholders in the Tanjong Olak 

 are hopeful 1 f being equally successful with their neighbors. The 

 Messrs. Waterhouse, of Honolulu, have been particularly active 

 in the development of the plantations in Malaysia, to which 

 reference is made here. 



a big dutch planting company. 

 One of the largest companies yet organized in the rubber 

 planting interest, measured by the amount of capital stated, is 

 reported from Holland — the Nederlandsche Rubber Maatsehappij 

 (Netherlands Rubber Co.), gazetted in the Staats-Courant of 

 January u. 1910. The share capital is 10,000,000 florins 

 [=$4,020,000]. The purpose is to engage in planting rubber 

 and other crops in the Dutch East Indies, and particularly in 



S a*ra; to deal in the products of such cultivation, and to 



1> rl 1 ipate in other companies devoted to similar purposes. The 



directors are : J. F. de Beaufort, Th. C. Dentz, P. J. J. Jonas 

 van's Heer Arendskerke and P. van Leeuwen Boomkempf. The 

 head offices are in Amsterdam. 



MEXICAN RUBBER PLANTING NOTES. 



The Wisconsin Rubber Co. (Madison, Wisconsin), on Janu- 

 ary 25, 1910, announced their tenth dividend (5 per cent.), being 

 the sixth year's dividend, making a total of 49 per cent, from 

 the beginning. The company's large rubber plantation in Chiapas, 

 Mexico, has not yet reached a productive age, but dividends are 

 afforded by "side crops." 



The annual meeting of shareholders of Hacienda del Corte, 

 Inc., owners of "Del Corte" rubber plantation, in Oaxaca, Mexico, 

 will be held on March 2 at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where the 

 principal offices of the company are located. The company is 

 that known formerly as the Isthmus Plantation Association of 

 Mexico. 



A recent tapping of a nine-year-old Castilloa tree on "La 

 Amistad" estate, owned by Mr. V. S. Smith, near Tapachula, 

 Mexico, gave 21 ounces of dry rubber. 



Shareholders in Mexico Mutual Planters' Co. (Chicago), have 

 received a letter from the general manager, Mr. Joseph Cum- 

 mins, mentioning the sale in New York, at different times, of 

 two small lots of rubber, the result of experimental tappings. 

 The first realized $1.45 per pound for sheet and $1.07^4 for scrap; 

 the second, $1.50 for sheet and $1.15 for scrap. The dates not 

 being stated, it is impossible to compare these figures with Para 

 rubber of corresponding dates. 



BRIEI MENTION. 



J. P. William & Brother, seed merchants at Heneratgoda, 

 Ceylon, report correspondence with parties in Panama who con- 

 template the planting of considerable Hcvea rubber in that re- 

 public. The writer in Panama mentions having received a ship- 

 ment of seeds of Hcvea from Ceylon, the results from which 

 were quite satisfactory. 



Vilmorin-Andrieux & Cie., 4, Quai de la Megisserie. Paris, 

 send us some new catalogues of plants and seeds which they are 

 prepared to supply, including the more important rubber yielding 

 species. 



IN ANSWER TO INQUIRIES. 



Mr. John Lot is Hermessen, an associate member of the 

 Institution of Electrical Engineers, in Great Britain, is a native 

 of England, educated in important schools in his own country 

 and on the Continent, a linguist, connected at various times 

 with leading electrical engineering concerns on both sides of the 

 Atlantic, a contributor to technical journals of note. In Mexico 

 he undertook, on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, the installation 

 of telephone lines for large rubber plantations. Subsequently 

 he became field superintendent on "La Junta" plantation, owned 

 by Mexican Mutual Planters Co., and acquired a practical 

 knowledge of rubber culture under Mr. James C. Harvey, then 

 resident manager of that property. Still later he made further 

 studies of rubber in association with Mr. Harvey, on the latter's 

 estate, "La Buena Ventura." 



