August 1, 1912.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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RUBBER ESTATES IN TRINl DAD— Continued. 



Venezuela Gordon, Grant & Co. 



La Victoria G. G. Brown 



St. Joseph Nurseries H. Caracciplo 



Ellensville N. F. Graham 



San Jose Heirs of Joyau 



La Gloria De Putron & Ruth 



La Monserrat, .:...;... Alice Boissiere 



San Juan F. Agostini 



San Felipe F. Agostini 



Sta. Luisa A. Sellier 



El Dorado C. Boos _ 



La Mariquita: A. de Tapeyrouse 



Solo Coiisuelo J. S. Caracciolo 



San Salvador Joseph D'Abadie 



San Pedro. . Heirs D'Abadie 



Mara val A. Devenish 



Tortuga . . , -. A. de Verteuil 



Guaracara Heirs M. de Verteu 



San Pablo Mrs. M. Cipriani 



Santa Lucia L. Devenish 



Santa Clara Heirs W . Schorner 



Santa Riti Raoul Maingot 



La Concordia Sidney Knox 



La Concordia A. L. Maingot 



(To be continued. ) 



IDENTIFYING SEEDLINGS OF THE CONFUSA TYPE. 



■ I 'O THE Editor of the India Rubber World: Dear Sir: — I 

 noticed in the last number of the "Agricultural News" 

 (June 8, 1912) of the Imperial Department of Agriculture, Bar- 

 bados, a brief description by you of the chief differences between 

 the true Hevea Brasiliensis and our suspected Confusa hybrids. 

 Is there any other publication in which I could obtain fuller 

 information? I notice you also state that it may be probably 

 possible to differentiate between them in the seedling stage. At 

 the Experiment Station where we have both types of seedlings 

 growing (but with the so called Confusa hybrid rigidly isolated) 

 the differences between the two — with a little practice — can be 

 readily distinguished; on examination of several thousand seed- 

 lings on a private plantation I was able to pick out those which 

 conformed to the latter type — only a few I am glad to say — ^which 

 were promptly destroyed. I have carefully examined our seed- 

 lings from selected good yielders and have found them all true 

 to the parent, which is satisfactory. The curious reticulated 

 venation of the leaves is greatly exaggerated when the plants are 

 growing under fairly heavy shade. 



Yours very sincerely. 



A. E. COLLENS. 



Government Laboratory, Department of Agriculture, Trinidad. 



THE PUTUMAYO DISTRICT. 



■"pHE Putumayo atrocities, which have attracted so much atten- 

 *■ tion and excited so much horror in the civilized world — 

 since the disclosures made in the report of the investigator sent 

 out by the British government — are treated at some length in 

 the editorial department of this issue. The accompanying map 

 shows where this district lies. The boundary lines in the jungles 

 of the upper Amazon are so indefinite, that most maps show the 

 Putumayo River as lying within the borders of either Colombia 

 or Ecuador, but Peru for many years has laid claim to this 

 territory and it was the Peruvian government that made the 

 rubber concession in the exploitation of which these crimes have 

 been perpetrated. 



The Putumayo territory is only 800 miles from Lima, the capi- 

 tal of Peru, in a straight line; but the Andes are so impassable at 

 this point, that the only way of reaching the Putumayo district 



from Lima is by way of the Pacific coast, across the Isthmus of 

 Panama, along the northern coast of Venezuela and the Guianas 

 to the mouth of the Amazon and thence up that river to its head- 

 waters — a journey all told of over 6,000 miles. The distance, 

 however, from Iquitos is only 200 or 300 miles, so it would seem 

 quite possible for the Peruvian government to exercise its au- 

 thority over this district if it were sufficiently disposed to do so. 

 The agent recently sent out by our .State Department, Capt. 

 Stuart Fuller, has reached Iquitcs. It should not be long, there- 



Map Showing Putum.wo District. 



fore, before our government gets direct information from the 

 seat of the troubles. 



Much credit must be given to the British Parliament for de- 

 manding the publication of Sir Roger Casement's report, as it is 

 a damaging commentary on the members of the English corpora- 

 tion, which for the last seven years has owned this rubber con- 

 cession. The publication of this report, however, means that 

 these atrocities will soon cease, for in this stage of civilization 

 crimes of this kind have only to be uncovered to be ended. 



the GOODRICH COMPANY TO DOUBLE ITS OFFICE BUILDING. 



The B. F. Goodrich Co., Akron, Ohio, has begun the erection 

 of a large addition to its present office building, which will prac- 

 tically double its size. This is done to accommodate the officials, 

 sales managers, salesmen and general clerical force of the Dia- 

 mond Rubber Co., recently merged with the Goodrich Company. 



