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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[May 



1904. 



Hitherto the rubber planting companies in Mexico have bought 

 their supplies chiefly in St. Louis and Chicago. The newspaper 

 referred to asserts that equally favorable prices can be quoted 

 by New Orleans merchants, while lower freights can be ob- 

 tained. The newspaper continues : " There are something like 

 25 large rubber plantations in Mexico, and if all of the 

 trade of these plantations is attracted to New Orleans, it will 

 mean an increase of at least $2,000,000 in the export business of 

 the city." 



BADGER MEXICAN PLANTATION CO. 



IPlantation "La Florencia," near Santa Lucrecia, state of Vera Cruz, Mexico, 

 Office: Robinson building, Racine, Wisconsin. See The India Rubber World, 

 May 1, 1903— page 254] 



The company named above is incorporated under the laws of 

 Maine, with $1,050,000 capital authorized, of which $210,000 has 

 been used for the purchase of lands, with valuable improve- 

 ments, from the Badger Mexican Planters' Co., a corporation 

 under the laws of Wisconsin, the purchasers of " La Florencia" 

 from Samuel D. Dorman, and neighboring property. These 

 lands lie in the Trinidad valley, on the Vera Cruz and Pacific 

 railway. On " La Florencia " are 25.000 coffee trees in bearing 

 and 25,000 rubber trees now from 3 to 7 years old, some of 

 which have yielded satisfactorily this year, and 25,000 rubber 

 trees planted in 1903. A large planting of rubber has been 

 contracted for this year. Upon an adjoining tract preparation 

 has been made for planting 400 acres of sugar cane. Mr. Dor- 

 man has been made resident director of the plantations. The 

 coffee planting on " La Florencia " will not be increased, but it 

 is intended to increase the rubber plantation to 1000 acres. 

 The company named in the heading of this article is offering 

 treasury stock for the purpose of providing for the new devel- 

 opment work in progress, which is being conducted by the 

 other company named — the Badger Mexican Planters' Co. 

 The officers of the former are : W. W. Allis, president ; P. 

 M. Wackerhagen and Charles E. Seiler, vice presidents ; W. 

 E. Fish, secretary; Charles R. Carpenter, treasurer; William 

 S. Fish, assistant treasurer. 



SELANGOR RUBBER CO., LIMITED. 



The headquarters of this plantation company are at Glasgow, 

 Scotland, but the principal shareholders are Ceylon planters 

 who took up lands in the Straits Settlements for the use of the 

 company. The capital is £30,000, of which, at the end of 1902, 

 only £16,500 had been called up, and the expenditure to that 

 date had been ,£15,91 1. The company had to show for this the 

 following acteages of Pard rubber trees : 



Acres. Acres. 



2 to 5 years 215.5 7 months 239 



3 to i'/i years 138.5 New planting 67 



2}i years 146. 



2 % years 163.5 Total 1006 



1}^ years 36.5 [About 200,000 trees.] 



The oldest trees averaged about 2$% inches in girth three 

 feet from the ground, and the three year old trees, 12^ inches. 

 This is said to be one of the most promising Pard rubber es- 

 tates in the Far East, and the £1 shares are quoted at £3. A 

 director in the company, writing to The India Rubber 

 World, says : " As to your remarks with reference to the 

 Ceylon ' Para ' rubber, you will find that, like all the products 

 put on the market by the Ceylon planters, it will prove to be 

 the finest ! Witness coffee, tea, etc." 



BUKir RAJAH RUBBER CO., LIMITED. 



Registered in London, with £70,000 capital, in £1 shares, 

 to acquire the estates in the district of Klang, state of Selangor, 

 on the Malay peninsula, known as Bukit Rajah, Sungei Bin- 

 jai, New Eskdale, Delabole, Bukit Duku, and Booneans, to 

 plant and cultivate India-rubber, Gutta-percha, and other na- 

 tive products. The first directors are II. K. Rutherford, N. W. 



Grieve, G. A. Talbot, and C. B. Rendle. Registered office : 20 

 Eastcheap, London, E. C, which is the headquarters of the 

 Ceylon Tea Plantation Co., Limited, one of the important 

 tea planting companies with which Mr. H. K. Rutherford 

 is identified. 



RANI RUBBER CO., LIMITED. 



Registered to take an assignment of a lease of 500 acres of 

 government lands in the state of Travancore, British India, to 

 George Nicol Thomson, and to convert the same into a rubber 

 plantation. Nominal capital, 300,000 rupees [=$97,330], in 

 3000 shares. The subscribers to the articles of agreement are 

 all residents of Colombo, the first directors being the Hon. J. 

 N. Campbell, A. A. Prideaux, G. N. Thomson, and J. G. War- 

 drop. Travancore is a small native state, ruled by a maharaja, 

 under British control, at the southern extremity of India, and 

 near the island of Ceylon. 



MEXICAN MUTUAL PLANTERS' CO. 



[Plantation " La Junta," Sanborn postoffice, state of Vera Cruz, Mexico. Offices: 

 New York Life building, Chicago. J 



Mr. James C. Harvey has been appointed manager of this 

 estate, which embraces one of the most important of the com- 

 mercial rubber plantations in Mexico. With Mr. Harvey's 

 record in rubber planting, readers of The India Rubber 

 World are familiar, he having developed an extensive private 

 plantation of rubber at a point not far from the " La Junta " 

 estate, and in which he retains his interest. Mr. Harvey suc- 

 ceeds Mr. George B. Mann, who had been plantation manager 

 since the organization of the company in 1898, and who resigned 

 recently to devote his attention to real estate and other pri- 

 vate interests in Mexico. A large amount of planting of rub- 

 ber is being planned at " La Junta " this year. 



TEN YEAR OLD " CASTILLOA " IN MEXICO. 



A rubber plantation of 20,000 trees planted ten years ago is 

 reported to exist near Playa Vicente, in the district of Cosama- 

 loapan, state of Oaxaca, Mexico. This plantation, known as 

 " Mano Marques," is owned by the L. & H. Pinto Co., Limited, 

 of London. The Mexican Herald quotes Lyonel Pinto, who 

 has been recently in Mexico, to the effect that some of these 

 trees were tapped for the first time in May, 1903, and the entire 

 product sold to the Castle Rubber Co., Limited (Warrington, 

 England), who made a favorable report on the same. It is in- 

 tended this spring to tap a larger number of the trees. 



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Mr. John A. Morton, for some time connected with laige 

 rubber planting companies in Mexico, has associated himself 

 with the Costa Rica Rubber Co., and has gone to Costa Rica 

 to take charge of a Castilloa proposition at the company's plan- 

 tation. The headquarters of the Costa Rica company are at 

 Los Angeles, California, and their plantation at San Carlos. 



RUBBER PLANTING COMPANY PUBLICATIONS. 



The Tehuantepec Rubber Culture Co., New York. = Report of Of- 

 ficial Inspector, Grosvenor Calkins, for 1903. 16 pages. 



Conservative Rubber Production Co., San Francisco, California. = 

 Bulletin No. 5 [Report of first annual inspection, by A. M. Foulks, 

 committee for shareholders; Plantation " Ystilja," state of Chiapas, 

 Mexico, mentioned in The India Rui.ber World February 1, 1903 — 



page 1 53-] 



The Badger Mexican Plantation Co., Racine, Wisconsin = (a) A Mill- 

 stone Upon the Highway of Progress. 30 pages. (/>) Convincers. 20 

 pages. [Prospectus and plans of a rubber and sugar planting enterprise] 



Mutual Rubber Production Co , Boston, Massachusetts=BulIetin No. 

 to [of progress on the estate in Chiapas]. 



Orizaba Rubber Plantation Co., Chicago, Illinois. = Report to the 

 Certificate Holders by Mr. Howard Little, Inspector. Also, Supplemen- 

 tary Report by the President, Mr. J. B. Sanborn. April, 1904. 16 pages. 



Isthmus Rubber Co., New York =lnvestments, 12 pages. 



