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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[November i, 1903. 



RECORD OF RUBBER CULTURE. 



RUBBER PLANTING IN THE FAR EAST. 



AN estimate of the extent of rubber planting (mainly 

 Hevca) in Ceylon has been made lately by the publish- 

 ers of The Tropical Agriculturist for their " Ceylon 

 Handbook and Directory, 1903 04," from which the fol- 

 lowing details are derived. The acreage, by districts, is indi- 

 ACRES cated by the figures in the margin 

 Kelani valley .t.ioo herewith. The compiler believes the 



Kalutura 2,357 



Minor low country dis- number of rubber trees to reach 3,500,- 



Udagama'.'.'.".'. .. .'.".' 2 '1% °°° °r 4,ooo,ooo, of which more than 

 Kuruwita -2.9 half have been planted within two 



Dumbara 360 * 



Mataie 481 years. It is difficult, however, to de- 



Allother 1.165 . , , 



termine the number of trees from 



ToUl II,63 ° the acreage planted, for the reason 



that no uniform rule exists with regard to the distance 

 apart in planting. Besides, more than half the acreage re- 

 ferred to represents the planting of rubber among tea, in 

 which case a considerably smaller number of trees per acre 

 is set out.==For the Straits Settlements (including the 

 Federated Malay States) The Tropical Agriculturist, with the 

 assistance of data supplied by Mr. Donald Mackay, estimates 

 a total of about 3,000,000 rubber trees, of which probably 100,- 



000 are five years old or over. 



ACRES. TREES. _,....,. .... , 



SeUngor 10.000 2,000,000 Their distribution is indicated 



Negri Ssmblilan.. 1,500 310.000 ■ . .- :„-i «„.,,»„ tl 



Pe?ak 300 50,000 by lh e marginal figures. The 



Weliesiey • 3.000 500,000 members of the United Planters' 



All other i.Soo 300,000 



Association of the Federated 



Total 16.600 3,160,000 , _ , „ , . , 



Malay States report their total 



planting of rubber at 9430 acres, with 1,352,547 trees. Outside 

 of their returns, the same difficulty exists as in the case of Cey- 

 lon in making accurate estimates of the number of trees per 

 acre. ^^Mr. Cyril E. S. Baxendale, writing encouragingly of 

 the prospects of rubber planting in the Malay states, says that 

 there healthy Pard rubber trees at the age of 4j£ years measure 

 35 to 40 feet in height, and as large as 33 inches in girth 3 feet 

 from the ground. 



SANTA TERESA PLANTATION CO. 



[Plant. ition " Santa Teresa," near Ticrra Blanca, canton of Soyaltepec, state of 

 Oaxaca, Mexico. Office : Dubuque, Iowa.] 



Incorporated August 19, 1903, under Iowa laws; capital 

 authorized, $500,000, in $10 shares ; own 2632 acres on the river 

 Chichicasapa, near the Vera Cruz and Pacific railway ; the ob- 

 ject is to plant rubber as their ultimate principal resource, 

 though other crops will be planted while the rubber is devel- 

 oping, and attention will be devoted to grazing. Officers : 

 Henry C. Reeche, president ; J. M. Fritz, secretary ; W. C. S. 

 Coy, treasurer — all business men of standing in Dubuque. The 

 financial plan involves the sale of full paid shares from time 

 to time, as the capital may be needed in the development work. 



THE COSONEZ PLANTATION CO. 



[Plantation in canton Tuxpam, state of Vera Cruz, Mexico. Office: 1028 Citi- 

 zens' building, Cleveland, Ohio.] 



Incorporated under the laws of New Jersey; capital, $200,000, 

 in common stock. Have purchased 2000 acres, on the Cosonez 

 river, 15 miles from the gulf coast, of which 500 acres have been 

 cleared ; some rubber, vanilla, and coffee had been planted by 

 the former owners. The company purpose making rubber their 

 principal interest ultimately, 1000 acres to be devoted to this 

 production. The company expect to derive considerable rub- 

 ber from wild trees still standing on their unimproved prop- 



erty. The company offer for sale 5 per cent, gold bonds to pro- 

 vide additional development capital. Henry A. Griffin is pres- 

 ident, A. B. Marshall treasurer, George Hodges secretary, and 

 A. B. Nichols manager — all citizens of Cleveland, Ohio. 



LA ZACUALPA PLANTATION CO. 



[Plantation near Tapachula, state of Chiapas, Mexico. Offices : No. 713 Market 

 street, San Francisco, California ] 



In the preface to a recent publication by the United States 

 department of agriculture — Mr. O. F. Cook's report on " The 

 Culture of the Central American Rubber Tree " — it is stated : 

 " A large proportion of the notes and illustrations used in the 

 present paper were secured in the Soconusco district of south- 

 ern Mexico on the estate of the La Zacualpa Rubber Plantation 

 Co., through whose hospitality and numerous courtesies the 

 work of Mr. Cook was greatly facilitated." It is understood, of 

 course, that Mr. Cook did not attempt a complete survey of the 

 work being done in Mexico in rubber culture, and in stopping 

 at the La Zacualpa plantation, on his way north from Central 

 America, his object was to reach one of the oldest plantations 

 in Mexico, and one on which rubber had actually been produced 

 and marketed from cultivated trees. On page 13 of his report 

 Mr. Cook writes: " If no other evidence were obtainable, the 

 planted trees visited in Soconusco would prove that rubber can 

 be produced in cultivation." On page 76 he writes: "The 

 planted trees at La Zacualpa abundantly demonstrate the prac- 

 ticability of rubber culture," though he adds that they do not 

 wholly settle the question of the amount of yield, since no care 

 was taken, by the former owners of the plantation, to record the 

 amount of rubber actually secured from the trees. Twelve of 

 the eighteen plates which illustrate the report are based upon 

 photographs taken at the La Zacualpa plantation. 



PLANTING "CEARA RUBBER" IN NICARAGUA. 



Reference has been made in earlier issues of this paper to 

 the experiments in planting Manihot Glaziovii (the rubber tree 

 of Ceard, Brazil), undertaken near La Paz, in Nicaragua. The 

 enterprise mentioned was the plantatipn " La Victoria," con- 

 trolled by the Messrs. Adler, of Waltham, Massachusetts. [See 

 The India Rubber World, November i, 1902— page 57, and 

 December 1, 1902 — page 80.] A prospectus now at hand relates 

 to another plantation — El Trionfo — under the same manage- 

 ment, and in the same location, also being stocked with Mani- 

 hot, and in which outsiders are invited to become interested. 

 A letter to The India Rubber World announces : " Our bus- 

 iness, although not strictly private, is not of a stock selling na- 

 ture, as we sell the actual land." Alfred C. Adler resides at 

 Waltham, and George Adler and Frederick Wagner, in charge 

 of the planting, at La Paz. 



RUBBER PLANTING COMPANY PUBLICATIONS. 



Boston Tropical Co., Boston, Massachusetts=^[Prospectus]. 32 

 pages and map. 



Santa Teresa Rubber Co., Dubuque, Iowa=Rubber, Sugar Cane, 

 and Cattle in Tropical Mexico. 20 pages. 



Mexican Mutual Planters' Co., Chicago, Illinois. = Report of the 

 President to the Bondholders, September, IQ03. 23 pages. 



The Cosonez Plantation Co., Cleveland, Ohio. = [Prospectus]. 24 

 pages. 



Mexican Gulf Commercial Co., Kansas City, Missouri. = The Dios 

 Rios Properties, Illustrated. [A handsome album of views, including 

 illustrations of rubber planting.] 56 pages. 



