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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[July i, 1904. 



THE RUBBER PLANTING COMPANIES. 



MEXICAN TROPICAL PLANTERS CO. 



[Plantation " Columbia " ; Postoftice, Santa Lucrecia, state of Vera Cruz, Mexico. 

 Office : Williamsport, Pennsylvania.] 



THIS company, originally incorporated in Missouri in 1898, 

 with headquarters at Kansas City, has been reorganized 

 by its own shareholders, with an increase of capital 

 from $200,000 to §500,000, and incorporated under the 

 laws of Delaware. The object is to provide capital for the de- 

 velopment of another tract of the company's large holdings of 

 land. It is the intention to plant 500 acres additional to rubber, 

 to plant more sugar cane and enlarge the cane mill, and to 

 increase the number of cattle. The company's headquarters 

 are removed to Williamsport, Pennsylvania, where a consider- 

 able part of the capital is held, and there is a new list of officers. 

 George D. Moore, of Philadelphia, state agent for Pennsylvania 

 of the Travelers' Insurance Co., becomes president ; John G. 

 Reading, president of the Susquehanna Trust and Safe Deposit 

 Co. of Williamsport, is vice president, and Riley W. Allen, 

 of Williamsport, secretary and treasurer. Delbert J. Haff, of 

 Kansas City, one of the founders of the company and formerly 

 its president, remains on the board, as also does Robert D. 

 Evans, a former president of the United States Rubber Co. 

 Louis Kunz remains plantation manager. 



THE TEHUANTEPEC RUBBER CULTURE CO 



[Plantation "Rubio", canton of Manatitlan, state of Vera Cruz, Mexico. 

 Office : No. 8t Wall street, New York. 



At the annual meeting of shareholders of this company, at 

 their registered offices in New Jersey, on June 15, the board 

 was reelected. A favorable financial report was presented, 

 showing cash expended to date in developing the plantation, 

 $436424.46; cash assets, $71,152.12, and subscription contracts 

 sufficient for carrying out the work of the company during the 

 development period. A report from the resident plantation 

 manager, Mr. A. B. Luther, gave an encouraging account of 

 the progress of plantation work — growth of trees of former 

 plantings, new planting this year, and general improvement 

 work. The Tehuantepec company, in common with several 

 other planting companies on the isthmus of Tehuantepec, are 

 arranging for the importation of Japanese laborers. 



ISTHMUS PLANTATION ASSOCIATION OF MEXICO. 



[Plantation at Del Corte, district of Juchilan. state of Oaxaca, Mexico. Office : 

 Herman building, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, [See The India Rubbhk Wori d, July 

 1, 1903-page 337.] 



The annual inspection this spring was made by Wilmer Sieg. 

 a Milwaukee business man chosen by the other shareholders 

 for the purpose. He reports the acreage improved, to the end 

 of 1903, at 3474, with 1 81 3 fully planted. The number of trees 

 and plants placed to date has been : 



1900. 1901. iuoa. 1903. Total. 



Rubber 4,332 41,678 48,130 115,208 209,348 



Coffee H7,774 73-5 6 2 46,908 12,403 250,647 



Also, 1268 cacao plants set out in 1901 and 7337 bananas and 

 15,000 pineapples in 1902. The roadmaking had progressed to 

 78,272 meters [^about 48^ miles]. A list of 50 plantation 

 buildings is given, including 26 for laborers. The number of 

 laborers, exclusive of contract work, was 223 in 1902 and 254 in 

 1903. The gross proceeds of " side crops " — principally corn — 

 are given at $48,561.04 (Mexican), and the net proceeds, applic- 

 able to dividends, at $39,402.81. Over 1 100 acres were planted 

 in corn in 1903. The coffee is beginning to bear. Land has 

 been cleared for sugar cane and additional rubber. 



COLISEO SUGAR PLANTATION CO. 



[Plantation " Coliseo," state of Vera Cruz, Mexico. Office : 40S-409 Pabst build- 

 ing, Milwaukee, Wisconsin,] 



Incorporated under the laws of Wisconsin and Mexico; 

 capital $500000. Own 5000 acres in Vera Cruz, near the Na- 

 tional Tehuantepec railway. Have issued 5000 twenty year 

 plantation bonds, offered at $300 cash, or on time, to provide 

 for planting India-rubber and sugar, principally, with perhaps 

 other crops. Officers: Dr. H. A. Wolter, Green Bay, Wis., 

 president; A. W. Priest, Appleton, Wis., vice president; D. C. 

 Burdick, Oshkosh, Wis., secretary. Plantation conveyed to 

 Royal Trust Co. (Chicago) during development period. 

 PROCEEDS OF RUBBER PLANTING IN CEYLON. 



Mr. H. V. Bagot, manager of Arapolakanda estate, in the 

 Kalutara district, Ceylon, writing to The India Rubber 

 World, in regard to recent sales of Ceylon cultivated rubber 

 at 5i.4rf.pfr pound, says that half the present prices would 

 give the planters there a fine profit. He says : " Last year I got 

 4 shillings all round, including scrap, on 4300 pounds, off just 

 under 3000 trees." The total proceeds would equal $4185.19, 

 in United States currency, or an average of about $1.40 per 

 tree. Mr. Bagot has about 15 acres of productive rubber trees, 

 planted 200 to the acre, and these figures indicate a return of 

 $280 per acre. He hopes this year to collect 5000 pounds of 

 rubber from the same trees.,==The Arapolakanda estate, 

 owned by the Eastern Produce and Estates Co., Limited, is 

 represented at the St. Louis exposition by an exhibit of their 

 India-rubber, green teas, and cloves, in the Ceylon Court. 

 CEYLON PLANTERS' RUBBER SYNDICATE, LIMITED. 



At the fourth annual meeting, at Hatton, in April, the re- 

 port for 1903 showed that 320 acres were in rubber under 3 

 years, 115 acres in rubber under 2 years, and 100 acres in rub- 

 ber under 1 year — total, 535 acres. The total expenditure to 

 the end of 1903 reached 166,739 rupees [ = $54 095.81, United 

 States currency]. The expenditures during the jear were un- 

 expectedly large, owing to the wetness of the season. 

 RUBBER ON THE YATADERIA TEA ESTATE. 



At the annual meeting of the Yataderia Tea Co. of Ceylon, 

 Limited (Colombo, March 12), it was stated that at the end of 

 1902 they had 55,000 Patd rubber trees, of various ages, and a 

 new census was being taken. During 1903 their tea fields 

 were planted with Paid rubber seed at stake, 30X30 feet. 

 [The "Ceylon Handbook " gives their acreage of tea at 981.] 

 The mature trees have been only lightly tapped, so as not to 

 affect the seed crop; 404,000 seeds realized 2459 rupees 

 [=$798], the balance being put into nurseries for use in 1904 

 The rubber collected amounted to 183 pounds, which sold for 

 512 rupees f =$166]. 



UDAPOLLA RUBBER CO., LIMITED 



At the shareholders' first annual meeting (Colombo, Ceylon, 

 May 3) it was reported that operations had begun on July 1 

 last; that up to December 31 150 acres had been cleared and 

 30 acres planted to rubber, which was growing well ; that the 

 nurseries contained rubber seedlings sufficient to plant the re- 

 maining cleared area ; and that since the beginning of the year 

 progress had been made with the additional planting. It was 

 voted to issue treasury shares to provide for clearing and plant- 

 ing 1 50 acres additional, on the company's estate, which are re- 

 garded as suitable for rubber. Directors : W. S. T. Saunders, 

 T. C. Huxley, F. L. Clements. A. L. Hine-Haycock. 



