THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[October i, 1907. 



Progress of Rubber Planting. 



PROFITS OF THE VALLAM3K0SA ESTATE. 



V.\LLAMBROSA Rubber Co., Limited, was registered April 

 22, 1904, at Edinburgh, Scotland, wliere the company's 

 offices are now located, at 123 George street. The cap- 

 ital authorized is i6o.coo [=$291,990] ; the shares issued to date 

 amount to £50.600 [=$246,244.90]. The companj' was formed 

 to acquire and amalgamate three privately owned estates 

 in Selangor. Federated Malay States, the vendors accepting in 

 paj-ment £45,000 [=$218,992.50] in the company's shares, and 

 £5600 [=$27,252.40] was subscribed for the purposes of the 

 company. 



At the end of the business year (March 31, 1907* tlie company 

 had under rubber 1226 acres, and planting has been continued 

 since. During the year the trees on 930 acres [—iVz square miles] 

 were tapped, the trees ranging in age as follows: 150 acres 

 planted in 1S98: 569 acres in 1899-1900; 203 acres in 1900-01; 8 

 acres in 1902. The yield of rubber was 156,922 pounds, or 168 2-3 

 pounds per acre. Of this yield 153,358 pounds came from 147,101 

 trees ; the balance of the crop was obtained from trees cut out 

 for thinning. The amount realized was £40,255 [=$195,900.96], 

 or an average of about 5s. lYzd. [=$1.24 2-3] per pound. The 

 cost of tapping, packing, and transportation was I shilling per 

 pound. After deducting from revenue the cost of maintenance 

 of the non-bearing rubber, etc., the profit on the year's working 

 amounted to £30.240 i8j. [=$147,163.32]. A dividend was de- 

 clared of 55 per cent., which absorbed £27,830 [=$135,434.70]. 

 The remainder went to reserve, after providing for directors' 

 fees. 



During the year ending March 31, 1906, the light tapping of 68.- 

 235 trees yielded ,39.113 pounds of rubber, which realized £10,745. 

 No dividend was paid for that year, but the profit and loss ac- 

 count showed a credit of £4767. It is expected that this year's 

 rubber crop will reach 215.000 pounds. The London Financial 

 Ncxi's reports that \'allambrosa shares have changed hands lately 

 as higli as £9 12s. 6d. [=$46.84] for £1 shares, which would give 

 a stock exchange valuation of over $2,271,104 to the total issue 

 of shares. 



ANOTHER MALAY STATES SUCCESS. 



Hir.ML.^NDs and Lowlands Para Rubber Co., Limited. In 

 Federated Malay States. Acreage in rubber, 20915/2. Trees 

 tapped in 1906, of different ages, 78,513 — some once, some twice. 

 and .some three times. Yield of rubber, 134,285 pounds. Yield 

 of 807 nine year old trees, 5742 pounds ; average 7.01 pounds 

 per tree. One of the estates, with 33,967 trees tapped three 

 times and 4672 younger trees tapped lightly, once yielded 95.33,3 

 pounds. The labor cost for tapping on this estate was equivalent 

 to less than 10 cents (gold) per pound; tapping cost, including 

 equipment, 10^ cents. Average realized for 134.285 pounds, al- 

 lowing for loss in weight, commissions, and sale charges, slightly 

 over 5s. 25^rf. [=$i.26-54]. Total profit £34,109 [=$166,191.45] ; 

 disbursed in dividends, £25,150; rate, 11 per cent, on the paid up 

 capital. 



RUBBER REStTLTS IN TRINIDAD. 



Four estates are mentioned as producing Castilloa rubber on a 

 commercial scale on the islands of Trinidad and Tobago, forming 

 the crown colony of Trinidad in the British West Indies. They 

 are: (i) Monte Crista, owned by H. Monceau.x, in Trinidad; 

 (2) Torluga, owned by .Vdricn De Verteuil, Trinidad — last ship- 

 ment. 1 145 pounds; (3) Kiclimond, owned by Captain Short, 

 Tobago ; (4) Louis D'Or, owned by a company, T. L. M. Orde, 

 managrr. Tobago — last shipment over 1200 pounds. The first 

 two named companies are of French origin, and make shipments 

 to Paris ; the other two ship to London. Recent shipments to 



London of Castilloa sheets dried and pressed into blocks brought 

 4.f. 4rf. [^$1,055^2] per pound. The Indi.v Rubber World is in- 

 formed that several other estates, with io,coo to 30,000 rubber 

 trees each, will be coming into production annually. 



RUBBER PLANTATION IN COLOMBIA. 



K.w Thomson writes to the Journal of the Jamaica Agricul- 

 tural Society from "The heart of Colombia" that the small plan- 

 tation of "virgin rubber" (5(7 />/«)») formed there by his father 

 twenty years ago has been sold to a syndicate for £20,000. The 

 plantation is producing rubber now. and some of the rubber 

 stripped from it is reported to have sold at ''almost S shillings" 

 a pound. 



RUBBER PLANTERS AND PLANTATIONS. 



.At the annual Agri-Horticultural Show, at Kuala Lumpur, in 

 the Federated Malay States, which was opened on August g, a 

 number of prizes were offered for plantation rubber, in various 

 classes. Twelve silver cups were offered. 



The number of shareholders in the rubber planting companies 

 registered in London is estimated by The Financier at 25.000, 

 the bulk of whom live in the L'nited Kingdom. 



Borneo-Kautschuk-Conipagnie. A.-G., of Berlin, with an author- 

 ized capital of 2.000,000 marks [=$476,000], of which 532.865 

 marks has been paid in. are participating in the Dutch Borneo 

 Rubber Co. 



Mr. Gordon Waldron, of the "Cukra" rubber plantation, near 

 Bluefields. Nicaragua, has had built, for navigating local waters, 

 a steamer constructed entirely of woods cut from the Cukra 

 property, with the exception of the engines and boiler, which 

 come from Chicago. The wood was all sawed by the plantation 

 sawmill. The steamer is named the Cukra. and is 80 feet in 

 length over all, and 16 feet beam. 



Dr. John C. Willis, director of the Ceylon royal botanic gar- 

 dens, in his administration report for igo6, estimates the area 

 of rubber under cultivation on that island at the end of the 

 year at 115,000 acres. 



The father of Mr. J. B. Carruthers. director of agriculture in 

 the Federated Malay States — Dr. William Carruthers, F. R. s.. of 

 England — has received the honorary degree of ph. d. from the 

 noted Upsala University, in Sweden. 



The Gummi-Zeiiung reports the shipment during .August, by 

 the steamer Markgraf, from German East -Africa to Germany, of 

 about 8500 pounds of plantation rubber, valued at about 30.000 

 marks [^47140] • This our contemporary regards as proof that 

 rubber culture in German Africa is making real progress. 



The patents on the rubber tapping tool invented by Mr. C. A. 

 Lcsher, manager of "La Zacualpa" rubber plantation in Chiapas. 

 Mexico [see The Indi.a Rubber World, .April i, 1907 — page 

 219] have been transferred to the La Zacualpa company, and they 

 are not selling the tools. 



While a clearing was being burned on the estate of the Isth- 

 mus Plantation .'\ssociation of Mexico, at Del Corte. fire spread 

 to the growing rubber, destroying a considerable number of trees 

 and scorching about 460,000, which it was decided at first would 

 sprout up again. Later the company concluded to replant the 

 whole burned district. Some 251,700 of the older trees were 

 untouched. 



Continental Commercial Co. (St. Louis), in a recently issued 

 bulletin, report growing on their estates in Mexico 427,344 rubber 

 trees, in addition to large plantations of coffee and sugar. 



Exports of rubber from German East .\frica in 1905 included 

 5250 kilograms [=:ii.550 pounds] of cultivated Ceara rubber, or 

 Manihot Glacioz-ii, from the plantation at Lewa of the Deutsch- 

 Ostafrikanische Plantagengesellschaft, A.-G., of Berlin. 



