December 



1907.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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(luctive coffee estate in Java from a Dutch company. Consider- 

 able rubber {Hcvea, Ficus and Costilloa) lias been planted, ami 

 this planting is to be extended. 



The report of the agricultural department of French Indo- 

 China for 1906 mentions the satisfactory growth of planted Ficm 

 clasika, six year old trees measuring 8 and 9 meters [==26^ to 

 29V2 feet] in height. Twenty such trees yielded, from experi- 

 mental tapping, 10.2 kilograms [=221/2 pounds] of rubber — an 

 average of about i',^ pounds per tree. 



.\ suit was brought recently in Singapore by a broker who 

 sought to recover his commission for assisting in the purchase, 

 for $7000, of a rubber plantation in Johore, which he alleged had 

 been sold soon afterward to a Japanese syndicate for $200,000. 



Grijalva Land and Coffee Co., Limited, developing "Monte- 

 zuma" plantation, in Chiapas, Mexico, have entered into a con- 

 tract with A. G. Weiss to take charge of their further planting 

 of rubber. Mr. Weiss has planted about 2000 acres to rubber on 

 his own account, near Huimanguillo, in Tabasco state. Divi- 

 dends will be paid on the Montezuma shares this year from the 

 proceeds of sugar cane. 



ANOTHER PERUVIAN RUBBER CONCESSION. 



The Peruvian Rubber Co., Limited, registered in London Sep- 

 tember 6, 1907, with a capital of £250,000 [=$1,216,625], has for 

 its object the exploitation of a concession from the Peruvian 

 government (May 17, 1901) to Miguel, Forga & Sons, and trans- 

 ferred to Compania Goniera Villamayo, Limitada, to construct a 

 mule road 120 miles long from a point in the province of Sandia 

 to the Tambopata river, which flows through the Madre dc Dios 

 into the Amazon. On the completion of this road the conces- 

 sionaires are to receive a grant of about 650 square miles of 

 forest land, on which there is asserted to be a great amount of 

 rubber. The latter, when the road is open, will be capable of 

 economical transportation either to Mollendo, on the Pacific, or 

 down past Para. Hecht, Levis & Kahn, crude rubber merchants, 

 are mentioned as the London agents of the new company, and M. 

 Forga & Sons, at Arequipa, their agents in Peru. There is now 

 much interest in Peruvian development. 



RUBBER PLANTERS OF HAWAII. 



THE J^awaiian Rubber Growers' Assocation, resulting from 

 a preliminary meeting held on May 22 last, completed its 

 organization and all the formalities in connection with its charter 

 on October 12, at the headquarters of the Nahiku Rubber Co., a 

 planting concern on the island of Maui. The charter members, 

 numbering about f.o. are described as being all men of good 

 standing in the business circles of the territory, and the hope 

 is expressed that the new organization may in time rival the 

 Sugar Planters' Association in the wealth which it will represent. 

 The Pacific Commercial Advertiser heads its report of the recent 

 meeting "First Rubber Convention Ever Held Upon .'\merican 

 Soil." The Nahiku plantation has been mentioned already in 

 The Indi.-\ Rubher Worlp. The first trees there were planted 

 in March, 1905, including 6000 Ceara, 5000 Hez-ca, and 450 Cas- 

 tiiloa trees. Last year 250 acres of Ceara, or more than 100.000 

 trees, were planted, and a similar amount this year, besides which 

 at latest accounts a large number of Hevea seeds were about to 

 be placed in the grounds. The illustration on this page is based 

 upon a photograph of the members of the Rubber Association at 

 Nahiku, with two year old Ceara rubber in the background. 

 Other rubber estates in Hawaii mentioned recently are the 

 Koolau plantation, of over 100,000 Ceara trees; the plantation 

 of the Hawaiian-American Rubber Co., and those of W. G. 

 Scott and F. Wittrock, both private estates. The Nahiku Sugar 

 Co. have taken up rubber also, and have about 100 acres planted 

 to date. The program of the meeting on October 12 included 

 a paper by Dr. E. C. Waterhouse, who regards Ceara rubber as 

 equal in quality to Hevea rubber, and addresses by Jared G. 

 Smith, of United States experiment station; C. J. .Austin, man- 

 ager of the llawaiian-.^mcrican Rubber Co.; Jacob Kotinsky, 

 and others. The ofiiccrs elected were D. C. Lindsay, president: 

 Dr. E. C. Waterhouse, vice president ; Hugh Howell, secretary 

 and treasurer; H. A. Baldwin and J. L. Coke, trustees. The 

 Advertiser publishes a list of 64 members. 



Memhers of the Hawaii.w Riirrf.r Growers' Association and Planted Rubber Trees. 



