July i, lyoS.] 



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Malay States. The new company is capitalized at £307,500 

 [=$1,494,448.75]. The tea business will be continued, and the 

 company's interest in rubber planting, already extensive, is likely 

 to be extended. Mr. Charles Arthur Lampard, one of the board, 

 is a director also in a number of important rubber companies. 

 The accounts of the combined companies show advances to and 

 expenditure on tea, rubber, and produce estates, and interests in 

 companies owning estates, of £108,294 5.$. yd. [=$526,795.15]. 

 Registered offices : 3, Great Tower street, E. C. London. 



REPLACING ■TICUS" WITH "HEVEA." 



The Selangor Rubber Co., Limited, in view of the better re- 

 sults attained from Hevea than from "rambong" (Ficiis) rubber, 

 have decided to cut out the latter, having already interplanted 

 it with lie: la. The Consolidated INIalay Rubber Rstatcs, Limited. 





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Well Developed Six-Ye.\r-Old "Castillo.'^" Tfee. 



lOn one of the tstates of the Chiapas Rubber Plantation Co., in Chiapas. 

 Me.xico. The figure to the right of the tree is Mr. W. H. Thompson, 

 connected with the company — a gentleman 6 feet tall.] 



who have 3.343 "rambong" trees, some of which have begun to 

 yield, have decided to extract from them as much latex as pos- 

 sible and gradually replace them with Hcrca. for which they 

 consider their land better adapted. 



RUBBER PLANTING IN THE FAR EAST. 



The Golden Hope Rubber Estate. Limited. marUeted during 

 1907, 4615 pounds Para rubber and 976 pounds "rambong'' 

 (Ficus clastica) — total 5391 pounds — which sold at an average 

 of 3s. yYid. [=88.6 cents]. The average yield per tree of Para 

 rubber was SJ^ pounds, dry. Rubber seeds and plants sold 

 worth £2295 3.S. 4rf. The company also continued to market 

 coffee. Dividend declared. 6 per cent. Rubber sales for the pre- 

 ceding year, about 24CO pounds : dividend, 5 per cent. .\t the 



second annual meeting (London, April 8) it was voted to in- 

 crease the capital from £40,000 to £50,000. 



At the fifth annual meeting of The Pataling Rubber Estates 

 Syndicate, Limited (London, April 8), the rubber crop for 1907 

 was reported at 58,064 pounds, against 43,310 pounds in 1906; 

 average net price, just over 3.?. ^Y^d. [^89.7 cents]. Dividends 

 to date: 20 per cent, for 1905; 40 per cent, for 1906; 35 per cent. 

 for 1907. The cost of tapping rubber in 1907 was itYi cents 

 (silver) per pound, against 22Y2 cents in 1906. Profits were 

 smaller for the year, however, since the average price obtained 

 in 1906 was $$. I y-ltd. l=$i.245<3]. 



The Rubber Estates of Johore, Limited, at the end of 1907 had 

 planted 1973 acres in rubber. It is intended this year to increase 

 the acreage to 3000. The expenditure during 1907 for develop- 

 ment and upkeep reached £18,870 is. yd. 



The Linggi Plantations, Limited, in the Malay States, collected 

 in 1907 from their "Linggi" estate 61,297 pounds of rubber, 

 against 17.228 pounds in 1906. From "Bukit Nanas" eitate, lately 

 acquired, 49,443 pounds were collected, making a total for 1907 

 of 110,740 pounds. Net profit for the year, £14,760 [=$71,827.54]. 

 Dividends : 7 per cent, en the preference and 20 per cent, on the 

 ordinary shares. 



The rubber yield of the Consolidated Malay Rubber Estates, 

 Limited, in 1907 was 63,615 pounds, from about 200 acres, averag- 

 ing 3.62 pounds per tree. The company have now 1,596 acres 

 under rubber. Last year's yield was 32,693 pounds. The divi- 

 dend for 1907 was 10 per cent., the same as in the preceding 

 year. 



The Sambas Rubber and Gutta-percha Co., Limited, registered 

 in London last autumn to develop rubber plantations at Borneo 

 [see The Indl-k Rubber World, November i, 1907 — page 43], at 

 a meeting in London on February 28, decided on voluntary liqui- 

 dation — presumably on account of a defect in the title of the 

 properties to be acquired. 



Mr. Francis J. HoUoway has resigned as general manager of 

 the Kepitigalla Rubber Estates, Limited, being succeeded by Mr. 

 W. H. Sinclair, the change dating from March 14 last. Mr. 

 Holloway was one of the pioneers in successful rubber culture 

 in Ceylon, and was manager of the Kepitigalla estate, the nucleus 

 of the present £225,000 company, formed in April, 1906. 



GOOD results of THE SELANGOR COMPANY. 



At the annual meeting (Glasgow, June 2) of the Selangor 

 Rubber Co., Limited, the reports made to the shareholders em- 

 braced figures which compare with those of earlier dates as fol- 

 lows : , 



1905. 1906. 1907. 



Rubber crop, /'oioirf.f 29,750 70.577 120,524 



Rate of dividend 20% 40% 41.6% 



The average yield per tree was 1Y2 pounds, but many of the 

 trees were tapped for the first time in 1907, and Mr. W. W. Bailey, 

 the manager, asserts that no other estate in the Malay States 

 has been tapped so lightly as that of the Selangor company. 

 The estimated yield this year is 200,000 pounds. Shares sold re- 

 cently at 7 times the par value. 



A LARGE SIX YEAR OLD "CASTILLOA" TREE. 



.\n illustration herewith has been made from a six-year-old 

 rubber tree (Castilloa clastica), on one of the estates of the Chi- 

 apas Rubber Plantation Co. (San Francisco), in the state of Chi- 

 apas. Mexico. .A distinctive feature of the property show-n is 

 that it is a shade grown plantation ; that is, the trees are grown 

 in only partial clearing, as against total clearing, burning, and 

 planting in the sun, in vogue on many plantations. This method, 

 it is claimed by the company, costs less in the first place, retains 

 all the natural richness of the soil, and produces a tree with a 

 soft, succulent bark, smooth and shiny. A recent visitor to the 

 estate says : "Most of the sun grown trees that I saw had a hard 

 scalv bark, very different from the shade protected tree." 



