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were  planted  in  igoi,  however,  10,000  rubber  trees,  for  coffee 
shade,  16  x 16  feet  apart,  330,000  trees,  in  the  open,  74  x yi  feet 
apart.  The  latter  planting  covered  about  478  acres.  The  trees 
were  one  year  old  when  transplanted,  and  the  loss  amounted  to 
only  about  5 per  cent.  There  were  also  about  3,000,000  rubber 
plants,  in  six  nurseries,  covering  34  acres.  The  management 
planned  to  clear  and  plant  more  than  1,000  acres  in  rubber  in  1902. 
The  Company’s  horticulturist,  JAMES  MAUNDER,  writes  in  the 
“Madras  (India)  Mail”  that  340,000  rubber  plants  were  set  out 
in  July  last,  within  28  days  from  the  start.  The  men  employed 
made  3 50  to  500  pits  per  day  with  posthole  diggers,  and  one  man 
could  set  350  plants  daily.  Part  of  the  area  was  then  planted  in 
corn,  which  kept  down  the  weeds  so  that  no  weeding  of  the  rubber 
was  required  until  after  the  corn  was  harvested.  The  rubber  was 
then  weeded,  and  a second  crop  of  corn  planted — making  two 
crops  of  the  latter  in  one  year.  The  second  planting  of  corn  was 
made  within  seven  months  from  the  first  clearing  of  the  ground. 
He  expected  to  set  out  1,000,000  rubber  plants  this  year. 
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The  President  of  the  Chiapas  Rubber  Plantation  and  Investment 
Co.,  Mr.  L.  H.  Bonestell,  wrote  from  San  Francisco  March  25, 
in  answer  to  a communication  from  The  India  Rubber  World  office, 
about  his  not  having  stated  the  number  of  acres  planted  in  rubber 
by  his  company  : “I  did  not  do  this  for  the  reason  that  this  had 
previously  been  reported,  and  as  very  little  planting  has  been  done 
since  last  planting  season,  June  and  July,  there  was  very  little  change 
in  that  respect.  The  number  of  acres  actually  planted  is  4,000  and 
some  hundred  acres ; cannot  give  you  the  exact  number  to  date.” 
Mr.  Bonestell,  states  that  while  visiting  the  plantation  in 
February,  he  had  a test  made  as  follows : “An  acre  was  laid  off 
already  stalked,  and  two  men  set  to  planting  with  old  refuse  seed 
left  over.  It  took  them  just  twenty  minutes  by  the  watch.’ ^ Cri- 
ticism has  been  made  in  these  pages  of  the  character  of  the  Chiapas 
company’s  advertising — particularly  to  a page  which  appeared  in 
the  San  Francisco  News  Letter.  A letter  to  The  India  Rubber  World 
from  the  proprietor  of  that  journal  says  : “ 1 beg  to  say  that  the 
page  illustration  of  the  Chiapas  Rubber  Co.  published  in  the  San 
Francisco  News  Letter  September  15,  1900,  was  not  paid  advertis- 
ing matter.  ” 
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LA  ESPERANZA  RUBBER  CO. 
'I  his  plantation  embraces '500  acres  bought  by  CarlETON  HaLE 
in  1898,  being  then  virgin  forest.  There  have  been  270  acres  cleared, 
and  130,000  rubber  trees,  of  various  ages,  are  now  standing,  to- 
gether with  10,000  plants  in  nursery,  which  will  be  transplanted 
this  summer  on  land  now  being  cleared.  Mr.  HalE  is  in  charge. 
The  company  is  incorporated.  Edgar  J.  Uoe  is  president  and 
\\L  F.  Hale,  treasurer.  The  latter  writes  to  The  India  Rubber 
