*95 
°! ( One pound. Hence he thinks it safe to estimate an average of 
2 V lb. per tree, or n i| lbs. for 150 trees per year. The principal 
object ot Mr. Holloway’s report; however, is to present his 
estimate of cost of collection. The amount of rubber collected 
during the first five months of 1902 was 1,302 lbs. of good rubber 
ami 60 lbs. of scrap; total 1,362 lbs. The cost of tapping and 
curing was Rupees 570.63, packing boxes and transportation 
vupees 31.13 ; and proportionate share of cost of an outfit of col- 
lecting tins tapping knives, and coagulating tins, Rupees 36.60 ; 
‘. l ? os 1 >362 lbs. of rubber in Colombo, Rupees 638.36. 
i ins is equal to about £420.1 15. 2 d. or $207.10 gold. The average 
cost per pound would work out at 4< f. or 15.2 cents. The expenses 
to London and commissions are not stated, but most of the rubber 
sold at 3 s - per pound, and the scrap at 2$., equal to 8 si and 
4 <s S- cents respectively.— [The India Rubber World. 1 
CEYLON GROWN RUBBER IN LONDON. 
London, February 27, 1903. 
Lkar Sir, 
We wrote you re Ceylon grown Para rubber a few weeks ago 
and now have to report further sales which, we think, will be of 
interest to your readers : — 
Marks. 
Culloden 
do 
do 
do 
do 
Edengolla 
do 
Clyde 
do 
Kumaradola 
Yatipaawa 
Igalkande 
Aberdeen 
do 
Tudugulla 
Case 
6 
Fine thin biscuits 
Good scrap 
Large balls scrap 
Scrap good 
Scrap fair 
Fine thin biscuits 
Good scrap 
Fine thin biscnits 
Scrap 
Fine in small biscuits 
Scrap 
1 cratg Fine thin biscuits 
1 case Fine thin biscuits 
1 bag Good scrap 
5 cases Fine thin biscuits 
Solo at per lb. 
4/2 
3/ 4 
3/o| 
3/2 
3/of 
4/2 
3/if 
4/.. 
3/- 
3/4f . 
m 
4/2 
3/1° 
3/if 
4 / 2 | 
Ihe market is strong and prices seem likely to go higher 
Kindly insert above in your paper, as planters are muchlntSed. 
We are, dear Sir, 
Yours faithfully, 
LEWIS & PEAT. 
^ Fine Para 3s. 8 ^d. to 3s. gd. 
