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were planted in 1901, however, 10,000 rubber trees, for coffee 
shade, 16 x 16 feet apart, 330,000 trees, in the open, 7^ *7*2 * eet 
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 m 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 350 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 ; “ l 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: “ I 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. 
This plantation embraces 50° 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. Doe is president and 
W. i\ Hale, treasurer. The latter writes to The India Rubber 
