The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-10-03
SPANISH OPERATOR
SEEKS AGREEMENT
AMONG NAVAL STORES MEN
SENIOR c. RODRIGUEZ, DIRECTOR
IN UNION RESIN CO., Is HERE.

His Country Stands Second To south
In Production of ROsin and His
Company Controls Industry There.
VIII Cali on Leading Operators In
Savannah and Explain His Plans.
Believes France Can BE Induced to
COOperate.
For the purpose of arranging an
understanding between the naval stores
dealers of the United States and Spain,
Senior c. Rodriguez, of Bilbao, di-
rector of the Spanish Union Resin
Company, is in the city, registered at
the De Soto. This morning he will
present letters of introduction and call
on the leading operators and disclose
his plans.
AS Senior Rodriguez has not acquired
the intricacies of the English Ian
guage, he has with him Senior Jose
Echezavvete, who has been connected
with the exhibit of his country at the
Worlds Fair. 1t was while visiting
the fair that Senior Rodriguez met him
and secured his services on "a tour OF
the country.
Second to the Southern part of the
United States in the production of rosin
is Spain, and the industry in that coun-
try is controlled entirely by the Union
Reson Company, of which Senior Rodri-
guez is a director. The only other
country where the production of rosin
is carried on to any large extent is
France. The method employed in
France and Spain is known as the Thi-
CUES system which consists in boring
the trees instead of stripping them of
bark, thus prolonging their life.
The Spanish Company.
The Spanish company has a capital
stock of 100000 600 pesetas. equivalent to
about $4OOO,OOO in United States money.
The company owns eighteen farms,
and has fourteen plants for the manu-
facture of wooden boxes and barrels.
The annual output is considerably
over 100000 barrels of rosin, with about
one-third that amount of spirits.
In explaining his plan through an in
terpreter. Senior Rodrigues said:
1.-The idea is not to form a combina-
tion of operators, but to bring about
an agreement in the price of the prod
ucts of the pine tree in the worlds
markets.
For instance, our company would
like to be sure that the American OPP
orators will not undersell us in the
open markets, and we would give the
same assurance to them. The co-opera-
ton of France could be easily secured,
! believe. should the United States
and Spain come to an understanding.
savannah Fixes Prices.
81 have come to Savannah realiz-
ing that the price in the worlds mar
kets is fixed at this point. With the
cooperation of the Savannah dealers
our company could be sure that there
would be no cutting i'm price below the
tariff schedules.
We expect to spend a few days in
Savannah and may go further south
for a short time. After leaving the
rosin-producing sections, we will go to
Charleston Baltimore, Washington and
Philadelphia. We came over to see
the fair and to visit the large cities
as we'll as to look after the rosin in
dustry.'
Senior Calixto Rodriguez is a deputy
from Cortez, and is serving his TWEEN
tieth term as a Republican leader. His
party is weak in Spain and his con-
tinued succession to the honor in the
Senate is a compliment to his influ-
ence. He is accompanied by his wife
in his tour of the United States.