Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-26

pany, shall not be paid upon anything
exceeding 100000 pounds sterling, ana
also only when such capital shall
amount to the sum of 100000 POUNDS
sterling or its equivalent in paper
money. The guaranty of interest thus
conceded shall cease when the prohts
of the company shall reach per cent
and when the profits exceed 7 per cent
the concessionary company shall com
mence to indemnify the state for the
sums advanced at the rate of per cent
of the sum total of all the advances
made. The concession of disposable
lands shall be for ninety-nine years
The government reserves to ltser the
right of approval of the bylaws OF
the company, of the nomination of one
of its directors and of the retention
of certain guarantees for the eXecu-
ton Of the contract.
TERMS FOR COMPANIES
In return for such favors the COM
pany on its part shall agree:
First-To never plant less than tWen-
ty plantations (seringueiros) per an
Second-To follow in it's cultivation
the instructions of the agricultural de-
partment of the state.
Third-To maintain an elementary
agricultural school, with accommoda-
tions to care for at least twenty aooles-
cent abandoned boys, and to organize
and establish a field for the practical
instruction of such boys in mechanical
agriculture in the experimental cul-
ture of tropical plants, experiments IN
fertilization, etc,
Fourth-To cultivate as an accessory
of its business rice, corn and oeahs'
cultivating them mechanically.
Fifth-To furnish exact annual sta
tistics of the number of plants set' the
state of cultivation and the general
production of rubber and other pro-
ducts.
Sixth-To use upon its sacks, cases
and other receptacles in its business
to contain articles of its production, a
trade mark duly registered with the
Junta commercial according to law;
Seventh-To permit inspection by the
government of all it's activities in the
manner and form the government may
determine. IT.,
So far it does not appear that there
has been any movement among IN
vestors, either abroad or in Brazil
to take up the matter of cultiVatlng
rubber in these states under the terms
offered. That there is an abundance
of land suitable for the cultivation OF
rubber in the country in Whlch the
plant originated goes without saying.
There are Sdlu 10 D6 lllbiy
in the way among the principal ones
being the lack of labor to carry on the
work, and the nature of the climate
into which a company undertaking tne
work would of necessity take any COL
onists 1t might be able to secure.
It is noteworthy that while the states
which originally produced all the rub
her exported by Brazil are thus at
tempting to save the industry to them
selves, the Acre territory, which was
practically unknown to the rubber toed
from BOLIVIA to Brazil by the treaty of
Petropolis, has brought to the govern
ment of Brazil a large revenue: Count
ing the tax as an average OF 20 per
cent of the value, the total output OF
the Acre territory to date has been
worth about $9O,OO0,O0O The value or
the output of the territory in ~ 1903 on on
this basis was alone $21,3597 7O0' ana
there are abundant reasons for belieV-
ing that other portions of Brazil VIII
produce wild rubber equally as WE'LL