India rubber world . r 300,000. Total M 8,110, CREDITS. Share Capital Account J/ 2,400,000. Reserve Fund Account ., 2,025,000. Special Reserve Fund Account 115,000. Second Special Reserve Bund Account 143,450. Security Account 200,000. Funds Available for the Benefit of Workmen 237, Standing December 31, 1899 234, Interest for 190.^, 5 per cent . 11,, Disbursed in 1900 8,87199 Employes Jubilee Fund 72, Standing December 31, 1899 61, Interest for 1900, 5 per cent 3, 65,40395 Disbursed in igoo —. 2,74325 62,660 70Received privatel


India rubber world . r 300,000. Total M 8,110, CREDITS. Share Capital Account J/ 2,400,000. Reserve Fund Account ., 2,025,000. Special Reserve Fund Account 115,000. Second Special Reserve Bund Account 143,450. Security Account 200,000. Funds Available for the Benefit of Workmen 237, Standing December 31, 1899 234, Interest for 190.^, 5 per cent . 11,, Disbursed in 1900 8,87199 Employes Jubilee Fund 72, Standing December 31, 1899 61, Interest for 1900, 5 per cent 3, 65,40395 Disbursed in igoo —. 2,74325 62,660 70Received privately from Board of Control. . 10,000. OfficersPension Fund Account 76,828,78 Standing December 31, 1899 76,64o»73 Interest for i;oo, 5 per cent 3, 57 Disbursed in igoo 3, Share Capital Expense Account 114,827, Taxes, Stamps, etc. Accounts Current Account 1,225, Creditors. Profit and Loss Account 1,499, Net profit for 1900. Total M 8,110, July i, 1901.] THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 295. METHOD OH EXTRACTING BALATA IN VENEZUELA.[By the courtesy of El Cojo Ilusirado^ Caracas.] GROWTH OF BALATA PRODUCTION. THERE are indications that the production and consump-tion of Balata are increasing, though at what rate it isdifficult as yet to say, owing to the want of system which pre-vails in most quarters in the statistics kept of this Henry Souther Tufts, formerly of Boston, who was a re-cent visitor to The India Rubber World offices, stated thathe was interested in a company employed in the collection ofBalata in the section, rich in that gum, due south from CuidadBolivar, on the Orinoco, in Venezuela. The company has beendevoted to this business alone for a year or more, with suchsuccess that more capital is to be employed. Mr. Tufts reportsthat the Orinoco Co., an American company holding large con-cessions in the delta of the Orinoco, are also devoting theirattention in a large measure to the collection of Balata. Itseems that the Venezuel


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