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TABLE 19
TIMBER CONCESSIONS GRANTED 1953 - 1961
YEAR COMPANY'S NAME NATIONALITY
INVESTOR(S)
1953 Industrial Trading
Trust
Swiss
1957 Liberian Industrial Spanish
Forestry Corp. *
1957 Morro River Lumber Liberian
Corp.
1959 Liberian Timber U.S.
Industries Corp.
1959 Siga Lumber Company* U.S.
1960 Maryland Logging German
Company *
Notes: * active as of January 1, 1961.
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SIZE CONCESSION
AREA
not specified
40,000 acres
100,000 acres c
250,000 acres d
40,000 acres e
500,000 acres f
Size concession area not specified but concession area
was located in Maryland County and in Webbo District
and in the Glio and Konombo Chiefdoms of the Tchien Dis-
•u trlct of the Eastern Province.
Located in the Gbama Tribal Forest Reserve (Western Province)
Located in Tappita District (Central Province) and in
j Grand Bassa County.
100,000 acres of which in the Gio and Gbi National Forests;
located in the Central and Eastern Provinces.
Located in Tappita District (Central Province and in Grand
„ Bassa County
250,000 acres of which in the Grebo National Forest; located
in Maryland County.
(1) Clower: 1966, p. 37 (Table 11), However, Table 35
mentions as source of capital and management "Swiss/
English" (Clower: 1966, p. 129)
(2) Clower: 1966, p. 129 (Table 35). Table 11, however,
reports as national affiliation "Formerly German, now
English". The English ownership seems very unlikely
to the present author. (Clower: 1966, p. 37)
Sources:
- "An Act approving the General Concession Agreement
entered into by and between the Government of the
Republic of Liberia and the Industrial Trading Trust
of the Principality of Liechtenstein of Switzerland",
dated September 11, 1953, approved November 25, 1953
- Clower: 1966, p. 37 and 129.