October i, 1906.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER V/ORLD 



SEVENTEEN YEARS OF PROGRESS. 



WPo^ 



Fablishedon the 1st of eaoh Month by 



TIIH INDIA RUBBER PUBLISHING CO. 



No. 35 WEST 21st STREET, NEW YORK. 



CABLE ADDRESS: IRWORLD, NEW YORK. 



HENRY C. PEARSON, 



EIMTOR. 



HAWTHORNE HILL, 



ASSOCIATE. 



Vol 35. 



OCTOBER 1. 1906. 



No. 1. 



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TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



I'.VGE. 



Editorial: 



Seventeen Years of Progress r 



New Study of Rubber 2 



Mr. Root's Southern Visit 2 



Synthetic Rubber a Year Hence ? 3 



Death of George F. Hodgniaii 3 



King Leopold's Rubber Reabn 3 



Inventors and their Eeward-i C.DFrvsl 5 



How Many Automobiles Are There ? 6 



Kubber Discussed at the British Association 7 



Progress of Rubber Culture . . 9 



A Study in Flat Tread Tires 11 



The India-Rubber Trade in Great Britain... Our lirgular Correspondt nl 13 

 LThc British .Vs^ot iatiuti. Raw Rubber Notes. Continuous Brakes 

 for Freijjht Trains, 'i'he Pluviusiti Company Rubber Heel Pads. 

 Whence the Resin in Ruljber? Lawn Tennis Balls. Leyland and Bir- 

 mingham Rubber Co,] 



New Goods and Specialties in Rubber 15 



[i:ver-Keadv Heat StoiiriK Hap. Tlie I. &M Tire Adjuster. Inflated 

 Catcher's Body Protector. The P. D. Q Tire Repair Plug. Tire 

 Testing Tank. Handy .\utomobile Bag. The Gogglette. Two Neat 

 Rubber Heels. Spring Heel Cushion.] 



[With 10 Illustrations.] 



Recent Rubber Patents X7 



[tT^ite^ St. lies. Great Britain. France.] 



Legitimate Colorado Rubber 19 



[With ,( Illustrations.] 



Literature of India-Rubber 21 



Obituary Record — 22 



[With Portrait, (;eoigeH. Forsyth.] 



News of the American Rubber Trade 25 



Rubber Trade at .\l:ron Our Correspondent 29 



The Textile Market 30 



Miscellaneous: 



Northern Mexico Guayule Mail 10 



How Garage Men Save Tires jo 



India-Rubber Goods in Commerce 12 



The Properties of Nantusi 12 



Proposetl New Route to the Amazon 12 



What a " Rubber Collar" Is 14 



Rubber Trading in the Wilds 14 



Filling Tires with Sand 18 



More Rubber from Bolivia 20 



Union Made Police Rubber Goods 20 



New Trade Publications 21 



A Deadly Golf Ball 22 



Rubber Decorticating Machine Itlusiralion 23 



Rubber Reclaiming for Russia 23 



New Wanning and Mixing Mill Illustrations 23 



Uniteil States Rubber Co- in Europe 24 



VoUax, an Insulating Compound 24 



Breakfast Food Rubber. 



24 



^J-, Review of Crude Rubber Market 31 



c5 



npHE entrance of The India Rubber World, with 

 -*- this issue, upon a new vohime, reminds us of the 

 very great advance which has been made, during the 

 seventeen years since our first issue, in the industry 

 wliicli the paper represents. Tlie rubber trade was im- 

 portant, in many respects, previous to the time referred 

 to ; notable successes had been won in it, in the way of 

 invention and in the fortunes accumulated by leaders in 

 the industry. But in practically every respect greater 

 progress has been made in these seventeen years than in 

 the whole hi.story of rubber before. 



The volume of the business has grown to an extent 

 which makes its former jiroportions .seem small. The 

 number of ajjplications of rubber has increased accord- 

 ingly, and marked improvements have been made in all 

 the lines of rubber goods that were staple a score of 

 years ago. The period under review has been one of 

 great industrial and commercial development .such as the 

 world never knew before, but no branch has made more 

 real advancement than has been shown by the better 

 rubber concerns. 



To begin with the crude rubber interest, the trade has 

 been very greatly systematized within seventeen years. 

 Manaos was hardly a factor in the trade then, though 

 now ahead of Para in the amount of rubber handled. 

 Antwerp was handling but a few tons of rubber in a 

 year, and nobody knew of the Congo as a rubber produc- 

 ing country. The rubber planting interest had not been 

 established, beyond the work of a few .scientific experi- 

 ments. 



In the rubber manufacture, it is true, most lines now 

 important in the trade had an existence, but .seventeen 

 years have witnessed .steady progress in the way of im- 

 proved methods and improved products. But the rubber 

 tire scarcely existed ; the automobile tire now standard 

 the world over had not been thought of ; even the pneu- 

 matic bicycle tire was in embrj-o when The India Rub- 

 ber World first appeared. 



This has been an era of industrial combinations and 

 concentration, and here, too, the rubber industry has 

 kept pace with general progress. There was hardly a 

 rubber manufacturing concern seventeen years ago with 

 a capital stated as high as $1,000,000, while now there 

 must be scores of them, not to mention such aggrega- 

 tions of capital in the business as that of the United 

 States Rubber Co. 



The manufacture of rubber goods has been carried 

 into a number of countries where before it had no foot- 

 ing — as in Japan, Australia, Switzerland, and Portugal. 

 And the use of rubber goods has become general in many 

 regions where they were scarcely known before. Special 

 mention must be made of the development of the rubber 

 manufacture in Germany, and of the export of rubber 

 goods from that countr>' — facts which figure among the 

 notable in the history of the industry in any country. 



