Februarv I. 1907. 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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THE RUBBER PLANTING SITUATION. 



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TABLE or CONTENTS. 



P.\GE. 



Editorial: 



Tlic Rubber Planting Situation 137 



The Cotton Prospect 138 



Railways in Rubber Countries 138 



Minor Editorials '. 139 



Thtenfall Carr's "Wheat Rubber" 140 



The Center of the Congo Rubber Trade 141 



IWull 4 Illu'itr.ili.iTis.l 



Changing Conditions on the Congo 142 



The Financier of a Great Rubber Company 143 



I With I'nrtrait ..if In. rct I. Perkins.] 



The India Rubber Trade in Great Britain 145 



[The Waterproofing Trade. Penther's Rubber Scrap Process. "Red 

 Rubber." Choucamel Belting. The Hartridge Tire. Jamaica 

 Rubber. Instantaneous Hisengaging Gear.] 



Rubber Interests in Europe 146 



Progress in Rubber Planting 147 



[Rubber Plantations in Para State. llawaiians Planting in the 

 Malay States. Planting "Caslilloa" Rubber in Colombia. A 

 Far Eastern Scare at an Knd. Mexican Planting Notes.] 

 [With J Illustrations.] 



Tires at Madison Square Garden 149 



[|-\illi<\vcd by .\incrican and European Tire Notes.] 

 [With 4 Illustrations.] 



Growth of the Cotton Interest 152 



New Goods and Specialties in Rubber 153 



[Klingtite Quick Hose Coupler. Midgley's New Tire. Cushion 



Heel Seat. The "Springfield" .\utomobile Lift. Medicated 



Riibbtr Garments. Rubber Cement or Paste. A Non-Slipping 



Cushion Tread. Cloth Lined Rubber Goods. Massage Hath 



Belt.] 



[With 9 Illustrations.] 



Recent Patents Relating to Rubber 15S 



[I'lnte'l States. Ilreat iiritain. France.] 



Trade Topics in the Dominion 1 58 



Miscellaneous: 



Shrub Rubber from the Congo 140 



Development of Bolivia '4° 



Rubber Exhibits at Marseilles 142 



Mechanical Rubber Goods 144 



Grades of Pontianak 148 



Some Wants of the Trade 1.SI 



\\'aterproofing Process 152 



Vulcanizina: Rubber Boots (Illustrnlcd) I57 



.-V Golf BaH Winding Room {Illuslratcd) 157 



Golf Ball Winding Machine (Ulustratcd) 157 



For Cleansing Waste Rubber (Illuslratcd) 157 



News of the American Rubber Trade 160 



Review of the Crude Rubber Trade 165 



I T is not so many years since a suggestion to plant 

 rubber for the purpose of adding to the world's 

 supplies of this commodity would have seemed to most|j, ,-!■ 

 people liardly more practicable than the idea of increas- 

 ing artificially the supply of atmospheric air. In the 

 first place, it would have been considered unnecessary, 

 in view of the great areas of forest rubber; and, sec- 

 ondly, the idea strangely prevailed that rubber plants 

 were not adapted to cultivation. But of late the 

 general opinion on this subject has undergone a com- 

 plete change, and to-day there is no feature of the 

 whole rubber interest to which more widespread atten- 

 tion is being paid than to rubber planting. 



The progress made in this direction, and the definite- 

 ness of the results attained, were particularly notable 

 during the past year. For example, three years ago 

 the total exports of plantation rul)bcr from Ceylon and 

 the Federated Malay States, in occasional small lots, 

 from a few young trees here and there, did not reach 

 50,000 pounds. During 1906 the exports from the 

 same colonies exceeded 1,000,000 pounds— all rubber 

 of a high grade, carefully prepared and shipped sys- 

 tematically, and realizing the highest prices in any 

 market. Each year has brought more trees into bear- 

 ing, and a larger rate of yield from the trees first 

 tapped, and the success- of the pioneer planters has led 

 to the investment of an immense amount of capital in 

 new plantations, in the belief that these ultimately will 

 prove as productive as the trees now yielding rubber. 



I'he newer plantations in Mexico and Central Amer- 

 ica have not yet reached the same stage of commercial 

 production, but reports continually come to hand of 

 the success of experimental tapping, while occasional 

 lots of plantation rubber reach the market and bring 

 high prices. But neither in Mexico nor in the im- 

 porting countries are statistics yet available of the 

 amounts, as distinguislied from "native" rubber. In 

 several South .American countries rubber planting has 

 been begun, with commercial results already in respect 

 of Cear.i, or "maniqoba," in southern T.razil. Even 

 in the Amazon valley interest in rubber culture has 

 been stimulated, and some plantations formed. 



In all the colonies in tropical Africa rubber is being 

 planted!; under the encouragement of the governing 

 powers. In the Congo Free State, particularly, mil- 

 lions of rubber plants have been set out to comply 

 with legal requirements, in addition to which the larger 

 trading companies are planting rubber as a desirable 

 means of employing part of their capital. What is 

 being done in Africa is due to a general recognition of 

 the fact that the native rubber species are rapidly be- 

 ing destroyed, and that unless plantations are formed 

 ultimate exhaustion is certain. The Congo Free State 

 output reached its highest point in 1901, since which 

 time it has declined constantly. The total African 



