Fedruary I, 1907.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



1(35 



Review of the Crude .Rubber Marker. 



TIIH arrivals at Para of rubber of all grades during 1906 were 

 only slightly in excess of those for the preceding year. This 

 may be accounted for in part by the delay of important 

 lots upstream, due to low water. The arrivals since July i, the be- 

 ginning of the crop season, were less than for the same period a 

 year ago. Taking the world's production as a whole, an increase 

 has been shown. Consumption has increased at an equal rate, so 

 that prices have been maintained on an unprecedentedly stable 

 basis. American imports of crude r,ubber during 1906 exceeded 

 those of any former year by some 1,300 tons. Exports were 

 larger, however, but stocks at the end of the year were smaller 

 than at the beginning. The reported deliveries to manufacturers 

 (including Canada) were larger by 400 tons than in 1905. Both 

 imports and consumption in the United States have doubled within 

 ten years, and con.sumption has more than trebled in thirty years. 



Following is a statement of prices of Para grades, one year 

 ago, one month ago, and on January 29 — this date : 



i'.\R.\. Feb. I, '06. Jan. r. '07 Jan. 29 



Islands, fine, new I22@i23 118(0119 Ii8@ii9 



Islands, fine, old none here none here none heri- 



Upriver, fine, new I26@T27 i23(f?'T24 i>^((VJ2^ 



Upriver, fine, old none here 127^1-128 I27('a 12S 



Islands, coarse, new 7,3(<-V 74 72!,{.((i; 72 72(?i72;a 



Islands, coarse, old none here none here none here 



Upriver, coarse, new 93@ 94 97@ 98 97!/2@98 



Upriver, coarse, old none here none here none liere 



Caucho (Peruvian) sheet 7A(<i 75 76(fV 77 7^179 



Caucho (Peruvian) ball 74fa; 75 g5'A(rt! 96 96((i 97 



Cevlon (Plantation) fine sheet 86(0 87 I37@i,38 I37C'/I.38 



AFKIC.\N. 



Sierra Leone, 



1st quality . . . 



Massai, red 



Benguella 



Cameroon ball. . . . 



Accra fiakc 



Lopori ball, prime. 

 Lopori, strip, prime.107 

 Madagascar, pinky. 90 



108 



108 



78 



77 



22 



@io8K' 

 @io8K 

 @ 79 

 @ 78 

 @ 23 

 Ii65^@ii7 

 @io8 

 @ 91 



Ikelcmba Ii7'/<(ail8 



Soudan niggers .... 93 (S) 94 



Late Para cables quote : 



Per Kilo 



Islands, fine s$550 



Islands, coarse 2$650 



Exchange, 

 Last Manaos advices: 



Upriver, fine ' 6$6oo 



Exchange, I 



CENTRALS. 



Esmeralda, sausage . . 



Guayaquil, strip 



Nicaragua, scrap 



Panama, slab 



Mexican, scrap 



Mexican, slab 



Mangabeira, sheet . . . 

 Guayule 



EAST INDIAN. 



Assam 



Borneo 



.94^95 

 ■ 7(>@77 

 . 92(093 



■7o(a:7i 



• 93@9+ 



• 7i@72 

 .67(^71 

 ■44(3-45 



■94(095 

 .40(050 



Upriver, fine. , . . 

 Upriver, coarse ■ 

 15 9-i6rf. 



Upriver, coarse . 

 S l7-32rf. 



Per 



Kilo 



6$975 



4?875 



.4$ioo 



NEW YORK PRICES FOR DECEMBER (NEW RmBER). 



1906. 1905. 



Upriver, fine 1.22(0)1.24 i.23@l.29 



Upriver, coarse 96@ .98 ■<^3® .97 



Islands, fine , I.i8@l.20 1.20(0)1.26 



Islands, coarse 7i@ .73 .71© -77 



Canieta, coarse 72@ .74 .72(Ji) .78 



1904. 



1.18(0 1.30 

 ■89® .97 



i.l4fo 1.26 

 .65(0) .72 

 .65(0) .71 



In regard to the financial situation, Albert B. Beers, broker in 

 crude rubber and conuiiercial paper. No. 68 William street, New 

 York, advises us : 



"During the first 10 days of January the money market con- 

 tinued about the same as for two months previously, with very 

 little demand for paper, and only at high rates averaging about 

 7 per cent, but since the middle of the month there has been an 

 incrcasmg demand from city and out-of-town banks, but at full 

 rates, 6 @ 6^4 per cent." 



Statistics of Para Rubber (Exc'uding Caucho), 



NEW YORK. 



Fine and 



Medium, Coarse. 

 Stocks, November 30. .. .Tons 94 4 = 



Arrivals, December 1580 556 = 



Aggregating 1674 560 = 



Deliveries, December 1501 557 = 



Total. Total. Total. 

 1906. 1905. 1904. 



98 154 7 

 2136 1288 1705 



2234 

 2058 



1442 

 1320 



171-2 

 1643 



Stocks, December 31 173 3 == 176 



69 



PARA. 



1906. 1905. 1904. 



Stocks, Nov. 30. . . . Tons 860 395 540 



.Arrivals, December 2555-!- 2985 3220 



ENGLAND. 



1906. 1905. 1904. 

 380 505 180 



735 1090 670 



Aggregating 3415 3380 3760 



Deliveries, December.... .3415 2795 .^^Cio 



Stocks, December 31. 



0+ 585 



1906. 



World's visible supply, December 31. .Tons 1,978 



Para receipts, July I to December 31 13,400 



Para receipts of Caucho, same dates 1,205 



.■\float from Para to United States, Dec. 31 952 

 .Afloat from Para to Europe, December 31 485 



I!I05 -. 



1 Diagram >ro for l«l« 



Chakt .Showing Fi.ittuations in Islands Spot Fine Par.-v 

 Rubber at Hew York, for Three Years. 



(Copyrighted, 1907, by Henry A. Gould.) 



Loadon. 



plantation rubber. 



January 4. — At to-day's auction 357 packages of plantation 

 rubber from Ceylon and the Malay States were offered, of 

 which 292 found buyers. The total weight exceeded 21 tons, 

 of which Ceylon contributed 9 tons. The market opened with 

 a good demand, fine crepe being keenly competed for and fetch- 

 ing the highest price paid — 5.5. QlAd. [^$1,404-5] per pound — for 

 one case from Lanadron estate. A fine loT; of block rubber from 

 Lanadron, of over two tons, was oflfered, but withdrawn for 

 private treaty, A lot of rambong (Ficits) crepe realized 5s. 

 ol^id. [=$1.22^] per pound. The average realized for all the 



