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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



March i, 1907. 



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Vol. 35. 



MARCH. I. 100-. 

 TABLE OF CONTENTS 



No. 6. 



Page. 



Editorial: 



(juayule Rubber 169 



The Quality of Plantation "Hevca" 169 



Why Scrap Rubber Is Dear 170 



Synthetic Rubber Delays 170 



"Scarcity of Rubber" 170 



Minor Editorials 171 



"The Active Head of the "National" 172 



(Willi l'vili:iil ..f I <• I'.aron C. Colt.] 



A Journey Through Guayule Land — I The Editor 173 



LWilh 9 Illustiations and Map.] 



Cotton Production and Prices 178 



The India-Rubber Trade in Great Britain. — Our Cor- 

 respondent 1 79 



Llligh Icmperatiirc X'ulcanization. Laboratory Tubing. What to 

 Look For in Rubber. Tht- Resin Content of India Rubber. Re- 

 claimed Rubber. The Winter in ("treat Britain. Fenton.] 



New Goods and Specialties in Rubber 181 



[Hygeia Nursing Bottle Holder. Gilbtit Poncho and Helmet. 

 La Crosse "Red Fiber" Rubber Heel. Air Tight Tire Joint. 

 "So Lite" Rubbets. Flexible Gas Tubing. Pneumatic Shoe 

 Tree. Fancy Stopper Top. Fur-Trimmed Rubber Footwear. 

 Mallory Cravcnette Hat. Pneumatic Suction Horseshoe Pad. 

 Goodrich Water Jackets. Pike's Rubber Brush.] 

 [With 10 Illustrations.] 



Recent Patents Relating to Rubber 183 



[United States. Great Britain. France.] 



Rubber Men Hear Transportation Discussed (New Eng- 

 land Rubber Club's Dinnei) H. F. C. 185 



[Portraits, of T. E. Byrnes, Samuel L. Powers, Charles E. Allen 

 and Fr.Tnk Lincoln.] 



Rubber Tapping on the "Del Corte" {Illustrated) 187 



The Rubber Tire Field , 189 



Miscellaneous: 



More Rubber Census Figures 171 



The Rubber Stamp Trade 172 



One Kempshall Golf Ball Patent Void 178 



A Popular Scientist on Tires 178 



Balata and the Customs 180 



The Latest Automobile Apparel 184 



Pen Barrel Chasing Machine (Illustrated) 188 



Jackson Belt Lacing Machine (Illustrated) 188 



What's Wrong with Ceylon Rubber ? 188 



The "Ever Ready" Vulcanizer Car Model, (///iw/ro/^'rf) 188 



A Book on Rubber Planting 5". C. L. 190 



Standard Packing of Waste Rubber 190 



Consolidation in Canada 190 



Wants and Inquiries 190 



News of the American Rubber Trade 192 



[With an Illustration.] 



The Trade at Trenton Our Correspondent 191 



The Trade at Akron Our Correspondent 191 



Review of the Crude Rubber Market 196 



Liverpool. 



William Wric;ht & Co. report [February i] : 

 Fine Para. — The tnarket throughout the montli has been dull. 

 Prices advanced a little during the first half, but subsequently 

 declined, closing at about last month's values — 5.5. 2>id. for Up- 

 river, and s.y. }4d- for Islands. Receipts in Brazil are still de- 

 layed ; doubtless they will eventually come, but the longer they 

 are delayed the greater eagerness there will be to secure them. 

 America has been operating freely in Manaos, at full prices, which 

 will further tend to keep up rates. Sellers here have been ex- 

 trenrely cautious, and although efforts have been made to depress 

 prices, they have had practically no effect, in view of the uncer- 

 tain future. 



Messrs. Joseph Fvnney & Co., india-rubber merchants and importers, 

 Harley Buildings, li Oldham street, have presented their friends in the trade 

 with a handsome "Diary for 1907," with useful statistics of rubber and 

 "loss in washing" tables — pocket size and very convenient. 



British Official Returns. 



INDIA-RUBBER. 

 1904. 



Imports Pounds 55.555.584 



Exports 33.415,536 



1905. 

 66,464.944 

 37,464,112 



1906. 

 67,992,624 

 36,988,336 



Net imports 



22,140,048 



GUTTA-PERCHA. 

 1904. 



Imports Pounds 3,056,256 



Exports 890,622 



29.000,832 31.004,288 



1905. 1906. 



5,088,608 5,986,35a 



1,020,880 973,953 



Net imports 2,165,634 4,067,728 5,012,400 



Bordeaux. 



Arrivals at this market in 1906 exceeded those for the preced- 

 ing year by 285 tons. The major share is from French West 

 -Africa. The Soudan output remained stationary; Conakry and 

 Gambia showed a good increase. More rubber came from Mada- 

 gascar and Indo-China. Ceara (Brazil) contributed 45 tons of 

 "manico'Da" rubber, which brought good prices. Total receipts 

 at Bordeaux for eight years : 



1899 175,589 kilos. 1903 1,113,000 kilos. 



igoo 239,532 " 1904 1,182,703 



1901 235.380 " 1905 1,330,480 " 



1902 678,000 " 1906 1,716,004 



TO EXPLOIT PERUVIAN RUBBER. 



"T^HE Inambari Para Rubber Estates, Limited, is the name of a 

 company formed lately in London to acquire certain rubber 

 properties on the river Inambari, in the district of Carabaya, 

 southern Peru. One of the properties is that of the Carabaya 

 Rubber and Navigation Co.. incorporated under the laws of 

 Maine (United States). The authorized capital is i350,ooo 

 [=$1,703,275]. A public subscription was opened in London on 

 February 6 for i2oo,ooo, designed to pay the purchase price and 

 promotion expenses, and leave £75,000 for working capital. The 

 vendors are Frank Squier, of New York, and Sir George Newnes, 

 of London. The board of the new company includes Sir Martin 

 Conway, wdio was concerned with the Acre concession, and 

 Charles A. Lampard and Keith F. Arbuthnot, London men wdio 

 are directors in important Eastern rubber plantations. The plan 

 of the Inambari company is to export rubber via Mollendo, on 

 the Pacific coast, with the aid of improved mule roads now 

 under construction. There are involved grants of land from 

 the government of Peru, leaseholds of other lands, and grants of 

 still other areas, contingent upon the completion of the roads 

 mentioned. 



RUBBER PLANTING INTERESTS. 



SMOKE COAGULATING MACHINE. 



rXPERTS for some time have been of the opinion that 

 ■^ coagulation by the smoke process would be most desirable 

 in the Far East. It has remained for Mr. Gustave Van den 

 Kerckhove, of Brussels, to become the patentee of an apparatus 

 for this method of coagulation. The "Fumero." for this is the 

 name he has given it, is made in such a way that the latex is 

 coagulated precisely in the same way as it is in Brazil. Work is 

 extremely practical with it, and it can be removed and fitted up 

 anywhere. Uniformity of curing, which is so hard to obtain when 

 any mechanical process is used, is made possible by the "Fumero," 

 as the latex is simply guided over the smoke by the hand, and the 

 entire sheet or ball of rubber is evenly treated. The addition of 

 acid to the latex becomes unnecessary, and the creosote con- 

 tained in the smoke acts as an antiseptic and prevents the rubber 

 from oxidizin';. both of these factors entering largely into the 

 success w'hich awaits the general use of this patent. This inven- 

 tion doubtless will meet a welcome in the East. 



