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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[June i, 1907. 



SOURCES OF CRUDE RUBBER. 



RUBBER COMING DOWN THE NILE. 



THE Nile may never rival the Amazon and Congo rivers as a 

 medium for rubber transportation, but rubber is shipped 

 down the Nile nowadays and is likely to come down that his- 

 toric stream in larger quantities with the advance of time. This 

 observation is suggested by the work of the Imperial Ethiopian 

 Rubber Co., Limited, registered in London January 9, 1907, to 

 acquire and develop an exclusive concession from Emperor Mene- 

 lik, for 25 years, to collect rubber in Abyssinia. At a recent 

 meeting of the company it was stated that about 20,000 pounds 

 of rubber per month was being shipped by the company's agent?, 

 via Khartoum, down the Nile, with prospects for a steady in- 

 crease, it having been demonstrated that Abyssinia is really rich 

 in rubber. 



The existence of rubber there was not known to the emperor 

 until brought to his notice by Hassib Ydlibi, to whom the con- 

 cession above referred to was promptly granted. The organiz-i- 

 tion of the Imperial Ethiopian Rubber Co. followed, with .1 

 capital of ii 50,000, and active work has since been in progress. 

 with Mr. Ydlibi as the company's manager in Abyssinia. The 

 species yielding rubber are being studied by Mr. Bryce, a trained 

 botanist. There are Landol/yliia vines in abundance and, it is 

 reported, ficiis trees. The company are obliged to do a certain 

 amount of planting and are experimenting with Funtumia 

 Siipiuiii and Ficiis trcc-^. 



RUBBER EXPORTS FROM BOLIVIA. 



The exports of rubber from Bolivia are larger than at any 

 time in the past, if we exclude from consideration the Acre dis- 

 trict, claimed formerly by Bolivia and now by Brazil. The table 

 herewith gives the exports, by custom houses, for four years 

 past, the Acre district not included later than 1902 (weights in 

 pounds) : 



1902. 1903. 1904. 1905. 



[Via Manaos] 



El Acre pounds. .\. -$7 6^<^ 



[Via the Madeira] 



Villa Bella i.Si2.7.?i i.493-'-'i i.!^-'9.557 2,2.56.995 



[Via the Pacific] 



La Paz 63i,2&S 535-623 848,767 737.726 



Pelechuco 102,465 110,730 



Oruro 42.383 542,353 269,394 168,696 



[Tlirough .Argentina] 



Puerto Suarez 238.577 229.796 493.381 456,533 



Tarija 4-096 2,816 15,382 10.228 



Total 4.186.585 2,906,274 3.456,481 3.720,908 



The exports of Bolivian rubber through the port of Mollendo, 

 embraced in the above figures, amounted in 1905 to 891,251 

 pounds. In 1903 the amount was 691,957 pounds. 



THE NATIVE RUBBER OF JAMAICA. 



In an article in the Journal of the Jamaica .Agricultural So- 

 ciety [Vol. XI., page 9] on Forsteronia Aoribunda as a rubber 

 producer, the editor writes : "We have known and watched this 

 plant for a good many years and have often thought that while 

 we were paying so much attention to Castilloa and Hevca, Ceara 

 and Ftintumia. our own native rubber offered as good prospects 

 in certain situations as those better known rubbers." This 

 climber is known locally as "milk withe" or "rubber withe," the 

 stems of which are generally as thick as a man's wrist, but when 

 old the stems may be 6 inches or more in diameter for a distance 

 of 20 to 30 feet from the ground, then branching into several 

 stems and growing to the tops of trees over 100 feet in height. 

 Such stems, on being cut slightly with a machete, arc said to 

 exude latex in great profusion. 



LIBERLAN RUBBER MONOPOLY. 



The rublier monopoly in Liberia has been so severely criticized 

 in Europe that The Liberian Rubber Corporation. Limited, holder 

 of the concession for collecting and exporting rubber for 26 



years, have given up the monopoly. As compensation for what 

 was paid to the Liberian government for it, and what has been 

 expended by the company in connection with it. the government 

 gives the company a share in the export revenue derived from 

 rubber. The new arrangement has been brought about by Sir 

 Harry II. Johnston, a director in the rubber company. [See The 

 Indi.-v Ruudkk World, .April 1, 1904 — page 233; January i, 1905 — 

 page 124; Eebruary I, 1906 — pages 146-147.) 



AN INftUIRY FROM COLOMBIA. 



To THE EuiTOK OF The Ini)I.\ Ruhuek Wuui.d: 1 wish to knov. 

 if you arc able Ic put me in connnunication with any person that 

 may be interested in the extraction of rubber from the milky 

 juice that is obtained from several kinds of trees that we have 

 in the .Atrato region. I presume that if I could get a chemical 

 process for extracting this rubber we might have here an in- 

 dustry as interesting as that of preparing guayule rubber in 

 Mexico. GONZ.\Lu zl'Nig.\. 



Cam;4eii.'i, Coloniliia. Mnicli --5. igu/. 



BRIEF MENTION. 



A DECREE iinposing an e.xport duty on crude india-rubber be- 

 came effective in Madagascar on March 15, 1507, the rate being 

 40 centimes per kilogram [=3^2 cents per pound]. 



The directin- of forestry of the Philippine Islands reports that 

 government dues were collected on 40,656 kilograms [^ 89.443 

 pounds] of gutta-percha during the year ended June 30, 1906. 

 The exports of gutta-percha during the calendar year 1905 

 amounted to 50,899 poimds, of which none went to the United 

 States. The declared value was $4,782, or an average of 0.4 

 cents per pound. Rubber exports amounted to 281 pounds, 

 valued at $93. 



NEW TRADE PUBLICATIONS. 



DAVID MOSELEV & SONS. LIMITED (Manchester, Eng- 

 land), in their Price List of Motor Tires for 1907, describe 

 their leading styles of tires, and also rims, tubes, and non skid 

 covers, and the Moseley tire gage. [9" X SV2" ■ "O pages.] 



The G.\rlock P.\cking Co. (Palmyra, New York) have begun 

 the publication, as a means of keeping the trade informed periodi- 

 cally about the company's packings, of a breezy little paper called 

 The Garlock Record. It is issued from their Philadelphia office. 

 [ii?i" X 9"- 16 pages.] 



Indiana Rubber and Insulated Wire Co. (Jonesboro. Indi- 

 ana) issue a catalogue of their "Paranite" and "Peerless" rubber 

 covered wires and cables, together with some useful data in the 

 shape of specilications and measurements of wires and their 

 capacity. [4.5^" X 7'A" ■ 48 pages.] 



Pennsylvania Rubber Co. (Jeannette. Pa.) send out an at- 

 tractive book of views, in color, of specimens of their Interlocking 

 Rubber Tiling for various purposes. [754" X 934"- 26 pages.] 



Jenkins Brothers (New York) in their 1907 catalogue and 

 price list of Valves. Packing, and Discs devote considerable space 

 to the Jenkins Brothers Rubber Specialties, to the list of which 

 they have of late made several additions. [6" X 9"- 128 pages.] 



George F. Lufberv. Jr. (Elizabeth, New Jersey) issues a book- 

 let on Rubber Substitutes, golden and crimson substitutes of anti- 

 mony, and their application in the manufacture of rubber goods. 

 In addition to descriptions of the various ingredients named, sug- 

 gestions are offered regarding the compounds — as for mechanical 

 goods, sundries, and hard rubber — for which each is more espe- 

 cially suited. [614" X 8!4"- 16 pages.] 



ALSO received. 



The Faultless Kiilibev Co.. .\sliland. Ohio=Clolli I.ine<l Rubber Goods. 

 4 pages. 



Allen Manufacturing Co.. Toledo, Ohio.=Science and tbe Bath, .Allen 

 Bath System. 16 pages. 



Western Electric Co., Chicago.=Hawthorne Works, for the Manufacture 

 of Power Apparatus. 24 pages. 



