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1HE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[April 



1903. 



REVIEW OF THE CRUDE RUBBER MARKET. 



CURRENT quotations correspond very closely with those 

 presented in this column a month ago, though mean- 

 while lower prices have prevailed at times, with a less 

 firm market than at present. The decline referred to 

 reflected the situation at Para, where, on account of very large 

 arrivals at Manaos, together with unfavorable news from the 

 consuming centers, a feeling of apathy prevailed, causing a 

 smaller demand and lower values. With more free buying for 

 consumption, however, there has been an improvement in prices 

 in all centers, notwithstanding the heavy receipts at Manaos 

 which followed the removal of obstacles to the shipment of 

 rubber from the Acre district. 



This district is an important contributor to the supply of what 

 is known as Purus rubber, and political conditions there have a 

 direct bearing upon the yield of this grade of rubber. In 1898 

 the official estimate of the Acre output was 2000 tons ; in 1899 

 it was 1 150 tons ; and in 1900 not more than 800 tons, the de- 

 crease being due to the attempts of the rubber collectors to 

 segregate the region of the Acre from Bolivia, and form a sep- 

 arate republic. The failure of this attempt was followed by an 

 increased rubber production, — amounting to over 2000 tons in 

 1901 — which again declined during the recent troubles between 

 Brazil and Bolivia, one result of which was the closing of the 

 Amazon to shipments from the Acre from August last to Feb- 

 ruary 20 of the present year. There is no means of knowing 

 how much rubber awaited shipment from the Acre on the last 

 date mentioned, and this element of the present season's crop 

 remains a matter for conjecture. It would not be surprising, 

 however, if the total arrivals up to June 30 should equal those 

 of last year, which were the heaviest ever recorded. Arrivals 

 at Manaos for the first seven months of the crop year indicated 

 a shortage of 2164 tons compared with the same period of the 

 preceding year, but by the end of February this shortage had 

 been reduced to 755 tons, since which time receipts have con- 

 tinued in good volume. 



Arrivals of India-rubber (including Caucho) at Para during 

 each of the last three crop years have been as follows, in tons, 

 in addition to which is given a column comparing the receipts 

 of the present year, up to the end of each month, with those 

 of last season : 



This year's 

 1900-01. 1901-02. 1902-0^. Crop. 



To July 31 S60 1.260 1,290 30 more 



To Aug. 31 2,150 2,550 2,660 no " 



To Sept. 30 3.43° 4.490 4-33° 160 less 



To Oct. 31 5.780 7.130 6,610 520 " 



To Nov 30 7>98o 10,100 9,260 840 " 



To Dec. 31 11,300 13.630 12.250 1.3S0 " 



To Jan. 31 13.740 17-490 14.740 2.750 " 



To Feb. 2S 17,030 20,870 19.500 1,370 " 



To March 31 21,820 24.530 '23,260 '1,270 " 



To April 30 24,350 26,670 



To May 31 26.(124 28,750 



To June 30 27610 30.000 



[* To March -3, 1903.] 



It is not alone from the Amazon valley that good arrivals 

 have been reported. Early in the year attention was called to 

 the small stocks at Antwerp and the comparatively small re- 

 ceipts for several months preceding. The Antwerp statistics 

 which appear on another page indicate that arrivals from the 

 Congo are becoming greater, but in spite of this prices for 

 Congo sorts are being we'll maintained, and as this paper goes 

 to press it is understood that the bids in hand for the large 

 inscription sale at Antwerp of March 31 are fully up to the bro- 

 kers' estimations on the rubber to be exposed. Bids for large 



amounts, as usual, have been sent from the United States. 



Consumption in all the leading countries is well maintained 

 and in this connection it may be of interest to note the volume 

 of imports from all sonrces into the United States during the 

 first eight months of several fiscal years: 



1899-00. 1900-01. 1901-02. 1902-03. 



Pounds 33,032,662 31,999,711 32,891,798 34,519,484 



Arrivals at New York continued on a large scale, the receipts 

 from Para alone exceeding by 500,000 pounds the receipts in 

 the same month of last year. Reports from the rubber fac- 

 tories in every branch are that they are exceptionally busy. 



New York quotations on March 30 were: 



PARA. 



Islands, fine, new 87 (888 



Islands, fine, old @ 



Upriver, fine, new.... 90 @gl 



Upriver, fine, old 95 (896 



Islands, coarse, new.. .56 @57 



Islands, coarse, old... @ 



Upriver, coarse, new. .72 (1173 



Upriver, coarse, old. . . @ 



Caucho(Peruvian)sheet 54 ©55 



Caucho (Peruvian) ball 67 @68 



AFRICAN. 



Sierra Leone, istquality78 (879 



Massai, red 78 @79 



Benguella 65 @66 



Cameroon ball 60 @6 1 



Gaboon flake 37 (§38 



Gaboon lump 40 (0)41 



Niger paste 20 @2i 



Accra flake 20 @2i 



Accra buttons 58 ©59 



Accra sirips 59 (860 



Lopori ball, prime. .. .81 (882 



Lopori strip, do ....79 (5 80 



Ikelemba 82 (383 



Madagascar, pinky.. . .77 (878 

 Late Para cables quote : 



Per Kilo. 



Islands, fine 5*550 



Islands, coarse 2$700 



CENTRALS. 



Esmeralda, sausage. . .67 



Guayaquil, strip 61 



Nicaragua, scrap ... .66 



Panama, slab 54 



Mexican, scrap 66 



Mexican, slab 54 



M angabeira, sheet ....51 



EAST INDIAN. 



Assam . 

 Borneo . 



GUTTA-PERCHA. 



Prime, red 



Prime, white 



Lower grades 75 



Reboiled, prime 75 



Reboiled, inferior 10 



Balata, sheet 63 



Balata, block 52 



Pontianak (in quanti 



ties) 



Almeidina 



Tuno gum 



Chicle 



„;6H 

 lal,2 

 Oil,-; 



@55 

 (867 



@55 

 @52 



@2 25 



(81.50 

 <A 1.25 

 @ .90 

 @ .25 



©65 



@55 



® 3^ 



(8 8 

 (812 

 @42 



Per Kilo. 



Upriver, fine 6^500 



Upriver, coarse 4^800 



Exchange, \"2.y$d. 

 Last Manaos advices: 



Upriver, fine 68250 Upriver, coarse 4$350 



Exchange, I2jg/ 

 NEW YORK RUBBER PRICES FOR JANUARY (NEW RUBBER). 



Upriver, fine 86@g2 



Upriver, coarse 7i@76 



Islands, fine 84(889 



Islands, coarse 53@62 



Cameta, coarse ... 55(864 



1902 

 77@36 



1.21-/ 1,5 

 75@8i 

 471.152 

 50@52.54 



1 90 1. 



87 @ 9 2 

 65 @69 

 84 @88 

 4S (§52 

 53K@55 



NEW YORK RUBBER PRICES FOR FEBRUARY (NEW RUBBER). 



Upriver, fine 84(0190 



U priver, coarse 70(873 



Islands, fine 82(887 



Islands, coarse 50(854 



Cameta, coarse 52c 57 



1902 



72@79 

 60(863 

 69(876 

 45(848 

 48c' 50 



1 901. 

 85^(888 

 63 @66 

 83 (885 

 45^@48 

 52K©54 



Rubber Scrap Prices. 



New York quotations — prices paid by consumers — are practi- 

 cally unchanged, as follows: 



Old Rubber Boots and Shoes— Domestic. . . 7^ (8 -jyi 



Do —Foreign 6% (8 16 yi 



Pneumatic Bicycle Tires sii 



Solid Rubber Wagon and Carriage Tires byi 



White Trimmed Rubber 9^ @ 9% 



Heavy Black Rubber 4^ 



Air Brake Hose 2^ @ 3 



Fire and Large Hose 2)i 



Garden Hose 1 '/i 



Matting 1 



