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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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GUTTA-PERCHA IN THE PHILIPPINES. 



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Vol. 28. 



AUGUST 1, 1903. 



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TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



Editorial: 



Uutie.-Percba m the Philippines stil 



Stock Quotations and Business 362 



A Case of Self Protection 3IVJ 



Robber at the Osaka Exhibition J. K. L. 363 



A Gorman View of American Business 363 



Rubber from British Guiana Dr. D. Morris 364 



[Followed by Notes on African Rubbers.] 



New Trade Publications 364 



Rubber Planting on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec IV. The Editor 365 

 [Acrcss the Isthmus. Plantation " San Francisco." A: the Hotel El 

 Glubo. Salina Cruz. Mexican Justice. Night in a Railroad Camp. 

 The " Pinoleo " and Other Insects. Journeying North.] 

 With 14 Illustrations. 



Rubber Planting Generally... 373 



[Planting Kuober with Tea in Ceylon. New Tool for Tapping Rub- 

 ber Trees Export? from Ceylon. Company Notes.] 



Gutta-Percha in the Philippines 374 



The India-Rubber Trade in Great Britain 



Uur Rfgular Correspondent 373 



[The ECramrisch Failure. Gordon Bennett Cup Race. "Root Rubber." 

 Oxidation of Rubber. Rubber Works Hygiene. The Cotton Situa- 

 tion. Hollow Ball Manufacture. Electrical Matters. New Use of 

 Cellulose. News Notes.] 



The Merit of Heavy Automobile Tires 375 



Detachable vs dingle Tube rites 3;« 



A Carriage Maker 011 Tires 876 



Obscure Causes of Factory Fires TohnL.Kilbon 376 



A New " Kerite " Compound 380 



New Goods and Specialties in Rubber (JUuBtrateG~i 381 



["Agnota" Seamless Rubber Gloves. Corrugated Rubber Bottle 

 Brush. "Knickerbocker' 1 India-Rubber Fountain Biush The 

 Goodrich Rubber Sponge. Canton Seamless Hot Water Bottle. 

 The Rubber "Tom Cat." Fallek's Pateni Ring Guard. The 

 "Granger" Rubber Boot. The Cleland Davis Golf Ball Pneu- 

 matic Golf Ball. Power Wringers for Laundries. Bailey's " Petite " 

 Complexion Brush. "Petite" Ami Colic Nipple. "Searchlight" 

 Packing.] 

 Miscellaneous : 



train Loads of Sewing Machines (Illustrated) 379 



The Evolution of " Galallth " 380 



United States Rubber Goods Exports 'Iso 



New Patent Hose Drier 1 Illustrated) 384 



Drying Rubber in Vacuo 384 



Power Punch for Rubber Nipples (Illustrated) 884 



The Adamson Disc Cutter (if/nelriiffcl) 384 



In the Wilds of Mexico . . 391 



Rubber Notes from the Amazon L.G. 400 



Outing of the New England Rubber Club 385 



With Four Illustrations.] 



Recent Rubber Patents [American, British, German] 386 



The Textile Goods Market 392 



News of the American Rubber Trade 393 



the Traoe 111 Akron Our Correspondent, M9 



The Trade in Trenton.. Our Correspondent 390 



India-Rubber Interests in Europe 401 



Review of the Crude Rubber Market 402 



\\J K print on another page some references to a recent 

 v * report from the forestry administration of the Phil- 

 ippines, which further confirms the belief that considerable 

 Gutta-percha exists in that archipelago. The best proof 

 of its existence is the growing exportation of the product, 

 from which the government derives a revenue, besides 

 which it is pretty certain that further amounts are smug- 

 gled out of the country by the Chinese, who, as they have 

 done elsewhere, practically control the trade. The for- 

 estry officials, who have been giving intelligent study to 

 the subject, are fearful that, before the Gutta-percha 

 producing section can be brought under complete control 

 by the government, the cream of the supply will have 

 been exhausted. 



It would hardly be fair to charge the Philippine govern- 

 ment with being dilatory in respect to taking up the sub- 

 ject of protecting the Gutta-percha interest. A new gov- 

 ernment, like a new business enterprise, requires time to de- 

 velop — time to get on its feet, so to speak. Especially is 

 this true of the government of a people to whom the govern- 

 ing power comes as a stranger,who must take time to become 

 known and understood, as in the case of the United States 

 in the Philippines. The latest published annual reports of 

 the government at Manila bring its record down to the erd 

 of the third year from the signing of the treaty with Spain, 

 and one may well be surprised, after a study of these re- 

 ports, at the progress that has been made by the new ad- 

 ministration. One point to be made is that the Gutta- 

 percha region is in the portions of the archipelago most 

 remote from the seat of government, and that the atten- 

 tion of the Governor and his supporters has been claimed 

 by matters really of greater importance than protecting the 

 Gutta-percha from theft by the Chinese. 



But when matters have become so well regulated that 

 no gutta is exported without paying duties, the problem of 

 protecting the trees will still remain to be solved, and we 

 think that, on this point, the recommendations of Dr. 

 Worcester, the secretary of the interior for the Philippines, 

 are worthy of attention. He would have the government 

 establish a monopoly of Gutta-percha, all of that com- 

 modity to be confiscated that is not brought to the govern- 

 ment stations, or is not collected according to regulations. 

 This would check the indiscriminate destruction of the 

 trees, and pave the way for improved methods of extrac- 

 tion. 



It may be that any other method of extraction than by 

 felling the trees cannot soon be enforced. Then let rules 

 be adopted for getting all the gutta from the trees, instead 

 of letting 90 per cent, of it go to waste, as is now the case. 

 It ought to be a simple matter to get at all the Gutta- 

 percha in the bark of a giant tree, whereas now none is 

 secured beyond a few pounds from each tree resulting 

 from " ringing " the trunk. We are satisfied that the 

 authorities will work in this direction until ultimately the 

 present wasteful methods are effectually prohibited, and 

 hope that they may succeed before the greater number of 

 the trees have been felled. It is interesting to note, by 



