September i, 1903.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



437 



Statistics of Para Rubber (Excluding Caucho) , 



NEW YORK. 



Fine and 



Medium. 



Stocks, June 30 tons 285 



Arrivals, July 681 



Aggregating. 

 Deliveries, July . . 



Stocks, July 31 



Stocks. June 30. ..tons 115 

 Arrivals, July 1050 



q66 

 796 



'70 



PARA. 

 1903. 



65 

 IO60 



Tolal 



Coarse. 1903. 



82 = 367 



261 = 942 



343 = I3C9 

 289 = 1085 



54 = 224 



Total 

 1902. 



413 



518 



931 

 569 



3G2 



Total 

 1901. 



879 

 448 



■327 

 603 



724 



Liverpool. 

 Edmund SchlUter & Co. report Liverpool stocks : 



Para — 1st hands. 



Fine 



Medium 



Ncgroheada 

 l'ara — 2d hands. 



Fine 



Medium 

 NeRroheads 



June 30. July 31. 

 • 856 556 tons. 

 461 " 



64S 



105 



472 



•145 

 9 



1901. 



37 



1115 



ENGLAND 



1903. 19., 2. 



1320 1406 



330 369 



Total Para 1328 



I OCX, 



1025 

 605 



33 

 62 



425 



367 



>9 



39 



9b i 



222 tons. 

 333 " 

 too pkg. 



53 " 

 108 " 



Aggregating 1165 1125 



Deliveries, July 1030 10S5 



1152 

 937 



1650 

 675 



1775 

 750 



1630 

 700 



Stocks, July 3). 



135 



40 



215 



975 1025 



93o 



1903 1902. 



World's supply, July 31 tons 2088 2958 



Para receipts, July I to July 31 1050 1060 



Para receipts of Caucho, same dates 230 250 



Afloat from Para to United States, July 31 . .. 394 440 



Afloat from Para to Europe, July 3 [ 360 600 



London. 



Edward Till & Co. [August I] report stocks : 



1903. 1902. 



f Para sorts tons — 



Borneo 23 130 



London { . . „ ,, 



] Assam and Rangoon 11 11 



L Other sorts 176 398 



Total 210 



Liverpool 



Para. 



981 



Other sorts 590 



Total, United Kingdom 1 78 1 



Total, July 1 22S5 



Total, June 1 2248 



Total, May 1 2539 



530 



1739 

 775 



3053 



3595 

 3687 

 3788 



1QOI . 



2536 

 1115 



145 



35 



632 



1901 



142 



63 



522 



727 



932 

 1285 



29J4 

 3128 

 3502 

 3597 



Para fine, hard 3/1 1 



Do soft 3/10 



Negroheads, scrappy . .3/ 1 

 Do Islands. . ..2/5 



Bolivian 



PRICES PAID IN JULY. 



1903. 1902. 1901 



@ 4 / 0% 2/1 1 ^©2/11 J 3/6 @3/ 8 



@3/n 2/ioX@2/nJ4 3/7 @3/ 9 



@3/i^ 2/ 3 @2/ 3% 2/6K@2/ 7 y 2 



@2/ (1 l/lO^@2/ I 



*4/i^ 3/- @ 3/ 0% 3/8 @3/ 9 

 [* For Old.] 



AUGUST 14. — S. Figgis & Co. report an active market, with advanc- 

 ing prices for fine Para, and very large transactions. Spot hard cure 

 sold up to 4*. 2d. ; very old, 4*. 311'. forward, to 4-r. l%d. near. Entre- 

 fine 3J. u*±d. old spot ; 3s. lid. forward. Soft fine spot, 4s. ; forward 

 3*. \\%d.@3s. n}{d. Mollendo, fine 4* @4.r. o%d. Negroheads, 

 scrappy 3*. iyid@3s. 2%d. spot ; 3s. 2d. forward; Islands, 2s. %d. 

 All medium kinds (Africans and Centrals) are scarce, and bringing very 

 high prices. Stocks greatly reduced. There have been no auctions 

 this week. 



CEYLON RUBBER AT AUCTION. 



July 10. — Five cases sold ; fine clean biscuits 4s. 4</. ; very fine clean 

 scrap, 3s. id. 



Circulars to the trade dated August 1 confirm the announcement in 

 the last India Rubber World of changes in firms of India rubber mer- 

 chants. A. B. Bussweiler retires from Alden, Symington & Co., Lon- 

 don, an! S/mington, Bussweiler & Co., Liverpool, the business of 

 which will be continued as heretofore by Adelbert II. Alden and Wil- 

 liam Symington, under the firm style Alden, Symington & Co., both in 

 London and Liverpool, with correspondents as follows : New York Com- 

 mercial Co., New York ; George A. Alden & Co., Boston ; Adelbert II. 

 Alden, Para and Manaos — •• — Mr. Bussweiler has associated himself 

 with Arthur Meyer, formerly of Reimers & Meyer, of New York and 

 Boston, in a company styled Meyer & Bussweiler, Limited, for the pur- 

 pose of carrying on business as general merchants, devoting particular 

 attention to India rubber. Offices: 29, Mincing lane, London, E. C, 

 and Union Bank Chambers, Bixteth street, Liverpool. 



Peruvians 273 



Africans 371 



Mollendo 35S 



Mangabeira SS 



Pernambuco 18 



Manicoba "59 



Ceara 13 



Assare 41 36 " 



[•Tons.] 



Will iam WRIGHT & Co. report [August 1] : 



lint Pard. — The market was strong in the early part of the month, 

 with a good business doing, and prices for old and new Upriver aDd 

 Islands fine advanced id. per pound, but during the latter part of the 

 month, owing to the falling off of the demand from America, prices have 

 remained stationary, and we close quiet but firm ; it only requires the 

 demand from America to again spring up, when prices will still further 

 advance. 



\i r.i si 11). — Maiket quieter for the past week, in the absence of 

 American demand of importance. Resumption of activity expected in 

 case prices in the United S ates should advance to over Liverpool parity. 

 Sales at auction to-day included : Sierra Leone niggers, prime, 3*. b}{d. 

 @ 3s. yd. Sierra Leone twists, 3*. 3d. Gambia seconds, 2s. 3d. @ 2s. 

 id. Lahou cake, 2s. iy 2 i. @ 3/. 



Solomon Kramrisch, of the late firm of Kramrisch & Co., India- 

 rubber merchants of Liverpool, was tried on August 7, at the Northern 

 Assizes of England, on an indictment charging him with the unlawful 

 conversion to his own use of funds belonging to two banking bouses, in 

 respect of rubber on which the banks had made advances. The jury, 

 without leaving the box, returned a verdict of " guilty," whereupon the 

 prisoner was sentenced to imprisonment, with hard labor, for twelve 

 months. The failure of Kramrisch & Co., some months ago, involved 

 a deficit of about £100,000. 



Antwerp. 



To the Editor of The India Rubber World: In keep- 

 ing with the firmness exhibited by the English maiket, the sale 

 of July 31 at Antwerp gave very satisfactory results, as regards 

 both prices and quantity sold. Of 497 tons exposed, 462 tons 

 found buyers at an average advance of \y z per cent, on valua- 

 tions based on the sale of June 25. The principal lots sold 

 were [prices in francs per kilogram] : 



Sold at. 



44 tons Lopori I. 



9.15 

 9.20 



S 1 7> 2 ' 



8.02}£ 



9.25 

 I' 7.60 



Valuation. 



9-15 

 9.20 

 7-75 

 7- 50 

 8.90 

 7 50 

 8.50 

 9.25 



A small 



10 " Lopori I 



17 " Lopori II 



6 " Lopori II 



20 ' ' Lake Leopold I. . . 



44 " Lake Leopold II 7.50 



17 " Aruwimi 8 (j2%@2,.q-j% 



15 " Upper Congo ordinary 9-32}£ 



Total sales during August amounted to 475 tons, 

 sale of 27 tons — mostly thimbles — will be held on August 21. 

 The next regular monthly sale will be held August 25 when 331 

 tons will be exposed, including the following, for which brokers, 

 valuations are given : 



46 tons Uele strips 9.10 45 tons Aruwimi 8 60 



92 " Uele strips 8.50 26 " Upper Congo ordi- 

 nary 8. 32^ 



C. SCHMID & CO. 

 Antwerp. August 18, 1903. 



RUBBER ARRIVALS AT ANTWERP. 



August 5.— By the Philipptville, from the Congo: 



Bunge & Co (Socie'te Generale Africaine) kilos 140,000 



Do (Societe Isangi) 6,000 



Do (Socie'te Anversoise) 6S,ooo 



Do (Socie'te " La Kotto") 500 



Do (Sultanats du Ilaut Obangi) 5,000 



Societe A B I R 101,000 



Comptoir Commercial Congolais 21,000 



Socie'te Coloniale Anversoise. (Beige du Haut Congo) 1,500 



Do (Cie de Lomami) 10.500 



Do 1.800 



Comptoir des Produits Coloniaux 2,500 357,800 



