October i, 1905.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER ^VORLD 



WHERE RUBBER FIGURES IN THE NEWS. 



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Fablished on the 1st of each Month by 



THE INDIA RUBBER PUBLISHING CO. 



No. 150 NASSAU ST.. NEW YORK. 



HENRY C. PEARSON, 



EDITOR. 



HAWTHORNE HILL, 

 ASSOCIATE. 



Vol. 33. 



OCTOBER 1, 1905. 



No. 1. 



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TABLt OF CONTENTS. 



PAOK. 



Kditorlal: 



Where Rubber Fienres in the News 1 



A Comlui; Creat Use of Kubber Hose a 



Minor Ediloiial •> 



The "Guayule" Rubber Plant-III 3 



[With 3 Illustrations.] 



New Trade Fablications 4 



A Glimpse of Rubber Planting in Costa Rica The Editor 5 



[Willi I" Illuslralions.] 



Interest in "Sapium" Rubber in the Far East 10 



[With a report by Mr. Herbert Wright.] 



The India- Rubber Trade in Great Britain. Our Bcaular CorreKpondaU 11 

 [ The W.iterpruof Trade. Mastic Michelin. The Card Clothing Indus- 

 try. Reclaimed Rubber Patents. Lawn Tennis Balls. Ceylon Rubber 

 Plantinp. White Lead Legislation. New Rubber Scrap Machine. Fu- 

 ture Price of Sulphur.] 



Bad Conditions in tlie Acre Rubber District Franco Vicira 13 



Rubber Monopoly in Nicaragua 14 



The Progress of Rubber Planting 15 



[Malacca Rubber Plantations. Limited. Rubber at the Penang Show. 

 Notes on Plantations in Me,\ico. Rubber Taoping in Nicaragua ] 

 [With I Illustration ] 



Recent Rubber Patents 17 



(L'nited States. Great Britain. France.] 



Vacuum and Compressed Air Cleaning in New Yirk 



Frank L. Blanchard 19 

 [With 2 Illustrations.] 



Obituary— Joseph West Green ai 



[With a Portrait.] 



New Goods and Specialties in Rubber 22 



[Goodrich Surgeons' Syringe Outlit. Dr. Tullar's Vaginal Spray. A 



Sev. Kelly-Springfield Tire Feature. Trouser Robe for Motorisls. An 



Adjustable Fountain Syringe Shut-off. The '* Handy" Tobacco Pouch. 



Goodrich Three Finger Glove. Foster Crimped Fiber Sole.] 



[With lu Illustrations.] 



Rubber Interests in Europe 24 



Miscellaneous : 



'rill- Ubero Planting Companies 2 



iLullarubber Goods liiCommerce 4 



Uevelopnieut of Colombia 9 



Colorado Uubber' Hoodooed" g 



The Return of Mr. Flint (/(!«.'!(ra(ed) 23 



Trade CLish Over Golf Kails 29 



The Textile Goods .Market SO 



News of the American Rubber Trade 25 



[With Portraits of N. K Ailing and F. H. Applelon.] 



Review of the Crude Rubber Market 30 



T^HE eager interest with which the planting element in 

 ■*■ the Far East seizes upon whatever may pertain to 

 rubber is illu.strated on another page of this issue, on 

 (vhich we reproduce a report cabled to a leading Ceylon, -^j^^ 

 newspaper, summarizing from The India Ruhber World ^ 

 an account of a new source of Amazon rubber. The 

 Ceylon paper's correspondent felt that the mails were too 

 slow to convey the facts to his home office, and through 

 his use of the cable the editor at Colombo was able, two 

 weeks before the arrival of Tiik India Ruhukr M'orld, to 

 obtain and print some expert information from the local 

 government botanical service and to discuss the whole 

 subject editorially. 



It is plain that journalists so experienced as those in 

 charge of T//e Times of Ceylon would hardly resort to such 

 use of the ocean telegraph if not convinced of the acute 

 interest of their reading public in rubber and its produc- 

 tion. The planters may have to wait for six or seven 

 years for the first yield of rubber from a given planting, 

 but are unwilling to wait seven days for any facts which 

 may have an important bearing upon the future of the 

 rubber culture. 



But the use of the cable to carry rubber news to the Far 

 P-ast is not new ; the planters out there — and a lot of oth- 

 ers as well — want to know the prices paid at each London 

 rubber auction before the next day, and their evening 

 newspapers supply the information. It has been usual to 

 speak of the people of the Amazon regions as living by 

 rubber, but the European residents of Ceylon and the 

 Straits will soon be in the same position if half their plans 

 and projects as reflected in the daily journals out there 

 should materialize. Already rubber seems to have entered 

 into the life of the people there in as many ways as cotton 

 in the southern United States or coal in Pennsylvania. It 

 occupies the attention of the local governments ; it is the 

 subject of scientific investigation ; it figures in the trans- 

 actions of what serve as the local stock exchanges ; and 

 what is more, real rubber forms part of the exports and is 

 the basis of income of a lot of people. 



His Kxcellency the governor of the Straits Settlements, in 

 opening the recent big agricultural fair at Penang, at which 

 the interest in plantation rubber exhibits exceeded that in 

 any other feature of the show, spoke at length of the rubber 

 prospects, warning planters not to let the company promo- 

 ters profit too greatly at their expense. Naturally the for- 

 mation of large planting companies is being undertaken 

 on all sides, and their shares are quoted in London finan- 

 cial circles along with American railway securities and 

 South African mining stocks, but it would be a mistake 

 to assume that the interest in rubber planting in the lirit- 

 ish colonies is due, even in large part, to company pro- 

 moters. 



What the Colombo and Singapore and Kuala Lumpur 

 papers put before their readers morning and evening is 

 data contributed by practical planters on the kind of soil 

 best suited for rubber, methods of extracting the latex and 

 coagulating it, and other such like details, all with a view to 



