December 



«905] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



99 



mand (or paper, but towards the end of the month there has 

 been some small buying by banks, rates running from iyi@b% 

 per cent, according to the grade of the paper. The outlook is 

 for a firm market during the near future." 



Statistics of Para 'jabber {Excluding Caucho) . 



NEW YOKK. 



Fine and 

 Medium. 



Stocks, September 30. ./cm/ 

 Arrivals. October 



251 



742 



Coarse. 

 66 = 



447 = 



Total 

 '90S- 



317 

 1189 



Aggregating... 

 Delireries. October. 



993 513 = 1506 



797 482 = 1279 



Total 

 1904. 



44 

 1080 



1 124 

 III5 



Stocks, October 31 



196 

 parA. 



31 = 227 



Total 

 1903, 



97 

 868 



965 

 883 



82 



ENGLAND. 



1905. 1904. 1903. 

 Stocks. Sept. 30. . ./o«j 477 373 240 

 Arrivals, October 335o 2660 2381 



1905. 



307 



87S 



1904. 

 218 

 793 



1903. 

 240 

 995 



Aggregating 3827 



Deliveries, October .. . 3672 



3033 

 2868 



2621 

 2276 



Stocks, October 31 155 165 345 



1185 

 875 



310 



101 1 

 900 



1235 

 800 



435 



World's visible supply, October 31... 

 Para receipts, July i to October 31.. 

 Para receipts of Caucho. snme dates.. 

 Afloat from Pari to United States, October 31 



1905. '904. 1903. 



2794 1921 2372 



7B85 6611 6400 



575 499 1484 



97 t 736 700 



Afloat from Pari to Europe, October 31 1131 900 810 



Ant'Werp. 



To THE Editor of The India Rubber World : Notwith- 

 standing a somewhat weaker lone for Paras, firmness prevailed 

 at the Antwerp auction of October 25. and prices were about 2 

 per cent, above those of the September sale. Nearly the whole 

 quantity offered was disposed of — 470 tons out of 510. 



The next large sale will take place on November 22. when 529 

 tons will be offered for sale. The most important lots, with 

 brokers' estimations, are : 



33 tons Aruwirai .francs goo 



34 " UeI6 strips 9.20 



17 " Maringa 5.40 



15 " Aruwimi-Equateur 12.40 



16 " Mongalla strips 10.20 



30 " Upper Congo — Yakoma 11.60 



23 " Batouri 10.50 



34 " Sangha 1000 



20 " Congo M'Poko 11.50 



C. SCHMID .1 CO. SUCCESSEURS 

 Antwerp, November 17, 1905. 



[Cable advices received at New York indicate a considerable 

 advance on the above estimations — in the case of the better 

 grades as much as 4 @ 5 per cent.] 



As indicating the proportion in which the various rubber 

 grades figure in the Antwerp market, thefoUowingclassification 

 has been made, of the 113 lots catalogued for offer at the sale 

 of November 22 : 



Rubber Scrap Prices. 



New York quotations — prices paid by consumers for carload 

 lots, in cents per pound — show few changes since our last re- 

 port. Shoes are slightly lower and bicycle tire scrap higher : 



Old Rubber Boots and Shoes— Domestic i'i & ^H 



Do —Foreign 7^ @ 75^ 



Pneumatic Bicycle Tires 6X(<* 6i(^ 



Solid Rubber Wagon and Carriage Tires 8j4@ SSg 



White Trimmed Rubber. .. . 9?'^ @ 9f4 



Heavy Black Rubber 5J/ @ 6 



Air Brake Hose 3 M^ @ 3/8 



Fire and Large Hose 3 @ 3,V 



Garden Hose 2 -; s @ 2 J^ 



Matting iM ® 1^2 



Kilograms. 



Congo 5.205 



Congo Kouango ... 3,801 



Congo Kasai (red) 50,867 



Congo Ka<ai (black) 10.122 



Congo Djuma 20,766 



Congo Aiima. 3.044 



Congo Sangha 41.658 



Congo Wamba 38,002 



Lower Congo 906 



Upper Congo 58,389 



502 



M54 



7,725 



17,16b 



2S9 



Upper Congo Batouri . . . 

 Loango 



Upper Congo I.opori. 

 Upper Congo l^opori I . . . . 

 Upper Congo Lopori II.. 

 Upper Congo Maringa... 

 Upper Congo Isangi .... 

 Upper Congo Uele 24,344 



Upper Congo Aruwimi. 

 Up. Congo LakeLeopoldll 



Upper Congo Ruki 



Upper Congo Monboyo. . . 

 Upper Congo Lomami . . . 

 Upper Congo Mongalla . . 



70.148 

 18,116 



I,OCO 



5.470 



11.668 

 25.409 



Guinea niggers 



Guinea twists 



1 vory Coast , 



Congo Fraofais 



Gabon 



Congo M'Poko 



Ogooue N'Gounie 



Madagascar East Coast. . 

 Madagascar Majunga 

 Madagascar Majunga II. 

 Madagascar Majunga III 



East African 



Tonkin 



Ceylon 



Para hard cure 



Brazil (Jtquie) 



Hahia Mangabeira 



ilograms. 



. 33.260 



578 



3.702 



475 



1,860 



, 3.040 



1,500 



20,300 



2,390 



6,300 



450 



3,000 



1 . 900 



2.500 



345 



738 



367 



7.337 

 26 



Total 303.516 



RUBBER ARRIVALS AT ANTWERP. 



October 31.— By the Leopoldvilte, from the Congo : 



Bunge & Co (Societe General Africaine) kilos 90 000 



Do 



Do (Chemins de fer Grand Lacs) 



Do (Societe A B I R) 



Societe Coloniale Anversoise 



Do (Slid Kamerun) 



Do (Beige du Haul Congo) 



Do (Cie. de Lomami) 



L. & W. Van de Velde.. (Cie. du Kasai) 



Do 



M. S. Cols (Alim.i) 



Comptoir des Produits Colon iaux (Ekela Kadei Sangha) 



Charles Dethier (Societe La "M'Poko") 



Cie. Commerciale des Colonies. ..(La Haul Sangha) 



Bordeaux. 



21,000 

 5,000 



30,000 

 2,000 

 3.000 

 7.000 



11.000 



59,000 

 5,000 

 3,«ioo 



28,000 

 8,000 



30,000 



302,000 



PRICES [francs PER KILO] NOVEMBER lO. 



Conakry niggers Il.15@ll.j5 



Soudan niggers 10.50@10.60 



Soudan twists 9.5o(«io. 



Lahou twists 9.40® g 50 



Casamance A 8. @ 8.10 



Casamance A. M 7. @ 7.30 



Lahou cakes 8. (^8.25 



Bassam lumps 6. @ 6.20 



Bassam niggers... . 850(8 9. 



Mexican 9.25(8 9.75 



Colombian scrap, 8.50@ 9. 



Marii;oba 8.8o@ 9 50 



i . HENRY. 



PARITY TABLE OF RUBBER PRICES. 



