January i, i9«6.J 



THh. INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



123 



Exports of American Rubber Goods. 



RUBBER INTERESTS IN EUROPE. 



FISCAL YEAR ENDED JUNE 30. 1905. 



I Belling, 



EXPORTED TO— P^ickini;. 



and Hose. 



EUROIE : 



Austrla-Huugary ... 



Azores, Madeira Islands.. 



Belgliiin 



Dauiiiark 



b'rauce 



Germany .. 



Ureece 



Itaiy 



Nellierlands 



PortUKi*! 



Kouiiianla 



Kiissia on HilUe Sea 



Russia on Klack Sea 



»paln 



Norway 



Sweden 



8wltzerlaiHt 



Turkey in Kurope 



United KiiiKdoin 



Boots and Shoes. 

 Pairs. 



Total, Europe 



NoHTii Amebica: 



UerinnUa 



Kritlsti Honduras 



Nova Scotia. New Kruns.. 

 yuebec, Ontario, Manitob.) 



British Columbia 



Newfoundland, Labrador. 



Costa Kica 



Guatemala 



Honduras 



Nicaragua 



Panama 



Salvador 



Mexico 



Mlquelon. I.anKley, etc .. 

 West Indies— Biltlsb 



Cuba 



Danish. ... 



Dutch . .. 



French. .. 



Haiti 



Santo Dom. 



Total, North America. 



South Amf.rica : 



Argentina 



llolivla 



Brazil 



Chile 



Colombia 



Ecuftdor 



Guiana— British 



Dutch 



FreDch 



Peru 



Uruguay 



Venezuela 



Total, South America. 

 A9IA : 



Chinese Empire 



East Indies— British India 

 Sts. Settl'mts 



Dutch. 



Hongkong 



Japan 



Korea 



Russia, Asiatic 



Slam 



Turkey In Asia. 



Total, Asia 



OCEANTCA: 



British Australasia 



All other Briti.sli Oceanlca 



French Oceanica 



German Oceanlca 



Philippine Islands 



Total, Oceanica. . . 



Afbica : 



British Africa— West 



South..., 

 Kast 



Canary Islands , 



Portuguese Africa 



Turkey in Africa— Egypt. 



Total, Africa 



S l.OU 



4,476 



2,421! 



17.485 



27,815 



ljl3» 

 744 



3.53S 



»J7 



212 



961 



3.495 



2,080 



2,601 



99,461 



$161,311 



$ 1,225 



503 



11,949 



94,780 



33,661 



6,461 



7,063 



5,672 



1,791 



3.82S 



15.031 



4,303 



140,244 



36 



7,148 



104,166 



669 



;«9 

 I'.'m 



1,694 



$441,079 

 $17,857 



3,857 



8,414 



2,730 



28.383 



374 



250 



8',i46 



$;2,a>2 



$10,903 



6,900 



899 



25 



1,638 



35.532 



1,586 



$57,483 



$ 84,?5B 



20 



210 



29',648 



Grand Total 



Grand Total. 190t .. 

 Grand Total. 1903... 

 Grand Total, 1902 . 

 GraBdTotal,190I.... 

 Grand Total. 1900..,. 



$1U,036 



$ 5,074 

 106.037 



29 226 

 852 



$141,189 



$991,100 



880,0 '0 

 819,985 

 634,146 

 566.726 

 R41.830 



507 



397 



38f,76o 



2U,303 



1,189 



344 688 



48 



67,230 



8 999 



212 



130 



43,04 i 



5,142 



20.916 



5.266 



115.981 



766,246 



1,775,553 



18 



6 



19,762 



f8,726 



5.131 



43,028 



29 



84 



24 



159 



828 



3,46.5 

 2,889 

 2,284 

 5,677 



172,077 

 3.979 



15i«78 



204 



3,2«8 



264 



4,654 

 30 



"603 



1,068 



390 



29,988 



3.903 



1,163 



42 



5,384 



102,821 



48 



2 



12 



16,149 



Value. 



$ 621 



318 



151,451 



11.89.: 



677 



148,183 



26 



35,327 



4,124 



615 



ii4 



20,834 

 2 967 



12.031 

 2,78J 



48,829 

 338,778 



$779,595 



$ 



129,524 



261 58B 



9 



213 



9.302 



271,112 



2(.0 

 12 129 



12,335 



19 



16 



19,437 



85,505 



13.330 



31.215 



33 



50 



16 



99 



492 



2.915 

 .•!,131 

 1,399 



6.898 



126 

 66 



$:63,848 

 $ 2,246 



8',9M 

 273 



2,032 

 146 



2,163 

 12 



;',6i7 



476 

 169 



$18,066 



$1626 

 965 

 74 



4!426 



63.064 



96 



7 



38 



7,829 



$81,099 



$155,699 

 21 

 186 



7,419 



$163,326 



78 

 8,S43 



$'^,424 



2,.390„53!l $1,211,342 



Other 

 Goods 

 Value. 



$ 



3,926 



124 



29,279 



6,729 



4t,60: 



172,943 



2* 



59.174 



49,248 



25 



21 



4.918 



;.69o 



8,720 

 1 ,045 



853.969 



$1,235,431 



$ 1,0.59 



100 



10,43;' 



6. '8,896 



18,486 



,3,301 



2.906 



1,138 



962 



96 



8,55-1 



3,652 



123.262 



s.iai 



94,821 

 246 

 495 

 67 

 707 

 1,176 



$506,734 



$ 11,979 



70 



34,016 



16,697 



6,672 



1.869 



337 



305 



336 



16,1.53 



2.475 



5,670 



494.078 



$12,669 

 8,629 

 3,883 

 2,216 

 9,026 



160,141 

 966 



'i99 



$197,628 



$ 72,715 



24 



6»6 



231 



30.696 



$104,222 



$ 321 



26,883 



5 



21 



6,720 



832 



$34 782 



Total 

 Value. 



$ 3,690 



472 



15 205 



10 043 



62,669 



348,741 



50 



91,840 



14,110 



6tl 



3,857 



1,051 



212 



26,716 



7,142 



22,831 



6,429 



48,8^9 



1,292,194 



$1,960,828 



$ 2,303 



618 



41,818 



809,161 



65.677 



39,977 



1(1.301 



6,850 



2,769 



4,877 



24.077 



7.956 



166,501 



3,170 



13,668 



204,885 



916 



694 



57 



2 094 



2,934 



il.421,420 



$ 33,082 

 70 



46,795 



25,284 



10,33* 



30,097 



2,874 



667 



336 



24,916 



2,961 



8,731 



$176,037 



$28,008 



16,484 



4,8SS 



2,240 



15,390 



288.737 



3,547 



7 



237 



7,829 



$337,426 



$312,672 



65 



952 



231 



67,663 



$)31,6f3 



$ 6,473 



141,263 



6 



21 



35,949 



1,684 



$184,396 



2,310,808 

 2,,'07,401 

 2,594,708 

 1,459,100 

 767,1041 



1.086.364 



1,0.'')0,49l 



1,040.315 



724,015 



420,746 



$2,572,3761 $(,780 817 



2.469,750 

 2,299,875 

 1.781,941 

 1,727,527 

 1,406.2121 



4.436.124 

 4,176,361 

 3,462,402 

 3.017,268 

 2,367,788 



RECOVERY FROM THE FIRE AT HARBURG. 



1^ HE new factory buildings of the Vereinigte Gummiwaaren- 

 Fabriken Harburg-Wien, erected to replace those de- 

 stroyed by fire on October 7, are being rapidly pushed to com- 

 pletion. The managing director, Mr. Louis Hoff, with his usual 

 energy, is removing all obstacles and making the contractors 

 rush in a manner that is new to their experience. There are 

 three new five-story brick buildings, of modern mill construc- 

 tion, respectively 96. 100, and 110 feet long, and each 40 feet 

 wide. They will'be used forthe manufacture of motor tiresand 

 boots and shoes. Coincident with this work is the erection of 

 a magnificent central power station, in which will be installed 

 two steam turbins of 1000 up. each, the contract under penalty 

 reading that they shall be running on January 15. A similar 

 contract calls for the completion of the three factory buildings 

 by February 15. 



IMPROVED PROFITS OF THE SILVERTOWN COMPANY. 

 The report of the India Rubber, Gutta-Percha, and Telegraph 

 Works Co., Limited, for the year ending September 30, presen- 

 ted at the annual meeting in London, December 19, shows after 

 provision for doubtful debts, a net profit of ^51,729 [=$251,- 

 739.18]. The gross trading profits were greater than in any 

 other year with the exception of 1903. The directors, therefore, 

 were enabled to recommend a dividend, making with the /«- 

 terim dividend already distributed, a total of 10 per cent, 

 for the year, the rate which has been paid for a long time past, 

 with the exception of last year, when the rate was only 5 per 

 cent. The amount carried over is ^55,003, against ;£53,274 

 last year. The general business of the company shows an increase 

 compared with last year, and although the price of raw ma- 

 terial is still very high the fluctuations have not been great 

 and, therefore, better prices have been obtained for manufac- 

 tured goods. The cable department, besides having other 

 smaller work in hand, is engaged in the manufacture of 1300 

 nautical miles of submarine cable for the Commercial Pacific 

 Cable Co. (New York), which will be laid by the company's cable 

 steamer Silvertown between Shanghai and Manila, in March 

 next. Major Leonard Darwin has been elected chairman, in 

 place of the Hon. Henry Marsham, who now finds it neces- 

 sary to reside abroad during the greater part of the year. 



THE CONTINENTAL RUBBER WORKS. 



Few people know what a tremendous plant is that of the Con- 

 tinental Caoutchouc- und Guttapercha Co, (Hannover, Ger- 

 many). Indeed, figures hardly tell the story. The buildings, 

 however, have a street frontage of 700 feet, and a rear frontage 

 of more than 1 500 feet, being located on a triangular shaped plot. 

 The factory employs 4200 hands and uses many thousand dol- 

 lars worth of rubber daily. Of course the most important prod- 

 uct is the manufacture of tires for automobiles and cycles. 

 That, however, is but one department of the work carried on. 



In playing balls, for example, the press room has a capacity 

 of 6000 dozen a day. One press mold (working on small balls, 

 of course) turns out 40 dozen at a heat. There are in this press 

 room 100 of these press molds, covering all of the stock sizes 

 of balls made. As another example of the capacity for work, 

 it might be mentioned that the company can turn our 30,000 

 feet of garden hose daily, 8500 bicycle tires, and 800 automo- 

 bile tires, and can equip 25 commercial vehicles a day with their 

 solid tire. Germany being a cofTee drinking rather than a tea 

 drinking country, the employes ate daily served with that bev- 

 erage, which is made in a room fitted with huge tins, the daily 

 consumption being 750 gallons. 



