February i, 1906.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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RUBBER FROM NEGLECTED SOURCES. 



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TUB INDIA RUBBER PUBLISHING CO. 



No. 150 NASSAU ST,. NEW YORK. 



HENRY C. PEARSON, 



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HAWTHORNE HILL, 



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Vol. 33. 



FEBRUARY 1, 1906. 



No. 5. 



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lABLt OF CONTENTS. 



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Editorial : 



Rubber from Neglected Sources 141 



Is llK- Tide Turning ? 142 



Minor Kditorial . ,. 142 



Plans for Rubber Exploitation in Peru 143 



[Wilh 6 llUistratioiis ] 

 The India- Rubber Trade in Great Britain. Uur Regular Corresr.oniii nl 145 

 [Cul Sheet From Ahroatl. Tlie Unity Rubber Co. H. Schumacher & 

 Co. Seienlific Discussions. Electrical Notes. Liberian Rubber. Ir- 

 well and Kaslern Rubber Co. The Silverlown Compan> 's Report. Plan- 

 tation Rubber.] 



Rubber Prospects in Liberia 147 



I I'lot.ttioM ol a London Conip.iny. A Hit of British Sarcasm.] 



Tbe Mexican Yellow Tree 



LWith I Illustration.] 



Rubber Planting in the Congo 



Plantation "Rabio" 



[With 2 Illustrations.] 



Some New Experimental Calenders 



[With 5 Illustrations ] 



Crud" and Reclaimed Rubbers 151 



Rubber Covered Signal Wire 152 



British Cable Makers' Association 152 



New Home of the " Sirdar " Tire 163 



[With I Illustration. ] 



The Slogan Of II. R. M. A. I54 



[With I Illustration.] 



Tires at the New York Aatomobile Show 155 



The New Continental Rubber Co 158 



Recent Rubber Patents I59 



[L'nited States. Great Britain. France.} 



American Consumption of India-Rubber in 1905 161 



A Rubber Rolling Machine 162 



[With I Illustration.] 



Obituary 163 



[Witli Portraits of John I,. Chapman, H. G. Tippet, and W. H. Acken.] 



The Congo Rubber Situation 164 



India- Rubber Goods in Commerce 165 



The Textile Goods Market 165 



New Goods and Specialtes in Rubber 167 



[Coldren s Lipped Jar Rings, The 'Clincher" Block Tire (Chary's 

 Patenll Multicolor Rubber Tiling Blocks Goodrich Adhesive Dam. 

 An Overshoe Protector. The New " Tauril " Steam Packing. Read's 

 Horse Tail Tie.] 



[With 5 Illustrations.] 



New Trade Publioations 



Mis-^ellaneous : 



Ati.rirs of the llbero C^onipanies 



A French Doctor on Rubber Footwear \][ 



Guayulc Plants Warned in Germany 



The Badly Used Hot Water Bottle .'.'.'."'.'".'" IS 



What Dr. Kittler Knows (?) About Rubber '."!.!.!!..!! 160 



Rubber in South ln<lia .'."!"!,* 160 



For Eastern Rubber i^onipaiiies !"..'.".'."..'..'.'. 162 



News of thelAmerican Rubber Trade 169 



The Trade in Akron Our Correspondent 160 



Review of the Crude Rubber Market 175 



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TT.\RKING back to the aiicient history of the rubber 

 -*--*- trade, in fact to the beginninjif of the reclaimed 

 rubber business, does any one recall with what .scorn the 

 first lots of "shoddy" were received? It took rubber 

 manufacturers many years to even try the stuff. When 

 after a time they experimented with it and discov- 

 ered it useful, they did it in a shamefaced manner 

 and, if they were not talented liars themselves, hired 

 superintendents who were, who resolutely denied that 

 they used a pound o' the despised product. Nor did any 

 one believe that the business would ever be a large one. 

 To-day it is accepted asoneof the necessities of the trade, 

 and indeed, were it not for reclaimed rubber, the price 

 of crude would be simply out of sight. 



A business that is very similar to the reclaimed rubber 

 business and that offers a field fully as important, quite 

 as large or larger, and undoubtedly more profitable, is 

 the mechanical extraction of rubber from the lesser pro- 

 ducers of the gum, that is, shrubs, vines, tubers, and 

 latex bearers of that ilk. Thousands of tons of rubber 

 of good quality, are to-day practically wasted becau.se 

 these sources of supply are not exploited in a scientific 

 manner. We all laugh at the " rabbit weed " proposi- 

 tion in Colorado and justly ; many laugh at the Guayule 

 proposition in Mexico and unjustly. This is because one 

 shrub does not contain rubber that can be, by any me- 

 chanical means, yet devised, taken out profitably, while 

 the other, in a small way, to be sure, has been proved a 

 success. 



In the writer's opinion, the great mass of rubber to 

 come eventually from treatment of the minor rubber pro- 

 ducers, will not come from the Mexican shrub. It is 

 perfectly possible that the Ceani rubber tree, which pro- 

 duces abundant milk and in which the quality of the milk 

 is just as good in a )'ear old plant as it is in one a century 

 old may be planted as an annual crop, and its lusty first 

 year's growth of twelve feet harvested just as sugar cane 

 is. 



There is more rubber iu one Ceara stalk than there 

 is sugar in oue stalk of cane, and sugar sells for 5 

 cents a pound and Ceara rubber for twelve times as much. 

 Again it maybe that the //ivm or the Caslilloa may lend 

 themselves to such annual harvesting and even if the 

 rubber does contain more resin, it is worth fully 50 cents 

 a pound, which ought to bring a good working profit, 

 once a mechanical process is perfected that will enable 

 work on a large .scale. Lest some of the rubber agnos- 

 tics should claim that no great amount of rubber can 

 come from such despised sources, we would ask them to 

 ponder on the source of 3,000,000 pounds of Benguela 

 rubber that have come into the market in a single year. 

 If they are very agnostic they probably won't know and 

 it is with much gratification that we enlighten them. 

 Benguelas come from the roots of a small shrub dug up 

 by lazy natives, scraped in water, half of the product be- 



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