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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[February i, 1906. 



THE EDITOR'S BOOK TABLE. 



THE OROYA," INAMB4R1 RIVER. 

 [A station of the Inca Mining Co ] 



New York in six weeks' time as against six months' by the 

 other route, and at very much less cost. 



The Carabaya company, already named, and which is em- 

 braced in the new enterprise, is now considering a road from 

 Ollachea, about 118 miles in length, opening up a similar 

 territory the completion of which would entitle it to receive 

 from the government a grant of rubber lands estimated to be 

 about 900,000 acres. The concession of the old Inca compa- 

 nies covers about 1,000,000 acres. By means of these roads 

 the company plans to control 

 some 2000 miles of navigable 

 streams, in a territory in 

 which are upwards of Sooo 

 natives, who are India-rub- 

 ber gatherers, or can be made 

 so, residing with their fami 

 lies. The concessions lie in 

 the uplands, where the cli 

 mate is said to be healthy, 

 one where proper oversight 

 to laborers can be given b}- 

 white men. 



The new company plans to 

 handle, as a minimum, 2,- 

 000,000 pounds of rubber a 



[Fifleeii mi!es from Tirapata. across 

 length 200 feet ] 



year, coming partly from their own gatherers and partly 

 from the districts mentioned. 



The flotation of the company is in the hands of H. W. 

 Bennett & Co., of New York. The authorized capitalization 

 is $5,000,000 in twenty jear 6 per cent, sinking fund gold 

 bonds and $5,000,000 capital stock. The first issue will be 

 $1,000,000 in gold bonds to be sold at par, with $4,000,000 gold 

 bonds in the treasury. The organization of the company so 

 far as officers go is not quite complete. At present the list 

 is : H. W. Bennett, first vice president ; A. B. Luther, sec- 

 ond vice president and general manager ; H. D. Selleck, sec- 

 retary. The directors are II. W. Bennett, E. B. Luther, 

 H. M. Sadler, E. H. Gary, C. P. Collins, W. W. Bell. Juan 

 I'ardo, H. D. Selleck, and Chester \V. Brown. Juan Pardo, 

 by the way, is a brother of the president of Peru, and a mem- 

 ber of the Peruvian house of representatives. INIr. 11. \V. 

 Bennett has successfully engineered some large deals, the 

 onlj' one touching the rubber business, however, be ng the 

 Tehuantepec Rubber Culture Co. Mr. A. B. Luther is an 

 expert on tropical agriculture and has just returned from 

 Peru, where he carefully inspected the country in which the 

 concessions lie. Mr. H. M. Sadler was at one time prominent 

 in the United States Rubber Co. as assistant general manager. 



M.ANUELS-RORET.— NOl'VEAU. MANUEL COMPLET DV FABRICANT 

 (I'Objcts in Caontchouc. Gutia-R,ercha, Faclice, Toilc el Taffetas Cir^s; 

 suivi derinperni^-abilisation des KtofTes. Papjers, Ciiirs. etc. Par M.AKiNE, 

 Nonveli Edition par GeorKes Petit. Paris; Enc>clopOdie— Roret. L. .Mulo. 



igo6. li'apcr. 2 vols.. 32mo. Pp. vili -r 454 ; 11 — 374. Price, 12 francs 1 



'T" IICSIC who are familiar with Maigne's two volumes on 

 * Caoutcliouc, in the Encyclop^dieRoret, will be pleased 

 l)y the appearance of this revised edition up to date, and en- 

 larged nearly a third by Georges Petit, a civil engineer. 



Maigne's work came out in 1880, and was vi-elcomed bj' the 

 trade, for the sake of the usual Prankish clearness which 

 marked its style. But in the rapid development of the trade 

 the book became, in manj- respects, obsolete or inadequate. 

 The most notable development, of course, has been the 

 pneumatic tire, now become the most sensational feature, 

 perhaps, of the whole rubber industry. M. Petit devotes a 

 whole chapter to " pneus, " and otherwise attempts to repair 

 the ravages made by time in the original book. He claims 

 with faint praise the whole category of synthetic or substi- 

 tute rubbers. despite the many possible uses for these, and as 

 if rubber manufacturers did not know what thej- wanted. 



.\nother development since Maigne's 1S80 edition has been 

 the forging ahead of Africa as a great producer of rubber. 



Madagascar and most of the 

 coast regions at that time 

 sent rubber to market, but 

 the Congo Free State and the 

 great .African inlands were 

 only mentioned as possible 

 producers in 1S80. African 

 rubbers, moreover, have been 

 so e.xtremely variable in 

 quality and general proper- 

 ties, as against the relative 

 homogeneity and constant 

 excellence of South Amer- 

 ican rubber, that men have 

 been led more and more to 

 study the nature and origin 

 of the raw material, in order that all the various sorts may 

 be utilized to the utmost extent. Accordingly, whereas 

 Maigne gave 155 pages to the geographical and vegetable 

 sources of rubber, its gathering and coagulation, and the 

 first stages of factory practice : M. Petit devotes 269 pages 

 to these matters, and to much better effect. 



BRIDGE BUII^T WITH RAILROAD RAILS. 



the Asillo river: tested to 25 tons; 



WEIGHING CAUCHO AT LA UNION. 



