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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[March i, 1906. 



Mollmdo.— Hone reported, value 5^. yi.®5S. i%d. per pound. 



Plantation. — Firm at 65. 2d.@,6s. 2}id., Ceylon and Straits; 

 medium sorts scarce and wanted. 



The receipts of Pard and Peruvians for January were the largest 

 on record, viz. : 5,710 tons against 4,590 last year, making the total 

 receipts of this crop from July I, 1905, to January 31, 1906, 20,400 

 tons against 1 7,900 tons July r, 1904, to January 31, 1905, showing 

 up to date an increase of 2,500 tons. The price to-day of fine Pard 

 isS^. sd. against 5i. 2}4d. last year and 4.?. 4d. February 1, 1904. 

 No auctions here this week. lewis & peat. 



cMore Rubber From Accra. 



The export of .\ccra rubber (from the Gold Coast Colony, West 

 Africa), beginning in a very small way in 1880, increased 

 rapidly until, in 1S9S, it reached nearly 6,000,000 pounds. It 

 then declined rapidly, to about one-fourth of this amount. There 

 has again been an increase, due, according to local officials, to 

 new districts having been opened to trade, to replace the districts 

 where the rubber had become exhausted. The official figures for 

 12 years follow : 



Ykar. Pounds. 



1897 4,957,016 



1898 5,984,984 



1899 5,572,554 



1900 3,452,440 



Year. Pounds. 



1893 3,395.990 



1894 3,027 527 



1895 4,022,385 



1896 3.735.439 



\'EAR. Pounds. 



I9OI 1,520,009 



1902 ',599.974 



1903 2,258,981 



1904 4,013,837 



Larger Exports From Bolfbia. 



A REPORT made by the Bolivian secretary of the treasury to the 

 national congress gives the details of exports of rubber from that 

 countrj' for 1904, which are given below in comparison with the 

 returns for three years preceding. The total of exports is less now 

 than in some former years, but then the Bolivian returns embraced 

 the Acre district, which now belongs to Brazil. Excluding the 

 .\cre, the output of Bolivian rubber was larger in 1904 than in any 

 previous year, the increase being shared by all the customs dis- 

 tricts, as shown below : 



1901. 1902. 



[Shipped via Mangos] 

 El Acre .pounds 5,054,436 i, 757,51° 



[Via Madeira river] 

 Villa Bella 1,749,205 1,512,731 



[Via Pacific ports] 



La Paz 627,783 631,288 



Pelechuco 



Oruro.... 24,171 42,383 



[Througli Argentina] 



Puerto Suarez 167,543 238,577 



Tarija 4,096 



1903. 



493.221 



535.623 

 102,465 



542,353 



229,796 

 2,816 



1904. 



1,829,557 

 848,767 



269,394 



493.3S1 

 15.382 



Total 7,623,138 4,189.585 



Excluding Acre. . 2,568,696 2,432,075 



2,906,274 3,456,481 

 2,906,274 3,456,481 



Para. 



R. O. AiiLERS & Co. report [January 22] : 



Notwithstanding that the demand has been sufficient to absorb 

 supplies, the late activity has become less spirited and business 

 could only keep going by sellers modifying their pretensions. 

 Prices had evidently reached so high a level that little was needed 

 to cause some disturbance, and this was offered not only by weaker 

 reports from the home markets, but also by the effect of liberal 

 and increasing receipts. The decline, although only moderate, is 

 more keenly felt by sellers in consequence of currency prices hav- 

 ing also suffered from the advance of sterling exchange. 



R. O. Ahlers & Co. report [Februarj- i] : 



In the attitude of the market, which for some time has been un- 

 der the influence of dullness and depreciation, a notable change 

 for the better has taken place in consequence of more reassuring 

 advices from the consuming centers, and with the returning feeling 

 of confidence business has at least for the present freed itself from 

 the effects of depression in spite of the continuation of large re- 

 ceipts Increasing demand has been followed by a firm and hard- 

 ening tendency, producing a beneficial effect on prices, which is 

 all the more appreciated by sellers as the currency is adversely af- 

 fected by the advancing sterling exchange. 



Rubber Receipts at Manaos. 



During January and seven months of the crop season for 



three years [courtesy of Messrs. Scholz & Co.] : 



P January. Julv-Januarv. 



:9o6. IQ05. 1904. 1906. 1905. 1904- 



Rio Purus-Acre ...tons 1913 1767 1650 4746 3776 3S51 



Rio Madeira 159 194 247 1796 1880 1791 



Rio Jurua 713 546 675 2219 1730 2110 



Rio Javary-Iquitos 319 239 344 2284 2055 1795 



RioSolimoes 119 169 104 767 603 570 



Rio Negro 117 164 113 285 339 267 



Total 3340 3079 3133 12097 10383 10384 



Caucho loo! 1092 712 2114 1742 1613 



Total 4341 4171 3S45 14211 12125 11997 



IMPORTS FROM PARA AT NEW YORK. 



[ Thg Figures Indicate Weights in Pounds.] 



February 5.— By the steamer Boniface, from Mandos and Pard : 



Importers. Fitie. Medium. Coarse. Caucho. Total. 



General Rubber Co... 222,700 59,800 145,800 96,200^ 524,500 



A. T Morse & Co 122,900 26,200 13250099,900= 381,500 



Poel & .\rnold 133,200 76,800 102,200 61,000^ 373,200 



N. Y. Commercial Co.. 216,600 45,600 74,900 27,500= 364,600 



Neale & Co 8,700 2,900 49,700 ....=: 61,300 



Constantine P. Santos. 29,300 3,200 9,600 ....= 42,100 



JANUARY EXPORTS OF INDIA-RUBBER FROM PARA (Kilograms). 



EXPORTERS. 



Schrader, Gruner & Co 



Scholz Hartje & Co '. . 



A. H. .Mden 



J. A. Mendes&Co 



Neale & Staats 



R. Suarez & Co 



J. Marques & Co 



Pires, Teixeira & Co 



Denis Crouan & Co 



Singlehurst Brocklehurst & Co 

 R. O. Ahlers & Co 



B. A. Antunes & Co 



Sundry small shippers 



Direct from Mandos 



Direct from Iquitos 



Total 



EUROPE. 



325,138 

 71,837 

 59,883 



38,516 

 03,036 

 30,211 

 26,609 



35.970 

 6,709 



19,010 

 512,171 

 140,053 



1.359,143177,177 



MEDIUM. COARSE 



45,304 



11,056 



9,680 



4,598 



3,355 

 1,061 



3,520 

 88,491 

 10,112 



70,922 

 12,551 

 19,163 



19,346 

 9.919 



15,113 

 8,456 



4,149 

 814 



3.395 



109,934 



92,881 



366,643 



775,8192,678,782 



TOTAL. 



732,253 

 315,585 

 276,391 

 263,954 

 200.593 

 114,062 



97,423 



60,594 



70,752 



41,180 



15,970 



7,500 



26,850 



1,980,285 



550,652 



4,754,024 



