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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[April i, 1906. 



ever before. Speaking of the jobbing trade in the West. Mr. 

 Kelly cited his own firm as an example of the development 

 of business. The firm was established only six years ago, 

 but the growth of business has been so rapid that more room 

 was required. To meet the demand a new building was re- 

 centlj' erected with a floor space of 20,000 square feet, devoted 

 e.xclusivel}' to the druggists' sundries line. 



Countess Ottilie von Faber-Castell, of the rubber firm of A. 

 VV. Faber, has been made the defendant in a $50,000 suit 

 for trespass brought by James S. Brant, formerly superin- 

 tend of the Faber factor3-, in Newark. The suit has been 

 brought in the supreme court. Brant claims that the de- 

 fendant had him forcibly ejected from a house which he occu- 

 pied without paying rent, under a trade agreement with the 

 defendant. The house referred to is in the possession of the 

 defendant and the work of demolishing it has commenced. 

 The countess is also the plaintiff in a $5000 suit for trespass 

 brought against Brant, which is still pending. 



THE TEXTILE GOODS MARKET. 



THERK is no appreciable change in the cotton duck mar- 

 ket, the demand continuing unabated, except on the 

 part of the rubber shoe trade, whose purchases have natu- 

 rally been curtailed on account of stock taking. Despite 

 unusually prompt deliveries, the mills have been unable to 

 satisfy the requirements of the mechanical rubber goods 

 trade, whose consumption to date exceeds the amount called 

 for by contracts. 



Cotton is being very firmlj' held in the South, planters 

 showing very little disposition to sell. A certain element 

 are holding their cotton hoping for a 15 cent market before 

 October. It is on this account that the mills are unwilling 



to contract for sales very far ahead. 



The speculative market has advanced one cent a jiound in 

 three weeks, and is at this writing within 100 points of the 

 highest price of the season. A prominent authoritj" states 

 that the public has been out of the market for some time, but 

 that there is a present disposition to follow the bull leader> 

 in which event sensational developments maj- be e.xpected. 



The census bureau's estimate of the 1905 cotton crop was 

 10,697,013 bales, allowing round bales as half bales, and in- 

 cluding linters. For 1904 the crop was 13,697,310 bales, and 

 for 1903 it was 10,015,721 bales. The present and prospec- 

 tive eon.sumption of cotton indicates a record breaking de- 

 mand in the face of extremely unfavorable weather condi- 

 tions, the rain and cold weather not onlj' ruining cotton al- 

 ready planted, but seriouslj' delaying further crop prepara- 

 tions. 



In addition to adverse weather, the labor situation in the 

 South is regarded as serious, the labor supply being in cer- 

 tain sections inadequate to the making of a normal crop, 

 which must result in the cutting down of the acreage. In 

 other sections where conditions are less unfavorable, it is not 

 thought that the acreage can appreciably exceed that of 1905. 



The Faultless Rubber Co. (Akron, Ohio), have now for 

 an agency on the Pacific coast, the Gorham Rubber Co., with 

 stores in San Francisco, Seattle, and Portland (Oregon). The 

 Denver Rubber Co. (Denver), are also agents for them in 

 Colorado and the middle West. Both the Gorham company 

 and the Denver company- carr3- a full line of the Faultless 

 goods at all of their stores. In addition to this the Fault- 

 less company have opened an ofiBce in Chicago in the Ogden 

 building. No. 34 Clark street, and one in New York, at No. 

 43 Leonard street, in the Rothschild building. 



REVIEW OF THE CRUDE RUBBER MARKET. 



AN advance over last month's figures is quoted on 

 every grade of rubber covered by our list. The ad- 

 vance began early in the month and has been main- 

 tained throughout, the market remaining firm at 

 the end of the period under review. Buying has at no time 

 been particularly^ active, and the lessened activity of late in 

 the rubber shoe industrj- led to an expectation in some 

 quarters of a weaker market. That this result has not been 

 realized may be attributed to the activity of other branches 

 of the industry, to the liberal consumption of rubber in 

 Europe, and the further fact that the bulk of the current sea- 

 son's output of Para rubber has been placed on the market. 

 From now on, until the end of summer, exports from the 

 Amazon will be in lessened volume, and visible supplies will 

 steadily become smaller. 



Total arrivals at Para (including Caucho) for the first nine 

 months of the crop season have been : 



1902-03. 1905-04. J904-05. 1905-06. 



Tons 23.540 25,580 27,210 027,620 



fa To March 28.] 

 The arrivals at Para last year in March were 5000 tons, 

 and the smaller receipts for the same month this year — re- 

 ducing materially the increase of this season over last — has 

 al.so tended to keep up price levels. It now appear ■; unlikely 

 that the current season's crop will show anj' such gain over 

 that ending June 30, 1905, as last year showed. 



Following is a statement of prices of Para grades, one 3ear 

 ago, one month ago, and on March 30— the current date : 



PARA. April I, '05. March i, '06 March 30. 



Islands, fine, new I27@i28 I22@i23 I24@i25 



Islands, fine, old none here none here none here 



Upriver, fine, new I29@I30 I26@i2- I2g@i30 



Upriver, fine, old none here none here I30@i3i 



Islands, coarse, new 74@. 75 73 K@ 74 73® 74 



Islands, coarse, old none here none here none here 



Upriver, coarse, new 96® 97 93>^@ 94 94/4© 95 



Upriver, coarse, old none here none here none here 



Caucho (Peruvian) sheet 75® 76 73© 74 74@ 75 



Caucho (Peruvian) ball 82>^@ S3 88@ 89 88® 89 



AFRICAN. CENTR.\LS. 



Sierra Leone, istqual. 104 ©105 Esmeralda, sausage. .. 89® 90 



Massai, red 104 ®I05 Guaj-pquil, strip 74® 75 



Benguella 84^^® 85 Nicaragua, scrap 88® 89 



Cameroon ball 76 ® 77 Panama, slab 67® 68 



Accra flake 24 © 25 Mexican, scrap 88® 89 



Lopori ball, prime. . .115 @n6 Mexican, slab 65© 66 



Lopori strip, prime. . 104 ©105 Mangabeira, sheet 62© 72 



Madagascar, pinky. . 97 © 98 EAST INDIAN. 



Ikelemba 116 ©117 Assam ioo®ioi 



Late Para cables quote : ^°'"'° 45i®49i 



Per Kilo. Per Kilo. 



Islands, fine 5l7oo Upriver, fine 7S000 



Islands, coarse jSioo Upriver, coarse 4^900 



Exchange, i6j\d. 



Last Manios advices : 



Upriver, fine 6JS75 Upriver, coarse 4^575 



Exchange, i6^d. 



