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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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Published on the 1st of each Month by 



THE INDIA RUBBER PUBLISHING GO., 



No. 395 BROADWAY. NEW YORK. 

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HENRY C. PEARSON, 

 EDITOR. 



HAWTHORNE HILL, 

 ASSOCIATE. 



Vol. 39. 



OCTOBER 1. 1908. 



No. 1. 



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A STORY OF GROWTH. 



AT the beginning- of a new year in the hfe of The 

 Indi.v Rubber World it always has seemed to us 

 appropriate to engage somewhat in retrospect. The re- 

 counting of accomphshed progress in any industry is of 

 interest not only in itself, but as indicating lines of pos- 

 sible future development. The nineteen years which have 

 elapsed since the initial issue of this journal have been 

 fruitful in invention and jirogress in many ways, and in 

 no other industry, perhaps, more than in rubber and the 

 allied interests. We feel certain that the last word has 

 not been said in the development of rubber interests, and 

 look forward to chronicling every _\ear much more news 

 of importance in this trade. 



To eliminate from the rubber trade to-day all that has 

 been developed in it within the past nineteen years would 

 leave some very wide gaps — nearly everything in the 

 way of vehicle tires, the greater part of the insulated wire 

 manufacture, air-brake hose, hose for pneumatic tool 

 work, the rublDer-cored golf ball, and an immense num- 

 ber and variety of minor articles of rubber, together with 

 the new processes and apparatus which have been per- 

 fected for their production. 



The rubber world, so to speak, has been greatly broad- 



; ened in those nineteen years. The opening up of forest 



rubber areas in Africa and in the upper Amazon regions 



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has alone proved of vast importance to the industry, 

 while the introduction of rubber culture has still further 

 increased the world's supply of raw material. Scarcely^gu, 

 less important has been the great improvement in rcj-, ,, 

 claiming rubber and the increase in the volume of this, 

 product. The growth in the extent of the output of the 

 rubber factory has involved not only a large increase 

 in consumption at home, but the sale of important quan- 

 tities in countries not consumers of rubber before. 



We cannot better sum up the situation, perhaps, than 

 by referring to the International Rubber and Allied 

 Trades Exhibition, just closed in London, as an epitome 

 of progress in rubber ; to have omitted from its catalogue 

 all that represented development during the past two dec- 

 ades would have left little more than a skeleton. We 

 regard this exhibition as epoch-making, and by compar- 

 ine future rubber exhibitions with it will best be meas- 

 ured the growth of the trade. 



It is of interest to note that seldom has rubber been 

 utilized to an important extent for any purpose with- 

 out continuing to be so utilized. Hence every new a])- 

 plication means a permanent addition to the catalogue 

 of the uses of rubber. To-day the possibility appears 

 to exist of a great coining demand for rubber in aerial 

 navigation — a demand which within the coming nine- 

 teen years may prove as important as the present de- 

 mand for rubber in the tire trade. 



\^'e do not doubt that the most important development 

 in the next decade will relate to the production of crude 

 rubber — in new fields and from new plants, as well as in 

 the improved preparation of rubber in the fields now ex- 

 ploited. It is not unlikely that within this period the cul- 

 ture of what now are regarded as minor rubber plants 

 will become extensive in the temperate zones. 



The work of chronicling the progress of the rubber 

 trade has been a constant source of interest and pleasure 

 to the Editor, involving as it has the collaboration of 

 so many leaders in this progress, and he can have no 

 higher wish than for a long continuance of this desirable 

 relation. 



THE POPULAR NEW VEHICLE. 



FROM the inception of the automobile The Indi.\ 

 Rubber World has dealt with the development of 

 the new class of vehicles as affording perhaps the most 

 important single outlet for the products of the rubber 

 manufacture. To-day it may be asserted that the demand 

 for rubber for tires exceeds the most enthusiastic predic- 

 tions of ten — or even five — years ago, and it seems likely 

 to become much larger before showing any decline. As 

 we have so often pointed out, the commercial use of 

 self-propelling vehicles has become no less important, 

 from the standpoint of the rubber man, than the use 

 of the machines more popularly called "automobiles." 

 The latter, being used largely for pleasure or recrea- 

 tion, in addition to being costly, must necessarily be 



