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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[January i, 1909. 



Vol. 39. 



JANUARY 1, 1909. 



No. 4. 



TABLE OF CONTENTS 



Page. 



Editorial: 



The Business Prospect 121 



It Must be Crude Rubber 121 



Plantation Rubber Yields 122 



Development of the Amazon 122 



Minor Editorial 123 



Hunting Rubber in Holland — II. 



The Editor 125 

 [With 15 illustrations.] 



Crude Rubber Interests 128 



Yield of Wild and Cultivated "Para" Rubber 129 



The India-Rubber Trade in Great Britain 131 



Our Regular Correspondent 131 

 [The Lancashire Cotton Trade. Trade Secrets and Authors. 

 Growth of the Insulated Wire Industry. R. & J. Dick, Lim- 

 ited. Plantation Rubber.] 



New Rubber Goods in the Market 133 



[llawe's Waterproof Fish and Game Bag. Bukacek's Pneumatic 

 Cushion. Bodley's Revolving Rubber Heels. The Portable 

 Shower Bath. Inlaid Art Matting. Electric Suction Sweeper. 

 .\n Odd Use for Rubber Belting. Neal Tire Repair Kit. 

 Swinehart Motor Buggy Tire.] 



[With II illustrations.] 



Recent Patents Relating to Rubber 135 



[United States, Great Britain, France.] 



Guayule : 



The Discoverer of Guayule Charles P. For 130 



The Madero Guayule Factories (.Illustrated) 136 



Miscellaneous: 



A Rubber Testing Committee , , . 



Exlr.ictions of Crude Rubber H D I'l 



Rubbered Fabrics for Balloons Samuel A. King 124 



Rubber-Asphalt Roadway in France ,,7 



Dr. Joseph Torrey (IVith Portrait) '.'.'.'.". i -i* 



A Goodrich Press Room (.Illustrated) ■ ... o^ 



Analysis of a Hot Water Bottle , Ip 



Artists in Gutta-Percha (Illustrated) 149 



The Obituary Record i,» 



[With the Portrait of C. B. Dickinson] 



Official Statistics of India-Rubber 138 



[For the United States Fiscal Year 1907-08.] 



The Rise in Rubber Prices— Chart 140 



The London Tire Show Season 141 



[Olympia Motor and Stanley Cycle Shows.] 

 [With an Illustration.] 



Tires at the New York Automobile Show 143 



[With 4 Illustrations.] 



The Editor's Book Table 145 



[With Portrait of Herbert Wright.] 



Some Rubber Interests in Europe 146 



The Rubber Trade in Canada 147 



News of the American Rubber Trade 150 



[With 2 Illustrations.] 



The Trade in Akron Our Correspondent 148 



Ihe Irade in San Francisco Our Correspondent 148 



The Proposed Para Rubber Monopoly 154 



Review of the Crude Rubber Market 155 



Loodoa, 



December ii.— At to-days auction a'bout 14J4 tons Straits and 

 16 tons Ceylon plantation rubber was offered and tlie greater 

 part found buyers at prices little changed from what prevailed 

 a fortnight before, though meanwhile the market had been quiet 

 and prices lower. Gow, Wilson & Stanton, Limited, report: 

 "The highest price, 55. 8rf. [=$1.37.8] was realized for very pale 

 crepe. Warriapola biscuits sold up to 5.?. 6^rf. [=$1.38.3]. Sev- 

 eral lots of clean rambong [Ficus] were well competed for, an 

 especially fine parcel from United Serdang, realizing 4^, 8^d. 

 [=$1.14.5]." The average price for plantation was 5.?. lyid. 



[=$1.24.2], against 2s. 'J^d. [=88.7 cents] for the correspond- 

 ing sale last year. 



Lewis & Peat report : "We have had a declining market dur- 

 ing the past week. Fair sales have been made including fine 

 hard down to 4.^. iid. [=:$i.i9.6] for new positions and 4.1. ioJ4rf. 

 for distant." 



The name of the firm known since 1903 as Meyer & Buss- 

 weiler, Limited, has been changed (with the sanction of the 

 Board of Trade) to Arthur Meyer & Co., Limited, and the 

 business will be continued under this style without change in 

 other respects. Mr. Albert B. Bussweiler had not been con- 

 nected with this firm for over a year and a half, and there 

 seemed no reason for retaining his name. 



Livrpool. 



William Wright & Co. report [December i] : 



Fine Par&. — There has been a strong and active demand during the month, 

 and prices — in spite of a pause in the American demand — have again ad- 

 vanced kd. to yd. per pound, closing very firm at the advance; the trade 

 generally have bought sparingly; on the other hand all supplies, both 

 in Manaos and Para, have been eagerly taken up by exporters at prices 

 much above the parity ruling here. We anticipate, with the turn of the 

 year, a better demand from manufacturers, which will counteract to some 

 extent any serious decline in value owing to the arrival of heavy receipts. 

 Closing value, hard fine, 5^. iVid. [ = $1.28^]; island, ss. [=$l".2lj^]. 



Aatwerp, 



At the monthly inscription sale on December 16, out of 533 

 tons of rubber offered, about 500 tons found buyers at an av- 

 erage decline estimated at 25 centimes per kilogram [^.19 cents 

 per pound]. In view of the decline in Para rubbers since the 

 date of brokers' estimations, the results of the Antwerp were 

 regarded as rather favorable. The purchases were mainly for 

 Continental account, a single firm being reported to have taken 

 375 tons. The offerings were mainly of the better Congo sorts. 

 Several small lots of plantation Para were included, totaling 

 9,704 pounds. One lot of Straits crepe, of 6,835 pounds, had 

 been estimated at 16 francs per kilo [^=$1.40 per pound]. 



Rubber Arrivals from the Congo. 

 November 16. — By the Steamer Leo(>oldville : 



Bunge & Co (Societe Generale Africaine) kilos 69,300 



Do _ 41,700 



Do (Societe Aiiversoise) 26.500 



Do _ (Societe Abir) 4.000 



Do (Comptoir Commercial Congolais) 16,500 



Do (CTomite Special Katanga) 4.000 



Do (Chemins de fer Grands Lacs) 2,000 



Societe Coloniale Anversoise (Cie. du Lomani) 2,300 



Do (Cie. du Matus Congo) 685 



Do (Cie. du Kasai) 87,000 



Do (Lulonga) 40 



Do 3,900 



Kroglinger (Lobay) 12,800 



Charles Dethier (.American Congo Co.) 3,500 



274.225 



Rubber Statistics for November. 



Details. 1908. 



Stocks, Oct. 31.. kilos 662,104 



Arrivals, in November 297,243 



Congo sorts 224,772 



Other sorts 72,471 



Aggregating 959.347 1,256,428 994.451 1,178,868 1,074,561 



Sales m November... 355.177 241,146 279,532 543.S72 435.835 



Stocks, November 30.. 604,170 1,015,282 714,919 635,296 611,736 



Arrivals since Jan. i.. 4,515,162 4,834,929 5,135,602 5.239.553 5,182,011 



Congo sorts 3,807,830 4,156.141 4,014,059 4,006,203 4,263,331 



Other sorts 707.332 678,788 1,121,543 1,233.250 918,780 



Sales since Jan. i.... 4,917,886 4,477,831 5,155,870 5,145,618 5,181,18* 



Rubber Receipts at Manaos. 



During October and four months of the crop season, for three 



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



From 1908. 



Rio Purus-Acre. . .(cJ»i- 1,113 



Rio Madeira 304 



Rio Jurua 180 



Rio Javary-Iquitos . . 383 



Rio Solimoes 152 



Rio Negro 6 



Total 2,138 



Caucho 214 



Total 2,352 



6,289 5.824 5.076 



