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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[February i, 1909. 



Vol. 39. 



FEBRUARY 1, 1909. 



No. 



TABLE OF CONTENTS 



Editorial: 



PAGE. 



Cheaper Rubber from the .\mazon i6i 



Evading British Patent Law i6i 



Rubber and the Tariff 162 



Languages and Trade 163 



Synthetic ( ?) Rubber from Gold Ore 163 



Minor Editorial 165 



New York's New Fire Protection System 164 



[With : Illustrations.] 



The Past Year in the Crude Rubher Trade 167 



[Reviews from London. Havre and .\ntwerp.] 



The India-Rubber Trade in Great Britain 



Our Regular Correspondent 169 

 [.\dmiralty Contracts. Gorton Rubber Co., Limited. Barytes. 

 Tenders for Rubber Chemicals. Textiles in Rubber Reclaim- 

 ing. Colonel Birley.] 



Some Rubber Interests in Europe 171 



[Large Dunlop Manufacturing Profits. Company Notes.] 



The Editor's Book Table 172 



New Rubber Goods in the Market 173 



[Rubber-Bound Shaving Brush. Savage Protector and E.\- 

 cluder. Pincoleum Oil Nebulizer. Mead's S. T. Self-Filling 

 Fountain Pen. The New Laced Felt Boot. Rubber Shoes for 

 Metal Chairs. Standard Swinging Hose Reel. Rvidiger Auto- 

 matic Hose Cleaner. The Knickerbocker Spray Brush.] 

 [With 10 Illustrations.] 



Recent Patents Relating to Rubber 175 



[United States. Great Britain. France.] 



Tires at IVtadison Square Garden 177 



[With 9 Illustrations.] 



Tires at the Last French Salon i79 



[\\'ith 2 Illustrations.] 



Trade Conditions in Rubber Footwear 181 



Rubber in Balloon Construction 182 



Herr Prinzhom on Plantation Rubber 183 



A Successful "Castilloa" Rubber Planter 184 



(With Portrait of James C. Harvey.] 



Some Crude Rubber Sources 19' 



[With an Illustratien.] 



Miscellaneous: 



Scrap Rubber in Russia Merchant 166 



The Obituary Record 166 



A New Rubber Shoe Machine (Illustrated) 166 



Tariff Convention Called 166 



Selling Rubber by Inscription 190 



News of the American Rubber Trade 186 



The Trade at Akron Our Correspondent 185 



The Trade in San Francisco Our Correspondent 180 



Review of the Crude Rubber Market 193 



Plaatatioo Rubber, 



London, December 31. — At to-day's auction of 1,425 packages 

 of Ceylon and Malaya plantation rubber — a total of about 74 

 tons — 1,151 packages found buyers at an irregular advance of 

 som id. to in some cases 2d. per pound on last sale rates. A 

 parcel of Lanadron block of about 6 tons was partly sold at 5.?. 

 lorf. to 5.?. loVid. [=$1.42,4]. The ne.xt best figure was 5.?. yiid. 

 [=$1.37.3] for Gikiyanakande estate worm. The highest price 

 for crepe was 5^-. 6jid. [=$1.35.3]. The average realized for 

 Plantation was 5.?. 2d. [=$1.25.7], against ^s. a^/^rf. [=78 cents], 

 the average at the corresponding sale a year ago. Hard fine Para 

 to-day sold up to 5.?. I'^d. [=$1.24.7]. 



London, January 25. — At to-day's auction of 2,138 packages of 

 Ceylon and Malaya plantation rubber — a total of about 106 tons, 

 the largest quantity of Plantation that has ever been offered at 

 a single sale — 1,621 packages found buyers at irregular prices, 

 but on the whole marking a decline of from 2d. to 3d. per pound, 

 as compared with the preceding auction. Part of an invoice from 

 Sereban estate brought 5J. &d. [$1.37.8], as also did some pale 

 WarriapoUa biscuits — the highest price of the sale. Gow, Wilson 

 & Stanton, Limited, report that as a number of samples were 

 not. received until just before auction, buyers were handicapped 

 in valuing the sale. The average realized for Plantation was 

 5J. o %d. [=: $1.21.7]. Hard fine Para sold to-day up to 5.1. o l/id. 

 [=$1.22.6]. 



To-d.\y's Quot.'\tions for Pl.'^nt.mion. 



Sheets and Biscuits: 



Fine pale Worm 55. 5^d. 



Fine pale Biscuits 5s. 8d. 



Good to fine Biscuits 5s. i%d. @ ss. 4%d. 



Good to fine Sheet 5^. iHd. @ 5s. iHd. 



Crepe: 



Very pale Crepe 5^. 8d. 



Medium and palish 4s. I irf. @ 5J. 3 yid. 



Dark and brown 3s. loyid. @ 4s. 9j^d. 



Unzvashed Scrap: 



Medium to fine 3s. gd. @ 4s. 2'Ad. 



The exports of plantation rubber from Malaya from January i 

 to November 30 were as follows : 



Pounds. 



To .Australia 19,162 



To Ceylon 268,187 



Pounds. 



To Great Britain 2,658,177 



To Europe 271,858 



To United States ... 400 — 



To Japan 9,352 Total 3,227,136 



[From Singapore, 1,857,312; from Penang, 1,369,884.] 

 The above rate points to the exports from Malaya of about 

 3.500,000 pounds of plantation rubber for the whole year, against 

 2,089,085 pounds in 1907 and 817,769 pounds in 1906. 



Rotterdam Rubber Statistics 



Indi.\ Rubber. 



1907. 



Stocks, January i kilos 106,800 



.\rrivals during year 1,089,000 



.Aggregating 1,195,800 



Deliveries during year 1,109,000 



86,800 



Stocks, December 31 



B.\L..\T.\ (Surin.am Sheet.) 



Stocks, January i kilos 4,800 



.Arrivals during year 224,000 



Aggregating 228,800 



Deliveries during year 228,800 



Stocks, December 31. 



Gutt.\-Perch.\. 



Stocks, January I. . . 

 .Arrivals during year. 



. kilos 



nil 



173,000 

 43,000 



1908. 

 86,800 

 1,273,400 



1,360,200 

 1,305,200 



55.000 



nil 

 330,000 



330,000 

 312,000 



18,000 



Aggregating 216,000 



Deliveries during year 94.700 



12I,,?00 



37,800 



159,100 

 48,600 



Stocks, December 31 121,300 1 10,500 



Rubber Receipts at Manaos. 



During November and five months of the crop season, for 

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



From 



November. 



1908. 

 . .tons 556 



Rio Puri'is-.\cre 



Rio Madeira 2S9 



Rio Jura 389 



Rio Javary-Iquitos 331 



Rio Solimoes 256 



Rio Negro 13 



Total 2,058 



1907. 

 528 

 259 

 283 

 420 

 216 

 27 



1,733 

 150 



1906. 

 638 

 395 

 335 

 472 

 126 

 44 



2,010 

 17s 



-JULY-NOVEMBER.- 



1,883 2,i8s 



1908. 



3.071 

 1,464 



987 

 1,227 



509 

 19 



7.277 

 1,070 



8,347 



1907. 

 2,63s 

 J. 29,'; 



748 

 1,454 



611 

 30 



6,773 

 934 



7.707 



1906. 



2,157 



1.678 



857 



1,366 



.ilQ 



_S8 



6,435 

 826 



7.261 



