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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[June i, 1909. 



WPfl!^ 



Vol. 40. 



JUXE I, 1909. 



No. 3. 



TABLE OF CO^TENTS 



Editorial: page. 



Tlie Business Situation < 307 



Factory Costs and Profits 30" 



Cost of Plantation Rubber 308 



The Editor's Book Table 310 



What the Rubber Planters Are Doing 311 



Americans Planting Rubber in tbe East 312 



LW'ith 4 Illustrations.] 



The India-Rubber Trade in Great Britain. 



Our Regular Correspondent 313 

 [The Budget and Petrol. Transportation of Rubber Latex. 

 Storage of Rubber Goods. "Maltese Cross" Trade Marks. 

 North British Rubber Co. Substitute Trade Notes'] 



Relation of Patents to Progress 315 



New Factory Appliances 316 



[With 4 Illustrations.] 



Development of the Chicle Trade 317 



Rubber Resources of Mozambique 318 



Recent Patents Relating to Rubber 321 



[United States. Great Britain. France.] 



A Quay in the Harbor of Para, Brazil 322 



[.'\n Illustration.] 



United States Rubber Co.'s Annual 3^3 



[Reports of President and Treasurer. Annual Election.] 



The Obituary Record 325 



[Eben H. Paine. J. Otis Minott. Charles D. Deshler. John A. 

 Sloan. C. R. \\'inslow. Wallace F. Foster.] 



[Portraits of Mr. Paine and Mr. Sloan.] 



The Reed Golden Wedding 327 



[Portrait of Henry A. Reed.] 



The Deresination of Rubber — II. 



H. 0. Chute 328 

 [With an Illustration.] 



New Rubber Goods in the Market 331 



[With 5 Illustrations.] 



President Walter S. Ballou 332 



[With a Portrait.] 



Miscellaneous: 



Reclaimed Rubber and the Tariff 309 



New Amazon Banking Conditions 309 



Cotton Production in Africa 309 



A Rubber Trust With Wings 309 



What Gives Quality to Rubber 3'4 



President Taft's Summer Cottage ilUustrated) 314 



New Use for Cigarette Smoke 315 



India Rubber Goods in Commerce 316 



Dr. Philip Schidrowitz (Illustrated) 320 



News of the American Rubber Trade 333 



The Trade at Akron Our Correspondent 319 



The Trade at San Francisco Our Correspondent 320 



Review of the Crude Rubber Market 339 



Antioerp. 



Rubber Slatistics for April. 



Details. 1909. igo8. 1907. 1906. 1905. 



Stocks, Mar. 31.. kilos 595. 855 1,136,893 725,538 641,650 323,945 



Arrirals in April.... 330,277 211,549 304,873 392,199 651,928 



Congo sorts 219,645 175,000 229,927 298,733 540,774 



Other sorts 110,632 36,549 74,946 93,466 111,154 



Aggregating 926,132 1,348,441 1,030,411 1,033,849 975,873 



Sales in April 318,345 630,528 568,838 153,391 339.998 



Stocks, April 30 607,787 717,913 46:, 573 880,458 635,875 



Arrivals since Jan. I. 1,458,369 1,729,358 1,637,631 2,071,689 1,932,955 



Congo sorts 1,001,032 1,522,423 1,381,092 l,573.5"5 1,542,898 



Other sorts 457,337 206,935 256,539 498,174 390,o57 



Sales since Jan. i... 1,446,317 2,018,339 1.834.24a 11926,418 1,838,441 



Antiuerp. 



Rubber Arrivals from the Congo. 

 May 3. — By the steamer Albertville: 



Bunge & Co (Societe Generale Africane) kilos 86,000 



Do ( Societe Abir) 700 



Do (Comite Special Katanga) 8,000 



Do (Societe Anversoise) 7,200 



Do (Umanghi) 900 



Do (Comptoir Commercial Congolais) 4,500 



Do (Cliemins de fer Grands Lacs) 4,000 



_Do (Cie. du Kasai) 145,000 



Societe Coloniale Anversoise. ... (Beige du Haut Congo) 2,050 



•Do (Sud Cameron) 6,300 



Do ^ (Cie. du Loraami) 11,900 



G. & C Kreglinger (Lobay) 10,600 



L. & W. Van de Velde 5,500 



292,650 



Plantation Rubber. 



E.XPORTS FROM THE ¥ \K E.AST. 



From Ceylon — January i to April 19 : 



1909 pounds 289,603 



1908 202,726 



1907 ■ 1 15,878 



From Singapore — January i to April 8 : 



1909 pounds 689,43s 



1908 535.600 



1907 358,768 



From Penang — January i to March 22 : 



1909 pounds 744,110 



1908 246,620 



1907 31.733 



Pl.\ntation Yields (in Pounds). 



Anglo-Malay Rubber Co.: igo8. 1909. 



Four months to April 30 100,387 142,971 



Bukit Rajah Rubber Co.: 



Year to March 31 163,521 208,150 



April 10,841 17,120 



Consolidated Malay Rubber Estates: 



April 7,636 1 1,385 



Four months to April 30 22,009 52,273 



Damansara (Selaitgor) Rubber Co.: 

 Three months to March 31 24,587 32,124 



Kuala Lumpur Rubber Co.: 

 Ten months to April 30 (a) 157,210 



Lanadron Rubber Estates: 

 Four months to April 30 49,838 65,928 



Linggi Plantations: 

 April 19,000 41.500 



Malacca Rubber Plantations: ^ 



April (0) 15,500 



Pataling Rubber States Syndicate: 

 Four months to April 30 (b) 18,301 39>8o4 



Perak Rubber Plantations: 

 April 527 4,089 



Vallambrosa Rubber Co.: 

 April 18,000 23,742 



Selangor Rubber Co.: 



April (a) 23,856 



[o figures not available, b wet rubber.] 



Liverpool. 



William Wright & Co. report [May i] : 



Fine Par&. — The shortage, mentioned in our last, for spot rubber con* 

 tinned, and prices advanced to ^s. i^Vid., but close slightly easier with 

 sellers at ss. 4'Ad. For delivery a good business has been done; prices 

 have fluctuated to a moderate extent, but that there is a strong under- 

 current of strength is shown by the fact that at each decline of about id. 

 per pound a reaction has taken place. With the advent of small receipts 

 and strong holdings of stock, we anticipate, _ even should general manu- 

 facturing demand not improve, small fluctuations, but should the demand 

 from the trade improve, an advance on present values is certain, the ex- 

 tent of which will be governed for the month by the quantity required. 



African Rubbers. 



New York Stocks (in Tons). 



January i, 1908 156 



February i 224 



March i 123 



April 1 201 



May 1 165 



June 1 446 



July 1 334 



August 1 14s 



September i 133 



October I, 1908 134 



November 1 134 



December i 179 



January I, 1909 156 



February i 157 



March i 200 



April 1 178 



May 1 268 



