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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[August i, igog. 



tWPiJ^ 



^'ol. 40 



AUUGST 1. 1909. 



Xo. 



TABLE OF CONTENTS 



Editorial : 



Rubber Goods Substitutes 



The High Price of Rubber Goods, 



Prosperity and Dear Rubber 



A Successful Rubber Club 



The Acre Rubber Congress 



Only a Reference to the Tariff. . . 



Must Higher Prices Come? 



Ceylon Rubber Sale Contracts 



The India-Rubber Trade in Great Britain 



Our Regular Correspondent 

 [New Rubber Wasliing Macliine — Illustrated. The Cab Tire. 

 Feeding Bottle Tubing. High Price of Rubber. Electric Cables 

 — An Eventuality. Carbon Tetrachloride. The Budget and 

 Petrol. Personal Mention.] 



India-Rubber in North America — A Bird's Eye View 



Henry C. Pearson 



Rubber Substitutes and Plastics 



H. 0. Chute 



Obituary: 



Robert D. Evans ( IVitli Portrait) 



Joseph Davol ( H'itli Portrait) 



T. C. Pierrez 



R. H. Griffin ( With Portrait) 



TuIc-9 A. Bel anger 



Rubber Interests in Europe 



[North British Rubber Co.'s Branch in Germany. Forty Years 

 With one Rubber Factory. The "Silvertown" Company's Meet- 

 ing. Notes.] 



Rubber Stamps for the Government 



Recent Patents Relating to Rubber 



[United States, Great Britain, France.] 



The Rubber Club of America 



A Retrospect 



[With 3 Illustrations,] 



The Rubber of South America 



Uiismoked Amazon "Para" Rubber, A Rubber Congress on the 

 .Acre, Almost a War Over Rubber — with map.] 



Recent Rubber Planting Results 



[IV.ur Years Record nf licelv Estate. Cost of Plantation 

 Rubber.] 



The Editor's Book Table 



[International Rubber Conference, ,Tohnson's "Cultivation and 

 Preparation of Rubber,'"] 



Miscellaneous: 



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"Wiiat Becom.es of the Rubbers?". 

 India-Rubber Goods in Commerce. 



Will Rubber Go to $2,70? 



American E.xposition in Germany. , 



.'\ Shoe and Leather Fair 



The Mexican Rubber Fire^ 



News of the American Rubber Trade 



The Trade in San Francisco Our Correspondent 



The Trade in Akron Our Correspondent 



Review of the Crude Rubber Market 



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Rubber Receipts at Monaos. 



During May and eleven months of the crop season, for three 

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



, M.^V, V ,, Jt.iLV.M,*Y, , 



From — ■ 1909, 1908. 1907. 1909-8. 190S-7. 1906-7, 



Rio Purus-Acre tons 218 295 375 8.629 8,856 8,255 



Rio Madeira 138 54 47 3.073 2.952 3.320 



Rio Jura .,.,, 251 266 196 4.217 4,196 4,829 



Rio Javary-Iquitos 44 10 41 2,458 2,506 2.852 



Rio Solimoes 27 27 23 1,007 1,134 926 



Rio Negro 28 55 12 583 596 615 



Total 706 707 694 19,967 20,240 20,797 



Caucho 586 388 549 6.406 5,827 5,137 



Total 1,292 1,095 1,243 26,373 26,067 25.934 



London. 



JiLY 9, — The highest prices ever paid for crude rubber at the 

 auctions here were realized to-day for e.xtra good plantation 

 sorts. The offerings included about 10 tons Ceylon and 65 tons 

 Malaya, All the better descriptions were strongly competed 

 for. at an advance of 2d. to 51/, over the preceding sale, 



To-D,\v's QuoT.^TIO^■s, 



Slicet and Biscuits: 



Fine smoked sheet js. 2d. @?s. 2!/^^. 



Good to fine sheet 6^, ioJ/2rf.@7J- ol/id. 



Good to fine biscuits 6s. ioV^d,@7J. id. 



Crepe: 



Very pa\e 6j. iiy^d.^ys. id. 



Medium and palish 6s. 3d. @6s. 1 1 d. 



Dark and brown 3s. 8d. @6j. 2d. 



Unwashed Scrap: 



-Medium to fine 5J. 3d. @5s. sHd. 



Dark and low 3.^, lod. @4J, lod. 



Sales included 38 cases smoked sheet from Highlands estate, 

 up to 7S. 2]4d. [=i$i.74"^], and 97 cases crepe, up to 6s. ii^d. 

 [=$i,69J4]; 84 cases Malacca crepe, up to 6s. iiM''-; 5 cases 

 Warriapolla crepe at 7s. id. [^$1.7,2,3], The price of hard fine 

 Para to-day is 6s. 6J^£f, [^$1.59/^]. The average realized for 

 plantation of all grades was 6s. 4'/id. [=$1.54.3], against 3^, 

 io^4d- [= 94!^ cents] at the corresponding sale last year. The 

 record price was 6s. g^d. [=$1,65^], — paid for Malaya crepe in 

 May, 1905 — until the auction of June 25. when 7,?, [=$1,70%] was 

 paid for a lot of smoked sheet from Vallambrosa estate, 



Mexican Pl.\ntation Rubber. 



Lewis & Peat report the sale at to-day's auction of 40 

 cases white pressed Castilloa sheet, from La Zacualpa estate, in 

 ^lexico, at 5,y, iY^d. [:= $1,28,2], The quantity was approxi- 

 mately 2 tons, 



July 16, — Plantation has been in good demand, and dearer. 

 Small sales of sheet at ys. $d., value now ys. 6d. and of crepe 

 up to ys. 8d. [=$i,86] for fine quality. Business has been done 

 in fair average sheets at 6s. [=$1,46] for 1910 crops. The price 

 of hard fine Para has jumped up about gd. per pound within 

 a week, A very considerable business has been done, including 

 spot and July delivery at 6s. 6d. up to 7s. 3d. [^^1.76], Soft 

 fine sold up to 6s. 6d. [=$1,58,] No auctions this week. 



Plantation Rubber, 



Exports from the Far East. 



From Ceylon — January i to June 7 : 



igog pounds. 421,766 



igoS 277,012 



1907 181,142 



From Singapore — January i to June 2 : 



igog pounds. 1,079,664 



igo8 824,g66 



1907 546,435 



From Penang — January i to April 30: 



igog pounds. 1,223,361 



igo8 439.010 



igo7 56,961 



Plantation Yields (in Pounds'). 



1908. igog, 



Bukit Rujah Rubber Co. : 



June 17,592 



Three months to June 30 28,728 54,438 



Anglo-Malav Rubber Co.: 



June '. 28431 40,744 



Six months to June 30 154,791 224,82g 



Damansara (Selangor) Rubber Co.: 



June 15,782 



Six months to June 30 53,9io 73,790 



Pataliiig Rubber Estates Syndicate : 



June [a 8,092] 11,749 



Six months to June 30 [a 33,i40] 61,148 



Consolidated Malav Rubber Estates: 



June " 8,638 i7,33T, 



Six months to June 30 39,38i 85,118 



T'allambrosa Rubber Co.: 



June 16,321 24,000 



Three months ending June 30 51,047 73,i98 



[(] = Wet rtfbber.] 



