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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[October i, 1904. 



London. 



Edward Tim. & Co. [September i j report stocks : 



1904. 1903. 



Para sorts tons — — 



Borneo 60 28 



Assam and Rangoon 10 8 



(^ Other sorts 378 202 



London 



Total 448 



Para. 



S38 



650 

 222 

 254 



1364 



1781 

 2285 

 2248 



2539 

 2525 



1902. 



128 



II 



396 



535 



1532 

 203 

 461 



2731 



3053 

 3595 

 3687 

 3788 

 3326 



199 



Liverpool -! Caucho 229 



( Other sorts 632 



Total, United Kingdom 1508 



Total. August I 1764 



Total, July i 1920 



Total, June I 1667 



Total, May i 1644 



Total, April 1 1367 



PRICES PAID DURING AUGUST. 



1904. 1903. 1903. 



Para fine, hard 5/ @5/ 2?i 4/ t ©4/3 3/ ol;^@3/ 3 



Do soft 4/loJ^@5/ l^ 3/11 &4/ 2%2/io'X&3/ I'A 



Negroheads, scrappy .3/10 @3/ii 3/ 2 ©3/ ji{ 2/ 5y2®2/ 6 

 Do Cameta.2/ 8Ji@2/ic>^ 2/ 6i^@2/ 6i^ i/ii>^@2/ o'X 



Bolivian 5/ ©5/ i'yi 4/ 2K@4/ S'A 3/ 0,1^(0)3/ 3 



Caucho ball 3/5 ©3/6 3/ o Jit @ 3/ 3 2/4 @2/ 5^ 



Do slab 2/iot^@2/u 2/ 7 @2/ 71^ 1/111^(82/ I 



Septemukr 16. — The market for Para sorts for a week past has been 

 weak and declining, with a firmer tendency at the close. Business has 

 been on a small scale, including fine hard Para, Spot and September 

 delivery, at 4J'. qJ @ 4s. ic</. and buyers ; October 4^. yJ. @ 4^- g^^./. ; 

 November ^s. t%il @ 4.[. 8./. ; December 4J. S%'^- 



Medium kinds in auction to-day were in moderate request and a small 

 part sold at easier prices. Colombian : Good, clean, brown scrap 3,;. 

 5(/ ; weak, softish white scrap 2s. id. Central American : Fair brown 

 scrap and roll 3.1. 2 3/i/. (rt 3,;. 3j^(/. Madagascar : Fair to good pinky 

 jf. Zli'i- @ 3^- 4}^''- ; soft, gummy ball \s. <jd. Assam : Fair red No. 

 I sold at is. t]^d. ; mixed heated and dirty \s. io}^d. 



Ceylon and Straits : Twenty-nine packages offered and 20 sold. 

 Fine, thin, Ceylon biscuits at 51. 2J, @ c,s. 3^4 </. ; ditto, darker, 5^. id. ; 

 scrap 4t. 3a'. @ 4^. ■ilid. Straits, fine, dark, thin biscuit, rather moldy, 

 $s. id. ; good scrap at 4J. 3j^a'. 



Guatemala. 



Exports of rubber during 1903, according to a Belgian official source, 



were : 



To United States kilos 153,100 



' ' Great Britain 23 ,400 



" Germany 210,600 



" France 44,100 



"Belgium 11,100 



Total, 1903 kilos 442,300 



Total, 1902 254,100 



Rubber Receipts at Manaos. 



During August and two months of the crop season for 

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



From— 



1904. 



Rio Puriis — Acre tons 361 



Rio Madeira 330 



Rio Jurua — 



Rio Javary — Iquitos 188 



Rio SolimOes 6 



Rio Negro — 



Total 885 



Caucho 79 



Total 964 699 791 1411 1313 1433 



Para. 



Kanthack & Co. report [September i] : 



With an active demand prices had continued to improve, but they had 

 seemingly been pushed up too rapidly and buyers became more reserved. 



modifying their prices. During the last few days the news of a consid- 

 erable drop at the consuming markets caused a rapid decline here of 

 about 2I2 pence from the highest point. Receipts have remained nor- 

 mal, perhaps to the disappointment of those who expected an early in- 

 crease, from the large influx of laborers coming from the southern 

 famine stricken states. New hands, however, are of little value, until 

 they have thoroughly mastered the work and become used to forest life. 



Ant'werp. 



To THE Editor ot The India Rubber World: On Sep- 

 tember 2 a small sale by inscription took place, but out of 16 

 tons offered only 5 tons found buyers, at prices as follows: 



F.stiinalion. Sold at. 



Congo Alima francs 11.00 10.90 



Congo Lobay 10.50 10.57.^ 



Congo Ibenga 950 9.50 



Besides this unimportant sale no transactions worth men- 

 tioning have taken place, pending the large sale scheduled for 

 September 20, in which 515 tons, mostly Congo sorts will be 

 exposed. c. schmid & CO., successeurs. 



Antwerp, September i6, 1904. 



ANTWERP rubber STATISTICS FOR AUGUST. 



rubber arrivals AT ANTWERP. 



Sept. 6. — By the Philippeville, from the Congo : 



Bunge & Co (Societe Generale Africaine) kilos 164.000 



Do (Societe Isangi) 17,000 



Do (Chemins de fer des Grand Lacs) 20,oco 



Do (Societe Anversoise) 50,000 



Comptoir Commercial Congolais 17,000 



M. S. Cols 



(Cie. Bruxelloisepour le commerce du Haut Congo) 2,000 



M. S. Cols (Alima) i.ooo 



Societe Coloniale Anversoise (Cie. du Kasai) 53,000 



Do (Slid Kamerun) 4,000 



Do . .■ (Cie. de Lomami) 12.000 



Do . .(Beige du Haut Congo) 2,000 



Societe Generale de Commerce (Alimaienne) 4,000 



Charles Dethier (la M'Poko) 25,000 



Do (La Haut Sangha) i,ooo 



Comptoir des Produits Coloniaux. . . . (Ekela Sangha) 10,000 

 Do .(Cie. de la N'Goko) 3.000 

 Do 

 (Cie. Generale d'Extraction) 2,000 387,000 



The GuitaSPercha market. 



The Giimmi-Zeitiing (DreiAen) of September 9 reports: A 

 foreign subscriber, who is intimately acquainted with the ex- 

 isting conditions, writes : " The condition of the Gutta-percha 

 market is such as has not been experienced in a long time. 

 The abnormally high prices of Gutta-percha for the past years 

 have been followed by a depression which was not thought 

 possible by even the worst pessimists. A direct result of these 

 low prices is the materially increased export of Borneo rubber, 

 the Gutta-percha gatherers not being able to balance their ac- 

 counts. The generally poor condition of the produce market 

 compels the natives to gather, naturally, only the best paying 

 forest products, in which Gutta-percha cannot be included, the 

 exploitation of this stuff being extremely difficult and depend- 



