138 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[January i, 1905. 



London. 



Edward Till & Co. [December i] report stocks: 



1904. 1903. 1903. 



IPara sorts Ions — 

 ^°'"°---:-„ 30 

 Assam and Rangoon ... 4 

 Other sorts 55S 



Total 592 



I Para 178 



Liverpool ■] Caucho 94 



( Other sorts 643 



Total, United Kingdom 1507 



Total, November i 1307 



Total, October I 1666 



Total, September i 1 508 



Total. August I 1764 



Total, July I 1920 



Total, June I 1667 



PRICES PAID DURING NOVEMBER. 



1904. i9<'3. 



Pari fine, hard 4/liK@5/ 5J^ 3/io ©4/2 



Do soft 4/u @5/ 4J< 3/ 9 0*4/ 



Negroheads, scrappy. .3/ 9i^@3/lii2 3/ 3 @3/ 4^^ 2/8"^(a2/lo 



Do Cameta.2/ i)'A®2/iol^ 2/ 3%@2/ S/i 2/o;^@2/ i^ 



Bolivian No sales 4/ ©4/ 2 3/4?i^@3/6 



Caucho.ball 3/5 @3/ 6J^ 3/ 3 @3/ aH 2/7 @2/8>^ 



Do slab 2/iil^@3/ I 2/ b'A@2/ <) 2/3 @2/3j^ 



Do tails 2/ S14@3/ 2'A 2/10 2/4 



Decemrer 9. — The market for Para has developed e.\treme weakness 

 since the beginning of the month, prices showing a decline of about y/. 

 per pound. A large business has been done, comprising fine hard spot 

 and December delivery down to 5.?. 2J2"'. ; January down to 5). id, ; 

 February at is. 2d.@ss. \}^J. \ March 5/. I'/i^-di'-is. iii^J. ; and April 

 4J. \i}(d. Soft fine also lower, with small sales closing sellers of De- 

 cember delivery at 5^. i</. Peruvian : Large sales have been made of 

 fine spot and near delivery at 5^. i^.^d @is. id. Ball dull, with sellers 

 spot at 5.f. S'Ad , slab scarce, 2s. II}^(/. value. Medium grades have 

 been in fair demand and a good business has been done. At the auc- 

 tions, to-day the fair supplies met little competition and only a small 

 quantity sold at rather easier rates. 



December 16, — The market for Par,ihas continued depressed, owing 

 to the pressure to sell by speculators, and prices declined a further 2'/id. 

 per pound. Towards the close, however, more firmness has prevailed, 

 and values closed at some recovery. Business in fine hard has been 

 moderate, including spot and near down to $s., closing ^s, }id. buyers ; 

 January delivery down to 4s. il%d. ; February-March at 4^. lo^^id. @ 

 is. io%d. ; and March-April at 4^. io</. Soft fine: A fair business 

 has been done for January delivery at 4.r. lo;;'. ; sport sold at 4^. ii</. @ 

 4J. ii%d. 



I'LANTATION RUBBER (FROM PAR.4 SEED). 

 November 2^ Auction. — Ceylon: 40 packages offered and 28 sold. 

 Fine thin biscuits at bs. id. [=$1.48] ; fair to good scrap at 4^. bd. to 

 4J. 9rf. ; middling scrap at 3^. bd. to 3^. lod. ; dirty ditio at 3J. 

 ■ December g .■iiiction. — Twenty-eight packages offered and 13 sold. 

 Straits, fine pale and dark biscuits at 5.1. 91/. ; fine sheet, some dark, 

 at 5^. 91/. ; black sheet at 3.1. Ceylon, good scrap at 4j. 4j{a'. 



Also, 26 packages of cultivated Manicoba rubber offered and sold — 

 good thin clean sheet at 4.;. l^d.^\s. 81/. 



Lboerpool. 



William Wright & Co., report [December i] : 

 Fine Paid — With heavy American buying in Para and Manaos, the 

 market has been strong aud active, closing with an advance of 5,121/. per 

 pound, establishing a new record of is. 53>^<j'. [^.$1.32%] for Upriver 

 fine. At the present stage of the crop, even granting supplies are mod- 

 erate and that there is no reserve of stock, we see no reason for such ex- 

 traordinary high prices. How long the Americans intend to keep prices 

 up we cannot say, but there is no doubt that these unnecessarily high 

 rates will tend to curtail consumption. 



Antwerp. 



To THE Editor of The India Rubber World: At the 

 monthly inscription sale on December 16 about 646 tons were 

 disposed of, of which 580 tons found purchasers. The market 

 was much firmer than the recent weakness for Pard sorts in the 

 Liverpool markets would have led us to expect. Prices were 

 very irregular, varying from 35 to 40 centimes (about 3 per 

 cent.) below valuations, to 37 centimes above. The average 

 comes out at a fraction above valuations. The United States 

 participated in this result by sending substantial buying 

 orders. Among the principal lots the following may be men- 

 tioned : 



Eslimations. Sold at. 



40 tons Uele francs I0.l2j^ io.22J^ 



16 " Aurwimi (average) 9.20 930 



10 " Aurwimi (average) 920 9.02}^ 



14 " Upper Congo fuses 8. g 02j^ 



13 " Equateur (2 tons remainder) lo.qo -; °' °. , 



^ ^ / 10.521^ 



26 " Upper Congo 10.75 10.70 



12 " Mongalla 10.07}^ 10.30 



8 ■' Lopori I (average) 10 90 10.75 



28 " Lopori II (average) 6.85 ' 6.75 



The result of the sale as a whole may be considered as very 

 satisfactory. c. schmid & CO., successeurs. 



Antwerp, December 16, 1904. 



ANTWERP RUBBER STATISTICS FOR NOVEMBER. 



Details. 



Stocks, Oct. "il.. kilos 

 Arrivals in Nov 



Congo sorts 



Other sons 



Aggregating.... 



Sales in November. . 



Stocks, Nov 30. .. 



Arrivals since Jan. I 



Congo sorts 



Other sorts 



Sales since Jan. i.. 



RUBBER ARRIVALS AT ANTWERP. 



Nov. 30 — By the Anversville, from the Congo : 



Bunge & Co (Societe Generate Africaine) kilos 



Do (Chemins de fer Grand Lacs) 



Do (Societe " La Kotto ") 



Do (Sultanats du Haut Obangi) 



Societe Equatoriale Congolaise., (Societe L'Ikelemba) 



Comptoir Commercial Congolais 9,000 



Comptoir des Produits Coloniaux 



(Ekela Kadei Sangha) 



Cie. Commerciale des Colonies 



(Cie. Frangaise du Congo) 5,000 



L. & W. Van de Velde (Cie. du Kasai) 73,000 



Societe Coloniale Anversoise (La Lulonga) 5,000 



Do .(Beige du Haut Congo) 1,000 



Do (Cie. de Lomami) 3.500 



Do (La Haut Sangha) 12.500 



Societe Generale de Commerce (Alimaienne) 5.500 



M. S. Cols (Alima) 4,800 



92,000 

 18.000 



1,000 



13,000 

 2,500 



11.500 



257,300 



IMPORTS FROM PARA AT NEW YORK. 



[ The Figures Indicate IVei^hts in Pounds.] 



Importers. Fine. 



General Rubber Co 309,600 



Poel & Arnold 147.300 



New York Commercial Co. 105.000 



A. T. Morse & Co 54.500 



Edmund Reeks & Co.. . . 25.900 



Hagemeyer & Brunn. ... 10.500 



Lionel Hagenaers & Co.. 14,000 



Total 666,800 129,600 310,500 6,600=1,113,500 



