July i, 1905.] 



IHE INDIA RUBBER WORL.D 



343 



BRAZIL'S EXPORT OF RUBBHR FOR FOUR YEARS. 



[all figures indicate kilograms.] 

 PARA RUBBER (INCLUDING CAUCHO). 



PORTS. 1901. 



Manaos 15,679,929 



Iiacoatiara 14,112 



I'ani 13,467,403 



Maranhilo 



Ilha do Cajueiro 



I'orio Murtinho 



Corumba 211,994 



1902. 

 13.706,317 

 4,744 

 13.406,639 



356,578 



1903. 

 16,499,519 



■2.559.057 



199 



1.972 



2,740 



255,168 



1904. 

 15,331.869 



2.175 



13,171,212 



13.410 



18,344 



3,800 



251.396 



Total . 



29.373,438 27,474,278 29.318,655 28,792,206 



CEARA RUBBER (" M ANICOBA"). 



PORTS. 1901. 



I'ar.i 2,050 



Maranh.lo 3,881 



Ilha ilo Cajueiro 164,882 



Ceara 232,607 



Cabedello 



Pernambuco 42,900 



Maceio 



Bahia 23,676 



Rio de Janeiro 



Santos 2,921 



Natal. . . . 



1902. 

 2.402 



362,691 

 268,943 



1903. 



950 



27,308 



632,858 



517.824 



24,215 

 143.041 



41.333 



496,224 

 5,397 



1904. 



2,430 



11.471 



503,871 



668,809 



1,923 



97,556 



180 



939.157 



680 



6,096 



Total 472,917 



807,388 



1,721,894 2,216,077 



PORTS. • 



ParA 



Maranh;\o 



Ilha do Cajueiro. 



Ceara 



Cabedello 



Pernambuco ... 



Macei'i 



Bahia 



Rio de Janeiro. 



Santos 



Porto Alegre. . . 



Paranagua 



Porto Murtinho. 

 Corumba 



MANGABEIRA 



1901. 



478 

 . . . . 9.047 

 38,037 



436 



704 



81,391 



80 



170.094 1 



26,853 



35,406 



RUBBER. 



1902. 



249 



11.319 



16,424 



226 



96,456 

 519 

 74.922 

 11.563 

 12,473 



3,19s 

 28,864 



26,043 



1903. 

 1,896 



3.214 

 28,100 



3.996 

 J5.354 

 97.849 

 11.543 

 355.291 

 43-457 

 62,588 



400 

 37,893 



190-1. 



541 

 6,301 



35.316 

 6,935 



22,863 



85.034 

 10,420 



415.5:9 



85.195 



128,991 



350 



1,300 

 56,383 



Total 394,588 350.194 661,581 855,208 



Grand Total 30,240,94328,631,86031,702,13031,863,491 

 BRAZILIAN RUBBER EXPORTS, BY PORTS. 



1901. 1902. 1903. 1904. 



29,163,972 27,120,351 29,061,422 28,508,227 



836,113 1,128,888 2,344.507 3,042,385 



240,858 382,621 296,201 312,879 



a Amazon ports, 

 i Atlantic ports.. . 

 c Interior ports.. . 



Total. 



30,240,943 28,621,860 31,702,130 31,863,491 



II Par.l. ManSos, and Itaco;itiara. 



f> On the Brazilian coast, from f?abedcl!f, south to Santos. 



trCorunib.^ and Porto Murtinho, on the river Paraguav, discharging into the 

 Rio de la Platte, and representinc the shipments tigurinf; as exports to Uruguay 

 and Argentina. 



DESTINATION OF EXPORTS, 1904. 



COUN 



Pari Rubber. 



Manicoba. Mangabeira. 



Total. 



United States.... 15,968,753 



Great Britain 10,420,532 



France 1,455.060 



Germany. 

 Belgium 



Italy 



Argentina 

 Uruguay. . 



393.749 



282,376 



16,540 



37.742 



217.454 



624,039 



1,365,218 



51,704 



174,216 



900 



280,580 



273.753 



23,796 



214,805 



4.591 



57.683 



16,873,372 



12,059,503 



1.530,560 



782,770 



287,867 



16,540 



37,742 



275,137 



Total 28,792,206 2,216,077 855,208 31,863,491 



7^ HE federal bureau of statistics of Brazil, organized some 

 four years ago under the administration of Mr. J. P. 

 VVileman, editor of 7Vu Urazilian Review (Rio de 

 Janeiro), has been developed under his charge to a 

 high degree of efTiciency, which renders available now com- 

 mercial statistics more complete and accurate in character, and 

 much more promptly, than at any time in the past. The In- 

 dia Rubber World has been favored, by the office referred 

 to, with detailed statistics of the exports, during the calendar 

 year 1904, of India-rubber produced in Brazil, which are sum- 

 marized in the next column, in connection with the correspond- 

 ing returns for three years preceding. 



Hitherto the statistics available of exports of Brazilian rub- 

 ber have related mainly to the output from the Amazon, only 

 fragmentary details coming now and then from the Atlantic 

 ports south of Pard. In any comparison of the present figures 

 with the statistics issued from Pard, it should be kept in mind 

 that the latter embrace all rubber exported from the Amazon, 

 whatever the source, whereas Mr. Wileman's reports relate 

 solely to rubber produced in Brazil. 



Without going into detailed comparisons it may be said that 

 various sections of the Rio tables agree as closely with figures 

 hitherto accepted in the trade as credible as could be expected 

 in the case of returns compiled on different systems and, in a 

 measure, from independent sources. This comment, by the 

 way, is made with a view to calling attention to the growing 

 completeness and trustworthiness of statistics relating to crude 

 rubber the world over. This is a matter of importance in con- 

 nection with the market prices of crude rubber at any time, and 

 all the more so in the present era of extreme high cost of this 

 material. 



An analysis of the accompanying figures suggests the follow- 

 ing points : 



1. Brazil's production of rubber during four years has shown 

 a slight increase — from 30,240 to 31,863 tons. 



2. The output of " Para " rubber (including a small amount 

 of Caucho) has declined — from 29,373 to 28,792 tons. 



3. The net increase has been due mainly to "Ceara" rubber 

 — from 472 to 2216 tons. 



4. The Amazon ports show a decrease — from 29,163 to 28,508 

 tons. 



5. The southern Atlantic ports (hitherto unimportant as re- 

 gards rubber) show a considerable increase — from 836 to 3042 

 tons. 



6. It must be evident, from the preceding figures, that any 

 increase in the output of rubber from the Amazon during the 

 past four years has been due to an increased production in 

 other countries than Brazil — that is, Bolivia and Peru — and as 

 shown in The India Rubber World of May 1, 1905 [page 

 260], the percentage of " Caucho " in the yearly totals is becom- 

 ing larger rather than smaller. 



7. Tht table gives color to the hope that some of the Bra- 

 zilian states south of the Amazon valley proper may yet be- 

 come rubber producers to an important extent, including the 

 production of the so called " Pard" rubber. 



There is to be added to the total in the table herewith the 

 item of Massaarandubu gum (allied to Balata) of which there 

 was exported from Paia 4315 kilograms in 1903 and 2062 in 

 1904. Last year's exports were distributed thus: Great 

 Britain. 959; France, 776; Inited States, 327. 



