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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[September i, 1905. 



REVIEW OF THE CRUDE RUBBER MARKET. 



■f "% 7 HILE the prices printed below are unchanged since our 



\/\/ last report in respect to some important grades, a 

 number of changes will be noted, both of advance and 

 decline, but on theaverage the market is higher than 

 last month and decidedly firm. Reports reach New York of 

 speculative buying for European account, particularly at 

 Manaos and at Antwerp. At any rate stocks are smaller at the 

 first named point and the unusually large offerings at Antwerp 

 at the last monthly sale were absorbed, with the exception of 

 the less desirable lots, at an advance over former quotations. 

 The quotations below show an advance on Africans almost 

 without exception, while some of the Central grades are lower. 

 For some time past Africans have failed to keep pace with 

 Pari sorts in the matter of advancement ; It would appear now 

 that a new condition exists. 



There is a continued rise of Brazilian exchange which, af- 

 ter having remained at an average of 12 pence for two or three 

 years, is now between 17 and 18 pence per milreis. This is re- 

 garded in the trade as an additional factor in the raising of 

 rubber prices, since the Brazilian currency price has been prac- 

 tically without change for some time past. 



Arrivals at Pard for the first 28 days of August were 1030 

 tons, against 1260 tons for the whole month of August last 

 year. But as July showed larger arrivals by 200 tons than in 

 the same month of 1904, the total figures for the crop year thus 

 ar are a little larger than usual. The increased arrivals at Para 

 evidently are due to larger receipts from the regions beyond 

 Manaos, in Peru and the Acre. 



Messrs. Hecht, Levis & Kahn (London) have brought out 

 their annual statistics, which permit the following comparison 

 to be made of their figures for the approximate world's produc- 

 tion and consumption of rubber for several years past. Ab- 

 solute accuracy in such cases is of course, out of question, 

 but without doubt the world is producing more rubber than at 

 any former period, under the stimulation of high prices, and 

 more rubber is going into consumption which on the other 

 hand tends to keep up prices. The London firm's tables also 

 relate to the total visible supply of rubber at the end of each 

 year (June 30), as follows : 



Netu York Stock Exchange Transactions. 

 United States Rubber Co. : 



Season. 



Production. Consumplion. VisU>lc Supply.* 



Rubber Goods Manufacturing Co. : 



190405 Uns 68,879 65.083 4,584 



190304 6i,75g 59.666 4.388 



1902-03 55,603 55,276 5.053 



1901-02 53.603 51,170 6,816 



Igoo-oi 52,864 51.136 6,941 



189900 53.348 48,352 7,869 



1898-99 52,192 48,783 4,871 



[•Including: cargoes afloat.] 



Following is a statement of prices of 

 ago, one month ago, and on August 31- 



PARA. September I, '04. 



Islands, fine, new n6@ii7 



Islands, fine, old none here 



Upriver, fine, new I20@I2I 



Upriver, fine, old I22@i23 



Islands, coarse, new 66@ 67 



Islands, coarse, old none here 



Upriver, coarse, new 9i@ 92 



Upriver, coarse, old none here 



Caucho (Peruvian) sheet 68@ 69 



Caucho (Peruvian) ball 77® 78 



Pard grades, one year 

 -the current date : 



August I, '05. 

 I25@I26 



none here 



I27@I28 



I29@I30 



67@ 68 



none here 



90(ft 91 



none here 



70@ 71 



8o@ 81 



August 31. 



I25@i26 



none here 



128(3129 



13I@I32 



70@ 71 



none here 



go@ 91 



none here 



7i@ 72 



84® 85 



African sorts at New York show an advance, almost without 



exception : 



AFRICAN. 



Sierra Leone, i stquality ggca 1 00 



Massai, red 9g@ico 



Benguella 78® 86 



Cameroon ball 67® 68 



Accra flake 25® 26 



Lopori ball, prime. .. . 108(0)109 



Lopori strip, prime. .. . 91 @ 92 



Madagascar, pinky.. . . tg& 90 



Ikelemba log® no 



Late Para cables quote : 



Per Kilo. 



Islands, fine .. 5$25o 



Islands, coarse 2$25o 



Exchange, 



Last Manaos advices : 



CENTRALS. 



Esmeralda, sausage. . .80 @8i 



Guayaquil, strip 71 @72 



Nicaragua, scrap .. . .78 @7g 



Panama, slab b2 ©63 



Mexican, scrap 80 @8i 



Mexican, slab 57 @58 



Mangabeira. sheet. . . .71 @72 

 EAST INDIAN. 



Assam g7 @g8 



Borneo 43 ©44 



Per Kilo. 



Upriver, fine 6I250 



Upriver, coarse 4$I5o 



I7|J</. 



Upriver, fine. 



. .6$ioo Upriver, coarse. 

 Exchange, iT'^ld. 



3$6oo 



NEW YORK RUBBER PRICES FOR JULY (NEW RUBBER). 

 1905. 



Upriver, fine i.28®i.3i 



Upriver. coarse ()0@ 95 



Islands, fine 1.25® 1.28 



Islands, coarse 68® 71 



Cameta 71® 76 



In regard to the financial situation, Albert B. Beers (broker 

 in India-ruber, No. 68 William street. New York) advises us as 

 follows : " The money market has continued easy during Aug- 

 ust, with a fair demand for rubber paper, the best names being 

 taken at 4 @ 5 per cent, and those not so well known at s'A 

 @ 6 per cent." 



Statistics of Para l^abber {Excluding Caucho) . 



NEW YORK. 



Fine and Total Total Total 



Medium, Coarse, 1905. 1904. 1903. 



Stocks. June 30 toni 395 igg = 5g4 137 367 



Arrivals. July iii 186 = 297 478 942 



Aggregating 506 385 = 8gi 615 I30g 



Deliveries, July 214 260 = 474 549 1085 



Stocks, July 31 292 125 = 417 66 224 



