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treme prices. From Mattogrosso 155 tons were imported, but 

 only small sales took place, owing to the disinclination of 

 owners to follow the general decline, and the stock is conse- 

 quently rather important. Mangabeiras, especially the better 

 qualities, were in good demand and all arrivals were readily 

 sold. Mollendo was in fair demand, and while in former years 

 a difference of \d. to 2d. was made between this description 

 and Fine Para, both kinds now stand at the same price. 



ALL KINDS RAW RUBBER. 



Based on above statistics, and subject to above explana- 

 tions, without allowing for natiiral shrinkage between produc- 

 ing and consuming markets, the total production during the 

 season under review amounted in round numbers to 53,000 tons, 

 being on a par with previous year, and the total consumption 

 to 50,200 tons, against 51,150 during 1900-01. Taking, however, 

 into account the undeclared 1000 tons in America at the be- 

 ginning of the season, and which ought not to have figured in 

 the deliveries of 1900-01, the world's deliveries during the sea- 

 son just ended were in reality 1000 tons larger than in the 

 previous year. The world's visible supply of rubber stands to- 

 day at about 6700 tons, and, though apparently only 250 tons 

 smaller than at the same time last year, the real shortage 

 amounts to 1250 tons. hecht, levis & kahn. 



London and Liverpool, June 30, 1902. 



A CONSULAR REPORT ON PARA RUBBER. 



Reporting on the rubber situation in the Amazon valley, 

 K. K. Kenneday, United States consul at Pard, writes [July 7] 

 to his government : 



" In the season just begun, it is believed that a record-break- 



ing crop will be harvested. The rubber fields of the lower river, 

 and especially on the islands, are slowly but surely failing, both 

 in quantity and quality ; but the decrease is more than made up 

 by the development of new fields and the expansion of the old 

 fields on the Upper Amazon. While all the more important 

 tributaries of the Amazon are supplying their full quota of rub- 

 ber, and even making a promising increase, interest will focus 

 in the now famous Acre territory and in southeastern Ecuador. 

 In the regions reached by the Puriis (of which the Acre is a 

 tributary), Jurua, Beni, Madrede Dios, Javari, Ucayali, Japurd, 

 and other great affluents of the Upper Amazon, which pene- 

 trate Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador, there are illimitable rubber 

 forests as yet unexplored, which will now be gradually de- 

 veloped. Many seringueiros (rubber gatherers) are headed for 

 these regions, and it is reported that several syndicates are 

 about to begin operations in new fields in Bolivia and Peru. 

 Bolivia continues to offer inducements for the colonization and 

 development of her vast area of rich rubber and mining terri- 

 tory. 



" I am informed that the government of the state of Ama- 

 zonas has granted the exclusive privilege of receiving, cutting, 

 and packing all the rubber produced in that state to one wharf 

 company [at Mandos]. The creation of this monopoly will in- 

 jure the rubber trade of this region, but Peru, Bolivia, and 

 Ecuador will be the beneficiaries, as rubber growers and gath- 

 erers here are seeking to escape the new restrictions, which en- 

 tail considerable expense and trouble upon exporters." 



Exports of rubber from Para amounted to 29,997 tons in 

 1901-2 ; 27,680 tons in 1900-1 ; 26,881 tons in 1899-1900; 25,246 

 tons in 1898-99; 22,218 tons in 1897-98; 22,216 tons in 1897-98 



Spot Prices of Island Fine Para Rubber at New York, Since January, 1894. 



FROM QUOTATIONS PUBLISHED MONTHLY IN "tHE INDIA RUBBER WORLD." 

 Lowest and Highest Prices Reported in Each Month for this Grade of Rubber, to July i, 1902. 



