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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[December 1, 1912. 



Anttuerp. 



Rubber Statistics for October. 



Vol. 47. 



DECEMBER 1, 1912. 



Details. 1912. 1911. 1910. 



Stocks, Sept. 30.. kilos 708,127 435,545 580,980 



•Arrivals in October: 



Congo sorts 209,002 355,970 175,101 



Other sorts 9,596 26,841 52,709 



I'lantation sorts 105,545 32,452 47,943 



Aggregating 1,032,270 850,808 856,661 



Sales in October 463,451 272,600 257,887 



1909. 

 397,454 



199.664 

 19.505 

 46,016 



662,639 

 197.808 



No. 3. Stocks, October 31 .... 568,819 578,208 598,774 464,831 



1908. 

 654,161 



487,104 

 54.535 

 13,117 



1,208,917 

 546,813 



662,104 



TA BLE OF CONTENTS. 



EDITORIAL: pl^ 



.\ Brief History of the Fire Hose Specifications 129 



.\ Little Light on Tire Advertising 130 



-Shipping Rubber Direct to New York 130 



Knglish Manufacturers .\larmed 131 



Compelling the Press to Show Its Hand 132 



Restricting (General Expositions 13'> 



India Rubber and Wireless Telegraphy 133 



(With 4 Illustrations. J 



A Model Calender Room 



Morris A. Fcarsoit 135 



Department Stores Getting the Rubber Trade 136 



Mr. Baxendale's Report on the Rubber Show 137 



I Witli Purtr:iit uf .Mr, llaxcndolc-. | 



Principles of Plantation Rubber Cultivation 138 



The Philippine Rubber Planting Industry 139 



IWnli 3 Illustrations. J 



Rubber Growing in the Philippines 



„ Ricliard Arthur 141 



Tapping Rubber Trees by Electricity 142 



[With 3 Illustrations.] 



New Trade Publications 144 



Editor's Book Table 145 



The Trade in Akron 



„ _ Our Correspondent 146 



The Trade in Boston 



„ „ Our Correspondent 147 



The Trade in Chicago 



Out Correspondent 148 



The Trade in Cincinnati 



_ Our Correspondent 149 



The Trade in Rhode Island 



Our Correspondent 150 



The Trade in San Francisco 



_ Our Correspondent 151 

 The Trade in Trenton 



Our Correspondent 152 

 Obituary Record 152 



India-Rubber Goods in Commerce 152 



India-Rubber Trade in Great Britain 



Our Regular Correspondent 153 



Some Rubber Interests in Europe 154 



Rubber Trade in Japan 



Our Regular Correspondent 155 



Settlement and Taxation of American Firms in Germany. 155^ 



Some Rubber Planting Notes 156 



American Synthetic Rubber Patents 158 



Farewell Dinner to Mr. Manders 158 



I With 1 Illustration. I 



New Rubber Goods on the Market 159 



I Willi 4 Tlhi^tratimis.J 



Rubber Companies at the Auto Shows 160 



News of the American Rubber Trade 161 



I W ith 4 Illustrations.) 



Rubber Trade in Canada 166 



Recent Patents Relating to Rubber 167 



I I'l itrd .States. Great Britain. France. Germanv. Belgium. I 



A New Fire-Heating Press '. 169 



Review of the Crude Rubber Market 170 



Rubber Scrap Prices. 



L.\TE Xew York Quot.xtions.— Prices paid by consumers for 

 carload lots, per pound — are practically unchanged. 



November 29. 



Old rubber boots and shoes — domestic 9J4@ 97-^ 



Old rubber boots and shoes — foreign %a@ ^V» 



Pneumatic bicycle tires 4^@ 5 



Automobile tires 9^@ 9^ 



Solid rubber wagon and carriage tires 954@ 9!X 



White trimmed rubber 11 ©llj/^ 



Heavy black rubber 4M@ 5 



Air brake hose 6 @ 654 



Garden hose 1 %@ 1 1/2 



Fire and large hose 2 @ 2^ 



M--'<t'na; %@ ^ 



Amsterdam. 



JoosTEN & J.\NSSEN report [November 15] : 



The sale today included 27 tons He-.'ea and 11 tons Fi'ciis with 1 ton 

 Casttlloa. For the first valuations were realized, while a fall of 2 per cent, 

 and 4 per cent, was recorded for the others. Generally speaking the 

 tendency was very steady. 



.Arrivals since Jan. 1: 



Congo sorts 2,658,416 2.706,051 2,525,799 



Other sorts 126,934 369,860 314,823 



Plantation sorts 1,097,623 525,979 464,526 



2,858.95" 3,583.058 

 738.441 534,637 

 238,940 100,224 



Aggregating 3,882,973 3,601,890 3,305,148 3,836,338 4,217,919 



Sales since January 1.3,978,692 3,611,994 3,247,884 3,967,242 4,562,709 

 Rubber .-\rriv.\ls from the Congo. 



OcTiBER 15. — By the steainer Anversville: 



r.unge \- Co . (Societe Generale .Africane) 



" (Chemins de fer Grands. Lacs) 



68,000 



2.400 



2,100 

 980 



7,100 

 96.500 

 19,000 



i.son 



3,500 

 8.200 

 500 

 3,500 213,580 



Societe Coloniale Anversoise (Haut Congo) 



(Cie du Lomanii) 



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



( Comfina) 



(Velde) 



Charles Dethier (Ainerican Congo Co.) 



Comp. d'Irebu 



Divers 



XovEMRER 5. — By the steamer Le p oldvill c : 



Bunge & Co (Societe Generale .\fricaine) kilos 43,200 



do (Chemins de fer Grands. Lacs) 4,400 



do (Comptoir Commercial Congolais) 15,600 



do (Intertropical) 7.200 



do (Cie du Kasai) 96.000 



Societe Coloniale Anversoise (Lomami) 13.800 



L. & W. \'an de Velde (Comfina) 8,800 



do 4.500 



Willaert Freres 3,000 196,500 



Plantation Rubber from the Far East. 



Exports of Cevlon-Grown Rubber. 



[From January 1 to October 21. 1911 and 1912. Compiled by the Ceylon 

 Chamber of Commerce.] 



1911. 



To Great Britain pounds 2.371.465 



To United States 1,436.403 



To Belgium 544.157 



To Australia 

 To Germany 



To .Austria 



To Japan 



To Canada 



To Italy 



To Russia 



To Holland 



To France 



To India 



To Xorway and Sweden. 

 To .Africa 



31,990 

 32.881 



3.08S 

 40,762 

 13.830 



4.035 



8,4i3 



117 



85 



1912. 



5.595,634 



3.145,895 



838.322 



212,396 



140.424 



55.351 



41.263 



16.065 



5.909 



2,288 



2,282 



2,017 



400 



39 



35 



4.487,261 10,058,285 

 [Same period 1910—2,223,341 pounds; same 1909—982,680] 



Total E.xports from M.^lay.i. 



(From January 1 to dates named. Reported by Barlow & Co., Singapore. 



These figures include the production of the Federated 



Malay States, but not of Ceylon.) 



Port Swet- 

 Singapore 

 Oct IS. 



To 

 Great Britain. /'DiiiK/.y 



Continent 



Japan 



.Australia 



Ceylon 



United States 



7.930.678 



283,1.32 



382.551 



76.863 



2.217 



2.118.789 



10,794.230 

 4.894.601 

 2.805.158 

 2,001,428 



Penang, 

 Sept. 30 

 6.524.141 

 15.063 



tenhani 



Sept. 15. 



11,852.574 



1,595,865 



197,760 

 933 



6.737.897 

 3.565.100 

 1,652.782 

 1,739,291 



607.332 

 2,081 



Total. 



26.307,393 



1.894.060 



382,551 



76,863 



807.309 



2.121,803 



14.057.852 31,589,979 



7.818.674 16.278.375 



6,886,394 11.344.334 



1,485.210 5.225,929 



Total 



Same period, 1911. 

 Same period, 1910. 

 Same period. 1909. 



Rotterdam. 



Havelaar & De Vries report [November 13] : 



Yesterday's sale included 14^ tons He-'ea. 11 ton^ Ficus, and 4 tons 

 Ceara, which averaged slightly under valuations for' the 16 tons sold . The 

 whole quantity would have been disposed of but for the reserved attitude 

 of sellers. 



