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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[January 1, 1913. 



Vol. 47. 



JANUARY 1, 1913. 



No. 4. 



TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



Editorials: Page. 



Settling Disputes by Arbitration 175 



The Rio de Janeiro 1913 Exposition 176 



Digests of the Rubber Conference Papers 176 



Plantations in Brazil 176 



Charles Goodyear's Son 177 



The Latest Rubber Statistics 177 



The Blooming of Shoes 178 



Simplifying Rubber Nomenclature 178 



Hoolihan on the "Case of Caasey" 179 



Digest of the Papers Read at the Rubber Conference 181 



The Present and Future of the Native Hevea Rubber 



Industry Jacques Hubcr 181 



The Plantation Rubber Industry Cyril s. Baxcndale 182 



The Commercial Possibilities of Synthetic Rubber 



Lothar E. IVeber 183 



The Tapping of Rubber Trees R- Fyffe 183 



Notes on the Acclimatization and Cultivation of the 



Guayule (Parthenium Argentatiun Gray) 



Francis E. Lloyd 183 



Laboratory Organization in the Rubber Industry 



Frederic Dannerth 184 



Factory Management Methods J- C. Jurgensen 185 



Problems in Vacuum Drying -'• P- De-.-ine 185 



Lithopone and Oxide of Zinc in the Rubber Industry. . . . 



G. C. Stone and Gilbert Rigg 186 



A New Rule of Vulcanization 'i- O. Bourn 187 



A Brief History of Fire Hose Specifications in the United 



States £• ■•*■ Barrier 187 



Notes on Tension Tests of Rubber P. L. WormUy 188 



Testing of Air Brake Hose and Actual Service 



G. C. Bishop 189 



Railroad Air Brake Hose 1- S. Sheaf e 189 



Contracts Arthur W. Stedman 190 



Farming by Dynamite Harold Hamel Smith 190 



Possible Rubber Producers in the Temperate Zone 



Charles P. Fox 191 



The Plastometer, a Rubber Testing Instrument 



B. Denver Coppage 19i 



Gutta Percha in Kaiser Wilhelm Land 192 



The Rubber Industry in Hawaii 195 



State of Para Statistics 197 



Editor's Book Table 198 



The Trade in Boston Our Correspondent 199 



The Trade in Akron Our Correspondent 200 



The Trade in Chicago Our Correspondent 201 



The Trade in Cincinnati Our Correspondent 202 



The Trade in San Francisco Our Correspondent 203 



The Trade in Trenton Our Correspondent 204 



Obituary Record 204 



India-Rubber Trade in Great Britain 



Our Regular Correspondent 205 



Some Rubber Interests in Europe 206 



Japanese Rubber Plantations in Malay Peninsular and 



Sumatra Our Regular Correspondent 207 



Getting Balata by Destroying the Trees 208 



Notes From British Guiana Our Correspondent 209 



Some Rubber Planting Notes 211 



New Rubber Goods on the Market 212 



Commercial Arbitration 213 



New Trade Publications 214 



India-Rubber Goods in Commerce 214 



News of the American Rubber Trade 215 



Recent Patents Relating to Rubber 222 



[United States. Great Lritain. France. Germany. Belgium.] 



Review of the Crude Rubber Market 224 



Rubber Scrap Prices. 



L.'\TE New York Quot.atio.nts. — Prices paid by consumers for 

 carload lots, per pound — are practically unchanged. 



December 30. 



Old rubber boots and shoes — domestic 9J^@ 9]4 



■ Old rubber boots and shoes — foreign 9}i@ 9}/i 



Pneumatic bicycle tires 454@ S 



Automobile tires 9^@ 9^^ 



. Solid rubber wagon and carriage tires 9}4@ 9% 



White trimmed rubber 11 @11J4 



Heavy black rubber 4J4@ 5 



Air brake hose 6 @ tyi 



Garden hose i%@ 1/4 



Fire and large hose 2 @ 2% 



Matting %@ ^ 



Aggregating 1,137,611 



Sales in November.... 430,066 



860,817 1,051,599 

 226,555 483,451 



998,454 

 262,838 



959,347 

 355,177 



Stocks, November 30.. 707,545 634,262 568,148 735,616 604,170 



.\rrivals since Jan. 1 : 



Congo sorts 3,061,697 



Other sorts 131,291 



Plantation sorts 1,258,777 



2,854,412 

 433,347 

 596,740 



2,870,684 

 369,227 

 518,062 



3,276,349 3,807.830 

 807,364 600,393 

 286,248 106.939 



Aggregating 4,451,765 3,884,499 3,757,973 4,369,961 4,515,162 



Sales since January 1.. 4,408,758 3,838,549 3,731,335 4,230,080 4,917,886 

 RUBBER ARRIVALS FROM THE CONGO. 



November 26. — By the steamer Elisabethville: 



Bunge & Co (Societe Generale Africaine) kilos 55,500 



do (Chemins de fer Grande Lacs) 6,000 



do (Belgika) 1,200 



do (Comptoir Commercial Congolais) 15,400 



do (Alberta) 600 



do (Comfina) 27,500 



Societe Coloniale Anversiose (Haut Congo) 18,450 



do (Lomami) 14,100 



do (Cie du Kasai) 83,500 



do (Cie franc, du Haut Congo) 8,700 



Willaert Freres .' 4,000 



Societe Generale de Commerce (Alimaienne) 2,300 



Charles Dethier (American Congo Co.) 490 



Divers 3,100 240,840 



Plantation Rubber from the Far East. 



Exports of Ceylon Grown Rubber. 



[From January 1 to November 18, 1911 and 1912. Compiled by the 

 Ceylon Chamber of Commerce.] 



1911. 



Great Britain pounds 2,811,151 



United States 1,568,339 



Belgium 641,783 



To 



To 

 To 

 To 

 To 

 To 

 To 

 To 

 To 

 To 

 To 

 To 



.Australia 



Germany 



Austria 



Japan 



Canada 



Italy 



Russia 



Holland 



France 



To India 



To Norway and Sweden. 

 To Straits Settlernents . . 

 To -Africa 



38.865 

 44,338 



3,088 

 49,308 

 13,830 



8,460 



12.893 

 117 

 196 



' '3,216 

 35 



1912. 



477,696 



,572,959 



999,707 



226,055 



156,364 



63,788 



55,118 



22,078 



5,909 



2,288 



2,282 



2,017 



400 



39 



Total 5,195,619 11,586,700 



Total Exports from Malaya. 



(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, 

 To Nov. 5. 



Great Britain, .pounds 8,747,192 



Continent 312,264 



Japan 424,803 



Australia 80,387 



Ceylon 2,217 



United States 2,194,684 



15,811,164 34,310,608 



9,141,828 18,107,726 



6,500,709 11,380,172 



3,920,388 



Total 11,761,547 6,737,897 



Total, 1911 5,400,798 3,565,100 



Total, 1910 3,226,681 1,652,782 



Total, 1909 2,181,097 1,739,291 



Amsterdam. 



JoosTEN & Janssen report [December 11]: 



Today about 56 tons were offered for sale (principally Hevea and Ficus), 

 of which 40 tons were sold at an advance over valuations of about 4 

 per cent. 



Rotterdam. 



Havelaar & De Vries report [December 11] : 



In yesterday's sale there were offered about 60 tons Congo and about 6 

 tons Hevea which realized an advance of about 5 per cent, on valuations. 



