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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



I September 1, 1913. 



Antiverp. 



Vol. 48. 



SEPTEMBER 1, 1913. 



No. 6. 



TABLE or CONTENTS. 



Rubber St.\tistics for July. 



Details. 1913. 



Stocks. June 30.. Kilos 1,085,143 



Arrivals in July — 



Congo sorts 164,603 



Other sorts 27,531 



PlantatioB sort! 134,531 



Editorial: 



The Monroe Doctrine and the Rubber Interests 605 



When Rubber Sold for 25c 606 



Not All Rubber Gathering Inhumane 607 



Insurance in Wholesale Lots 607 



A Protest That Sounds Reasonable 608 



Some Interesting Comparisons 608 



Why Not Washable Shoes? 608 



Santos and Sao Paulo 



By the Editor 609 

 [With 5 Illustrations.! 



How Motor Car Tanks Are Filled in Colorado 612 



tV\'itli 2 Illustrations. | 



Navy Specifications 



By E. S. Land. .X'az'at Constructor, U. S. N. 613 



New Navy Department Specifications 614 



Risks of Poisoning in Rubber Industry 615 



The Struggle Between Brazil and the Far East 616 



Plantation Rubber and Direct Purchases 618 



Reduced Brazilian Export and Import Duties 618 



After That Thirty-Million-Dollar Trade in South America.. 618 

 Sources of Error in Determining the Acetone Extract in 



Rubber Compounds 



By Professor IV. Jones 619 



Two New Kinds of Rubber for Mexico 620 



I With 1 |]|u.-li.-ilion.| 



The Rubber Trade in Akron 



Our Correspondent 621 

 I With 1 Illustration.] 



The Rubber Trade in Boston 



Our Correspondent 622 



The Rubber Trade in Cincinnati 



Our Correspondent 623 



The Rubber Trade in Chicago 



Our Correspondent ' 624 



The RubbeE Trade in Rhode Island 



Our Correspondent 624 



The Rubber Trade in Trenton 



Our Correspondent 625 



The Rubber Trade in San Francisco 



Our Correspondent 626 



Interesting Letters from Our Readers 627 



Three Years' Rubber Statistics 628 



Rubber and the Fisherman 629 



[With 9 Illustrations.! 



News of the American Rubber Trade 63T 



Fine New Buildings of the Boston Woven Hose 635 



[With 5 Illustrations.] 



The Outlok for the Walpole Tire and Rubber Co 637 



New Rubber Goods in the Market 639 



IVVilh 7 Illustrations.) 



Rubber Ball Suggestion for the Retailer 640 



I With I Illustration,] 



The Editor's Book Table 642 



I With 1 Illustration.] 



New Trade Publications 641 



Obituary Record 643 



[With Portrait of J. I). Chcever.) 



Some Rubber Interests in Europe 644 



German Rubber Statistics 644 



Rubber Manufacture in Bogota 644 



Some Rubber Notes from London 645 



Competitions at Next Year's London Rubber Exhibition.,,, 646 



A New Rubber from Queensland 646 



Some Rubber Planting Notes 647 



Rubber and Balata in British Guiana 649 



Recent Patents Relating to Rubber 650 



I United States, (irtat P.ritain. France, Germany.] 



Report of the Crude Rubber Market 656 



Aggregating 1,411,808 718,786 1,037,028 710,416 1,006,340 



Sales in July 377,209 



Stocks, July 31 1,034,599 



Arrivals since Jan. 1 — 



Congo sorts 1,815.743 



Other sorts 100,572 



Plantation sorts 1,146,460 



284,475 

 434,311 



1,713,944 



90,828 



670,039 



571,294 

 465,734 



1,841.113 

 268,743 

 374,217 



190,431 

 519,965 



1,800,323 

 210,207 

 324,577 



481,828 

 524,512 



1,177,715 

 610,922 

 144,787 



Aggregating 3,062,775 



Sales since Tan. 1 . , 



2,474,811 2,484.073 2,335,107 2,933,424 



151,691 



539,236 2,715,038 2,606,551 2,356,652 3,004,647 



Rubber Arriv.'\ls from the Congo. 

 July 16. — By the steamer Albertvillc: 



Bunge & Co (Societe Generale Africaine) 



do (Cie du Congo Beige) 



do ■ (Cie, du Kasai ) 



do (Belgika) 



do (Cheinins de fer Grands Lacs) 



do ( Forminiere) 



_do 



Societe Coloniale .-Xnversoise (.Intertropical) 



do (Comminiere) 



do (Haut Congo) 



Credit Colonial & Comntercial (Anc. L. & W. Van de 



Velde) (S. A.), (Comfina) 



do (Velde) 



Charles Dethier (.\merican Congo Cy) 



Osterrieth & Co CLubefu) 



August 6. — By the steamer Elisabethvillc : 



Bunge & Co (Societe Generale .\fricaine) 



do (Comtina) 



do (Grand Lacs) 



do (Forminiere) 



do (Belgika) 



do (Cie du Congo Beige) 



do (.\lberta) 



do 



Societe Coloniale .-\nversoise (Haut Congo) 



do (Lomami) 



do ....(Ste Commerciale & Miniere du Congo) 



Credit Colonial & Commercial (.-\nc. L. & W. ^'an de 



Velde). (S. .V.) 



do (Velde), (S. A.). (C. C. V.) 



Willaert Freres 



Charles Dethier 



Plantation Rubber From the Far East. 



E.xroKTs (IF Ceylox-Growx Rubber, 



(From January 1 to July 28. 1913. Compileti b 

 Chamber of Commerce.) 



To Great Britain j^ouiids 



To United States 



To Bflgium 



To Australia 



To Germany 



To ("anada 



To Japan 



To .Austria 



To Italy 



To Holland 



To France 



T(.i India 



To Xorway and Sweden 



To Straits Settlements 



Kilos. 



12,400 

 980 



63,000 

 1,900 

 1,500 

 1,400 

 1.000 



10.800 

 6.100 

 7,061 



24,600 



14,200 



3,750 



3,000 



Kilos. 



13.500 



37,200 



12,600 



3,600 



3,400 



2,500 



400 



2,700 



3,200 



2,000 



7,600 



12,600 

 850 



10.000 

 500 



112.650 



the Ceylon 



Total 6.230,301 12,479,294 



(Same period 1911. 2,754.085; same 1910, 1,489,878.) 

 The export figures of rubber for 1913 given in the above table 

 include the itiiports re-exported, viz., 1,102.718 pounds. To ar- 

 rive at the approximate quantity of Ceylon rubber exported for 

 1913 to date, deduct this quantity from the total exports. In 

 previous years the exports of Ceylon rubber only were given. 



