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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[February 1, 1913. 



Vol. 47. 



FEBRUARY 1, 1913. 



TABLE Of CONTENTS. 



Editorial : Page. 



The Rubber Club of .America 229 



VVh.it Para Thinks of the East 230 



A Hose Manufacturer States His Views 230 



A Boston Chemist on Synthetic Rubber 231 



The World's Output of Motor Cars — Which Rubber Has Made 



Possible 231 



Conceri.ing Calendars 232 



Commercial Possibilities of Synthetic Rubber 



By Lolbar E. IVcbcr, Ph.D. 233 



The Fourteenth Annual Dinner of the Rubber Club of 



America 235 



[With ID Illustrations.] 



Dr. Jacques Ruber's Visit to the East 243 



Mr. H. A. Wickham and One of His Trees 



Illustrated 245 



A French View of Amazonian Economic Development 246 



Specifications That Hinder Progress 247 



The Thirteenth Annual Automobile Show 248 



[Wilh 4 Ilhistralions.] 



The Annual Auto Importers' Show 251 



The Rubber Trade in Boston 



Bv a Resident Correspondent 252 



The Rubber Trade in Akron 



By a Resident Correspondent 253 



The Rubber Trade in Cincinnati 



By a Resident Correspondent 254 



The Rubber Trade in Rhode Island 



By a Resident Correspondent 255 



The Rubber Trade in Chicago 



By a Resident Correspondent 256 



The Rubber Trade in San Francisco 



Bv a Resident Correspondent 256 



The Rubber Trade in Trenton 



By a Resident Correspondent 257 



India Rubber Goods in Commerce 258 



Obituary Record 259 



[With Portrait of the late Mr. E. R. Rice.] 



News of the American Rubber Trade 260 



[With 3 Illustrations.] 



Calendars Received 266 



Two Recent Books Which Refer to Rubber 



.'is Viewed by Our English Correspondent 267 



The Editor's Book Table 267 



New Trade Publications 268 



New Rubber Goods in the Market 269 



Some Rubber Interests in Europe 270 



Rubber Planting in Formosa 



Bv Our Regular Correspondent 271 



Some Rubber Planting Notes 272 



Notes from British Guiana 



From Our Regular Correspondent 273 



Recent Patents Relating to Rubber 275 



Review of Crude Rubber Market 277 



Rubber Scrap Prices. 



Late New York Quotations. — Prices paid by consumers for 

 carload lots, per pound — are practically unchanged. 



Jan. 30. '13. 



Old rubber boots and shoes — domestic 9j^@10 



Old rubber boots and shoes — foreign 9-^@' 9j/j 



Pneumatic bicycle tires 4^@ 5 



Automobile tires 9)4@ 9^ 



Solid rubber wagon and carriage tires 9^@ OYz 



White trimmed rubber 11 @11H 



Heavy black rubber 4j4@ 5 



Air brake hose 6 @ 6% 



Garden hose 13^@ 154 



Fire and large hose 2 @ 2^ 



Matting ^@ ^ 



Antiverp. 



Rubber St.atistics for December. 



Details. 1912. 



Stocks, Nov. \... kilos 707,545 



Arrivals in December.. 



Congo sorts 168,281 



Other sorts 13,294 



Plantation sorts 144,064 



1911. 

 634,262 



321.169 

 56,424 

 73,721 



Aggregating 1,033,184 1,085,576 



Sales in December 522,124 410,838 



1908. 

 604,170 



454,701 

 52,005 

 13,476 



1,124,352 

 528,617 



No. 5. Stocks, December 31.. 511,060 674,738 588,212 541,512 595,735 



1910. 

 568,148 



234,673 

 30,414 

 35,616 



1909. 

 735,616 



215,983 

 57,985 

 42,029 



868,851 1,051,613 

 280,639 510,101 



Arrivals since Jan. 1 . . 



Congo sorts 3,229,978 3,175,581 



Other sorts 144,585 489,771 



Plantation sorts 1,402,841 670,461 



3,105,357 3,492,332 

 399,641 865,349 

 553,678 328,277 



4,262,531 

 652,398 

 120,415 



Aggregating 4,777,404 4,335,813 4,058,676 4,685,958 5,035,344 



Sales since January 1. .4,930,882 4,249,387 4,011,974 4,740,181 5,446,503 



Rubber Arrivals from the Cokgo. 

 December 17, 1912. — By the steamer Anversville: 



Bunge & Co (.Societe (lenerale Africaine) kilos 45,700 



do (Comptoir Commercial Congolais) 7,700 



do (Chemins de fer Grand Lacs) 2,200 



do (Forminiere) 2,800 



Societe Coloniale Anversoise (Haut Congo) 7,870 



do (Cie. Franc, du Haut Congo) 10,040 



L. & W. Van de Velde (Cie. du Kasai) 80,000 



do (Comfina) 7,500 



do 2,700 



Charles Dethier (American Congo Co.) 2,300 



Willaert Freres 5,000 



Divers 17,300 191,110 



January 7, 1913. — By the steamer Leopoldville: 



Kilos. 



Bunge & Co (Societe Generale .Africaine) 22,600 



do ((Themins de fer Grands Lacs) 6,000 



do (Cie. du Kasai) 82,500 



do (Comptoir Commercial Congolais) 8,300 



do (Alberta) 1,900 



do (Comfina) 19,300 



do (Forminiere) 3,200 



do (Intertropical) 20,700 



Societe Coloniale Anversoise (Lomami) 3,900 



do (Cie. franc du Haut Congo) 240 



do (Comminiere) 3,900 



L, & W. Van de Velde (Uele) 8,550 



do (Velde) 470 



Willaert Freres 13,000 



194,560 



Pla.ntation Rubber From the Far East. 



Exports of Ceylon Grown Rubber. 



[From January I to December 23, 1912 and 1911. 

 Chamber of Commerce.] 



Compiled by the Ceylon 



1911. 



To Great Britain pounds 3,374,226 



To United States 1,807,085 



729,174 



47,547 



48,254 



6.648 



56,000 



18,871 



117 



8,460 



To Belgium 



To Australia 



To Germany 



To Austria 



To Japan 



To Canada 



To France 



To Italy 



To Russia 



To Holland 



To India 



To Norway and Sweden. 

 To Straits Settlements.. 

 To Africa 



12,893 

 196 



' 3,216 

 35 



1912. 



7,377.602 



4,267,949 



1,178,666 



232,386 



195,138 



73.660 



68415 



22,078 



11,568 



6.378 



2.288 



2.282 



700 



39 



Total 6,112,722 13,439,149 



[Same period 1910, 3,074,783 pounds; same 1909, 1,332,055.] 

 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 Dec. 6. 



Great Britain pounds 10,054.739 



Continent 



Japan 



Australia 



Ceylon 



United States 



328.328 



483,173 



83,267 



2.217 



2,737.939 



Penang, 

 Oct. 31. 

 7.341.875 

 16,129 



216,827 

 933 



Total. 1912 13,689.663 7,575,764 



Total. 1910 3.512.787 1,967.100 



Total. 1909 2.348.271 1,872,601 



Total, 1911 6,009,206 4,057,932 



tenham, 

 Nov. 15. 

 14,784.869 

 2.002,600 



759,815 

 2,081 



17.549,365 



7,224.781 



2,138.262 



10.221.779 



Total. 



32.181,483 



2,347,057 



483,173 



83,267 



978,859 



2,740,953 



38,814,792 



12,704.668 



6.359.134 



20.288.917 



