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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[April 1, 1913. 



PROSPECTS OF THE KEFIXIXG INDUSTRY. 



In the c.xplanatory portion of the application, the need of full 

 and continuous occupation is urged, as necessary for the profit- 

 able operation of the works. To attain this result the whole 

 or a great part of the rubber produced in Brazil would have 

 to pass through the refining works. 



The principal value of the plants would be in the establishment 

 of standards, in accordance with which the products would be 

 stamped and classified. Such arrangements, it is urged, would 

 constitute a guarantee, alike for producer and dealer, and would 

 go far to meet the complaints of irregularity brought against 

 Brazilian rubber in foreign markets. The crux of the situation 

 is met by the suggestion that the prosperity of the refining plants 

 would be secured by the rubber-producing States imposing higher 

 export duties on rulibcr lacking in puritj- than on rubber washed 

 and cleaned. Without such regulations, it is added, refining 

 plants could not make their way, especially in view of the taxes 

 they would have to pay. 



Such are the principal features of the proposal of the Good- 

 year company, which has undertaken, in the event of same being 

 accepted, to begin construction of the plants within six months 

 from the date of contract and to have them in operation within 

 eighteen months. 



(.•\)— ESTIM.XTE FOR M.WAOS PLANT. 



The cost of all the buildings and installations (daily produc- 

 tion 40 tons) will be as follows : 



Brazilian. American. 

 Building No. 1, with 2,610 square meters 



(about 28,C83 square feet) in two floors. 696,000$000 $232,000 

 Building No. 2, with 554 square meters 



(about 5.961 square feet) in one floor. . 83.100$000 27,700 



Worker's village 180.000$000 60,000 



Machines and installation of power and 



steam plant 80,000$000 26.666 



Refining machinery and installation prop- 

 erly so called. .'. 52O.00O$OOO 173,333 



Repair shop and case factory 35,0O0$00O 11,666 



Contingencies 10 per cent 159,410$000 53,138 



Total 1,753,510$000 $584,503 



(K)— ESTIMATE FOR BELEM (PARA) PLANT. 

 The cost of all the buildings and installations (daily produc- 

 tion 100 tons') will be as follows: 



Brazilian. American. 

 Building No. 1, with 5.220 square meters 



(about 56.160 s(|uare feet> in two floors. 1,044.000$000 $348,000 

 Building No. 2, with 554 square meters 



(about 5,961 square feet) in one floor.. 83,100$000 27.700 



Workmen's village 25O,0OO$0OO 83.333 



Machines and installation of power and 



steam plant 90.000$000 30,000 



Refining machinery and nistallation prop- 

 erly so called. .' 77S.OOO$000 258.333 



Repair shop and case factory 35,000$000 11.666 



Contingencies 10 per cent 227,710$000 75,905 



Total 2,504.810$000 $834,937 



(O— PROPOSED INSTALL.VTIONS OF MACHINERY. 



Manaos. Para. 



(Production (Production 

 ■40 tons 100 tons 

 daily) daily) 



Bnildiiis .Vo. 1 (first floor). 



Scales 2 2 



Machines for cutting balls of rubber 4 10 



Tanks for softening rubber 4 10 



Washing machines 4 10 



Purifying machines 12 30 



Second floor. 



Compressors 5 10 



BRAZILIAN COMMENTS ON THE CiOODYEAR COMPANY'S 

 PROPOSAL. 



It is natural, of course, that more or less local opposition 

 should be expected against the entrance of a big American com- 

 pany into the rubber industry of Brazil. Obviously some such 

 opposition is felt, as can be seen from sundry comments in 

 Brazilian papers. Commenting on the proposal of the Goodyear 

 company, for the establishment of rubber refining plants, a cor- 

 respondent of the "Jornal do Commcrcio of Rio" specially op- 

 poses the suggestion for the rubber producing States to place 

 higher export duties on rubber which had not been cleaned. 

 Such an arrangement, it is urged, would give the Goodyear com- 

 pany a monopoly. Objection is also made to the words "of 

 South .America'' being used in the title. 



In deaiing editorially with the subject, the journal questions 

 the assertion that the Manaos plant with the equipment shown 

 could treat 40 tons a day, or the Para plant 100 tons, placing 

 the output at a much smaller quantity. 



A comparison is drawn between the figures of the French 

 proposal and that of the Goodyear company, by which it is shown 

 that the latter claims to be able to turn out 100 tons a day 

 with two boilers, while the former only indicates 27 tons as the 

 prospective daily output with six boilers. It is also questioned 

 at what point a complete washing of the rubber may be con- 

 sidered as having been effected. 



By the repeated mention of the three other competing pro- 

 posals it would seem that these utterances of the journal in 

 question are not unprejudiced, and that they represent the anti- 

 reform sentiments which e.xist in various forms in Brazil. 



AWARDS MADE FOR WASHING PLANTS. 



Late advices, received just as this publication goes to press, 

 state that the government awards for washing and refining plants 

 had been made as follows : 



For the Manaos plant, to the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. 

 of South America. 



For the Para plant, to Gabriel Chouffour, of Paris. 



For the Minas Geraes plant, to L. Cantanhede and .\rthur 

 Haas. 



MR. HAZLETT BACK FROM SOUTH AMERICA. 



Those who attended tlie International Rubber Exposition, 

 held in the Grand Central Palace last fall, will remember the 

 fine South American views and interesting lectures given by 

 Mr. Dillwynn M. Hazlett, who has made a study of the South 

 .American situation — particularly in reference to its rubber in- 

 ihistry. He sailed again for that country in December to ac- 

 quaint himself with the scope of the exposition to be held later 

 in Rio de Janeiro, and has recently returned. He delivered some 

 illustrated travel lectures on the returning steamer, which were 

 so much appreciated by his fellow passengers that they presented 

 liim with a silver desk clock combined with a perpetual calendar. 



-Mr. Hazlett is most optimistic in regard to the opening in 

 Siiulh American markets for goods made in the United States. 

 He expects to return to that country in June, and will represent 

 a number of important American manufacturers at the Interna- 

 tional Exposition to be held in Rio next September. Where 

 manufacturers do not feel like going to the expense of shipping 

 heavy exhibits they can tell their story very eflfectively to those 

 who attend that exposition through Mr. Hazlett's system of 

 moving pictures, accompanied by explanatory remarks. Every- 

 body enjoys a moving-picture show, and it really affords an 

 effective and inexpensive way of telling one's story to an audi- 

 ence in a foreign country. 



Should be on every rubber man's desk — Crude Rubber and 

 Compounding Ingredients; Rubber Country of the .Amazon; 

 Rubber Trade Directory of the World. 



