May 1, 1913, 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



411 



THE NEW BRAZILIAN WASHING PLANTS. 



A S recorded in the April issue of The Inuia Rubbkr World 

 **• (page 348) the awards for the Brazilian washing plants 

 were made for Manaos to the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., of 

 South America; for Pari to Gabriel Chouffour of Paris, and for 

 Minas Geraes to Luiz Cantanhede de Carvalho Almeida and 

 Arthur Haas. The estimates and proposed installation of 

 machinery of the Manaos plant were reported last month. 



THE PAR.\ PLANT. 



The proposal of Gabriel Chouffour for Para, as published in 

 the "Diario OfHcial." states that he is acting in combination with 

 the Banque Credit Fran^aise of Paris, and with the Compagnie 

 de Caoutchouc Etablissements Hutchinson of the same city. It 

 is proposed to establish a plant capable of washing and purifying 

 4,000 tons of scrappy Manaos in six months. The total annual 

 production of scrappy Manaos is stated to be about 8,000 tons, 

 of which 4,000 tons come into Manaos and 4,000 tons into Para. 

 It is the latter quantity to which the proposal applies, and which 

 would have to be treated at the rate of about 27 tons a day for 

 ISO days. The installation of machinery would be in groups 

 composed as follows : 



(a) One grinder (three cylinders) ; (b) Two washing 

 machines, Werner & Pfleiderer type; (c) Three washing and 

 compressing machines (two cylinders). 



As each group could wash about 3.500 pounds in a day of ten 

 hours, there would be 17 groups needed. Adding two groups 

 for use in case of necessity, 19 groups would be required. It is 

 estimated that these machines would cost and weigh for each 

 group : 



Cost Equalling. Weight (tons). 



(a) (one machine) $2,000 10 



(b) (two machines) 4,000 12 



(c) (three machines) 3,600 18 



Transmissions 600 3 



Foundations 1,000 — 



Total $11,200 43 



(Total cost of 19 groups, $212,800.) 



On this basis the total estimate would amount to $587,500, 

 composed as follows: (The original figures are in francs, but 

 have been converted into American currency). 



(1)— Machinery $212,800 



Drying equipment 14,000 



Installation, etc 28,000 



Pumps, water service 19,000 



Washing appliances 6,000 $279,800 



(2)— Motive force 126.200 



(3)— Buildings 109,500 



$515,500 



Surveys and superintendence 20.000 



Contingencies, 10 per cent 52,000 



Estimate francs, 2,937,500 = $587,500 



To this amount will have to be added freight on material, 

 estimated at $40,000. A site will also have to be provided for, 

 with an area of about 110,000 square feet. 



The total estimates, it is stated, after making allowance for 

 variations in cost of labor and freight, would represent in Brazil- 

 ian currency 1,932 :500$000; thus equalling in American monev, 

 $644,166. 



The charge of washing or purifying rubber would be 200 reis 

 per kilo (equalling about 3 cents per pound). 



THE MINAS GERAES PLANT. 

 The proposal which has been accepted from Luiz Cantanhedo 

 de Carvalho .-Mnieida, civil engineer, and Arthur Haas, industrial 

 proprietor, covers the construction on the bank of the river San 

 Francisco, near the city of Pirapora, in the State of Minas 

 Geraes, of a plant for washing and purifying Manitoba and 

 Mangabeira rubber. The capacity of the plant is estimated at 

 about 1,500 pounds a day. 



WERNER & PFLEIDEKEH'S WASHING MACHINES FOR BRAZIL. 



It is of interest to note that the proposal accepted by the 

 Brazilian government for the Para washing plant specifies the 

 washing machines of VN'crntr & Pfleiderer. As the installation 

 would include 38 of such machines, the order will be of 

 importance. 



DAVID BRIDGES' RUBBER MACHINERY FOR BRAZIL. 



The proposal of tlic Comi)anhia Norte Brazil for two rubber 

 manufacturing plants, one of which was awarded that company, 

 states : 



"The plans for both factories of rubber goods were drawn up 

 by David Bridge & Co., Limited, of Manchester, one of the most 

 noted English engineering firms." 



BRAZILIAN lUHIGRATION. j 



One of the difficulties in the way of Brazilian development is 

 being removed. The Federal Government recently signed a con- 

 tract with the Companhia Rural de Commercio e Ipdustria to 

 introduce and settle 10,000 families of European immigrants. 



DYNAMITE IN BRAZILIAN AGRICULTURE. 



The Secretary of Agriculture of the State of Sao Paulo has 

 asked the Minister of Finances to reduce the duties on dynamite 

 in order to facilitate its employment in agriculture. As there is 

 a dynamite factory in Brazil, the State Treasury has expressed 

 disapproval of the proposed reduction. 



PUERTO CABELLO RUBBER EXPORTS. 



A consular report from Puerto Cabello shows the value of 

 rubber shipped from the port in 1912 as $5,593 as compared 

 with $10,683 in 1911. 



MALAYAN PLANTERS FOR BRAZIL. 



The need of capable superintendents is one of the admitted 

 difficulties of the present Brazilian situation. The "Malay Mail" 

 reports that large fees had been offered to Malayan planters, 

 to induce them to take up work in Brazil. A case is likewise 

 referred to in which a planter from Malaya, spending a holiday 

 in England, had been offered and had accepted, a two years' 

 agreement to go out to Brazil to supervise tapping methods. 

 The salary attached to the post is $4,250 the first year and $5,000 

 the second, with all expenses paid — an important item, since the 

 work involves a great deal of traveling from one property to 

 another. 



THE PERUVIAN AMAZON CO. 



The Peruvian Amazon Co., which has owned the rubber con- 

 cession in the Putumayo District in Peru where the atrocities 

 have been committed on the Indian rubber gatherers — the dis- 

 closure of which has shocked the civilized world — was ordered 

 into compulsory liquidation on March 19, by the Chancery Court 

 of London. By the action of the Court, J. C. Arana was re- 

 moved from the position of liquidator of the company. 



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

 Compounding Ingredients ; Rubber Country of the Amazon ; 

 Rubber Trade Directory of the World. 



