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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[JlN-E 1. 1913. 



\'ol. 48. 



JUNE 1, 1913, 



No. 3. 



TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



Editorial: 



Foreign Factories in the United States 449 



Reducing Rubber Prices to Encourage New Uses 449 



Advantages of Combining Tires with Footwear 450 



Rubber in College Theses 450 



The Best Rubber School 451 



The Call of Cheap Labor 451 



Minor Editorials 451 



Rubber in Southern Brazil 



By the Editor 453 



[With 11 Illustrations.] 

 Interesting Rubber Souvenirs 458 



fWith 2 Illustrations. 1 

 French View of Brazilian Situation 458 



The Plantation Rubber Industry 



By Cyril E. S. Baxcndale 459 

 (With Portrait.] 



The Washing of Crude Rubber 463 



IWith 9 Illustrations.] 

 Possible Rubber Producers in the Temperate Zone 



By Charles P. Fox 467 

 [With Poitraii.l 



The Purchasing Agent 



By Frederic Daniterth 469 



India Rubber Goods in Commerce 47° 



The Akers Rubber Commission in the Amazon Valley 471 



Encouragement of New Uses for Rubber 473 



Obituary Record 474 



IWith portrait of Mr. E. B. Kelley..] 



The Increasing Popularity of Rubber-Soled Summer Shoes 473 



[With 6 Illu-trations.] 



Rubber Goods Mfg. Co.'s Fourteenth Annual Report 476 



The United States Rubber Co.'s Annual Report 477 



The Rubber Trade in Boston 



Our Correspondent 479 

 The Rubber Trade in Akron 



Our Correspondent 481 

 The Rubber Trade in Cincinnati 



Our Correspondent 481 

 The Rubbei Trade in Chicago 



Our Correspondent 482 



The Rubber Trade in Rhode Island 



Our Correspondent 482 



The Rubber Trade in San Francisco 



Our Correspondent 483 



The Rubber Trade in Trenton 



Our Correspondent 484 



New Rubber Goods in the Market 485 



News of the American Rubber Trade 486 



India-Rubber Trade in Great Britain 



By Our Regular Correspondent 492 



Some Rubber Interests in Europe 493 



Notes from British Guiana 



By Our Regular Correspondent 494 



Some Rubber Planting Notes 495 



Some Rubber Notes from Para 



By a Special Correspondent 495 



Recent Patents Relating to Rubber 496 



[Unitfd States. Creat Hritain.] 



Report of the Crude Rubber Market 498 



Anttverp: 



Rubber Statistics for April. 



Details. 1913. 



Stocks, March l...*i7oj 651,505 



Arrivals in April — 



Congo sorts 385,070 



Other sorts 8,138 



Plantation sorts 246,814 



Aggregating 1,291,527 



Sales in April 301,257 



1912. 

 359,016 



360,605 



15,117 



129,715 



864,453 

 426,940 



1911. 

 645,614 



131,553 

 44,791 

 90,038 



911,991 

 312,877 



1910. 

 499,102 



340,456 

 40,014 

 49,400 



928,972 

 458,504 



1909. 

 595,855 



219,645 

 91,908 

 18,724 



926,132 

 318,345 



Stocks, April 30 990,270 437,513 599,114 470,468 607,787 



.\rrivals since Jan. 1 — 



Congo sorts 1,076.786 



Other sorts 43,316 



Plantation sorts 683,711 



Aggregating 1,803,813 



Sales since January 1 



1,091,077 



45.735 



407,325 



1,072,515 

 205,968 

 257,562 



1,171,286 

 120,169 

 178,094 



1,001,032 



368,972 



88,365 



1,544,137 1,536,045 1,469,549 1,458,369 



-April 23.- 



1,324,603 1,781,162 1,525,143 1,540,593 1,446,317 

 Rubber .Arrivals from the Congo. 

 Bv the steamer Aiiversville: 



26,800 

 15,700 

 1,800 

 1,000 

 8,000 

 200 

 1,200 



9,300 

 79,600 

 12,500 

 3.400 

 3,100 

 3,300 

 7,000 



Bunge & Co (Societe Generale Africaine) kilos 



do (Comptoir Commercial Congolais) 



do (Belgika) 



do (Comfina) 



do (Chemins de fer Grande Lacs) 



do (Forminiere) 



do 



Credit Colonial ard Commercial. 



do (Velde) 



I.. & W. Van de Velde (Cie du Kasai) 



do (Comfina) 



do (Uele) 



Charles Dethicr (Comminiere) 



do (.\merican Congo Co.) 



Divers 7,000 172,900 



PlantaUon Rubber From the Far East 



Km'orts iiF Cf.vlox-Grown Rubbf.r. 



(From January 1 to .Xpril 21, 1913. Compiled by the Ceylon Chamber 

 of Commerce.) 



1912. 



Great Britain /rounds 1.950.654 



United States 1.234.188 



Belgium 451,218 



39.905 



Tn 

 To 



To 



To Germany 



To Australia 



To Japan 



To Austria 



To Italy 



To Holland 



To Canada 



To Norway and Sweden 



34,002 

 5,687 

 5,320 

 4,692 



12.121 

 39 



1913. 



3.501,382 



2,270,021 



822.696 



64,862 



176,617 



75,502 



25,515 



22,460 



992 



Total 3,737,826 6,960,047 



[Same period 1911—1.509.408; same 1910—740.937.] 

 The e.xport figures of rubber for 1913 given in the above table 

 include the imports re-exported. (These amount to 647,683 lb. — 

 507,452 lb. from the Straits and 140,231 lb. from India.— Ed. C. O.) 

 To arrive at the approximate quantity of Ceylon rubber exported 

 for 1913 to date, deduct the quantity of imports from the total ex- 

 ports. In previous years the exports of Ceylon rubber only were 

 given. 



Tot.xl Exports from M.al.wa. 



(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- 

 To — Singapore. Penang. tenham. 



April 10. " ' " 

 Great Britain. . ./'oiiiirf-f 4,876.609 



Continent 64,912 



Japan 167,612 



Ceylon 



United States 1,849,445 



Australia 26.540 



Total. 



Total, 1913 



Same period, 1912. 

 Same period, 1911. 

 Same period, 1910. 



. .. 6,985,118 2.110.666 7,604.588 16,700.372 



... 3.727,218 847,722 3.945,893 8,520,833 



. .. 1.676,849 330,267 3.458.123 5,465.239 



. .. 944,557 496,971 1.906.728 3,348,256 



