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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[August 1, 1913. 



Vol. 48. 



AUGUST 1, 1913. 



No. 5. 



TABLE or CONTENTS. 



Editorial: 



The Practicability of Rubber Pavements 553 



Prizes for New Uses of Rubber 554 



Guaranteeing the Unguaranteeable 554 



Depending on the Point of View 555 



The Debt to the Chemist ' 555 



Minor Editorial 555 



Rubber in Argentina 



By the Editor 556 

 (With S Illustrations.] 



Brazilian Rubber Exports 558 



Dr. Muller Holds a Farewell Reception 559 



(With Illustration. 1 



The Para Rubber Congress and Exhibition 560 



Rubber at the Ghent Exhibition 561 



(With Illustration.] 



Lamp Black and Carbon Black 562 



Notes on the Acclimatization and Cultivation of the Guajoile 



By Prof. Francis E. Lloyd 563 

 [With 1 Portrait and 5 Illtjstrations.] 



Proofers Want Protection Against Dishonest Practices 566 



The Rubber Trade in Boston 



Our Correspondent 567 

 The Rubber Trade in Akron 



Our Correspondent 568 

 [With 1 Illustration.] 



The Rubber Trade in Rhode Island 



Our Correspondent 569 



The Rubber Trade in San Francisco 



Our Correspondent 570 



The Rubber Trade in Trenton 



Our Correspondent 570 



The Annual IVlidsummer Outing of The Rubber Club of 



America 57' 



[With Illustration.] 



The Hodgman Glen Island Outing 573 



[With 2 Illustrations.] 



New Trade Publications 574 



Editor's Book Table 575 



Non-Skid Shoes for Dancing 576 



(With Illustration.] 



Balata Belting as Viewed by an Expert 576 



Obituary Record 577 



[With 3 Portraits.] 



The Rubber Industries of New Jersey 579 



New Rubber Goods in the Market 580 



(With 11 Illustrations.] 



News of the American Rubber Trade 582 



India-rubber Goods ia Commerce 587 



The India Rubber Trade in Great Britain 



Our Regular Correspondent 588 



Rubber Paving in London 589 



The Future of the Rubber Industry 589 



To Encourage New Uses of Rubber 590 



Direct Shipments of Rubber to New York 590 



Some Rubber Interests in Europe 591 



Annual Report of Henriques Laboratory, Berlin 592 



Austrian Talc Association 593 



The Rubber Trade in Japan 



Our Regular Correspondent 593 



Seme Rubber Planting Notes 594 



The Tropical Agricultural College 595 



Belgian Rubber Interests in Malaya and Sumatra 595 



Hevea Rubber in British Guiana 596 



(With 2 Illustrations.] 



Rubber Notes from British Guiana 



Our Regular Correspondent 596 



A Glimpse of the Existing Conditions in the Balata Industry 



in Dutch Guiana 



A Resident Correspondent 597 

 (With 1 Illustration.] 



Recent Patents Relating to Rubber 598 



(United States, (ireat Britain. France, Germany.] 



Report of the Crude Rubber Market 600 



Anttverp. 



Rubber Statistics for June, 1913. 



Sales since Jan. 1 2,162,027 2,430.563 2,035,257 2,166,203 2,522,819 



Rubber .Arrivals from the Congo. 



June 26. — By the steamer Leopoldville : 



Kilos. 



Uunge & Co '. (Societe Generale Africaine) 11,800 



do (Comptoir Commercial Congolais) 9,600 



do (Chemins de fer Grands Lac^) 750 



do (Belgika) 1,750 



do (Intertropical) 5,500 



do (Comfina) 8,200 



Societe Coloniale Anversoise (Comminiere) 1,650 



do (Lomami) 4,950 



do (Haut Congo) 9,750 



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



Velde), (S. A.), (Cie du Kasai) 78,000 



do (Velde) 6,000 



Charles Dethier (American Congo Co.) 5,000 



Willaert Freres 3,000 145,950' 



Plantsttion Rubber from the Far East. 



Exports of Ceylon-Grown Rubber. 



(From January 1 to June 1, 1913. Compiled by the Ceylon Chamber of 



Commerce.) 



1912. 



To Great Britain pounds 2,628,387 



To United States 1.522.632 



To Belgium 507.592 



To Australia 63,837 



To Germany 60,407 



To Austria 

 To Canada . 

 To Japan- . . 

 To Italy . . . 

 To Holland 

 To Sweden 

 To India . . 



12.563 



12.121 



7.508 



5,885 



2,282 



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1913. 



4,829,547 



2,936,581 



1,378,854 



258,841 



111,009 



26,075 



99,611 



33.802 



992 



'269 



Total 4.823.253 9,675,521 



(Same period 1911, 2,143,238; same 1910. 1.046,715.) 

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

 include the imports re-exported. (These amount to 893,866 lbs. — 

 710,500 lbs. from the Straits and 183,366 lbs. from India.— Ed. 

 C. 0.) To arrive at the approximate quantity of Ceylon rui> 

 ber exported for 1913 to date, deduct the quantity of imports 

 from the total exports. In previous years the exports of Ceylon 

 rubber only w'ere given. 



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.) 



Singapore. 



June 8 

 Great Britain, .pounds 7,386.271 



Continent 90.003 



Japan 411,275 



Australia 45,116 



Cevlon lis 



United States 2,504.964 



Total 10,437,744 



Same period, 1912.... 5,309,245 

 Same period. 1911.... 2,421.941 

 Same period, 1910.... 1.220.057 



