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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[September 1, 1913. 



supports the main belt conveyor. Inclined conveyors deliver the 

 coffee to this long endless belt, which in turn carries the sacks 

 along until they are intercepted by one of the loading machines 

 and automatically delivered aboard the steamer. These loading 

 machines run on tracks and move by their own electric power 

 up and down the dock. In them are the motors that operate 

 the belt conveyors and indeed all of the complicated machinery 

 of this huge loading device. It is too bad, but of the miles of 

 belting used not one foot of it is rubber. Stitched canvas is 

 what they use, and they are convinced that ritbber belting would 

 not stand ui> in that hot, humid atmosphere. 



(To be continued.) 



I would see that every motorist in my neighborhood knew about 

 this new scheme; and as fast as one tried it he'd tell the ne.xt. 



HOW MOTORCAR TANKS ARE FILLED 

 IN COLORADO. 



liy a }i'cster)i Corresfoiidciil. 



THEY were discussing their summer vacations, back there in 

 the smoker, and the practical results, if any, attendant on 

 the purely pleasure jaunt. 



The quiet, dapper man who had sat still and said nothing, 

 stepped in at this point and remarked : 



"I've been summering out in Colorado and the Rockies, and 

 that sort of thing— and I've picked up one new idea that I intend 

 to put to personal use forthwith. .Mmost the whole country 

 over, except there in Colorado, the automoliilist whose machine 

 requires water contents himself with the nuisance of opening 

 Stat or tool-bo.x, bringing from it a collapsible bucket, 'hiking' 

 to some farm-house, begging right to use the nearest cistern, and 

 paying for the privilege with cigars, if not in cash itself. Not 

 so in Colorado. 



"There the owners of machines— big and little— purchase from 

 the nearest hardware shop a cheap foot-pump, the sort you hold 

 in place by putting your feet on the bars protruding from each 

 side. Then, they buy a good length of hose, coiling this up 

 either at the side (say inside the extra tire), or attaching it 

 underneath the car. There is hardly an automobile jaunt any- 

 where in this great and glorious republic, of sufficient length 

 to use up one's supply of water, that doesn't take one over some 

 creek, brook, pond or the like. And at such time our western 

 autoists simply throw one end of their hose overboard, the other 

 staying ti.xed to the tank. .\ moment or two with the foot-pump 

 and they have pumped up as much water as they will need till 

 the next stop at least. It's a wonderfully handy arrangement, 

 especially on tours away from the beaten paths; and if I were 

 a rubber dealer I would lay in a big supply of hose, and then 



Rubber Hose .\.s an Auto Siphon. 



•And it's my guess that every man of them who bought the 

 hose would come back afterwards and thank me for the idea." 



A MEXICAN rubber COMPANY INVESTS IN A MALAY PLANTATION. 



It is a new departure for .American rubber companies inter- 

 ested in Mexican plantations to divert any part of their energies 

 to rubber planting in the Far East — but this is what has been 

 done by the Mexican Crude Rubber Co.. of Detroit. In the 

 report sulimittcd by the general manager at the recent annual 

 meeting", these two interesting paragraphs may be found: "It is 

 with a feeling of optimism that your manager turns to the 

 subject of the company's new enterprise, its operations in the 

 Federated Malay States. This was undertaken after very care- 

 ful though by your board of directors following the report of 

 the investigations made by two of the company's most trusted 

 employees. The Mexican Crude Rubber Co. has acquired by 

 purchase three plantations, all of which are cleared and planted, 

 from which the company will commence to market rubber 

 during the year 1914. These plantations are situated in the 

 State of Selangor. which is the best proven rubber district in 

 the Far East. They are known as the Waterfall Estate, com- 

 prising 189 acres; the Kuala Oaring Estate of 590 acres, and the 

 Bukit Rawang Estate of 456 acres, or a total of 1,235 acres, 

 which was all planted at the time of purchase." 



The company has also leased from the Government a wild 

 tract of 1,500 acres adjoining these plantations, which it is now 

 clearing and which it intends to plant to rubber. 



guayule rubber factory closing Down. 

 The directors of the Guayule Rubber Co.. Ltd., London, an- 

 nounce that owing to the disturbed state of Mexico, and par- 

 ticularly in the regions whence the company draws its sup- 

 plies of raw material, it lias been found necessary to practically 

 close down the factory. This has been done temporarily and 

 the staff reduced as far as it is possible to do so. Cable ad- 

 vices to the home office state that for the present it is impos- 

 sible to guarantee any spcc'rtc quantity of production. Further 

 sales of rubber are. therefore, not being made, in anticipation 

 of lack of prnbalile output. 



Filling T.\.vk with G.\rden Hose. 



AMERICAN rubber GOODS FOR FRANCE. 



.\ business man in a i-'rench consular district expresses 

 through the United States consul the desire to obtain an 

 agency for .American rubber goods. Replies should be ad- 

 dressed to the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, 

 Washington. D. C, under Xo. 11523. 



