September i, 1901.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER ^A/'ORLD 



363 



EXPORTS OF AMERICAN RUBBER GOODS. 



THE value of exports from the United States of goods 

 classed as " manulactures of India-rubber" during the 

 fiscal year ended June 30, 1901, reached the highest figures 

 yet recorded, the details being: 



(a) Not separately reported prior to July i, i8gQ. 

 [Exports to Hawaii and Porto Rico not included.] 



The number of pairs of rubber footwear exported during the 

 past twelve fiscal years has been : 



1889-90 171.473 1893-94 261,65: 1897-qS 391,832 



1890-91 175.627 1894-95 •■•383.723 1898-yq 486,586 



1891-92 ...231,105 1895-96 ...350,713 1899-1900 762,016 



1892-93. ..410,950 1896-97. ..306,026 1900-01 1,469,100 



The average invoice value of rubber footwear during the 

 last four fiscal years has been : 



1897-98. 1898-^,9. 1899- 1900. 1900-01. 



57.3 cents. 53.6 cents. 55.25 cents. 49 3 cents. 



Exports of reclaimed rubber by fiscal years have been : 



1898-99. 1899-igoo. 1900-01. 



Value $376,962 $492,284 $412,728 



RUBBER GOODS EXPORTS FROM NEW YORK. 



During five weeks ended July 30, igoi.of the value and 

 distributed as follows : 



Great Britain. .$44,744 



Germany 13.999 



France 1,234 



Belgium 5,105 



Holland.... 



Spain 



Switzerland, 



Italy 



Austria 



Turkey 



Russia 



Denmark 1,070 



Norway 223 



Sweden 438 



Brit. N. Amer. 778 

 Mexico 12,^43 



Central Amer. 697 Japan 8,633 



Cuba S,027 I longkong. . . 



British W. Ind. 5S9 Philippines.. 



Danish W. Ind. 15 



Dutch W. Ind. 39 



Haiti 2S9 



San Domingo. ico 



Argentina .... 2,056 



Brazil 865 



Chile 1.098 



394 Colombia £64 



Ecuador 85 



Peru 189 



Venezuela .... 97 



Australia 6,013 



China , 1,230 



718 

 2,728 

 703 

 135 

 3S3 

 14 



British E. Ind. 

 British Africa. 

 Liberia 



29 

 497 

 1,232 



7 479 



Total .. $125,690 

 May 29 June 



25 92.157 



May 1-28 . . . 70,216 

 April 3 30 86,c6o 



Total 17 



weeks. $374,123 



Some other exports from New York during the five weeks 

 ended July 30 were : 



Drfss Shields — To London $8525 ; Liverpool S4624 ; Southampton 

 $5192 ; Glasgow $953 ; Hamburg $9569 ; Vienna $829 ; Havre $837 ; 

 Antwerp $743 , Australia $2692 ; Argentina $igo ; British Africa $48 ; 

 total $33,373- 



India-rubbtr Thread. — To Antwerp $4587 ; Havre $3369; Hamburg 

 $7786 ; Rotterdam $7015 ; Genoa $5277 ; Glasgow $6362 ; total $34,396. 



Reclaimed Rubber. — To Liverpool $4121 ; Glasgow $7785 ; Leith 

 $4910; Manchester $900; Genoa $1223; Havre $2318; Hamburg 

 $5822 ; Copenhagen $741 ; Christiana $758 ; total $28,578. 



AMERICAN IMPORTS OF RUBBER GOODS. 



The value of the imports of India-rubber and Gutta-percha 

 goods during the twelve months ending June 30 in each year 

 has been : 



India rubber goods $309,247 



Gutta-percha goods 156,997 



1899. 1900. 



$379 309 $564,088 



115,582 254,332 



$478,625 

 163.337 



Total Imports $466,244 $494,891 



Reexports 101,857 63,016 



18 420 $641,962 



12,874 16,888 



LITERATURE OF INDIA-RUBBER. 



(( r^IE Kultut des Castilloa-Kautschuk," by Theodor F. 

 -L^ Koschny, of San Carlos, Costa Rica, is an 8vo pamph- 

 let of 54 pages, issued as Vol. II, No. 3 of the supplementary 

 series of j9^r Tropenpflanzer (Berlin), the organ of the Kolonial- 

 Wirtschaftlichen Komitee— an organization which has done so 

 much of late to investigate the natural conditions attending 

 the growth of rubber species, and to promote cultivation on an 

 intelligent basis. Herr Koschny has now been in Costa Rica 

 for 23 years, during all of which time he has made a study of 

 the rubber tree, planting on a small scale by all the different 

 methods. He has adopted that of cutting out rows throuph 

 the forest, and planting the seeds where the trees are to stand. 

 He estimates that the needed outlay, other than for land, 

 would be, for 100 hectares (=247 acres), on which he would 

 place 27,777 trees (=116 or 117 trees per acre), up to the end of 

 seven years, would be $8207 (gold). In the eighth year he 

 would begin tappirg, limiting the yield to i pound per tree, in 

 order not to endanger their vitality. Herr Koschny describes 

 four sorts of Castilloa, which are known locally as — 



Hule blanco=white rubber. 



Hule negro=black rubber. 



Hule coIorado=:red rubber. 



Hule tanu, which is the " tuno" gum. 



This is, on the whole, the most comprehensive publication 



yet made in regard to the rubber tree of Central America by 



one who made a study of the tree in its native habitat, and it 



gives the impression of much painstaking to assure accuracy. 



IN CURRENT PERIODICALS. 



Reisebericht der Guttapercha-und Kautschuk- Expedition each den 

 Sudsee Kolonien. By Rudolf Schlechter. [Report on rubber planta- 

 tions in Sumatra by a commission from the German Colonial Committee]. 

 = />e; Tropenfflanzei , Berlin. V-7 (July, 1901.) pp. 318 329. 



Rubber in Venezuela. By Consul Q,o\ihcVm\A\— Advance Sheets of 

 Consular Reports, Washington. No. 1070 (June 24, 1901.) pp. 1-3. 



Conditions Auxquelles est soumise I'Exploitation du Caoutchouc au 

 Biesil. [Extracts from documents communicated by the ministry of 

 foreign affairs of Belgium \— Bulletin de la Socic'tt' d' Eludes Cohmiales, 

 Brussels. VII-ii (November, 1900.) pp. 793-796. 



De cultur van den Mexikanschen gom elastik boom {Castilloa elastica). 

 = ByA. H. Berkhout. [Review of pamphlet by Th. F. Koschny, of 

 Cosia Rica, published hy Der Tropenpftanzer.'\ — DeIndischeMercuur, 

 Amsterdam XXIV-30 (July 30, 1901) pp. 580-581. 



From Para to Manaos : A Trip up the Lower Amazon. By Reginald 

 Ka-ttlitz. [Illustrated account of the Amazon country, with references 

 to rubber gathering. ]= The Scottish Geographical Magazine, Edinburgh. 

 XVII-I (January, 1901.) pp. 11-30. 



Renseignements Comporatifs sur les Cinq Principaux Arbres a Caout- 

 chmc— Bulletin de la Socit't^ d' Etudes Cohmiales, Brussels. VIII-7 

 (July, i9or) pp. 497-502. 



OTHER PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



THE AFRICAN ANNUAL AND TRADF.RS' YEAR BOOK. 



don; Offices of y^/riVrt.; Commerce. [1901. J [Clotll. l2mo. 

 2f. (id.\ 



1901. 

 160 pp. 



LON- 

 Price, 



Net Imports $364,387 $431,875 $805,546 $625,074 



This book is the result of the first attempt to supply in col- 

 lected form facts and figures relating to the whole of Africa, 

 for the special use of exporters and importers, manufacturers, 

 and shippers. Information is given in relation to forty-two 

 colonies and countries. The plan of the work is comprehen- 

 sive, and it gives the impression of being accurate. 



Commercial Relations of the United States with Foreign Countries 

 During the Year 1900. In two volumes. Washington: Government 

 Printing Office. 1901. [Cloth, 8vo. pp. 1241-1-1057.] 



Statistics of Manufactures, 1899-J900. [From the Fifteenth Report 

 on the Statistics of Manufactures of Massachusetts.] Boston- 1901. 

 [8vo. pp. V-I-61-157.] 



