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THE INDIA RUBBER >VORLD 



[February i, 1902. 



reached a climax for the present, the increase during the year 

 having been only 500 tons. There were to be exposed for sale 

 on January 21 about 344 tons of Congo sorts, with valuations 

 as follows — in francs per kilogram — of principal lots : 



32 tons Lopori firsts .7.80 



52 " Upper Congo balls. .7.15 



34 " Aruwimi 5.75 



25 " Mongalla 6.75 



17 " Lake Leopold 1 4.50 



27 tons Lomami 7.25 



13 " Upper Congo strips.. 6.50 



17 " Uele strips 5.75 



9 " Kassai red 6.95 



II '* Djuma red 5.15 



ANTWERP RUBBER STATISTICS FOR DECEMBER. 



ARRIVALS AT ANTWERP. 



January 3. — By X.\\& Anversvz'lle, from the Congo: 



Hunge & Co (Societe Anversoise) kilos 3,500 



Bunge & Co (Comite Special Katanga) 16,000 



Btinge & Co (Plantations Lacourt) 7 ,000 



Bunge & Co (Societe Isanghi) 8,000 



Bunge & Co (Domaine prive Etat du Congo) 173,000 



Ch. Dethier (Societe Belgika) 37,000 



Societe ABIR 11,000 



M. S. Cols (Produits Vegetaux du Kassai) 12,000 



Societe Coloniale Anversoise (Beige du Haut Congo) 35,000 

 Societe Coloniale Anversoise . (Cie. des Mag. Generaux) 9,000 



Societe Coloniale Anversoise (Societe Lomami) 9,000 



Cie. Commerciale des Colonies (La Kassaienne) 4,000 



Cie. Commerciale des Colonies (Cie Frangaise du Congo) 3,000 

 L. & W. Van de Velde (Comptoirs Congolais Velde). 9,000 



Credit Commercial Congolais (La Lulonga) 4.000 



Credit Commercial Congolais(M .D'Heygere aGand) 1,500 



Traffic Congolais 2,000 



Societe pour Commerce Colonial. ...(Est du Kwango) 4,000 



Comptoir Commercial Congolais 4,000 



Soc. Agricole & Commercial de I'Alima 3,000 355,000 



[Arrivals same date, jgoi — 20S.000 kilograms.] 



M. Louis M. L. Gelis, of Antwerp, advises The India Rub- 

 ber World that on January 10 he retired from the directorate 

 of the Cie. Commerciale des Colonies, Societe Anonyme, of 

 that city, engaged in exploiting rubber in Brazil and Africa. 



Hamburg. 



To the Editor of The India Rubber World: The 

 Hamburg market during the past week showed no sign ol life 

 whatever, along the whole line, and the tendency, caused by 

 the retrogression of Pard prices, is a waiting one, in conse- 

 quence of which the transactions remained within narrow 

 bounds. The disposals were — at marks per kilogram : 



Bolivian, fine, spot 7.85(0/7.90 



Bolivi.m negroheads, spot 5.90 



Mollendo, line, new 7.65 



Mozambique ball, fine red 7.50 



Mozambique ball, fine red 7 35 



Massai niggers, fine red 6.10 



liissao ball, fine white 550 



Adeli ball, fine red, slightly mixed 610 



Ecuador scrap, fine. 5 75 



Colombia scrap, good 5.60 



Batanga ball 4.15(84.20 



White Borneo 5.00 @ 5.10 



Hamburg, January 14, 1902. 



Lisbon. 



Martin Weinstein & Co. report arrivals, in metric tons : 



1S94. 1895. 1896. 1S97. 1898. 1S99. 1900. 1901. 

 Benguella niggers..li54 1306 1583 1793 2444 1879 1614 1460 

 Loanda niggers. ... 727 679 660 983 962 885 678 754 

 Congo thimbles. . .. 138 29 45 89 I50 264 206 145 

 Other sorts 45 103 28 41 20 30 48 71 



Total .. 2064 2117 2316 2906 3576 3058 2546 2430 



British Imports of India-Rubber, 



1899. 1900. 1901. 



Imports pounds. 50,360.912 57,488,032 52,161,088 



Exports 34,284,320 32,885,888 32,904,704 



Net imports 16,076,592 24,602,144 19,256,384 



GUTTA-PERCHA. 



Imports pounds. 9,239,664 14,118,608 9,883,552 



Exports 840,224 1,709,792 1,224,832 



Net imports 8,399,440 12.408,816 8,658,720 



Gutta-Percha. 



Reports are at hand relative to the exports from Singapore 

 during 1901 up to December 10, which are stated below, to- 

 gether with exports for the first eleven months of 1901, com- 

 pared with the same period of 1900, and showing a considerable 

 decline during the past year : 



To II mos. II mos. 



To — Dec. 10. 1901. 1900. 



Great Britain pounds 7,657,066! 7,336,000 9,763,733^ 



Other Europe 2,921,466! 2,900,400 2,740,266! 



United States 1,136,800 1.321.3331 254,333^ 



Total 11,715.333^ ii,557,733j 13,758, 333s 



gutta-jelutong (PONTIANAK). 



Great Britain 829,600 829,600 2,7ii,733j 



Other Europe. . 1.572,800 1,474,266! 733.466a 



United States 13,828,000 13,612,400 7,442,1334 



16,230,400 15,916,266! io,887,333j 



Late quotations for Gutta-jelutong, $7 silver per picul ; 

 equivalent to about 1.6 cents per pound. 



Batata. 



French Guiana has not figured as a Balata exporting 

 country hitherto, but it is stated that during the first seven 

 months of 1901 there were shipped from that colony 3547>^ 

 kilos [ = 78,045 pounds] of this material. 



It is stated that very little Gutta-percha and Balata reaches 

 the open market at Rotterdam, although a very large business 

 is done privately in these materials at that port. 



Kramrisch & Co. (Liverpool) in their trade review for 1901 re- 

 port : "Balata. — We had reduced arrivals of these descriptions, 

 and all the imports of these grades have met with a good de- 

 mand, although at one time block Balata was as low as \s. jd. 

 The year closes with buyers at 2^. and sellers at 2s. id. Nearly 

 the whole of the stock in first and second hands has been cleared 

 off and gone into consumption, and all new arrivals are selling 

 very readily at full price. Sheet Balata. — Owing to the in- 

 creased consumption the prices have also gradually gone up, 

 and the market closes with buyers at 2s. jd. showing ^d. per 

 pound advance for the year." 



To the Ediior of The India Rubber World: The 



shipment of Balata from the port of Ciudad Bolivar during 



1901 was as follows ; in kilograms : 



January-July 269,105 November 212,775 



August 112,427 December 255,603 



September 178,731 



October 167,873 Total 1,196,414 



This amount is only slightly smaller than the figures for the 



