March 



1902.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER AA^ORLD 



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TWO TYPES OF MANUFACTURERS. 



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~ TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



Editorial : 



Two rvpesof Manufacturers 



Prices of Rubber and the Demand. 

 Rubber and D'Ordlardl's Theory... 



The Cost of Planting Uubber 



Minor Kditorial 



Gutta-Percha in the Philippines 



Mr, James B. Dill (with I'urlrail) 



The Use of Rubber on British Railways 



.in Occastujia! Corrt«poiidejif 



The South American Eubher Fields 



[Rubber Output of the Amazon Valley. Development in Bolivia,] 



The Rubber Planting Interest 



[Private Rubber Plantations in Me.xico. Notes on Planting Company 

 Operations in .Mexico. Sun and Shade Planting {-with Illustration). 

 Portuguese East Africa.] 



The Grading of Balata 



View in an Amazon Rubber .Warehouse 



[Cutting Rubber by Witt & Co., in Mandos.] 



Cycles, Automobiles, and Tires 



The Sunning of Vulcanized Rubber Goods 



[With ail Illustration.] 



The India-Kubber Trade in Great Britain 



our Regular Correspondent. 



[Rubber I*'outwear. Wicks's Patents. Waterproof Garment Trade. 



Hyde Imperial Rubber Co. Rubber as an Insulator. Tires. Dr. C, 



O. Weber. Oil of Caoutchouc. Short Mention.] 



New Goods and Specialties in Rubber (ffiusfrdfed) 



[•' Vendome " Clo;;. C.utta-percha Belting. Oilproof Balata Belting. 



Printing Wheels for Sheet Packing. Mason Hose Reel for Motor 



Cars. Rubber Folding Tub, New Styles in Ladies' Footwear. 



" Standard Flange " Fountain Pen. Mackintosh Rain i oats. A 



Dainty Use of Rubber,] 



Recent Rubber Patents [American and English] 



The Retail Shoe Dealers and Rubbers ... 



Some Views on the Kubber Situation H. E. Bagan 



Answers to Correspondents 



Deaths in the Rubber Trade 



[With Portraits of John C. Evans and William H. Salisbury.] 

 The l.ate Mr. Fujikura, of ,lHpan 



Some Wants of the Rubber Trade 



Miscellaneous: 



Kiigiisli Cable Companies to Combine 



Ku liber Shoe Trade in Hong Kong 



Rubber Shoe Making In Germany 



Rubber .Stealing In Russia 



Rubber Exports from Ei.'uador 



Trade West of the Mississlpi>i Z. T. lAJtdseu 



Rubber Hose for IJrewerles 



Kubbcr Notes from Europe 



The Practical ,Ioker at Work 



La Zaciial[)a Kiibber 



Extra Heavy Steam Hose Couplings 



News of the American Rubber Trade 



The Rubber Vehicle Tire Interest 



[With Illustrations.] 



New Trade Publications 



Review of the Crude Rubber Market 



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T^HE wonderful growth of the rubber business some- 

 •*• times prompts the question ; Why is it that, instead 

 of hundreds of factories scattered all over the Union, did 

 not the pioneers keep ahead of the times, and so increase 

 their plants that they could fill the increasing demands and 

 thus keep the newer men out ? There are many reasons, 

 but the soundest, perhaps, is that the wisest manufacturers 

 do not wish for too much business. There are those, of 

 course, in every industry who seem to be in business sim- 

 ply to build great mills and market an enormous product. 

 The safe man, however, chooses rather a smaller business, 

 eliminating from time to time lines that are of less profit, 

 declining risky accounts, simplifying his products, and 

 bettering his goods so that, be they staple or special, his 

 name will mean more and more a certain integrity that all 

 come to recognize. He figures on the demand for his 

 goods in the dull rather than in the " boom " years. He is 

 sure to stay in business and get a fair amount of this 

 world's goods for himself, while the aggressive, progressive 

 " hustler " may strike it rich or may " come a cropper." 

 Both types are necessary, and both will be ever with us. 

 One creates, the other conserves. Together they form the 

 sum total of industrial progress. 



PRICES OF RUBBER AND THE DEMAND. 



A LOOK backward at the era of high prices for crude 

 rubber that has just come to a somewhat sensa- 

 tional close develops the interesting fact that through it 

 all the manufacturers were not only uniformly busy but 

 new factories were successfully started, old ones enlarged, 

 and a general prosperous condition prevailed. Looking 

 forward to a twelvemonth, at least, of low prices, it is a 

 significant fact that the belief that the good times will 

 continue is not held because of the low price of crude ma- 

 terial. As a matter of fact, the high or the low quotations 

 have little effect upon the manufacturer or upon the volume 

 of his business. It is the old, old story of the law of sup- 

 ply and demand. 



Business promises to be good this year because other 

 industries are flourishing. For example, the great com- 

 panies who build mining machinery are full of orders. 

 Part of the equipment that they use comes from the me- 

 chanical rubber trades, and be the crude material high or 

 low the orders will come in just the same. And so it is in 

 a hundred other industries, all of which contribute some- 

 thing to swell the vast sum total of manufactured rubber 

 goods. 



There will be, of course, among buyers those who will 

 demand lower prices because of the present low price of 

 crude, who will not understand that when the business 

 is done on a large scale prices are based on average 

 prices that cover long periods of time, nor will they ap- 

 preciate that other materials as necessary as rubber are 

 still high, and that the labor cost, the mechanical equip- 

 ment, the hundred and one factory and selling e.xpenses 

 are in no way diminished. Rubber manufacturers have. 



