June i, 1901.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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BRAZILIAN "RUBBER FARMS" FOR SALE. 



Pnblished on the lat of each Month by 



THE INDIA RUBBER PUBLISHING CO. 



No, 150 NASSAU ST,. NEW YORK, 



HENRY C. PEARSON, 



EDITOR. 



HAWTHORNE HILL, 



ASSOCIATE. 



VoL 24. 



JUNE 1, 1901. 



No. 3. 



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TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



Editorial : 



Brazilian " Rubber Farms " for Sale 



A Panic and What It ■'<uggests 



The Exhibition at Butlalo 



Exports of American Rubber Goods 



Twentieth Century Dinner of the New England Rubber Club 



[WiUi Portraits of Henry C. iMorse and .Augustus O. Bourn, the Retir- 

 ing and New Presidents.] 



Heard and Seen in the Trade . . 



[The Rubber Sliue Situation. Rubber Tire Notes Improvement in 

 the Condition of Rubber Firms. 1 



The India-RubberTrade in Great Britain 



— Our lleuudir Cutreitiioiiileiit. 



[Dunlop Rubber C'» Fire Hose Used In London. A New Viscose. 

 IliKh Temperature Vulcanization. New Spreading Machine. Sub- 

 terranean Telegraphy. Good War Office Orders. Rubber Analyses. ) 



The Origin of the Hard Rubber Industry Dr. Heinrich Traun. 



[With Illustration of an Early Facloiy.J 



Preparation of Rubber John 11. Hart, F. L S. 



[Ke|ily to Mr. John Parkin.] 



Literature of India-Rubber 



New Goods and Specialties in Rubber iUhislralcd) 



[Wind and WaterprocI Clothing. " Universal " Rubber Vehicle Tire. 

 The "Monarch" Rubber Heel. A New Rubber Heel. I.appe's 

 Standard Hygienic Heels. Self Packing Ring for Gage Glasses. 

 New Feature in Slotted Screw Tips.j 



" Rubber Goods " on the Stock Exchange 



The Rubber Planting Interest 



[Me.xico. Selangor. Venezuela. Africa.] 



New Trade Publications 



Recent Rubber Patents [American and English] 



Annual Meeting of the United States Rubber Co 



[With Portraits of Colonel Sanuicl P. Colt, Lester Leiand, and Homer 

 E. Sawyer.] 



Another Mexican Rubber Planter 



[With Portrait of Maxwell Riddle.] 

 Miscellaneous : 



Kubber Bags Float Cable 



Guttapercha as She Was Seen In Paris...! ... 



The New Mexican Rubber 



Rubber Industry In New Jersey ...........' 



Japanese Rubber Machinery (llluHlrated) 



The New Mill at Youngstown 



Mr. Flint and His Automobile ..........'. 



News of the American Rubber Trade 



Review ofthe Crude Rubber Market 



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\\J E have before us descriptions of several " rubber 

 farms" in the Amazon river country that are for 

 sale. Some of them are offered by the proprietors, and 

 others by baniis at Para, which, having made advances to 

 the owners of the " farms," have taken over the prop- 

 erties in default of payment. We do not know the merit 

 of these particular opportunities for investment, but the 

 fact that they exist suggests several points of interest. 



In the first place, the rubber gathering business proba- 

 bly is better organized than most of us hitherto have sup- 

 posed. It appears that the 50,000,000 pounds or more of 

 rubber annually exported from the Amazon is not gathered 

 mainly by half-savages, roaming in vast forests, tapping 

 at random such rubber trees as they may chance to find. 

 It would require more than such haphazard methods to 

 form the basis for the business of the banks and mercan- 

 tile houses of Para and Manaos, the hundred or more 

 steamers on the Amazon, and the rubber carrying ships on 

 the Atlantic, which transport not infrequently a cargo of 

 rubber worth $1,000,000 or more. 



On the contrary, each of the "rubber farms" is de- 

 scribed as consisting of a definite number of eslradai 

 (paths, or roads), marked out so as to give ready and cer- 

 tain access to the particular rubber trees to be tapped, 

 the approximate number of trees also being given. This 

 preliminary work of road making is not done for a single 

 season, but is meant to be permanent, so that, when a 

 plentiful supply of prolific trees is once located on a navi- 

 gable stream, they may be visited season after season, 

 with an assurance of a yield that will prove profitable. 

 From one description we quote : " This farm was marked 

 off five years ago, for which service was paid 40 contos of 

 reis (equivalent to-day to $10,000)." The number of trees 

 on this estate is estimated at 20,000. There are also said 

 to be on the farm wooden buildings, cattle, etc., besides 

 which four steam launches are owned. Doubtless on an 

 estate where the business of rubber gathering has been pre- 

 pared for with so much forethought and at such expense, 

 we might to-day see a force of workers established all the 

 year round, but for the fact that the annual rising of the 

 rivers scatters the rubber hunters for a certain period. As 

 it is, the crop season, during which the trees are tapped 

 daily, is something more than six months in the year. 



It may be asked why, in the face of such preparations 

 and the presence of rubber in paying quantities, the owners 

 of these farms should want to sell. The reason given is 

 the financial depression from which all Brazil is suffering. 

 Any manufacturer who buys Para rubber is prepared to be- 

 lieve that somewhere, between the forest and the factory, 

 good profits are made on it. The owners of many of these 

 farms have profited largely, but their money has been made 

 too easily for any thought to have been taken for the 

 morrow. Hence the beginning of each new season finds 

 most of them with nothing but X.\i€\'c estradas, wailing to be 

 worked. They must send for workers, and provide for 

 them until the proceeds of the year's crop come to hand, 

 all of which makes necessary advances from merchants or 



