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THE INDIA RUBBER \VORLD 



[March i, 1902. 



[continued from page 195.] 



charge of Cuyler, Morgan & Co. (New York).=-=The new en- 

 terprise interests the rubber trade only so far as corn-oil sub- 

 stitute goes. As the cheapest of oil substitutes, of course this 

 has had a fairly large sale, but the large percentage of sulphur 

 in most of it and the fact that it is at best only a filler, leads 

 many to believe that a reaction will shortly come in favor of 

 other substitutes. 



NEW YORK RUBBER CO. 



The employes of this company, on a recent payday, were 

 pleasantly surprised when each received two envelopes instead 

 of one, the extra envelope being inscribed : " Enclosed you will 

 find one week's extra pay, with the best wishes of the New 

 York Rubber Co." This was regarded by the employes as in- 

 dicating that the company had experienced a prosperous year. 

 SHOE JOBBERS MEET IN NEW YORK. 



The annual meeting and dinner of the Middle States Shoe 

 Jobbers' Association occurred in New York, at the Hotel 

 Marlborough, on February 20. The attendance was good, in- 

 cluding the heads of many houses in New York, Philadelphia, 

 and other important towns that are large handlers of rubber 

 footwear. A feature of the proceedings at the banquet was an 



address on the rubber trade by Colonel Samuel P. Colt, presi- 

 dent of the United States Rubber Co. He went into the history 

 of rubber and talked entertainingly, and his address was lis- 

 tened with great mterest by his audience. 



EXTRA HEAVY STEAM HOSE COUPLING. 



THE illustration herewith represents a new style extra heavy 

 steam hose coupling, for manufacturing which H. B. 

 Sherman Manufacturing Co. (Battle Creek, Michigan) have got 

 out patterns and tools for sizes of }{ inch, i inch, i}^ inch, and 

 lyi inch. This coupling is more than double the weight of the 



regular steam coupling, and is intended for use in places where 

 hose and fittings receive severe usage. Concerns interested in 

 learning more in regard to coupling of the character indicated 

 above are invited to write to the firm named, for descriptive 

 circular. 



REVIEW OF THE CRUDE RUBBER MARKET. 



THE work of liquidating the stocks of rubber held by a 

 New York house which recently passed into the hands 

 of receivers, has been in gradual progress during the 

 past month, though, it is understood, the major part 

 yet remains to be disposed of. Evidently the financial houses 

 interested through having made advances on these stocks have 

 preferred a policy of caution to one of haste in realizing on their 

 holdings — else the market would have become demoralized. 

 While business has been done at lower figures than have been 

 known for several years past — fine Upriver Para a year old hav- 

 ing changed hands at a price as low as 73 cents— the fact has 

 not stimulated manufacturers, as a rule, to buy beyond present 

 requirements. It is not their practice to buy freely on a falling 

 market, and there is to be considered not only the unusually 

 liberal supplies in this market, but the possibility of a record 

 breaking production on the Amazon. In another column space 

 is given to a repeated prediction from Liverpool of a shortage 

 in the winding up months of the Para season, but it seems fair 

 to state that these views are not generally shared in the trade. 

 There has been some demand on the New York market for 

 shipment to Europe. Receipts at Pard for th* crop season, up 

 to February 26, of Rubber and Caucho, amounted to 20,335 

 tons, against 17,030 tons last year to March i. 

 New York quotations on February 27 were : 



PARA. 



Islands, fine, new 69 @70 



Islands, fine, old 72 @73 



Upriver, fine, new. .. .71 @72 



Upriver, fine, old 74 @75 



Islands, coarse, new. . .45 @46 



Islands, coarse, old... @ 



Upriver, coarse, new. .59 (3 60 



Upriver, coarse, old. . . @ 



-Caucho(Peruvian)sheet 46 ©47 



Caucho (Peruvian) ball 53 ©54 

 CENTRALS. 



Esmeralda, sausage. . .50 @5i 



Guayaquil, strip 46 (847 



Nicaragua, scrap .. . .50 ©51 Assam 54 ©55 



Mangabeira, sheet 39 ©40 Borneo 33 ©42 



Late Para cables quote : 



AFRICAN. 



Tongues 43 



Sierra Leone, istquality6o 



Benguella 44 



Cameroon ball 43 



Flake and lumps 28 



Accra flake 16 



Accra buttons 43 



Accra strips 49 



Lagos buttons 43 



Lagos strips 48 



Madagascar, pinky.... 

 Madagascar, black .... 

 EAST INDIAN. 



Assam 54 



Borneo 33 



©44 

 (S)6i 



@45 

 @44 

 ©29 

 @I7 

 @44 

 &50 

 @»4 

 @4<) 



Per Kilo. Per Kilo 



Islands, fine 4$400 Upriver, fine 5^000 



Islands, coarse 2$300 Upriver, coarse 3$500 



Exchange, I2d. 

 Manaos advices, same date : 



Upriver, fine 4^400 Upriver, coarse 3$ioo 



Exchange 12;/. 

 NEW YORK RUBBER PRICES FOR JANUARY (NEW RUBBER.) 

 1902. 1901. 1900. 



Upriver, fine 77 @86 87 ©92 



Upriver, coarse 62 @65 65 @6g 



Islands, fine 75 @8i 84 @88 



Islands, coarse 47 ©52 48 ©52 



Cameta, coarse 50 @52j^ 53j^(!*S5 



SiaUstics of Pura. Rubber (Excluding Caucho) . 



Note. — The figures herewith, indicatinj; New York .stocks uf January i. will 

 be found to vary largely from the figures for the same date given in the last India 

 RuuBBR WoRiD. The explanation is that certain holdings were that time con- 

 cealed from the trade, whereas by February 1 these holdings were better known. 

 NEW YORK. 



Fine and Total Total 



Medium. Coarse. 1902. igoi. 



Stocks, January I.... tons 1105 34 = 1139 658 



Arrivals, January 855 475 = 1330 1094 



108 

 84 



105 

 64 

 65 



@IIO 



@ 87 

 (0)108 

 @ 66 

 @ 69 



Total 

 1900. 



410 

 1707 



Aggregating i960 



Deliveries, January 669 



509 = 2469 

 461 = 1130 



1752 

 1 100 



2117 

 1471 



Stocks, January 31.... 1291 



48 



1339 



652 



656 



Stocks, January i . 

 Arrivals, January. 



parA. 



1902. 1901. 1900. 



150 660 580 



3825 2445 3620 



ENGLAND. 



1902. 1901. 19G0. 



1290 780 440 



I156 1195 610 



Aggregating 3975 3105 



Deliveries, January... 3465 2390 



4200 

 2760 



2455 

 1225 



1975 

 900 



1050 

 600 



Stocks. Jan. 31 . . 510 715 



1440 



1230 1075 



450 



1902 1901. igoo. 



World's supply, January 31 5329 3676 4219 



Para receipts, July i to January 31 16,079 13.735 11,085 



Para receipts of Caucho, same dates .. 13^1 



Afloat from Para to United States, Jan. 31. *iol7 374 474 



Afloat from Para to Europe, January 31 ti565 860 1189 



[* Includes 87 tons Caucbo. + Includes 245 tons Caucho.] 



