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THE INDIA RUBBER >VORL.D 



[March i, 1902. 



the actual crop will be very much short of the last one, and again em- 

 phatically assert that our prognostications, with regard to a much higher 

 level of prices, will be realized very shortly. 



London. 



Edward Till & Co., under dateof February i, report stocks : 



1902. 

 f Para sorts tons — 



I nunnia J BomCO 134 



LONDON -^ ^^^^ ^^^ Rangoon. . . 54 



[other sorts 414 



1901. 



1900. 



193 223 



20 17 



730 403 



Total 602 



Liverpool 



Para. 



.1241 



Other sorts 831 



Total, United Kingdom 2674 



Total, January i 2794 



Total, December i 2525 



Total, November i 2602 



Total, October 1 2S02 



Total, September I 2736 



Total, August 1 2944 



Total, July i 3128 



PRICES PAID DURING JANUARY. 



943 



1082 

 1 104 



5129 

 2901 



3061 

 3040 

 2846 

 3170 

 3645 

 3653 



643 



449 

 756 



1848 



1855 

 1789 

 i860 

 1831 

 1988 

 1878 

 2247 



1902. 



1901. 



3/7 @3/iOs 

 3/7 @3/ 9i 



2/\\@2/ 2 



2/9 '@2/ 9i 



No sales. 



1900. 



4/6f@4/9j 



4/5?@4/9 



2/SS@2/9-} 



3/7i@3/7i 

 4/7l@4/9i 



Para fine, bard ) i^\rs^ /ai ( 



Do soft [3M@3/6i] 



Negroheads, Islands 2/- 



Do scrappy 2/j\@2/e^ 



Bolivian No sales. 



Hamburg. 



To THE Editor of The India Rubber World : Transac- 

 tions in rubber in this month at the first of the month were very 

 quiet, but later have become more animated, leading to a firmer 

 tendency in prices, followed again by weakness. There is a de- 

 sire here to clean out stocks, in view of which, the present 

 would seem to be a good time to buy rubber here. Sales have 

 been made this week at the following prices, in marks per kilo- 

 gram : 



Bolivian, fine and hard cure 7.15(0)7.20 



Manaos, scrappy .... 5-75 t<l 5.85 



Mozambique ball, finest red 6.80 @ 6 85 



Mozambique ball, fine red 6.50 @ 6.60 



Mozambique ball, good red 6.15 @ b.2o 



Mozambique ball, mixed 5.80 @ 5.85 



Mozambique spindles, fine 6.20 @ 6.25 



Massai niggets, fine red 5.75 @ 5-90 



Massai niggers, mixed 5.50 (S 5.60 



Congo thimbles, fine 4.90 @ 4 95 



Congo thimbles, medium 4.50 (a 4.60 



Congo thimbles, inferior red 2.90 



Loanda niggers, regular quality 4.15 @ 4.20 



Adeli ball , red 6.20 (® 6. 1 5 



Batanga ball 4. 10 @ 4.15 



Ecuador scraps, fine 5 40 



Ecuador scraps, mixed 5. 20 



Guatemala slabs, fine 4 30 @ 4.40 



Hamburg, February 11, 1902. 



Rofierdam. 



To the Editor of The India Rubber World : While fine 

 Pard has been subjected to considerable fluctuations of late, 

 and the tendency generally has been weak, Congo and other 

 medium sorts, in this market, have continued to hold their 



PROMOTER WANTED. 



A LOAN of $5000 at 6 per cent, will give competent manager control of a 

 Rubber factory, free and clear, and valued at $50,000, secured by mortgage 

 and other inducements, at depot near Manhattan ; or 5500 acres of timber land 

 in mineral district on West Virginia Central railroad, also free and clear ; or 

 valuable property in New York, suitable for auction and storage business or 

 hotel and restaurant ; or valuable farm on Long Island railroad, between 

 Brooklyn and Oyster Bay, for a new city. Address Rktiring Manuiactur- 

 ING MiiRcilANT, care of Thk Inuia KuiiiilvR World. [i6ij] 



own, and even show an improvement over former prices. The 

 last sales here attracted much attention, and the parcels oflfered 

 went off under keen competition, though there was no buying 

 for American account. The following lots changed hands: 



Kilos. 

 Upper Congo, red, prime. . 1,200 



Do black 1,100 



Do small red ball 4,500 



Do small ball . . 14,000 



Do red Loanda 



kind 10,200 



Do markled.... 1,375 



Do red, barky. . 2,300 



Do red Benguella 



kind.. . . 3,850 

 Do reddish un- 



ripe .... 5,350 



Kilos. 

 Upper Congo, cut red ball. . 4,400 



Congo thimbles, red 15,000 



Do ball 2,225 



Do slightly sticky 5,300 



Do mixed i , 500 



Mozambiquesausages, stick- 

 less 5,850 



Do Do sandy 1,650 



East Indian 1,790 



Borneo, No. 2 840 



Total 82.430 



Guttapercha. — Some 10,000 kilograms fine Macassar quality 

 have been offered, but remain unsold on account of the exces- 

 sive price asked by importers. No Batata has come to this 

 market in the course of the last two months. 



A. knottenbelt & CO. 



Rotterdam, February 5, 1002. 



Rotterdam 'Rubber Statistics, J90f. 



\Supflied by Weisk & Co.] 



india-rubber arrivals (kilos.) 



Thimbles, red 140,200 Soudan 37, 000 



Congo ball 18,300 All other 10,300 



Kassai, red 276,300 



Kassia, black 22,550 



Upper Congo 301,000 



Sierra Leone u ,000 



Mozambique 18,700 



Java and Sumatra 17,900 



Total, 1901 853,250 



Total, 1900 877,450 



Total, 1899 804,750 



Total, 1898 656,400 



Total, 1897 705,650 



igo2. 

 Stocks, January I 67,300 



balata arrivals (kilos.) 



IQOI. 

 80,600 



I90I. 



Surinam sheet .... 211,950 



Venezuela block 31,450 



Total 243,400 



Stocks, end year 



1900. 



161,600 



23,500 



185,100 



1890, 

 38,900 



1890. 



95.250 



52,200 



147,450 

 5,000 



36,100 



76.800 

 158,800 



238,600 



gutta percha (tons.) 



IQOI. iqo<J. 



Stocks beginning of year 185 307 



Arrivals during year 314 280 



Aggregating 499 



Sales during year 236 



Stocks end of year 263 



German Official Rubber Statistics. 



quantities. 

 1899. 



Imports pounds 30,616,800 



Exports 11,952,380 



587 

 402 



185 



1899. 

 180 

 495 



675 

 368 



307 



130 

 265 



395 

 215 



180 



1900. 



29,537,080 

 10,493,340 



1901, 

 28,649,280 

 11,027,500 



Net Imports 18,663,700 19.033740 17,621,780 



VALUES. 



Imports $17,885,462 



Exports 5,430,684 



117,568,684 

 5,108,432 



$17,045,274 

 5,368,328 



Net Import value. .. . $12,454,778 $12,460,252 $11,676,946 

 =: The above figures include also Gutta-percha and Balata, no 



SITUATION WANTED. 



WANTED. — To form a permanent business connection with a mechanical 

 rubber manufacturing company as Superintendent, Manager, -Secretary or 

 Chemist. Am an expert Chemist ; experienced compounder ; thoroughly 

 familiar with factory methods and nianagemi-nt ; also with modern labor-sav- 

 ing office methods and accounting; now employed ; correspondence .solicited. 

 Address S. W., care of The Ini>ia Ruiii!Ek World. ['S'] 



