October i, 1910.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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Vol. 43. 



OCTOBER 1, 1910. 



No. 1. 



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TABLE OF CONTENTS ON LAST PAGE READING MATTER. 

 OUR TWENTY-SECOND YEAR. 



WITH its issue for last month Tm^. I,\i)i.\ Ribeer 

 World completed twenty-one years of regular 

 and continuous publication under one management. Such 

 a record, though not in itself evidence of particular merit, 

 is so unusual in the history of publishing, in these days 

 of change, that the management feel justified in some 

 measure of self congratulation. Pjv the way, in acknowl- 

 edging the felicitations of many friends, The Indi.\ Rub- 

 ber World is disposed to congratulate every live rubber 

 man upon being connected with the trade at this time of 

 its most substantial progress. 



The growth of the rubber trade in the period under 

 review is not easily measured, though obvious to every 

 intelligent observer. The increase in the number of rub- 

 ber factories — to say nothing of the increase of the size 

 of the old ones — alone is proof of the immense growth 

 of this interest in .America. It may be mentioned here the 

 United States census for 1890 reported the value of rub- 

 ber goods products at $42,853,817, while by 1905 the cen- 

 sus returns had increased the valuation of the output of 

 this industry to $148,015,391. The figure must since have 

 become immensely larger, in view of the growth of the 

 tire trade, to mention no other branch. 



But to our mind a more satisfactory basis for com- 

 ^ parison is the quantity of net imports of crude rubber and 



allied materials into the L'nited States in the riscal year maj^AJf* 

 1888-89 (in which The Indi.\ Rubber World waSf^g^ y 

 started), and in the year 1909-10, as shown in this littleR^TAN' 

 table: <-,^^^, 



1888-80. 1909-10. 



India-rubber pounds] ( 94,551,734 



Gutta-percha j ] 71 0,364 



Balatn I 31,934. -iSs < 327.450 



Gutla-jelutong [ 52,390,305 



Scrai) rubber J [ 31,159,666 



Total 3'.934.28s I79,139.5'9 



These figures relate to the Tnited -States alone. Mean- 

 while the consum])tion of rubber has been introduced into 

 .several other countries, while it has been increa.sed vastly 

 in the older manufacturing countries in Europe. The fact 

 that Para exported 38,244 tons of rubber during the last 

 crop year, against only 15,887 tons twenty-one years ago, 

 is eloquent evidence of the constant growth of the world's 

 rubber interest. 



The new branches of the rubber industry developed 

 since the establishment of this journal have been recorded 

 too fully in its pages to require detailed treatment here. 

 It is necessary only to refer to the birth of the gigantic 

 tire industry, the great growth in the use of rubber in- 

 sulation work, and the fact that in no other branch of the 

 trade has there been a decline in the use of rubber. 



During the period covered by the life oi this, paper 

 important changes have occurred in business methods in 

 connection with the rubber industry, as well as in nearly 

 every other branch of commercial and industrial activity. 

 This has Ijeen exemplified, in more than one instance, by 

 the bringing of a number of plants under a single control, 

 through the formation of a new corporation for the pur- 

 pose. .Any prejudice which at first may have been ex- 

 pressed against this new development appears to have 

 been forgotten ; at any rate, while the "combinations" ap- 

 ])ear, without exception, to have been successful, "inde- 

 pendent" companies, on a comparatively small scale, con- 

 tinue to be formed and to grow into large concerns. Evi- 

 dently there is room for all who desire to enter the rubber 

 industry and who have the capacity for it — the right kind 

 of brains and some capital. 



It will hardly be denied that one effect of the working 

 on a larger scale of the various branches of the rubber 

 interest has been to give greater stability to qualities and 

 prices of manufactured products and to the prices of raw 

 materials, and such benefit is reflected in the business 

 of the smallest as well as the largest houses in the trade. 



It may not be generally recognized, though we believe 

 it none the less to be true, that the most marked develop- 

 ment in connection with india-rubber during" the past two 

 decades has been (1) in the introduction of planting on a 

 practical scale, and (2) in the exploitation of forest rub- 

 ber more economically. Thus is assured for the future 

 more stable supplies of the raw material, and less frequent 

 disturbances in market quotations. The tendency toward 

 improved conditions in these regards may be illustrated 

 by reference to the rubber exhibitions and congresses 

 held within a few years past in Ceylon, at Djember, 

 (lava), in London, and at Manaos. The fact that the 



