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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD. 



[November i, 1910. 



Sum-?at^ 



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NOVEMBER 1, 1910. 



No. 2 



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TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



Editorial: 



To Solve the Castilloa Problem ; . . . , 



Food and Amazon Rubber '..'.'/.'.'.'.'......., 



The American Mackintosh Trade \\ 



Is Senator Aldrich in This ? , 



Is This a Xew "Rubber Trust?" ............' 



Minor Editorials '.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.' 



John Hinchley Hart 



[With Portrait.] 



Advance of the Motor Truck 



The Editor's Book Table 



An American Planting on the Amazon 



„,, Daz-id B. Rikcr 46 



^ [With 8 Illustrations.] 



Points on the Cotton Situation 48 



The India-Rubber Trade in Great Britain 



,_ , , „ , Our Regular Correspondent 50 



[Outta-Jelutong. Rubber and the Public. Holiday Notes. Re- 

 formed Rubber. Fossil Flour. Tire Notes. Obituary.] 



Insulated Wires for Motor Cars 



Jonathan Milbornc 51 



The India Rubber World "Castilloa" Trophy 52 



[With an Illustration.] 



Recent Patents Relating to Rubber 55 



[United States. Great Britain. France.) 



Miscellaneous: 



Distinguishing Rubber Grades 43 



Next Year's Automobile Production 43 



Balata in Rubber Goods Wiimer Dunbar 49 



Too Cold, "Perhabs," for Guayule 40 



Larger Kasai Rubber Profits '. 53 



New York Electrical Show z,^ 



Madeira-Mamore Railway ^3 



A Brazilian View of the Rubber Craze .!!!!!!! 54 



New Trade Publications :;4 



The Rubber Trade in Canada 56 



The Pan American Union j;6 



An Old Gutta-percha Pipe .'.".'.'.' 6t 



Rubber Factory for Brazil ' ' '. 57 



Intercontinental Rubber Co 62 



Rubber Production in Bolivia 63 



An Early Balloon Hoax (.Illustrated) 63 



The Cevlon Rubber Market 66 



Obituary (jKij/i Portrait) 66 



India-Rubber Goods in Commerce. 



New Rubber Goods in the Market 64 



["Wearever" Molded Water Bottle. Rubberized Leather Football 

 Covers. Walpole Rubber Heels for Horses. Woman's White Rub- 

 ber Coat. The "Flash" Skirt Marker. Aeroplane Clincher Tires. 

 The O Kanus Face Water Bottle. Rubber Goods in Aviation. 

 The Baldwin Aeroplane Fabric. Aviation Suits. French Avia- 

 tion Clothing Competition. Cravenette Poplin. Novelties in 

 Rubber Footwear. An Improvement on the Rubber Force Cup ] 

 [With 7 Illustrations.] 



The Rubber Trade in San Francisco 



The Rubber Trade in Cincinnati. 



Our Correspondent 57 

 Our Correspondent 58 



[With 4 Illustrations.] 



The Rubber Trade in Akron, Ohio 



Our Correspondent 60 

 [With an Illustration.] 



The Rubber Trade in Chicago 



Our Correspondent 62 



Automobile and Tire Notes 67 



Tire Making by Machinery 67 



[With 2 Illustrations.] 



News of the American Rubber Trade 68 



[With an Illustration.) 



Review of the Crude Rubber Market 71 



INDIA-RUBBER GOODS IN COMMERCE. 



EXPOETS FEOM THE UNITED STATES. 



/^FFICIAL Statement of the values of exports of inanufac- 

 ^^ tures of india-rubber and gutta-percha for the month of 

 August, 1910, and for the fir?t eight months of five calendar 

 3'ears : 



Months. 



Belting, Boots All 



Packing and Other Total. 



and Hose. Shoes. Rubber. 



August, 1910 $212,754 $333,915 $525,580 $1,072,249 



January-July 1,218,628 1,013,834 3,273,268 5,505,730 



Jotal, 1910 $1,431,382 $1,347,749 $3,798,848 $6,577,979 



lotal, 1909 1,164,699 872,074 2,678,534 4,715,307 



lotal, 190S 813,383 927,084 2,371,374 4,111.841 



The above heading, "All Other Rubber," for the last two 



months includes the following details relating to Tires: 



For 



Months. Automobiles. All Other. Total. 



July value $146,080 $56,096 $202,176 



August 151,468 71,486 222,954 



These are the first oflicial statistics of the exports of American 

 made tires. It will be seen that, of the miscellaneous exports 

 of rubber in July, 42 per cent, consisted of tires, and in August 

 39 per cent. 



SHTPHENTS TO NON-CONTIGUOUS TEHRITOHIES. 



For the fiscal year ended June 30, 1910 : 



Belting. Boots All 



Territories. Packing and other Total. 



and Hose. Shoes. Rubber. 



.•Maska $60,842 $204,996 $24,872 $290,710 



Hawaii 53,419 11,161 163,215 227,795 



Porto Rico 9,129 2,031 104,499 1 15.659 



Philippines 52,680 3,849 99,528 156,057 



Total $176,070 $222,037 $392,114 $790,221 



Total, 1908-09 190,908 194,976 264,722 650,606 



Total, 1907-08 162,602 235,044 217,801 615,447 



Total, 1906-07 197,508 215,630 167,488 580,626 



Total, 1905-06 164,606 179,210 151,260 495,260 



IMPORTS OF RUBBER GOODS INTO CHINA. 



-A STATEMENT in Gtimiiii-Zcitung on the trade of China for 

 1908 contains the following details regarding the value of rubber 

 and allied goods imported, expressed in Haikwan taels [=68 

 cents gold] : 



Boots and shoes 67,240 



Other rubber goods not specified 73.338 



Machinery belting 109,078 



Asbestos 142,994 



The number of pairs of rubber footwear imported is stated at 

 82,233 pairs, whereof Germany supplied 311 pairs. 



Netherlands Imports of Rubber {Official.) 



INBIA-RUBP.ER. 



Years. Imports 



1901 kilos 1,686,664 



1902 1,886,815 



1903 2,005,802 



1904 2,436,386 



1905 .3,014,348 



1906 -5,714,900 



1907 .3.69,3..=547 



1908 2,958,641 



Exports. Net Imports. 

 1,351,272 335,392 



1,607,918 

 1,465,561 

 1,813,767 

 2,613,062 

 2,542,562 

 1,869,303 

 1,711,877 



278,897 



540,33' 



622,619 



401,286 



1,172,338 



1,824,244 



1,246,764 



Total 21,397,193 



GUTTA-PERCHA. 



Years. Imports. 



1 901 kilos 1,352,522 



1902 885,421 



1903 1.270,995 



1904 806,727 



1905 1,310,810 



1906 2,500,379 



1907 2,420,632 



1908 1,314,168 



Total 11,951,654 



10,048,548 



1,903,106 



During tliree years the importations of balata aggregated: 

 326,200 kilos in 1906; 444,000 kilos in 1907, and 430,000 kilos in 

 1908. 



