.AUGUST 1, 1911. 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



395 



Pnbllihed •n th* lit of taoh Uonth by 



THE INDIA RUBBER PUBLISHING GO. 



No. 15 West 38th Street. New York. 

 CABLE ADDRESS: IRWORLD, NEW YORK. 



cated in the thousands of samples of rubber prepared 

 l)y hundreds of melhod.s unknown a few years ago. 



In the many instruments and machines, particuhirly 

 ( ierman, for testing accurately all of the varying quali- 

 ties of rubber, one notes a distinct industrial advance. 



The remarkable progress in the production of crude- 

 ruljber, and in the ability to classify it with exactness»LiB8A 

 piiints ncit cinly to a great extension of the l)iisiness a^EW Yi 

 a whole, but to an early and thorough standardizatioiPOTANJ 

 of the crude material. 0>^ltW 



HENRY C. PEARSON, Editor 



A RUBBER EXHIBITION FOR AMERICA. 



Vol. 44. 



AUGUST 1. 1911. 



No. 5 



Subscriptions: $3.00 per year, $1.75 for six months, postpaid, for the 

 United States and dependencies and Mexico. To the Dominion 

 of Canada and all other countries, $3.50 (or equivalent funds) 

 per year, postpaid. 



Advertising: Rates will be made known on application. 



Remitt.ances: Should always be made by bank or draft, Postoffice or 

 Express money orders on New York, payable to The India Rubher 

 Publishing Company. Remittances for foreign subscriptions should 

 be sent by International Postal Order, payable as above. 



Discontinuances: Yearly orders for subscriptions and advertising are 

 regarded as permanent, and after the first twelve months they 

 will be discontinued only at the request of the subscriber or ad- 

 vertiser. Bills are rendered promptly at the beginning of each 

 period, and thereby our patrons have due notice of continuance. 



COPYRIGHT, 1911, BY TBE INDIA RUBBER PVBLISHINO CO. 

 Entered at New York postoffice as mail matter of the second class. 



TABLE OF CONTENTS ON LAST PAGE OF READING. 



LESSONS OF THE EXHIBITION. 



•"T'HE Internatiniial Rubber Exhibition, as in a mirror, 

 •■■ reflected the crude rubber situation of the world. 

 Some of the lesser producing countries, the Central 

 American, for example, were not in evidence. Nor did 

 Bolivia and Peru embrace the ojiportunity to ini[)ress 

 upon the world their position as producers. Rut the 

 rest of tropical America, Africa, Asia and Oceanica was 

 abundantly in evidence. 



Clean rul)l.K-r from the great Ilcvca plantations in 

 the middle East is the leaven that is working to pro- 

 duce an equally clean product from the .-Amazon, from 

 the British, German, Dutch, Belgian, and French rub- 

 ber producing countries. The success in planting 

 Hci'ca is stinnilating a ])ractical ex])loitation of Castil- 

 loa, Maniliot, Landolphia, Fiintuinia, Sapiiim and Ficiis. 

 The triumph of guayule is leading to experiments with 

 "grass rubbers" and their like. Pontianak extraction 

 has stimulated a general investigation of scores of 

 pseudo gums. All of these and man)- more are indi- 



A CAIX the plan for a rubber exhibition in Xew 

 •** York has come to the front. One enthusiastic 

 boomer has already set the time — June, 1912— 

 and tlie ])lace. tlic magnificent new Grand Central 

 Palace. Cables have been sent to Europe, but so far 

 there has not been an enthusiastic response. 



Another set of hustlers are planning one for 1913— 

 place not yet decided upon. 



It goes without saying that sometime, somewhere. 

 New York will one day have a rubber exhibition. 



If the right preparations arc made, if the .Middle 

 East, African and all of tropical America send their 

 best exhibits, if all of the new testing machines and in- 

 struments of precision applicable to rubber that Ger- 

 many, England, France, Belgium and Holland have 

 produced are exhibited, it will be ,vell worth the 

 trouble and expense. 



Afore than this, it would bring to our shores a nota- 

 ble gathering of scientific men, botanists, chemists, 

 physicists, planters and manufacturers, and the educa- 

 tional result could not fail to be very great. 



THE AWAKENING IN PARA. 



•"T'HE great natural riches of the state of Para have 

 •*■ in the past been practically untouched by the 

 Brazilians. It is therefore most gratifying to see in- 

 dications of a decided change on the part of the state 

 government. One is the visit of Dr. Jacques Huber, of 

 the Musee Goeldii, to London, as delegate to the Inter- 

 national Riibl)er Exposition. His i)aper, read at one of 

 the conferences, will draw fresh attention to the Ama- 

 zon ciiuntries; while his examination of the products of 

 planted llcvca, of rubber planting machinery and meth- 

 ods, will be of great value to the rubber producers of 

 the lower Amazon. 



