Junk 1. 1914. 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



471 



to ulioiii llic writer is imlcbtcd for valuable data, as well as to 

 Hon. Win. C. Redfield, secretary of tlic Deiiartmcni ni Com- 

 merce, and to others. 



Rubber manufacturers usually lind their goods handled by 

 export houses in much the same fashion as others, but in doing 

 business with them they must take the pains to investigate their 

 standing precisely as they would with any other customers. 

 Having once satisfied themselves on this point, they can then go 

 ahead with confidence and do their utmost to develop tlie new 

 fields opened up to them. 



••PAVEA" SYNTHETIC RUBBER. 



Earle Bros., rubber brokers of 68 Broad street. New York, 

 inform The Indi.\ Rubber World that they are the authorized 

 forwarding agents for F. R. Muller & Co.. Limited, of Rnglaiul. 

 for the sale of "Pavea" synthetic rubber. 



They e.xpect in Jime or July of this year to start the pro- 

 duction of "Pavea" rubber at about 100 tons a week, but before 

 the end of the year they hope to increase the output to about 

 1,000 tons a week. One interesting thing about this new 

 synthetic rubber is that it is ofTered for sale at a discount of 

 10 per cent, from the market price of first latex crepe. To 

 quote them exactly: "Any rubber not delivered by the time 

 stipulated in any forward contract made will get the benefit of 

 any fall in the market price of First Latex that may have taken 

 place between the date of such contract and the date of actual 

 delivery." 



Earle Bros, submit .m analysis of "Pavea" s.\ntlic'.i^' rubber, 

 which is as follows : 



Per Cent. 



Acetone extract resin 4.13 



Rubber gmn 9.\70 



Insoluble matter 17 



100. 



The remarkable part of this analysis is the percentage of resin 

 in the rubber. It has always been supposed that rubber made 

 by synthesis did not contain resin. Now would anybody after 

 making synthetic rubber be likely to add resin? Manufacturers 

 may not doubt the rubber at its lower price, but tliey are almost 

 sure to doubt its origin. 



HUNTING GUAYULE BY AUTOMOBILE. 



FIRST and last many hundreds of Americans have visited the 

 uplands of Mexico where flourishes the Guayule plant. 

 Their mode of travel when they got away from the railroad 

 \v:is liv ptaee or nii horseback, as a rule. 





A Ditch to be Crossed. 

 So far as is known only one party was venturesome enough 

 to attempt the desert journeys by automobile. This party was 



made up of New York magnates of the private car and ocean- 

 going yacht variety. It was piloted by a young .American from 

 whose scrap book the accompanying illustrations are borrowed. 

 I he journey of MS miles took four and a half days. 



Six Mules to the Kesluk. 



'riie party camped by water holes at night and lived on frijoles, 

 tortillas and game. They rode part of the way, walked much, 

 and had an immense amount of fun. When stuck in a ravine 

 they scoured the country on foot for mules to pull them out. 



W lien one cylinder of the automnbik- gave out they chugged along 



L.-vsT L.\p OF THE .\i:ro Journey. 

 witli tliree. Finally when the machine gave out entirely they 

 inspanned oxen and went right along. Of course this happened 

 before the present Mexican muss, but it is just as interesting for 

 all of that. 



RECENT CUSTOMS KULINGS. 



Duty at 47;/. per cent, on the value w-as recently taken on 

 cotton velvet with rubberized back imported by W. \. 

 Walker, the Board of ITnitcd States General Appraisers not 

 sustaining his claim that it was properly dutiable as water- 

 proof cloth. 



.\ contention regarding corsets imported by Stern Bros, 

 and composed of cotton and india rubber, with cotton form- 

 ing the chief value, has been decided by classification of the 

 article as cotton wearing apparel, dutiable at SO per cent. 



Duty at 10 per cent, has been levied on rubber junk of 

 various kinds imported by several New York houses, the 

 Board sustaining the Collector in this assessment against 

 the protests of the importers, who claimed the merchandise 

 fit only lor rcmanufacture. 



Should be on every rubber man's desk — Crude Rubber and 

 Compounding Ingredients ; Rubber Country of the Amazon ; 

 Rubber Trade Directory of the World. 



