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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[October 1, 1913. 



Antiverp. 



Vol. 49. 



OCTOBER 1, 1913. 



TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



EDITORIAL: 



In Our Twenty-Fifth Year i 



The Great Economy of Larger Tires i 



Reasons for the Drop in Rubber Prices 2 



The Business of Stealing Rubber 3 



Will Eastern Planters Try a Corner? 3 



III n n Planting Successful in Mexico 4 



New Work tor Motorcycle Tires 4 



Gaining Better Mileage from the Motor Truck 5 



Amazon Rubber Shipments for 1912 and 1913 6 



Para Rubber in Mexico 



By J. C. Harvey 7 

 I With 4 Illustrations.] 



A New Castilloa Tapping Knife 



[Illustrated.] 



Rubber Importers as Planters lo 



IWith J llhtstr.ltions.] 



The Plastometer — A Rubber Testing Machine 



[With 1 Illustratiun.] 



By B. Denver Coppage 11 



The Sico Yield Gauge 12 



[Illustrated.] 



Automatic Automobile Tire Pump 12 



[Illu^^rated.] 

 Two New Solid Tire Machines 13 



[With 3 Illustrations.] 



Some Rubber Problems 14 



A New Sticking Process 14 



[With 2 Illustrations.] 



A Rubber Exposition in California 15 



[With I'urtrait of Dr. Dahne.] 



The Rubber Trade in Akron 



Our Correspondent 16 



The Rubber Trade in Boston 



Our Correspondent 17 



The Rubber Trade in Rhode Island 



Oitr Correspondent 18 



The Rubber Trade in San Francisco 



Our Correspondent 19 



New Home of the Rubber Club of America 19 



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The 1913 Year Book of the Rubber Club 19 



Some Interesting Correspondence on Rubber Stealing 20 



First Rubber Shoes Made in America 21 



[With J Illustrations.] 



Rubber Quarter-Tips on Leather Heels and Soles 22 



[With 5 Illustratious.] 



The Obituary Record 23 



[With l'ortiait> of Capt. F. H. Hunicke and Henry P. Moorhouse.] 



Treatment of Rubber Sponges 24 



News of The American Rubber Trade 25 



I With 5 Illustrations.] 



New Trade Publications 32 



[Illustrated.] 



Editor's Book Table 33 



New Rubber Goods in the Market 34 



[ Witli 5 Illustrations.] 



New Rubber Caps and Coats for Fall 35 



[With 5 Illustrations.] 



Results of Various Coagulants 36 



India Rubber Trade in Great Britain 



By Our Regular Correspondent 37 



Some Rubber Interests in Europe 38 



The Originator of "Tuck's Packings" 39 



Notes from British Guiana 



By Our Regular Correspondent 40 



Rubber Congress in Para 41 



Congress for Development of the Amazon Country 41 



Rubber Planting in Cochin-China 



By Our Regular Correspondent 42 



Some Rubber Planting Notes 43 



The Quality of Plantation Rubber 44 



Rubber in the French Congo 44 



Rubber in German East Africa 45 



Recent Patents Relating to Rubber 46 



[United States. Great Britain. France, Germany, Belgium.] 



Report of the Crude Rubber Market 48 



Rubber Statistics for August. 



Details. 1913. 



Stocks, July 30.. Kilos 1,034,599 



Arrivals in August — 



Congo sorts 225,238 



Other sorts 3,968 



Plantation sorts ... 171,555 



Aggregating 1,435,360 



Sales in August 841,891 



No. 1. Stocks, August 31 593,469 



Arrivals since .Tan. 1 — 



Congo sorts 2,040,981 



Other sorts 104,540 



Plantation sorts 1,318,015 



Aggregating 3,463,536 



Sales since Jan. 1 3,381,127 



Rubber Arrivals from the Congo. 

 August 27. — By the steamer Aiiversville : 



Eunge & Co (Societe Generale Africaine) Kilos 



(Belgika) 



do 

 do 

 do 

 do 

 do 



. (Comp. Commercial Congolais) 



(Cie. du Congo beige) 



(Forminiere) 



27,000 

 5,100 



31,200 

 2,000 

 1,600 

 4,000 

 385 

 6,500 



12,600 



21,300 



6,400 



10,300 



128,385 



Societe Coloniale Anversoise (H. C.) 



do (Lomami) 



do (Coraminiere) 



Credit Colonial & Commercial (Anc. L. & W. Van de 



Velde S. A.) (Comfina) 



do (Crevelde) 



Charles Dethier (.\merican Congo Cy) 



Plantation Rubber From the Far East. 



Exports of Ceylon-Grown Rubber. 



(From January 1 to August 18, 1913. Compiled by the Ceylon 



Chamber of Commerce.) 



1912. 



Great Britain pounds 3,879,866 



United States 2,090,076 



697,682 



116,159 



101,075 



27,577 



18,509 



16,065 



5,885 



2,282 



1,915 



100 



To 

 To 

 To Belgium 



To Australia 



To Gerinany 



To Austria 



To Japan 



To Canada 



To Italy 



To Holland 



To France 



To India 



To Straits Settlements. . 

 To Norway and Sweden 



1913. 

 7,127,486 

 3,814,932 

 2,114,687 



321,249 



138,152 

 27,946 



151,572 



39 



36,507 

 992 



'"881 

 20,064 



Total 6,957,230 13,754,468 



(Same period 1911 

 The export figures 

 include the imports 

 lb.— 970,353 lb. from 

 C. O.) To arrive at 

 exported for 1913 to 

 the total exports. In 

 only were given. 



, 3.128,993; same 1910, 1,511,275.) 



of rubber for 1913 given in the above table 



re-exported. (These amount to 1,268,353 

 the Straits and 297,818 lb. from India.— Ed. 

 the approximate quantity of Ceylon Rubber 



date, deduct the quantity of imports from 

 previous years the exports of Ceylon Rubber 



ToT.vL Exports From Malaya. 



(From January 1 to dates named. Reported by Barlowr & Co., Singapore. 



These figures include the production of the Federated Malay 



States, but not of Ceylon.) 



Singapore. 

 To— Aug. 13. 



Great Britain, pounds 11,073.394 



Continent 133,133 



Japan 549,854 



Cevlon 17,981 



United States 3,547,619 



Australia 49,200 



Total 15,371,181 



Same period, 1912. . . 7,989,565 



Same period, 1911... 3,606,381 



Same period, 1910... 1,968,181 



