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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[November 1, 1913. 



Ani'werp. 



Klbbhr Statistics for September. 



Wp*^ 



Vol. 49. 



NOVEMBER 1, 1913. 



No. 2. 



fABLE OF CONTENTS. 



Editorials: 



Is Singapore to Be the Future Rubber Market? 53 



A Loose Piece of Legislation 53 



Self-interest the Best Promoter of Efficiency 54 



What That Pneumatic Substitute Must Have 55 



Will American Cotton Always Be Supreme? 55 



The Persistence of Rubber 55 



Where Ceylon Has the Advantage of Brazil 56 



Minor Editorial 56 



The Story of the Para Congress 



B\' Our Special Correspondent 57 

 [With 11 Illustrations.] 



Annual Report of the Intercontinental Rubber Co 63 



Effects of Overloading Solid Rubber Tires 64 



Rubber in the New Tariff 65 



The Tariff on Rubber for the Past Eighty Years 67 



World's Comparative Production of Wild and Plantation 



Rubber 67 



Singapore the World's P^iture Rubber Market 



B\ Our Special Correspondent 68 

 (Willi 2 Illustrations.] 



A Circular on "Elastic Cloth" Issued in 1857 71 



Working in a Rubber Factory 



By Lucy Case Gowin 72 

 [With 2 Illustrations.] 



The Rubber Trade in Akron 



Our Correspondent 75 

 (With 1 Illustration.] 



The Rubber Trade in Boston 



Our Correspondent 76 

 The Rubber Trade in Rhode Island 



Our Correspondent 11 



The Rubber Trade in Chicago 



Our Correspondent 78 



The Rubber Trade in San Francisco 



Our Correspondent 19 

 The Rubber Trade in Trenton 



Our Correspondent 79 

 The De Ford Nasal Somnofonn Inhaler 80 



IWith lilustratiun.] 



News of the American Rubber Trade 81 



tWitli 5 Illustrations.] 



Interesting Letters from Our Readers 88 



The Obituary Record 89 



The Editor's Book Table ^ 89 



New Trade Publications 90 



New Rubber Goods in the Market 91 



[With Illustrations.] 



New Machines and Appliances 93 



(With 6 Illustrations.] 



The India Rubber Trade in Great Britain 



By Our Regular Correspondent 95 



Some Rubber Interests in Europe 96 



The French Army's Vast Rubber Clothing Supplies 97 



A French Forecast of the Rubber Situation 97 



The Rubber Trade in Japan r 



By Our Regular Correspondent 98 

 Rubber Plantations in Dutch Guiana 



By Our Regular Correspondent 99 



A Rubber Planter Leaves West Africa for South America .... gg 



Some Rubber Planting Notes 100 



Recent Patents Relating to Rubber loi 



(I'uited States. Great l^ritain. France, Germany, Belgium.] 



India Rubber Goods in Commerce 103 



Rubber at the Electrical Show 103 ' 



Report of the Crude Rubber Market 104 



Sales since Jan. 1 3,778,857 3,515,241 3.339,394 2,989,997 3,769,434 



Rubber .\rriv.\ls from the Congo. 



October 8.— By the steamer EHsabethvUlc: 



Bunge & Co (tie du Congo Beige) 



do (Comp. Commercial Congolais) 



do (Belgika) 



do (Grands Lacs) 



do (Forminiere) 



Societe Coloniale .Anversoise (Lomami) 



do (Comminiere) 



do (Kasai) 



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



Velde— S. A.) (Corafina) 



do (Crevelde) 



Charles Detliier (American Congo Co.) 



1.600 

 6.800 

 1,400 

 1,000 



375 

 1,310 



312 

 109,075 



15.300 

 4,900 

 7,000 



149,072 



Planiaiion Rubber From the Far East. 



Exports of Ceyi.on-Grown Rubber. 



(Froin January 1 to .\ugiist 18, 1913. Compiled by the Ceylon 

 Chamber of Commerce.) 



To 

 To 

 To 

 To 

 To 

 To 

 To 

 To 

 To 

 To 

 To 

 To 

 To 



1912. 



Great Britain pounds 4.797. Q\i 9, 



United States ; 2,677,659 4, 



Belgium 759,068 2, 



Australia 138,874 



Germany 



Austria 



Japan 



Canada 



Italy 



Russia 



Holland 



France 



India 



To Norway and Sweden. 

 To Straits Settlements . . 



125,942 



45,693 



21,139 



16.065 



5,909 



2,288 



-> 9g2 



2,017 



100 



39 



1913. 

 ,137,151 

 ,599,106 

 ,605.466 

 371,789 

 176,626 

 29.335 

 175,349 



38,828 



""992 



4,482 



881 



48,343 



Total 8,594,090 17,188,348 



(Same (leriod, 1911. 3.925,935; same, 1910, 2,001.719.) 



The export -figures of rubber for 1913 given in the above table 

 include the imports le-exported. (These amount to 1,520.352 lbs. 

 to 1.162,580 lbs. from the Straits, and 357,772 lbs. from India.— 

 Rd. C. C) To arrive at the approximate quantity of Ceylon rub- 

 ber exported for 1913 to date, deduct the quantity of imports from 

 the total e.xports. In previous years the exports of Ceylon rubber 

 only were given. 



Total Exports Fro.m M.\l.\va. 



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



These figures include the production of the Federated Malay 



States, but not of Ceylon.) 



Port Swet- 

 Singapore. Penang. tenham. 



Sept. 10. July 31. Sept. 15. Total. 

 pounds 12,902.S53 7,849,600 16.833.426 37,585,889 



156,412 56,400 2,148,732 2,361,544 



641.039 



144,800 964,330 1,127.111 



171,733 4,202,885 



56,825 



To^ 



Great Britain 



Continent . . 



Japan 641,039 



Cevlon 17,981 



United States 4,031,152 



.Australia 56,825 



Total 

 Total, 

 Total, 

 Total, 



1913 17.806,272 8.222,533 19.946,488 45.975,293 



1912 9.296.381 4,798,834 14,057.852 28,153,067 



191 1 4,231,682 2.577 .4<'>5 7,818.674 1,4,627,83,1 



1910 2,499,332 1,270,571 6,886,394 10,656,297 



