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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[January 1, 1914. 



Vol. 49. 



JANUARY 1, 1914. 



No. 4. 



TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



The Trade 

 The Trade 



Editorial: Page. 



igi3 in the Rubber Trade — and 1914 165 



"The India Rubber World" Follows the Uptown March . 166 



The Last of the Boston Pioneers 167 



Is Rubber Headed Toward Higher Levels? 167 



Mexico from the Inside 167 



The Clerk Can Undo It All 168 



What the Auto Shows Have Cost the Tire Makers 168 



The Rubber Tariffs of Other Countries 168 



The Rubber Situation in Brazil 



Illustrated 169 



Bulletin of the Museu Goeldi, Para 



Illustrated 170 



A Glance at E.xport Statistics of Rubber Goods 172 



The Rubber Tariffs of Foreign Countries 173 



The Editor's Book Table 



Illustrated 183 



How It Looks to an American in Mexico 184 



India Rubber Goods in Commerce 184 



Will 1914 See a Shortage in Rubber? 



By Our Correspondent 185 



Inscription Sales 186 



The Trade in Boston 



By Our Correspondent 187 



n Akron 



By Our Correspondent 187 



n Chicago 



By Our Correspondent 188 



The Trade in Rhode Island 



By Our Correspondent 189 



The Trade in San Francisco 



By Our Correspondent 190 



Auto Shows and the Tire Makers 191 



Congressman Lindquist's Remarkable Bill 192 



The Remodeled Stoughton Plant 



Illustrated 193 



Obituary Record 194 



[With Portrait of George H. Hood. J 



News of the Ajnerican Rubber Trade 



Illustrated 195 



A Few of the Latest Tires 



Uhihratcd 202 



New Rubber Goods in the Market. 



Illustrated 203 



New Trade Publications 204 



New Machines and Appliances 



Illustrated 206 



The India Rubber Trade in Great Britain 



By Our Correspondent 209 



Some Rubber Interests in Europe 210 



Para Rubber Culture in Dutch Guiana 



lUusti-ated — By Our Correspondent 211 



Rubber Notes from British Guiana 



By Our Correspondent 212 



Recent Patents Relating to Rubber 213 



tljiiited States. Great Britain. France. Germany.] 



A Letter on Direct Rubber Importations 215 



Report of the Crude Rubber Market 216 



RUBBER ARRIVALS FROM THE CONGO. 



December 10. — By the steamer Elizabethville: 



Bunge & Co (Belgika) kilos 1,000 



do (Comp. Commerciale Congolais) 38,000 



do (Cie. du Congo beige) 2,300 



do (Comfina) 15,000 



do (Forminicre) 1,300 



do 7.000 



Societe Coloniale Anversoise (Kasai) 1 00,763 



do (Intertropical) 20,205 



do (Comminiere) 45,886 



Credit Colonial & Commercial (.\nc. L. & W. Van de 



Velde^S. .\.) (Crevelde) 12,700 



Willaert Freres 5,000 



Charles Dethier ) (American Congo Cy) 2,000 251,154 



Ant'werp. 



KinBER .Xrrivals for November. 



Details. 1913 



Stocks, Oct. 31... kilos 638,076 

 Arrivals in November — - 



Congo sorts 191,535 



Other sorts 301 



Plantation sorts 156,059 



Aggregating 985,971 



Sales in November.... 439,372 



1912. 

 568,819 



403,281 



4,357 



161,154 



1,137,611 

 430,066 



1911. 

 578,208 



1910. 

 598,774 



148,361 344,885 

 63,487 54,404 



70,761 53,536 



860,817 

 226,555 



1,051,599 

 483,451 



1909. 

 464,831 



417,392 

 68,923 

 47,308 



998,454 

 262,838 



Stocks, November 30.. 546,599 707,545 634,262 568,148 735,616 



.Arrivals since Jan. 1 — 



Congo sorts 2,652,540 



Other sorts 111,717 



Plantation sorts 1,898,676 



Aggregating 4,662,933 



Sales since Januiiry 1.. 4, 637, 384 



3.061,697 



131.291 

 i;258,777 



4,451,765 



4,408,758 



3,276,349 

 807,364 

 286,248 



2,854,412 2,870,684 

 433,347 369,227 

 596,740 518,062 



3,884.499 3.757,973 4,369,961 

 3,838,549 3,731,335 4,230,080 



Plantation Rubber from the Far East. 



E.xpoRTs OK Ceylon-Grown Rubber. 



[From January 1 to November 10, 1913. Compiled by the Ceylon Chamber 

 of Commerce.] 



1912. 



To Great Britain f<"i"ds 6.343.787 



To United States 3.572,959 



To Belgium 



To Australia 



To Germany 



To Austria 



To Japan 



To Canada 



To Italy 



To Russia 



To Holland 



To France 



To India 



To Norway and Sweden. 

 To Straits Settlements . . 



999,707 



219.736 



156,364 



62,832 



55,118 



22,078 



5,909 



2,288 



2,282 



2,017 



400 



39 



1913. 



11,936,265 



5,197,727 



3.226,186 



417,593 



213.017 



30,097 



222,605 



Total 11.445.516 



41,074 



11,301 



992 



15,682 



1,381 



97,120 



21.411,040 



(Same period, 1911, 5,115.241; same period. 1910, 2.706.197.) 



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

 include the imports re-exported. (These amount to 1,991,137 

 pounds — 1,495.190 pounds from the Straits, and 495,947 pounds 

 from India. — Ed. C. O.) To arrive at the approximate quantity 

 of Ceylon rubber exported for 1913 to date, deduct the quantity 

 of imports from the total exports. In previous years the exports 

 of Ceylon rubber only were given. 



Total Exports From Mal-wa. 



[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- 

 Singa- 

 To — pore. 



Great Britain /'oioirf.r. 16.154,472 



Continent 227,114 



Japan 886,398 



Ceylon 59,079 



United States 4,694,566 



.Australia 73,716 



Total 22.095,345 11,334,533 23.451,916 56,881,794 



Same period, 1912.. .11,440,319 6,737,897 16,673,987 34,852,203 



Same period. 1911... 5,291,205 3.565.100 9,539,339 18,395,644 



Same period, 1910... 2,980,439 1,652,782 6,886,394 11.519,61S 



