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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



(September 1, 1914. 



WPeb^ 



Vol. 50. 



September 1, 1914. 



No. 6. "1 



TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



Editoiials: Page. 



The War and the Rubber Trade in the United States 637 



The Opening Door of South American Trade 638 



War Prices Will Start Synthesists Again 639 



The Importance of the Soldier's Shoe 640 



The Possibilities of the Motorcycle 640 



Minor Editorial 640 



Some Neglected Nearby Markets — III. (Guatemala.) 



llUistraled 6-11 



The Future of the Rubber Industry on the Upper Amazon 



liy Adoifo BLillivian. Consul General from Bolivia at New York 643 



Growing Rubber in Ohio 



Illustrated 645 



Plantation Rubber Supplies 



By E. L. Killick 647 



What the Rubber Chemists Are Doing 



Illustrated 649 

 The Influence of Nitrogen Compounds on the Vulcanization 



of Rubber 650 



The Editor's Book Table 



Illustrated 652 



New Trade Publications 655 



Official India Rubber Statistics for the United States 656 



The Story of Building a Rubber Boot 



Illustrated 657 



The Liability of Railroads for Lost or Damaged Goods 



By E. J. Buckley 659 



The Rubber Dealer's Paradise (Labrador) 



Illustrated 660 



The Rubber Trade in Akron 



By Our Correspondent 661 



The Rubber Trade in Boston 



By Our Correspondent 661 



The Rubber Trade in Rhode Island 



By Our Correspondent 662 



The Rubber Trade in Chicago 



H.v Our Correspondent 663 



The Obituary Record 664 



[With 2 Portraits.] 



News of the American Rubber Trade 



Illustrated 665 



New Rubber Goods in the Market 



Illustrated 670 



The Rubber Tire 671 



New Machines and Appliances 



Illustrated 672 



The India Rubber Trade in Great Britain 



By Our Correspondent 675 



Additional Awards of Prizes at the London International 



Rubber Exhibition 676 



International Congress of Tropical Agriculture 676 



The German Rubber Industry 677 



Some Rubber Planting Notes 678 



Rubber Cultivation in Burma a "r "r-" u/„- ' ' «o 



Hy C. G. IVtlhams 679 



Report of Gold Coast Government for 1912 679 



Rubber in French Indo-China 680 



Notes from Dutch Guiana ; • ' ' ;,; ' ', ' ; V ^/sn 



Bv Our Correspondent — Illustrated 681) 



Notes from British Guiana ......^ 



By Our Correspondent 681 



Some Interesting Letters from Our Readers 682 



Recent Patents Relating to Rubber 683 



H'nited SLite--. C.re.it I'.ritaui. I- ranee. (Icrinany. 1 



The Market for Compounding Ingredients and Chemicals. ... 686 



Keview of the Crude Rubber Market 687 



Plantation Rubber from the Far East. 



E.M'ORTS OF CEYI.ON GrOWN RuBBER. 



(I'Voiii January 1 to July 20, 1913 and 1914. Compiled by the Ceylon 



Chamber of Commerce.) 



1913. 1914. 



To Great Britain pounds 5,961,258 8.273,621 



To United States 3,511,470 4,615,246 



To Belgium 1,649,601 2,686.091 



To .-Xustralia 294,085 277,4.56 



o Germany 124,449 971,761 



To Japan 115,211 199,640 



To Italy 36,507 312 



'i'o .\ustria 26,716 — 



To Strait.s Settlements 20,064 40,252 



To Holland 992 — 



To India 881 550 



To Russia — 98,482 



To France — 205,180 



Total 11,741,234 17,368,591 



(Same period 1912—5,937,788; same period 1911—2,603,596.) 

 The export figures of rubber given in the above table include 

 the imports re-exported. (These amount to 2,163.650 pounds — 

 1,784,515 pounds from the Straits and 367,511 pounds from In- 

 dia.) To arrive at the approximate quantity of Ceylon rubber 

 exported to date, deduct the quantity of imports shown in the 

 import table from the total exports. 



ToT.^L Exports from M.al.\y.\. 



tl'Vom 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- 



Malacca, 



June 30. 



2,526,558 



22,261 



Singapore, 

 To— July 8. 



Great Britain. /-ouiirfi 10,923,091 



Continent 1,721.285 



Japan 594,162 



Ceylon 252,125 



United States 5,997,680 



Australia 



38,407 



Penang, tenham, 



May 31. July 14. Total. 



7,403,600 12,456,057 33,309,306 



328,933 1,574,416 3,646,895 



594,162 



467,867 867,249 1,587,241 

 414,133 136,590 6,548,403 

 38,407 



Total, 1914 19,526.750 



Total, 1913 12,944.585 



Total, 1912 5,911.343 



Total, 1911 2.766,372 



2,548,819 



8,614,533 15,034,312 45,724,414 



5,863,467 14,340,559 33,148,611 



3,211.759 9,998,195 19.121,297 



1.764,641 6.401,716 10,932,729 



Rubber Scrap Prices. 



L.^TE New York Ql'OT.\tions. — Prices paid by consumers for 

 carload lots, per pound : 



August 29, 1914. 



Old rubber boots and shoes — domestic 7 @ 



Pneumatic bicycle tires 3 @ 3.'4 



Automobile tires 5 @ 



Solid rubber wagon and carriage tires S5^@ 



White trimmed rubber 10 @11 



Heavy black rubber 354@ 4 



Air brake hose 3 @ 



Garden hose 1 @ 



Fire and large hose 2 @ 



Matting J4@ 



No. 1 white auto tires 5 J/2@ 



Inner tubes 16 (gl8 



AUSTRALIANS INOUIRE FOR •HUB MARK" LITERATURE. 



Mr. Chester J. Pike, Jr., manager of the Hubmark Rubber Co., 

 Boston, Massachusetts, recently received the following request 

 from Sydney, Australia: "Would you be so good as to forward 

 me a copy of your book entitled 'Hub Mark Common Sense' as 

 noted in The India Rubber World of .A.pril, 1914." 



This request proves two things conclusively— first, that the .An- 

 tipodes are interested in "Hub Mark" literature, and second, 

 that rubber men all round the globe look to The Indi.a Rubber 

 World to keep them abreast of the times. 



