

THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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THE RUBBER TRADE IN CANADA. 



$901,575 

 898,124 



575,89[ 

 8n,743 

 825,390 



$253,279 

 247,898 



158,244 

 100,879 

 213,607 



Total $682,919 $183,019 $35,637 



Total, 1907-08. . . 666,307 182,360 49,457 



a Total, 1006-07 .. 476,444 68,957 30.490 



b Total. 1905-06... 680,014 99,695 32,034 



b Total, 1904-05... 634,422 164,996 26,071 



For nine monl 3 ended March 31, m^r 

 b. For fiscal years ended Jin ( 



Imports from Germany amounted to $jj.<<\<> for the nine 

 months ended March 31, 1907; to $27,815 in the next twelve 

 months, and $22,209 in the fiscal year ended March 31 last. 



There may also be noted the following imports, not cla 



iicd by the customs as "rubbi 1 g Is," but having a relation 



industry: 



Other Total Duties 

 Countries. Value. Collected. 



?7,94i 



Exports of Canadian Rubber Goods. 

 Clothing 





All other 84.200 



Belting $4,302 



Hose 5,419 



Footwear 14 '.374 



Mats and Matting... 538 Total $236,083 



Distribution of Rubber Goods Exports. 



To— Value. To — 



Great Britain $21,273 British Guiana 



Argentina 



Belgium 



nark 



Italy 



British West Indies.. 

 British Fast Indies. . . 



Value. 



$238 



5i 



497 



1.347 



1-455 



147 



31 



Australia 43,129 



Newfoundland 44,344 



France 2,218 



United States 73,085 



New Zealand 47,974 



Mexico 8 



St. Pierre 94 



British Africa 192 total $236,083 



Comparison with former Exports. 



Year ended March 31, 1908 $239,983 



Nine months ended March 31, 1907 169,294 



Year ended June 30, 1906 266,504 



Year ended June 30, 1905 170,359 



Imports of R \\\ Materials. 



Pounds. Value. 



India rubber and gutta-percha 2,039,108 $1,681,269 



Rubber rei rubber substitute; bard 

 rubber in sheets 2,652,704 634.940 



Rubber, powdered, and rubber waste 1.433,070 167.361 



[908 09 6,124,! 



' I 570 



RUBBER GOODS IN MANITOBA. 



An indication of the growth of the rubber goods trade in 

 the western part of the Dominion is the announcement that 

 The Winnipeg Rubber Co., Limited, western selling agents 

 for the Gutta Percha and Rubber Manufacturing Co. of To- 

 ronto. Limited, have made arrangements for largely increas- 

 ing their facilities. Their plans involve the erection of a 

 seven-story building on a lot 50 x 100 feet which they have 



purchased for the purpose 111 Winnipeg, the building to cost 

 $75,000. Mr. Trumbull Warren is president of the company 



and Mr. A. A. Andrew- vice-president and general manager. 

 The company have a branch bouse at Calgary. Alberta. 



CANADIAN IMPORTS OF RUBBER TIRES. 



IMPORTS of the rubber tires (.for vehicles of all kinds) are 

 reported by the customs service in Canada in more detail 

 than in other countries. The following official statements 

 of value are for fiscal years ended March 31: 



1907-08. 1908-09. 



«,i eat Britain $10,326 $10,732 



France 931 1,484 



Germany 1,287 564 



United 'States 81,555 96,795 



Total $94,099 $t09,575 



Imports of automobiles and other motor vehicles during 

 the past fiscal year amounted to 533, valued at $585,097. of 

 which the United States contributed 469, worth $474,757. 



CANADIAN CONSOLIDATED DIVIDENDS. 



The directors of Canadian Consolidated Rubber Co. Lim- 

 ited, declared regularly quarterly dividends of 1% per cent, on 

 their preferred stock and 1 per cent, on the common, payable 

 on October I. A feature of the Montreal stock market of late 

 has been the marked advance in Consolidated Rubber common 

 shares, which have been quoted as high as 99' 



RUBBER REDEEMERS MADE HER RICH. 



[FROM THE NEW YORK SUN, SEPTEMBER 19.] 



'T'HERE may be a thousand and one ways of going into busi- 

 *■ ness for one's self, but Mrs. Augusta Matzncr, of New York 

 City, seems to have found the one thousand and second. It was 

 while she was on a trip to Europe a number of years ago that 

 a merchant with whom she was talking at a reception remarked 

 casually that he wondered whether there was any market in 

 America for old rubbers and overshoes. Mrs. Matzner thought 

 this request strange, and on inquiring found that many tons 

 of worn rubber footgear was being thrown away or used for 

 small profit in Europe. 



When she returned to America Mrs. Matzner had something 

 more valuable than Parisian frocks. It was something on 

 which the custom inspectors could not assess duty, for it was 

 an idea. She made a round of the New York rubber redeemers 

 and manufacturers and learned that old rubber was in demand 

 all the time. She cabled the European merchant with whom she 

 had first talked to send her all the old rubbers he could get. 

 She sold the shipment at a good profit. For two years she did 

 business in this way, depositing her profits always in the same 

 bank. 



Finally she found she could get the trade of a number of the 

 largest European firm-, and for this she needed much more 

 capital than she possessed. She went to the president of the 

 bank with which she had done business and asked for a large 

 loan If the president had been at all sceptical as to her ability 

 the explanation she gave him of the future of the old rubber 

 trade convinced him and she got the loan. To-day she receives 

 old rubber from Europe in thousand-ton lots and is one of the 

 largest individual factors in the rubber redeeming trade. 



The Monte Cristo Rubber Plantation Co. (Greeley, Colo- 

 rado) state that on their estate in Mexico they have 900 acres 

 under rubber (Castilloa), all in good condition. They have 

 planted rubber in each year (in June) as follows: Forty acres 

 in 1006. 360 in 1907, 100 in 1008, and 400 in 1909. The first 

 40 acres, three years old in June last, was reported at the end 

 of August to average 25 feet in height and j inches in diameter. 



