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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[ November i, 1909. 



Vol. 41. 



X( iVEMBER 1, 1909. 



No. 2. 



TABLE OF CONTENTS 



Editorial: 



Page. 



What 11 tips to Keep Rubber Dear 35 



Rubber and Slavery 36 



Failure of a "Fifth Wheel" 36 



Minor Editorial 37 



The Rubber Price Situation 38 



The News of Aerial Navigation 3g 



[With Illustrations of 4 Machines and Portrait of Charles R. 

 Mint.] 



The Progress of Rubber Planting 42 



[Views of a Ceylon Company'9 Chairman. Company Notes in 

 Asia and America. Frauds in the Name of Rubber.] 



"Red Rubber" in Eastern Peru 44 



An Official View of Amazon Rubber 46 



New Conditions in the Amazon 5. Clark 46 



Some Rubber Interests in Europe 45 



[The Industry in Portugal. Tribute to the Late Dr. Traun. 

 Rubber Goods Prices in Germany.] 



Recent Patents Relating to Rubber 50 



[United States. Great Britain. France.] 



The Obituary Record 57 



[With Portraits of Oiarles A. Hodgman, George M. Allerton 

 and Theodore A. Dodge.] 



Miscellaneous: 



Thr New Corporation Tax 37 



New Use of Rubber in Surgery 38 



A New Steam Plate Press (Illustrated) 41 



A Felt Trust in Canada 41 



Libel Suits in the Congo 45 



Russian Duties on Raw Rubber 45 



The Guayule Interest 49 



fndia-Rubber Goods in Commerce 53 



A Reminder of Yianna 5 o 



Self Filling Fountain Comb (Illustrated) 59 



Vpplication Front a Consul 64 



Chinamen in Rubber 6 4 



News of the American Rubber Trade 54 



1 Trade at \kr.m Our Correspondent 47 



The Trad. i„ San Francisco Our Correspondent 48 



Review of the Crude Rubber Market 59 



APPRECIATION FROM A CONSUL. 



T'lII'". following unsolicited and unlocked for letter from an 

 American consul who long has fitted creditably a position 

 in th< service is evidence of appreciation of very high character. 

 While lli.- letter was transmitted through the department of 

 sill-. a1 Washington, it may be better to omit the name of the 

 writer and the location of his consulate. Specimens of this 

 paper have been sent to the planters named who are not already 

 on the subscription list. The letter follows: 



To the Editor of The India Rubber World: I beg leave to 

 inform you that the Universal rubber washer, described and il- 

 lustrated in your issue of August 1, has attracted considerable 

 attention among rubber planters here, and they are anxious to 

 learn if the machine has been adopted by planters in other rubber 



producing regions and if results have been satisfactory. If you 

 can furnish the foregoing information you will confer a favor 

 on rubber planters of this section, who would no doubt employ 

 the washer if it works successfully. 



Believing that the opportunity is propitious to interest planters 

 in The India Rubber World, I enclose a list of planters and 

 managers of the rubber plantations in this state, and believe it 

 would be to your interest to send them sample copies, calling 

 their attention to such points of interest to them as regularly 

 appear in your publication. 



I avail myself of this opportunity to inform you that The 

 India Rubber World is regularly received at this consulate, and 

 in view of the extensive and gradually expanding rubber in- 

 terests here, it has been filed in one of the conspicuous sections 

 of the cabinet installed in this office for catalogues and industrial 

 publications, being thus conveniently accessible to planters and 

 exporters who wish to consult it when they call at this consulate. 



Permit me to suggest that by adding a Spanish section to The 

 India Rubber World its scope would be materially enlarged, 

 and become an important factor in fostering the rubber interests 

 between the United States and the Latin American republics 

 where rubber or kindred products are cultivated and also be 

 instrumental in introducing manufactured rubber articles for 

 which there is a constantly increasing demand throughout 

 Mexico and Central and South America. 



I will be pleased to serve you here or other points in Mexico 

 in any manner you can suggest, consistent with my official duties. 



Respectfully yours, 



CHINAMEN IN RUBBER. 



U" UROPEAN investors are not alone in their eagerness to 

 ■'— ' put money into rubber plantations ; Chinese capitalists in the 

 Malay peninsula seem equally enthusiastic. At least the Chinese 

 gentlemen around Singapore are active in promoting rubber 

 plantations for other people to put money into. There ccmes to 

 hand at this writing a prospectus of The United Singapore Rub- 

 ber Estates, Limited, got up in regulation European style, both as 

 to printing and the contents, which latter have to do with taking 

 over various estates, with and without rubber, and to do further 

 planting. One property — that of Chop Tiang Guan — is referred 

 to as having 800 acres covered with Para rubber three years old. 

 The capital mentioned is $1,000,000 (silver). The list of directors 

 follows: 



The Hon Tan Jiak Kim, m.l.c, of Panglima Prang, Singapore; 

 merchant. 



Lee Choon Guan, Esq., of No. 10 Malacca street, Singapore; merchant. 

 Choa Giang Thye. Esq., of No. 19 Cecil street, Singapore; opium farmer. 

 Lim Boon Keng, Esq., of No. 4,5 Raffles place, Singapore; physician. 

 Tan Chay Yan, Esq., t.p.. of No. 41 Heeren street, Malacca; planter. 

 Se.ui Kng Ktat. Esq., of No. 13 Boat quay. Singapore; merchant. 

 Vow Ngah Pan. Esq., of No. 28 Market street, Singapore; merchant. 



The chief mover in this flotation appears to be Tan Chay Yan, 



who in 1906 sold out a rubber plantation to what has become 



The Malacca Rubber Plantations, Limited, capitalized at ,£300,000 



[=$1,459,950], and now producing rubber. 



At La Paz, on September 17, officials of Bolivia and Peru 

 signed a protocol for the settlement of the differences between 

 those republics over the boundary question. This is an indica- 

 tion that there is to be no war over the important rubber dis- 

 trict of which a map appeared in The India Rubber World, 

 August 1, 1009 (page 397). 



If you went into a grocery store and asked the price of sugar, 

 tea or coffee, you would be rather annoyed if the grocer told you 

 that the price was 50 cents per pound, less 10, 5 and 2 per cent. 

 You would expect the grocer to figure out the net price himself. 

 We quote all our goods at net prices. — A Rubber Foalivear 

 Manufacturer. 



