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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[December i, 1909. 



soils" and gymnastic shoes, and greatly minimizes the drawing of 

 rubber soles. 



Another foreign house represented, in the footwear line, was 

 Etablissements Hutchinson, of France, through their branch in 

 Basinghall street, London, who never fail to present attractive 

 new patterns and shapes. 



The preceding list falls far short of exhausting the rubber 

 features of the show. Heels have been mentioned in connection 

 with some of the exhibits referred to, but there were other heels. 

 It was, in fact, a rubber heel show, for the Britishers are still 

 rubber heel mad. Among the concerns devoted to this output 

 alone were : 



Wood-Milne, Limited, Preston. 



Tacipeds, Limited, Birmingham. 



The India Rubber Manufacturing Co., London. 



Redfern's Rubber Works, Limited, Hyde. 



The Palatine Heel Co., Limited, Preston and London. 



The Lancashire Revolving Heel Co., Limited, Manchester. 



Wallington, Weston & Co., Frome. 



Hickson & Co., Stockton-on-Tees. 



Philipps's Patents, Limited, London. 



It would appear that, with so many firms in the field, after 

 so many years, anything very new in the way of rubber heels 

 would be impossible, but the International show this year 

 brought to light probably more "novelties" in the way of heels 

 than in any previous year. Certainly any heel which differs 

 from another enough to permit of a British patent for it to be 

 obtained may be exhibited as a novelty, and most of the different 

 heels shown were protected by letters patent, in respect either of 

 design, method of attachment, or something else overlooked by 

 previous inventors. 



There is to be a Boot and Shoe Exhibition at Birmingham, 

 in January, at which a number of the firms mentioned in this 

 report will be represented. 



* * * 



The factory of Wood-Milne, Limited, at Preston, alone, is re- 

 ported to be turning out an average of about 25 tons of rubber 

 heels every week or 1,300 tons a year. They are said to be 

 contemplating the erection of new works at Leyland, to cost 

 £40,000 [=$194,660], and to take on in addition the manufacture 

 of tires and mechanical and surgical rubber goods. The com- 

 pany maintain a very extensive Irish office and warehouse in 

 Dublin — at No. 149 Donegal street. 



BRAZIL'S EXPORT OF RUBBER. 



' I 'HE figures herewith indicate the weight in kilograms of the 



1 



exports of rubber from all the ports of Brazil, of rubber 



produced in that republic, during the past five calendar years. 

 They have been compiled from the returns of the federal bureau 

 of statistics of Brazil, and are in continuation of a similar table 

 presented in The India Rubber World, April 1, 1908 (page 246). 

 We have had occasion before to refer to the high degree of 

 efficiency to which the statistical office referred to has been 

 developed, and the figures which follow may be regarded as 

 representing very closely the totals of the rubber manifests from 

 the different ports. 



It will be observed that these figures relate to shipments by 

 calendar years, whereas the Para and Manaos figures presented 

 periodically in this paper relate to "crop years." Besides, the 

 latter include the output from the whole Amazon region, whereas 

 the figures on this page report the Brazilian output alone. This, 

 as will be seen, still shows a tendency to increase. The increase, 

 however, in 1908 as compared with the preceding year, has been 

 solely from the Amazon river ports. 



For several years each annual statement showed a gain in 

 the production of "manieoba" (Ceara) and "mangabeira" rub- 

 bers, which are produced south of the Amazon and find an outlet 

 through southern ports. During the last year the production 

 of these rubbers showed a considerable decrease, which may 



have been due to the effect of the decline in rubber prices which 

 was felt throughout the world. This decline in prices was 

 liable to have less effect in the Amazon valley, where the rub- 

 ber interest has existed longer and on a larger scale, and is or- 

 ganized more systematically. It will be necessary to have the 

 figures for another year, covering the period of the revival of 

 the crude rubber trade, in order to determine whether or not 

 Brazil is producing more rubber. It is true that the figures 

 given show a larger "grand total" for 1908 than for any former 

 year, but this includes an increased production of caucho, a 

 type of rubber not collected formerly in Brazil and also a type 

 which under (he methods now in use does not yield a per- 

 manent return. 



It is not possible, from the figures at hand, to determine 

 whether more or less Para (or Hevea) rubber is being shipped 

 from Brazil. It must be kept in mind that statistics emanating 

 from Para relate to the whole rubber output from the Amazon 

 region, covering a number of neighboring countries, so that the 

 steady increase in the output from the Amazon is not derived 

 from Brazil alone. 



Para Rubber (Including Caucho). 



Ports. 1904. 



Manaos 15,331,869 



Para 



Corumba 



Itacoatiara .... 



Maranhao 



Ilha do Cajueiro 

 Porto Murtinho. 



Total 



13,171,212 

 251,396 

 2.175 

 13.410 

 18,344 

 3.800 



1905. 

 15.245.938 

 16,221,766 

 441,787 



82.646 



17,296 



2,761 



iqo6. 

 14.732,000 

 16.554,000 



217,00c 



77,000 



13,000 



49.000 



1. 000 



1007. 

 16,767,834 

 16,017,61 1 



392.594 

 1 17,204 



12.993 

 74.355 



1908. 

 . 18,065,000 

 16,781,000 

 537.000 



313,000 



28,792,206 32,073,285 31,643,000 33,382,681 35,696,000 



Ports. 



Ceara 



Bahia 



I Urn do Cajueiro 



Para 



Maranhao 



Cabedello 



Pernambuco . . . 



Maceto 



Rio de Janeiro. 



Natal .'. 



Uossoro 



Total 



Ceara Rubber ("Manicoba"). 



1905. 1906. 1007. 



589,218 715,000 588,854 



1,443,826 1,410,000 1,285,103 



557.530 505.000 520,824 



350 



1904. 



668,809 



939,157 



503.871 



2,430 



n.471 



■ ,923 



97.556 



180 



1908. 



579,000 



1,249,000 



327,000 



8,527 

 82,666 



I,7'0 

 9.812 

 16,875 



S.500 



2,226,077 '2,682,217 2,664,000 2,428,678 2,166,000 



Mangabeira Rubber. 



Ports. 



Bahia 



Rio de Janeiro. . 



Santos 



Corumba 



Para 



Maranhao 



Ilha do Cajueiro 



Ceara 



Cabedello 



Pernambuco . . . 



Maceio 



Porto Alegre. . . 

 Porto Murtinho. 



Natal 



Paranagua 



Total 



1904. 



415.579 



85,195 



128,991 



56.383 



54i 



6,301 



3S,3i6 



6,935 



22,863 



85,034 



10,420 



350 



1,300 



I905- 



261,189 



105,413 



95.190 



74.733 



2,805 



3,197 



29,773 



19,019 



11,742 



30,314 



3,294 



1906. 



262,985 



129,044 



88,535 



81,722 



1,114 



8,319 



22,026 



7,ool 



15,363 



26,366 



5,233 



1907. 

 264,811 



75,586 

 100,931 



75,8oo 



1908. 

 106,499 

 52,607 

 33,092 

 80,337 



480 



3,901 

 1,620 



855,208 



637.109 

 35,392,611 



653,239 

 34,960,239 



6,465 

 39.896 



4,777 

 15,003 

 72,795 



7,681 



' ' 815 



13,663 



15 



678,238 

 36,489,597 



344,607 

 38,206,607 



Grand Total 31,863,491 



Brazilian Rubber Exports, by Ports. 



Ports. 1904. 1905. 1906. 1907. 1908. 



aAmazon ports.. 28,508,227 31,477,950 31,296,000 32,902,738 34,963,000 



^Atlantic ports.. 3,042,385 3,394,900 3,361,517 3,117.650 2.625,470 



clnterior ports.. 312,879 519,761 302,722 469,209 618,137 



Total 31,863,491 35,392,611 34,960,239 36,489,597 38,206,607 



a Para, Manaos, and Itacoatiara. 



b On the Brazilian coast, South of Para. 



c Corumba and Porto Murtinho, on the river Paraguay, discharging into 



the Rio de la Plate. 



[Note. — The above figures do not embrace small shipments of "massaran- 

 duba" gum — a species of balata — from Para, amounting in 1907 to 175 kilo- 

 grams and in 1908 to 139 kilograms.] 



Canadian Tire Prices. — The proud possessor of an automo- 

 bile has suffered just as heavily as has the humble individual 

 who never gets higher than an occasional pair of rubber heels. 

 On July 15 the price of the smallest pair of automobile tires sold 

 by the Dunlop Tire Co., was $20.15, the most expensive $146.80. 

 On September 28 the same tires sold at $22.15 an< I $161.50, re- 

 spectively, a very noticeable advance. — The Toronto Star. 



