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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[December i, 1909. 



Vol. 42. 



DECEMBER 1. 1909. 



No. 3. 



TABLE OF CONTENTS 



Editorial: 



Page. 



Very Practical Optimism 65 



"Restraint of Trade" 65 



Resurrection of Mr. Lexow 66 



Minor Editorial 67 



Mr. du Cros and the Dunlop Company 6g 



[With Portrait of Harvey du Cros.] 



The India-Rubber Trade in Great Britain 



Our Regular Correspondent 71 

 [The State of Trade. Rubber Regenerating Co., Limited. Rubber 

 Planting. Carbon Tetrachloride. Whiting in Mexico. Mr. Bax- 

 ter's Retirement. Personal Mention.] 



Some Rubber Interests in Europe 73 



I Report of the Marburg- Vienna Company. View of a German 

 ttubber Works Office {Illustrated). The Hard Rubber Industry 

 in Great Britain. Lie r man Rubber Manufacturers in Session. 

 The German Rubber Balloon Fabric Industry. Death of Gustav 

 Heyse. A Rubber Sample Room (Illustrated) . 



Balata and Its Applications 75 



Forward Sales of Plantation Rubber 76 



The Rival Rubber Markets 76 



The Viscosity of India-Rubber p h m p Schidrowits 77 



Some Sources of Crude Rubber 78 



Recent Patents Relating to Rubber 79 



Miscellaneous: 



The Amazon Rubber Syndicate S. Clark 67 



A German View of Our "Optimism" 67 



Rubber in the Newspapers 67 



The Rubber Club of America 68 



New Telephone Attachment {Illustrated ) 68 



Mr. Inge r soil Retires 68 



Had $30,000,000 to Spend 68 



The United States Patent Office 70 



A Million Dollars for Wrights 70 



Americans in Scotch Rubber Mills 72 



The Rubber Interest in Japan 



What "Synthetic" Rubber Lacks 



Storage of Rubber in European Ports (Illustrated) 



The Electrical Interest 



The Guayule Consolidation 



This Year's North British Tires 



India-Rubber Goods in Commerce 



American Exposition in Berlin 



Personal and Trade Notes 



A Leading Citizen of Para 81 



I With Portrait of Senator Lemos.] 



London's Annual Rubber Heel Show 81 



Brazil's Export of Rubber 82 



In the Congo Rubber Country 83 



Rubber Profits on the Kasai 84 



The News of Rubber Planting 85 



A Dinner with President Colt 87 



[With an Illustration.] 



The New Factories at Granby 89 



IWifh 2 Illustrations.] 



The Editor's Book Table 90 



News of the American Rubber Trade 96 



The Trade at Akron Our Correspondent 92 



The Trade at Trenton Our Correspondent 94 



[With two Portraits. I 



The Trade at San Francisco Our Correspondent 95 



Review of the Crude Rubber Market 99 



London. 



November 2.— The offerings of Plantation at to-day's auction 

 are reported by Lewis & Peat at about 120 tons Straits and 

 Malaya and 25 tons Ceylon. Gow, Wilson & Stanton, Limited, 

 report that a steady demand existed for all descriptions, at 

 prices showing very little change from what prevailed a fort- 

 night ago. To-day's quotations : 



Sheet and Biscuit ; 



Smoked sheet 9-*. <*d.@9s. V/id. 



Good to fine sheet 9s. — @gs. id. 



Good to fine biscuits 9s. — @9S. id. 



Crepe : 



Very pale 9-^- id.@gs. $ l Ad. 



Medium and palish 8s. — @gs. — 



Dark and brown $s. — @ys. loj^rf. 



Unwashed Scrap: 



Medium to fine 6s. 2d.@6s. % l /xd. 



Dark and low 4 s - zd.@6s. id. 



Smoked sheet from Highlands estate established the highest 

 quotation, ox S l / 2 d. [=$2.36.1] the same grade from Vallam- 

 brosa realizing gs. c\%d. [=$2.35.6]. A few specially good lots 

 were competed for and sold up to ox z l Ad. [=$2.26.6] per pound 



The price of fine hard Para to-day on the spot is 8s. iorf. 

 [=$2.04.9]. 



Liverpool. 



William Wright & Co. report [November 1] : 



Fine Pard. — The market has been active but nervous, and consequently 

 subject to violent fluctuations, but on balance there is a strong undercurrent 

 of strength, and at each sensible reaction in prices, strong buying has 

 taken place on behalf of the principal operators. This has been especially 

 marked for the distant positions, and at about 7s. qd. [=$1.76] per pound 

 there are and have been strong buyers right up to the end of the crop*, 

 which tends to confirm what we stated in our previous issuer — that manu* 

 facturers must reckon on a basis of at least 7s. [=$1.68] per pound. Re- 

 ceipts, in comparison with demand, especially the American one, continues 

 small, and as there is a considerable amount to be covered in during the 

 next two months, prices of the near positions have advanced $d. per pound 

 within the last week, closing with rather buyers than sellers at quotations. 



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British Official Statistics. 



For ten months ending October 31 : 



INDIA-RUBBER. 



Imports pounds 63,850,056 



Exports 33,989,416 



Net imports 29,860,640 



GUTTA-PERCHA. 



Imports 

 Exports 



. pounds 



Net imports. 



1907. 

 5,616,240 

 968,520 



4.647./20 



1908. 

 52.944.752 

 31,656,016 



21,288,736 



1908. 

 2,894,640 

 464,800 



2,429,640 



1909. 

 63.451,808 

 36,635,760 



26,816,048 



1909. 

 3.753.792 

 462,560 



Antwerp. 



Rubber Statistics for October. 



Details. 1909. 



Stocks, Sept. 30.. kilos 397,454 



Arrivals in October. . 265,185 



Congo sorts 199,664 



Other sorts 65,521 



Aggregating 662,639 1,208,917 



Sales in October 197,808 540,813 



956,968 1,076,410 1,122,655 

 233,152 455.329 568,172 



Stocks, October 31.. 464,831 662,104 723,816 621,081 554.483 



Arrivals since Jan. 1.3,836,338 4,217,919 4,302,317 4,762,232 4,615,168 



Congo sorts 2,858,957 3.583.058 3.656,700 3,702,744 3.543.296 



Other sorts 977, 381 634,861 645,617 1,059,488 1,071,872 



Sales since Jan. 1 .... 3,967.242 4,562,709 4,236,685 4.876,338 4,602,046 



Rubber Arrivals from the Congo. 

 October 18. — By the steamer Bruxellesville : 



Bunge & Co (Societe Generate Africane) kilos 78,900 



Do (Societe Abir) 7,800 



Do (Comptoir Commercial Congolais) 14,300 



Do (Comite Special Katanga) 1,500 



Do Societe Abir) 7,800 



Do (Chemins de fer Grand Lacs) 12,300 



Societe Coloniale Anversoise (Beige de Haut Congo) 6,100 



Do 4,3<>o 



Do (Sud Cameron) 8,900 



L. & W. Van de Velde (Cie. du Kasai) 99,000 



Do 3»ooo 



Charles Dethier (American Congo Co.) 3.500 



Societe Generate de Commerce 1 ,600 



Cassart & Henrion i,3°° 



244,700 



November 8. — By the steamer Albertville: 



Bunge & Co (Societe Generate Africaine) kilos 118,500 



"do (Societe Abir) 



do (Chemins de fer Grands Lacs) 



do (Societe Anversoise) 



do (Comptoir Commercial Congolais) 



do (Comite Special Katanga) 



do (Cie. du Kasai) 



Societe Coloniale Anversoise. ... (Bel^e du Haut Congo) 



do (Cie. du Lomami) 



do 



Societe Equatoriale Congolaise 



M. S. Cols - 



L. & W. Van de Velde 



Congo Trading Co 



Charles Dethier (American Congo Co.) 



3,o«". 

 6,800 



400 



28,300 



4,100 



76,700 



400 

 7.400 

 5.900 



35o 



850 

 4,200 



325 

 2,500 



260,625 



Little but good.— The Reading Rubber Stamp Works (Read- 

 ing, Pennsylvania) recently received a check for two cents from 

 a local firm in payment of a balance on an account. The check 

 is kept as a curiosity, says a local paper, and is prized far above 

 its actual value. 



