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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



fFr.BRUARY I, IQIO. 



Vol. 41. 



FEBRUARY 1. 1910. 



No. 5. 



TABLE OF CONTENTS 



Editorial: 



Page. 



The Country of To-day 159 



The Start of Kubber Planting 160 



The Story of the Figures 160 



The Naming of the Rubbers 161 



The New "Dyera" Rubber 162 



[With an Illustration.] 



"Castilloa" Rubber in Chiapas, Mexico — I 



/. L. Hennessey., ./. M. I. E. E. 163 

 [With 5 Illustrations.] 



The India-Rubber Trade in Great Britain 



Our Regular Correspondent 167 

 [Cabli Tests. Balata lielting in America. The Late Sir Alfred 

 L. Jones. The Premier Reforming Co., Limited. Goloshes.] 



The Improved Outlook for Bolivian Rubber 169 



[With 4 Views from the line of the Madeira-Mnmore and a Por- 

 trait of the Late Colonel George Earl Church.] 



The Hodgman Balloon Fabrics 172 



Recent Patents Relating to Rubber 173 



[United States. < ireat Britain. France.] 



The Rubber Trade at Akron, Ohio 



Our Correspondent 175 



The Rubber Trade at Trenton, New Jersey 



Our Correspondent 176 



The Rubber Trade at San Francisco 



Our Correspondent 17; 



The New Rubber Chemical Section 178 



The American Chemical Society 179 



The British Rubber Craze 180 



Congo Rubber and the Antwerp Market 181 



Rubber Interests in Continental Europe 182 



[How Germans Seek to Please Trade. Rubber Footwear in Hol- 

 land. New Balata Factory in Norway.] 



The Editor's Book Table 183 



Rubber Plantation Yields 184 



[Followed by Plantation Company Notes.] 



News of the American Rubber Trade 186 



[With 5 Illustrations.] 



Review of the Crude Rubber Market 193 



Miscellaneous: 



The Good That Rubber Shoes Do 161 



Some Recent British Patent-. 168 



i anker in Para Rubber 172 



The Late Joseph Davol (Portrait) 174 



The Price of Guayule Shrub 174 



Range of Cotton Prices, [909 (Chart) 174 



Rubber Preparation in Tobago /. hi. Hart, F, L. S. 179 



I otton in Rubbsr G 1- 185 



American Production of Sulphur 185 



Rubber Scrap Prices. 



Late New York quotations — prices paid by consumers for car- 

 load lots, per pound — show a slight decline since last month : 



Old rubber boots and shoes — domestic io^@io34 



Old rubber boots and shoes — foreign 9 3 A@ 9 7 A 



Pneumatic bicycle tires 7 @ 7% 



Automobile tires 7A@ 7 7 A 



Solid rubber wagon and carriage tires 9 3 A@ 9 l A 



White trimmed rubber 10 @u 



Heavy black rubber 6 Z A@ 6^4 



Air brake hose 5'A@ SK 



Garden hose 2j/&@ 3 



Fire and large hose 3ii@ 4 



Matting 1 j/ & @ 2 



Plantation Rubber from the Far East, 1909. 



It is too earlj yel to present a complete statement of the cx- 

 tenl of exports of cultivated nibbei From Ceylon and Malaya for 

 the calendar year 1909, but it may be of interest to give here 

 the figures available for the latest dates in the year for which 

 data are available. 



From Ceylon, to December 20 pounds 1,332,055 



From Singapore, to December it. 2,348,271 



From Penang, to November 30 1,076,843 



From Pnrt Swettenham, to November 30 2,507,913 



Total (for incomplete year) pounds 8,165,082 



Complete returns for former years have been : 



1905 1906 1907 1908 



From Ceylon pounds 168,547 327,661 556,080 912,125 



From Singapore 180,533 719,133 1,446,417 2,060,238 



From Penang 48,267 98,636 642,668 1,611,197 



From Port Swettenham.. nil nil nil nil 



T " t; 'l 397,347 I.I4S.430 2,645,165 4,583,560 



London Auction, January 4. 

 Gow, Wilson & Stanton, Limited, report : 



Since the last sale the firm tone has continued, with a considerable 

 volume of business in all grades. At the opening of the New Year the 

 offerings came to a strong market, all descriptions being well competed 

 for. Quotations generally showed a substantial improvement, in the case 

 of the fine qualities to the extent of 2d. to 4<L : the medium and darker 

 kinds of crepe being in some cases up to is. higher. Vallambrosa smoked 

 sheet realized 8s. iV\d. [=$2]; the same grade from Highlands 8s. 

 2 l Ad.; and from Bukit Rajah 8s. o$id. per pound, several parcels of fine 

 crepe bringing ys. 8}$d. [=$1.88] per pound. Offering mounted to about 

 146 tons, of which l8 J A tons from Ceylon and the remainder from 

 Malaya. Average price realized, ys. zYsd. [=$1.78]. Price of hard fine 

 Para, ys. y J Ad. [==$1.85]. Range of quotations for plantation: 



Sheet and Biscuits: 



Smoked sheet ys. to^d.@8s. zfyid. 



Good to fine sheet ys. s'Ad.@ys. y'Ad. 



Good to fine biscuits ys. s'Ad.@ys.' y'Ad. 



Crepe : 



Very pale ys. 6'Ad.@ys. 8&d. 



Medium and polish ys. id. @ys. 6'Ad. 



Dark and brown 4s. gd. @ ys. 



L'nzL'ashed Scrap: 



Medium to fine 6s. (5 65. yd. 



Dark and low 4s. @SS- iif^d. 



Lewis & Peat give the details of several lots of "rambong" 

 ( Ficus) rubber. Twenty packages of rambong crepe of the 

 Sumatra mark realized 4s. 3% d. to 6.f. 3A d- Rambong scrap sold 

 at 4s. and upward. Small lots from Borneo and Java were 

 offered and sold. 



January 18. — At to-day's aution, when about 105J4 tons of 

 Ceylon and Straits plantation rubber was offered, there was good 

 competition and everything was sold. Lewis & Peat, report : 

 "Prices improved about 3d. per pound during the sales, and we 

 close with an advance of about 4 or 5 pence per pound for sheets 

 and biscuits, 27-2 and 3 pence for good crepe, 6 pence for brown 

 crepes, and 3 pence for scrap. Smoked sheets fetched up to &f. 

 7 '■_.</. [= $2.09.8] and "Lanadron" blocks up to 8.f. 9%d. 

 [=$2.13.4] per pound for one lot." The price of fine brown 

 Para is 7s. 7V s d. [= $1.85.5] P er pound. 



Para. 



R. O. Ahlers & Co. report [December 22] : 



Another reaction set in since the middle of this month, and the existing 

 stock found ready buyers at considerably increased prices. This movement 

 seems to find further support from this side by very moderate entries from 

 the sertao. 



R. O. Ahlers & Co. report [January 11]: 



Owing to reports of fairly heavy entries in Manaos, the market is some- 

 what irregular, snowing, however, no real signs of weaknesses. Supply 

 since our last report consist of 1605 tons including upriver and caucho. 

 Receipts so far in Tanuary are 1,605 tons, against 2,300 tons in 1909, making 

 the total entries since the 30th of June 17,962 tons this crop, against 

 18,850 in 1908-09 and 16,075 in 1907-08. Exports July — December, 8,855 

 tons to the United States and 7,230 tons to Europe. 



Hamburg. 



Mr. Walter Kirkerup, for many years connected with Weber 

 & Schaer, india-rubber merchants, Hamburg, has been granted 

 powers of procuration for that firm, dating from January 1. 



