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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[March i, 1910. 



or a temporary decline in Paras due to fuller stocks than 

 usual. 



In a very informing chart of comparative rubber prices 

 issued by the Messrs. Van de Yelde, of Antwerp, cov- 

 ering quotations for 20 years past, it appears that at one 

 time in 1890 the difference between Congo Kasai red I 

 and Para line was Is. 3</. [=30.4 cents] per pound, 

 whereas at the end of the year the difference was only 

 Ad. [=8 cents]. A wider difference than has been men- 

 tioned occurred in 1905, since which year at some dates 

 the two grades have come very close together. Some 

 other Congo rubbers have actually sold for more than 

 the prices for Para at the moment. 



Reference may be made also to plantation rubber from 

 the Far East, which now has an established reputation 

 and is coming into market in such quantities that any 

 purchaser can be assured of having his wants covered in 

 respect of this grade. There has been a continuous lack 

 of correspondence between prices of plantation and 

 Amazon Para. The widest divergence, perhaps, occurred 

 in midsummer, 1905, when plantation was quoted at over 

 a shilling more than Para fine, while in the latter part of 

 1907, and again in 1909, plantation sorts realized less 

 than forest rubber. 



The considerations which have been set forth here 

 may be of interest from another standpoint — that is, as 

 illustrating the principle that in the market for crude 

 rubber, as in the case of other commodities, prices, how- 

 ever they may happen to fluctuate momentarily, are in 

 the last analysis fixed by the time honored law of supply 

 and demand. 



Mr. Pearson will receive an audience today in the palace from 

 the Governor of the State. 



OUR TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY. 



MR. PEARSON ON THE AMAZON. 



[FROM "A PROVINCIA DO PARA," JANUARY 31.] 



JWI R. HENRY C. PEARSON, Editor and proprietor of the 

 well known New York review, The India Rubber World, 

 devoted to the rubber interest in general and in the trade centers 

 of which it plays a very conspicuous part, was a passenger on 

 the English steamer Clement, which arrived day before yesterday 

 [January 29]. This technical journal has just celebrated the 

 twentieth anniversary of its existence under the direction of 

 Mr. Pearson, during which it has been notable for the series of 

 benefits conferred upon the producer and manufacturer by the 

 varied and copious amount of data and reports, among all of 

 which we do not know what to admire most — whether the 

 accuracy, the impartiality, or the disinterestedness which so dis- 

 tinctively characterize them. 



In the recent exhibition at London, where the condition of the 

 rubber interest was declared to be prosperous and its future 

 assured, Mr. Pearson, with his unquestioned authority, treated 

 of "Wild and Cultivated Rubber in the Americas" and "Syn- 

 thetic Rubber," reports on which are incorporated in the book 

 "Lectures on India-Rubber," which is a compendium of the pro- 

 ceedings at "Olympia," in September, 1908. 



Mr. Pearson is our guest during his journey to Manaos to take 

 part in the congress of our rubber extracting industry, to be 

 opened in February. The recognized and undisputed authority 

 of the Editor of The India Rubber World has made his name 

 respected in the great world centers that are now so intensely 

 interested in the product, the original habitat of which was in 

 our impenetrable midland regions. 



' I 'HE Twentieth Anniversary Number of this journal is the 

 ^ subject of an appreciative notice, prominently placed in The 

 India-Rubber Journal (London), which closes with congratula- 

 tions to the Editors on "a very interesting number," and the 

 hope that the paper "will for long continue to prosper under 

 their able management." 



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The India Rubber Manufacturers' Association. 



-Manchester [England], January 25, 1910. 

 To the Editor of The India Rubber World, New York: 



Dear Sir : I have received the January number of your 

 esteemed journal, and take the opportunity to thank you for the 

 very interesting copies forwarded to me during the past year 

 and also to wish you a very happy and prosperous New Year. I 

 am desired to congratulate you on having completed 20 years' 

 publication, and to express the hope that a very great and pros- 

 perous future may be before your board. F. b. knott, 



Secretary. 



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Dr. Philip Schidrowitz, of the Chemical Laboratories, Lon- 

 don, writes on January 22 : 



"Though somewhat late in the day, allow me to congratulate 

 you on your twentieth anniversary and also on the very excellent 

 number with which it is celebrated. I hope that I will live to 

 see The India Rubber World's 'golden wedding' with the in- 

 dustry. It is dangerous to prophesy unless you know, but as it 

 is quite likely that my present words may not be remembered 30 

 years hence, I make the suggestion that when 1940 comes, there 

 will not be a single pound of crude rubber produced on the old 

 haphazard 'wild' lines. However things turn out, I feel certain 

 that The India Rubber World will have con tributed very ma- 

 terially to the rational evolution of the industry — as it has done 

 in the past." 



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[FROM THE "gUMMI-ZFITUNG," BERLIN.] 



The India Rubber World, a trade publication of signal im- 

 portance for the American rubber industry, recently celebrated 

 its Twentieth Anniversary and published a special edition as an 

 anniversary gift to its patrons. We send our most hearty con- 

 gratulations to our esteemed contemporary across the great pond, 

 with our best wishes that it may continue to thrive and meet 

 with a full measure of success in its valuable work. It would be 

 useless again to point out to our readers the importance of The 

 India Rubber World for the rubber industry in general, and for 

 all Americans engaged in the rubber trade in particular. We 

 shall confine ourselves to the statement that it can serve as an 

 example for all trade publications. The issue published in cele- 

 bration of the Twentieth Anniversary contains a number of 

 special articles, among which we may mention a historical review 

 of the rubber industry in Germany, illustrated by photographs of 

 prominent rubber goods manufacturers (Dr. II. Traun, Senator 

 Carl Maret, E. Spannagel, Professor Dr. A. Prinzhorn, F. 

 Clouth), as well as by a portrait of the late Dr. C. O. Weber. 

 Numerous appreciative and congratulatory letters received by 

 The India Rubber World from all parts of the world and pub- 

 lished in its anniversary number furnish convincing evidence of 

 the esteem and appreciation which our contemporary has earned 

 for itself during the twenty years of its existence. 



Recent issues of the "New Product Circulars," issued by J. P. 

 William & Brothers, tropical seeds and plants merchants, of 

 Henaratgoda, Ceylon, relate respectively to Hevea Brasiliensis 

 and the newer varieties of "Manitoba" rubber. They will prove 

 interesting to intending buyers of rubber seeds. 



