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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[June i, 1910. 



Vol. 42. 



JUNE 1, 1910. 



No. 3. 



TABLE Of CONTENTS. 



I'ai'.'. 



Editorial: 



1 irporations 299 



Gunning for "Gold Bricks" 299 



(in the Road to Tarkwa 300 



Minor Editorial 3°° 



The Rubber Club of America— Annual 3°* 



The New Malaysian Rubber 3° 2 



PARA, MANAOS AND THE AMAZON 



The Editor 303 



[Para Agreeably Disappointing. Comfortable Though in the 



Iropics. Excellence of the Public Services. \ isits t& the 



nor, the Mayor and the Clubs. Views of the People and 



Interviews with borne of Them. Para as a Rubber Center. 



Methods of Conducting the Trade.] 



[With 14 Illustrations.] 



Rubber Plantation Results 3'° 



[Some Rubber Plantation Yields. German Interest in Rubber 

 Planting. Ouahtx of Rubber and the Age ot Trees. Castilloa 

 Rubber in Chiapas (Mexico). Forward Sales of Rubber.) 



The India-Rubber Trade in Great Britain 



Our Regular Correspondent. . 312 

 [New Companies. Position of Trade. Rubber Resins. Jottings.] 



Recent Patents Relating to Rubber 314 



[United States. Great Britain. France.] 



United States Rubber Co.'s Best Year 3»5 



[Annual Reports of the President and Treasurer; Annual Elec- 

 tion; Amendment of the By-Laws; Canadian Consolidated 

 Rubber Co., Limited.] 



Rubber Goods Manufacturing Co.'s Annual 319 



English Novelties in Rubber Garments 320 



[With 8 Illustrations.] 



Miscellaneous: 



1 utivation of Gutta-percha 300 



The Single Tube lire Patent Head 301 



Gutta-percha in Surgery 3 1 9 



Chewing Gun; Trade in England 3?l 



Less Cotton from the West indies 323 



Return of the Bicycle 323 



The Latest Artificial Rubht r 3*5 



McEwen Tire. (Illustrated) 33' 



The "Ideal" Sleeve for Tires. ( Illustrated) 331 



The "Universal" Steel Calender Shell 331 



Rubber Ready for Tapping 331 



New Trade Publications 331 



Some Rubber Interests in Europe 322 



[With a View of the Rubber Factory at Riga.] 



The Obituary Record 326 



[With a Portrait of Francis W. Veazie. ] 

 News of the American Rubber Trade 327 



[With 2 Illustrations.] 



The Trade in San Francisco Our Correspondent 324 



The Trade at Trenton Our Correspondent 324 



The Trade at Akron Our Correspondent 325 



Review of the Crude Rubber Maiket 332 



Antiverp. 



Rubber Statistics for April. 



Details. 1910. 1909. 1908. 1907. 1906. 



Stocks. March 31 kilos 499,102 595,855 1,136,892 725,538 641,650 



Arrivals in April 429,870 330,277 211,549 304,873 392,199 



Congo sorts 340,456 219,645 175,000 229,927 298,733 



Other sorts 89,414 110,632 36,549 74,946 93,466 



Aggregating 928,972 926,132 1,348,441 1,030,411 1,033,849 



Sales in April 458,504 318,345 630,528 568,838 153,391 



Stocks, April 30 470.468 607,787 *i7,9i3 461,573 880,458 



Arrivals since Jan. 1 1,469,549 1,458,369 1,729,358 1,637,631 2,071,689 



Congo sorts 1,171,286 1,001,032 1,522,423 1,381,092 1,573,515 



Other sorts 298,263 457,337 206,935 256,539 498,174 



Sales since Jan. 1 r, 540,593 1,446,317 2,018,339 1,834,242 1,926,418 



The death of M. Louis Van de Velde, senior partner of L. & W. 

 Van de Velde, rubber and produce merchants, occurred on April 

 13, at Stresa, Italy. 



Plantation Rubber from the Far East. 



Exports of Ceylon grown rubber from January 1 to April 25, 

 in 1909 and 1910. From the Ceylon Chamber ot Commerce Price 

 Current. 



To— 



United Kingdom pounds 



United States ) 



Canada J 



Belgium 



Germany 



Italy 



Australia 



France 



Total 296,068 740,397 



For same period in 1908 — 208,327 pounds ; same period in 1007 

 — 146,422. 



Exports from the Malay peninsula from January 1 to the 

 dates mentioned, in 1909 and 1910: 



1909. 1910. 



Singapore — to March 31 pounds 574.490 780,912 



Penang— to March 16 653,107 401,201 



Port Swettenham— to March 18 1,611,184 



Total 1,227,597 2,793,297 



Exports during the first two months of this year of rubber 

 produced in the Federated Malay States amounted to 1,497,201 

 pounds, against 790,183 pounds for the same period in IQ09. 

 These figures are included in the preceding paragraph. 



United States Imports of Crude Rubber. 



Official customs figures for nine months ending March 31 : 



From — 1908. 



United Kingdom pounds 3,323,460 



Germany 1,866,410 



Other Europe 4,418,673 



Central America and British 



Honduras 786,704 



Mexico 6,326,624 



Brazil 23,178,885 



Other South America 1,284,180 



East Indies 979,995 



Other Countries 36,446 



1909. 1910. 



9,438,904 13,041,217 



3,316,123 4,767,736 



5,552,634 8,014,773 



591,280 



10,985.844 



33,980,709 



1,435.536 



8i9,5'7 



23,442 



091,468 



16,905,054 



36,240,532 



1,816,434 



1,584,453 



12,243 



Total 42,201,377 66,743,989 83,373,910' 



Value $25,970,172 $45,128,757 $82,985,074 



Average per pound 61.5 cents. 68.2 cents. 99.5 cents. 



Exports 2,971,340 2,622,588 4,305,860 



Net Imports 39.230,037 63,521,401 79,068,050 



Liverpool. 



William Wright & Co. report [May 2] : 



Fine Para. — During the early part of the month the market was firm and 

 advancing, up to 12s. 6J4d. [= $2.93] paid for distant delivery; within the 

 past few days a reaction has set in, prices declined to lis. &d., rose to lis. 

 iod., and then reacted to us. qd. to 115. sd., at which it seems steady. 

 The reaction has been mainly caused by second hand sellers; once their 

 commitments are liquidated, a further advance in values is probable. News, 

 from Brazil continues extremely firm. Closing values: Upriver 1 is. sVid. 

 [= $2.79]; Islands lis. 40". 1= $2.76]. 



INDIA RUBBER GOODS IN COMMERCE. 



EXPORTS FROM THE UNITED STATES. 



OFFICIAL statement of values of exports of manufac- 

 turers of india-rubber and gutta-percha for the month 

 of March, 1910, and of the first nine months of three fiscal 

 years, beginning July 1: 



