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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[September i, 1910. 



Vol. 42. 



SEPTEMBER 1. 1910. 



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TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



Editorial: 



' Question of Prices 



I id" Rubbei Politics 



The Tapping of Castilloa 



The I' 



II. 1 Fiemisl in the Rubher Industry 



Minor Editorials 



Rubber and the Electrical Trade 



PARA, MANAOS AND THE AMAZON 



The Editor 

 [The opening of m New Avenue to the Rich Rubber Fields of 

 i.i The Madeira-Mamore' Railway, Now Under Construc- 

 tion. Camp Life with the Engineers. Interest in Rubber 

 Planting. Legislation in Para for the Encouragement of 

 ting.] 



rWith 25 Illustrations.! 



The India-Rubber Trade in Great Britain 



Our Regular Correspoi 

 S3 11 tlietic Rubher. Naphtha Recovery. Balata Belting Suit. 

 Ouayule Rubber. Re-formed Rubber. Crude Rubber Wash- 

 ing Co., Ltd. A Correction. New Company Flotation. 



Recent Patents Relating to Rubber 



[United States. Great Britain. France.] 



The Inventor of the Pneumatic Tire 



The Obituary Record 



[With 3 Portraits.] 



The Golf Ball Manufacture 



Robert Milne 



The New Malaysian Rubber 



[With 3 Illustrations.] 



New Goods in the Rubber Market 



[With 6 Illustrations.] 



New Rubber Factory Appliances 



[With 6 Illustrations.] 



Some Rubber Interests in Europe 



[ < lermany's Rubber Footwear Trade. Calalith Industry in Ger- 

 many. Profits 1 if the Russian-American India Rubher Co. 

 Italy's Imports of Tires. Company Notes.] 



The Editor's Book Table 



New Trade Publications 



The Goodrich Company Forty Years Old 



[With 4 Illustrations.] 

 The Rubber Planting Interest 



[New Rubber Plantation Requisites. Plantation Rubher in Ger- 

 many. Rubber and Timber in Chiapas 'Mexico). Reorganiza- 

 tion of tin- Obispo Company. A Rubber Plantation Not for 



Sale.l 



Forest Rubber Exploitation 



I' 1 in Development in Peru. Native Rubbers of Portuguese 

 Africa. Larger Dividends of a Butch Company. Good Results 

 of the M.-ilin.i Forest Company.] 



Feeders of the Bordeaux Rubber Market 



Miscellaneous: 



Pi ifits i'f Wireless 



Rubber Wonders in Singapore 



Increased Production of Balata 



1 as a Money Tree 



Growth t the Stotighton Company 



Rubber in Argentina 



Fire it the Brussels Exposition 



Repudiated by Mi Macbean 



A Patent Law Amendment 



American Trade in Germany 



The Working Qualities of Fossil flour 



An in views via Cevlon 



News of the American Rubber Trade 



The Trade in Akr.m Oitr Correspondent 



The Trade in San Francisco Our Correspondent 



Review of the Crude Rubber Market 



British Crude Rubber Statistics. 



Official Statement — January 1 to June 30. 



WEIGHTS. 



I'inS, num. rgio. 



[mports pounds 36,280,272 39,866,960 56,2-9.888 



Exports 18,645.200 21,635,936 29,237,152 



Net imports 17,635,072 18,231,024 27,042,736 



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Imports i4.635.476 £6,282,294 il6.280.9S0 



'is 2,154.605 3.804,399 8,448.898 



United States Imports of Crude Rubber. 



Official Statement — Fiscal Years Enuing June 30. 



1907-0S 1908-09. 1909-10. 



United Kingdom pounds 6.809.622 12,825,192 15,556.981 



Germany 2,821,194 4-5°3.286 6,528,147 



Other Europe 6,883,473 7.598,809 909841 1 



Centra! America 992. [98 861.636 1,424,449 



Mexico 9,269,443 1 5.460,365 23,486,384 



Brazil 32,645,173 43.993,670 39,510,920 



Other South America 1.537.887 1,064,114 2,503,683 



East Indies 1,237,487 1,127,686 2.419,956 



Other countries 36.683 25,137 1 5.750 



Total pounds 62,233,160 88,359,895 101.044,681 



[mport value $36,613,185 $61,709,723 $101,078,825 



Average per pound 58.8 cents 69.8 cents $1.00 



Net Imports. 



Imports pounds 62,233,160 88,359,895 101,044,681 



Exports 4.1 10,667 3.79I.96I 6,492,947 



Xet imports 5S.122493 84.567,934 94-551,734 



Other United States Imports. 



1907-08. 1908-09. 1909-10. 



Balata pounds 584,552 1,157,018 399,003 



Gutta-percha 188,610 255,559 784.501 



Waste rubber 16,331,035 20,497,695 37,364,671 



Gutta-jelutong 22,803,303 24,826,296 52,392,444 



German Official Statistics. 



January i to June 30. 

 india-rubber. 



1909. 1 910. 



Imports pounds 15,616,260 21,466,280 



Exports 4.060,100 725,720 



Net Imports 11,556.160 15.740.560 



GUTTA-PERCHA. 



Imports pounds 4,846.160 7.485,280 



Exports 212,080 441.540 



Xet Imports 4,634,080 7,043,740 



balata. 



Imports pounds 700,700 001,120 



Exports 127.160 255,200 



Xet Imports 573.540 645,920 



Total Net Imports 16,763,780 23,430,220 



Plantation Rubber from the Far East. 



Exports of Ceylon Grown Rubber. 



From January i to July n, 1909 and 1910, compiled by the Ceylon 

 Chamber of Conuili rce: 



1909. I9I0. 



To Great Britain pounds 355,926 589,882 



To United States I ,_„„,, ! 499,996 



To Canada I I/9494 I 1,911 



To Belgium 19.630 -'5472 



To Germany 14.897 8,946 



To Italy . ." 608 841 



To Australia 7,504 1,099 



To France 1,639 



Total 579,698 1,128,147 



[Same period 1908 — 338,411 pounds: same 1907—242,370.] 



Total Exports from Malaya. 



[From January 1 to the dates named. Reported by Harlow & Co., 

 Singapore." Ceylon exports not included. I 



1908. 1909. 1910. 



From Singapore (to June 30) 1.015,368 1,240,137 1,533,732 



From Penang (to June 16) 500,610 1,301,352 912,716 



Fr'm Pt. Swettenham (to June 10) 3.4I3.9 2 9 



Total pounds 1,515,978 2,541,489 4,860,377 



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A book lor rubber planters — Mr. Pearson's "What I Saw in 

 the Tropics." 



