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NOVEMBER 1. 1911. 



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THE AMERICAN RUBBER EXHIBITION. 



ly /lANY times has the project for an American rubber 

 ''"■*' exhibition been 'mooted. A score of times has it 

 been suggested, but never carried beyond the first pre- 

 liminaries. That is as it should be, for certainly ij,p to 

 the present the time was not ripe, nor was there adequate 

 exhibition experience behind the thought. With the pro- 

 jected 1912 exhibition, however, the case would seem to 

 be vastly 'different. At no time in the past has there 

 been such a general interest in rubber. Nor has there 

 ever been so wonderful and spectacular a trade develop- 

 ment. The tropical world has been scoured to secure 

 varieties hitherto unknown of wild rubber. Not only 

 that, but science has gone out into the jungle and taught 

 the native to do his work better, and give a cleaner, more 

 valuable product. Law has penetrated to fever-ridden 

 fastnesses and insisted upon sanitation and . incidentally 

 ;^ conservation of rubber-producing species. New appli- 

 ^ ances for gathering, for coagulation, have been produced 

 by the hundred. 



In the great factories of the world, in foundrv, ma- 

 chine shop and laboratory, new machines and appliances |^p^ ^ 

 have appeared by the thousand. American, German, goTAN 

 English, French, Belgian and Russian inventors have QAKU 

 been busy. Scientists in Government service or privately 

 employed have spent years in rubber research, and are 

 eager to put their views before the world. 



The time is ripe. A gathering such as no other in- 

 dustry in the world could call out is perfectly feasible. A 

 rubber exhibition, historical, broadly informing, complete, 

 held in the United States would not only be of the greatest 

 value to the people, but could be made to give an added 

 and a permanent impetus to the already great industry 

 that we have builded. 



ARE THESE TRUSTS SO BAD? 



¥T is reported by the press that Attorney General 

 •*• W'ickersham has compiled a list of 100 "bad trusts," 

 and this list, as given conjecturally by one of the dailies, 

 includes the United States Rubber Co. and the Inter- 

 continental Rubber Co. 



Just why the rubber trusts should be listed as 

 "bad" it is hard to imagine. They certainly do not 

 monopolize any branch of the rubber trade nor ap- 

 parently do they attempt to do so. As a rule instead 

 of stifling competition they have encouraged it — in 

 rubber shoes, for example, by putting prices where 

 it was possible for the new man to make a good pr6fit. 



As a result of the amalgamation or trust impulse 

 that began to show itself about 20 years ago there 

 have been consolidated about 30 companies. During 

 that period 25 have started up as a direct result of 

 such consolidation, and as many more because of the 

 natural expansion of the rubber business. In the 

 meantime the rubber business has grown from $100,- 

 000,000 to over $200,000,000 and the trusts have done 

 not over 40 per cent, of it. Certainly the rubber trade 

 has no cause for complaint. 



In the popular mind the Intercontinental Rubber 

 Co. would probably be classed as a "trust" as it is a 

 merger of several other companies. • It was formed 

 in December, 1906, and its chief operations have had 

 to do with the extraction of rubber from the guayule 

 plant in Mexico. Since the beginning of 1907 over 

 55,000,000 pounds of guayule rubber, with a value of 

 nearly $25,000,000, have been exported from that 

 country. Fully 45 per cent, of this large output can 

 be credited to the Intercontinental Rubber Co. During 

 the past four years, therefore, it has added some 25.- 



