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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[December 1, 1911. 



Vol 45. 



DECEMBER 1, 1911. 



No. 3. 



TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



Editorial: 



Page. 



New Sources of Crude Rubber 103 



Successful International Rubber E.xpositions 103 



Principles of Cotton Speculation 1 04 



American Exports of Leather and Rubber Footwear 104 



The Most Interesting Thing in Rubber 105 



If They Could Only Get It 106 



American Exports of Rubber Goods 106 



Badness. Not I'igness, the Crime 106 



Rubber Testing Machines 107 



[With 6 Illustrations.] 



The Future of Jelutong 



Philip Schidrowil: 109 



"Berba Prieto," A New Gutta-Percha Rubber 



William M. Morse 111 



Again Rubber in the Temperate Zone 112 



African Grass Rubber 



F. H. Hunicke 113 

 fW'itli 4 Illustrations.] 



"Hevea Brasiliensis" in Mexico 



By Our Special Correspondent 115 



Official India-Rubber Statistics 120 



Wide Interest in the 1912 Rubber Exposition 125 



Forsyth Memorials in St. James Church, Roxbury, Mass. . . . 126 



(With 4 Illustrations.] 



London and Liverpool Auctions and Contracts 128 



The India-Rubber Trade in Great Britain 



By Our Regular Correspondent 129 

 [Secrets in Rubber Manufacture. The Re-forming Process. 

 Another Synthetic Rubber Gone Wrong. The Unity Rubber 

 Co., Ltd. The Dermatine Co., Ltd. The Rumored Strike. 

 New Works.] 



Some Rubber Interests in Europe 131 



The Rubber Industry of Japan 



By Our Special Correspondent 132 

 [With 7 Illustrations.] 



Some Notes on Rubber Planting 135 



The Obituary Record 137 



[With Portrait of A. D. Schlesinger.] 



The Editor's Book Table 139 



Recent Patents Relating to Rubber 145 



[Ifnited States. Great liritain. France. Germany.] 



New Rubber Goods in the Market 147 



Miscellaneous: 



Cultivation of "Hevea" in F.razil 117 



Remarkable Flow of Latex in Roston Illustrated 124 



Rubber and Balata in British Guiana Illustrated 136 



New Trade Publications 138 



Emergency Band and Protection Patch Illustrated 149 



News of the American Rubber Trade 140 



The Trade in Akron Our Correspondent 121 



The Trade in Boston Our Correspondent 122 



The Trade at Rhode Island Oxir Correspondent 123 



The Trade in San Francisco Our Correspondent 123 



Review of the Crude Rubber Market 150 



MARKED ACTIVITY IN BALTIMORE RUBBER. 



James Gilbert, of Whitelock street, Baltimore, Maryland, took 

 great pleasure and felt a most justifiable pride iu a rubber plant 

 which adorned the front of his house standing eight feet high, 

 and with its containing bo.x weighed 175 pounds. A few nights 

 ago it quietly but completely disappeared. The police of Balti- 

 more are busy on the problem. In Mr. Gilbert's opinion it re- 

 quired at least three men to move his rubber plant. The marked 

 decline in the market quotations of fine Para, which does not seem 

 able to get very far above the dollar inark, does not appear to 

 have been followed by any decrease in the popularity of the do- 

 mestic and decorative variety of rubber trees. People who have 

 handsome eight foot plants, thrifty and glossy, standing on the 

 front porch, would do well to chain them to the post.« 



Ant'werp. 



Details. 1911. 



Stocks, Sept. 30. .ti/oi 435,545 



Arrivals in October.. 415,263 



Congo sorts 355,970 



Other sorts 59,293 



Rubber Statistics for October. 



1910. 1909. 1908. 



580,908 397,454 654,161 



275,753 265,185 554,756 



175,101 199,664 487,104 



100,652 65,521 67,652 



Aggregating 850,808 



Sales in October 272,600 



Stocks, October 31 



856,661 

 257,887 



662,639 1,208,917 

 197,808 546,813 



1907. 

 719,005 

 237,963 

 180,366 



57,597 



956,968 

 233,152 



578,208 597,774 464,831 662,104 723,816 



Arrivals since Jan. 1 



Congo sorts 



Other sorts 



Sales since Jan. 1 . 



3,601.890 3,305,148 3,836,338 4,217,919 4,302,317 



2,706,051 2,525,799 2,858,957 3,583,058 3,656,700 



895,839 779,349 977,381 634,861 645,617 



3,611,994 3,247,884 3,967,242 4,562,709 4,236,685 



Rubber Arriv.\ls from the Congo. 

 October 4, 1911. — By the steamer Elicabetliville: 



Bunge & Co (Societe Generale Africaine) kilos 



Do tChemins de fer Grands Lacs) 



Do (Comite Special Katanga) 



Do (Comptoir Commercial Congolais) 



Do (Alberta) 



Do (Societe Forestiere & Miniere) 



Do (Cie. do Kasai) 



Societe Coloniale Anversoise (Beige do Haut Congo) 



Do (Cie. do Lomomi) 



Do 



L. & W. Van de Velde, 



(Societe Comm. and Financ. Africaine) 



Charles Dethier .'.... (Societe Comm. & Miniere) 



Willaert Freres 



Comptoir d'lrebu 



October 25. — By the steamer Leopoldville: 



Bunge & Co (Societe Generale Africaine) kilos 



Do (Chemins de fer Grands Lacs) 



Do (Societe Comm. and Financ. Africaine) 



Do (Equatoriale Congolaise) 



Do (Comptoir Commercial Congolais) 



Societe Coloniale Anversoise (Beige de_Haut (!^ongo) 



Do 



Do 



& W. 



Do 



. (Cie. du Kasai) 



de Velde 



(Societe Comm. and Fii 



Africaine) 



Charles Dethier (American Congo Co.) 



60,000 



7.400 



100 



6,300 



650 



42,200 

 2,100 

 2,100 

 1,600 

 5,400 



12,000 



1,600 



1,200 



400 



90,000 



9,500 



300 



1,100 



11,000 



600 



82,800 



6,300 



22,000 

 4,000 

 4,000 



141.640 



231,600 



THE TWELFTH NATIONAL AUTOMOBILE SHOW. 



At the Twelfth National Automobile Show, to be held in 

 Madison Square Garden, New York, for two weeks, beginning 

 with January 7, 1912, the following manufacturers of tires and 

 other rubber goods will have exhibits : 



Ajax-Grieb Rubber Co., New York. 



The Batavia Rubber Co., Batavia, New York. 



S. F. Bowser & Co., Fort Wayne, Indiana. 



Consolidated Rubber Tire Co., New York. 



Continental Caoutchouc Co., New York. 



The Diamond Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio. 



Joseph Dixon Crucible Co., Jersey City, New Jersey. 



Empire Tire Co., Trenton, New Jersey. 



Federal Rubber Manufacturing Co., Cudahy, Wisconsin. 



Firestone Tire and Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio. 



Fisk Rubber Co., Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts. 



G & J Tire Co., Indianapolis, Indiana. 



The B. F. Goodrich Co., Akron, Ohio. 



The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio. 



Hartford Rubber Works Co., Hartford. Connecticut. 



Hodgman Rubber Co., New York. 



J. Ellwood Lee Co., Conshohocken, Pennsylvania. 



Michelin Tire Co., Milltown, New Jersey. 



Morgan & Wright, Detroit, Michigan. 



The Motz Clincher Tire and Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio. 



The Pantasote Co., New York. 



Republic Rubber Co., Youngstown, Ohio. 



Seamless Rubber Co., New Haven, Connecticut. 



C. A. Shaler Co., Waupun, Wisconsin. 



The Stein Double Cushion Tire Co., Akron, Ohio. 



Swinehart Tire and Rubber Co., .Akron, Ohio. 



United Rim Co., Akron, Ohio. 



Voorhees Rubber Manufacturing Co , Jersey City, New Jersey. 



