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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[Januaky 1, 1912. 



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Vol. 45. 



JANUARY 1, 1912. 



No. 3. 



TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



Editorial: 



Looking Back at 1911 



Plausible Pessimism 



The Duty on Rubber Waste 



Patents and the Restraint of Trade 



What a Few Years Have Wrought 



The Humanitarianisra of the Motor-Car 



Uniform Tests for Rubber Products 



United States Statistics of Malayan Rubber Growing 



Some Views from Guayule Experts 



The Propagation of Guayule — A Criticism F. E. Lloyd 



The Present Status of Guayule Walter E. Parker 



A Guayule Resume H. Von der Linde 



A Morning with the Rubber Gatherers in Panama 



[With 4 Illustrations.] 



A Description of the Balloon "Akron" 



[With 3 Illustrations.] 



The India-Rubber Trade in Great Britain 



Our Regular Correspondent 

 [Trade Conditions. United Malaysian Rubber. A New Book. 

 Barium Carbonate. Rubber Re-Forming. Asbestos Slates. Foot- 

 wear and the Weather.] 



Rubber Doings in London 



Special Correspondent 



Some Rubber Interests in Europe 



The Rubber Industry of Japan 



Special Correspondent 

 [With S Illustrations.] 



Some Notes on Rubber Planting 



New Trade Publications 



The Editor's Book Table 



The Obituary Record 



[With Portrait of Albert Fischer.] 



New Rubber Goods in the Market 



[Some Goodrich Druggists* Sundries. A Practical Tire Protector. 

 Soft Rubber Steering Wheel Covers. New Tube Deflator and 

 Tire Tool. Pencloth for Aeroplanes. Goggles That Don't Get 

 Hot. Firemen's Waterproof Suits. A Non-Skid Tire and How 

 It is Made. Cravenette Cloth in Shoe Uppers.] 

 [With 11 Illustrations.] 

 Recent Patents Relating to Rubber 



[United States. Great Britain. France. Germany.] 



Miscellaneous: 



Census Figures of the Rubber Industry 



Proposed Changes in Government Rubber Specifications 



The Netherlands and the Late Rubber Exhibition 



The Madero Government and the United States {Illustrated) 



Transactions of National Assn. of Cotton Manufacturers 



Europe and the American Rubber Expositions 



The Coming Motor Car Shows 



The American Consumption of Golf Balls 



A New Use for Garden Hose (Illustrated) 



A New Committee on Rubber Analysis 



Notes from British Guiana Special Correspondent 



India-Rubber Goods in Commerce 



The State of Para in 1910 



News of the American Rubber Trade 



The Trade in Boston Our Correspondent 



The Trade in Rhode Island Our Correspondent 



The Trade in Chicago Our Correspondent 



The Trade in Trenton Our Correspondent 



The Trade in San Francisco Our Correspondent 



The Federal's Fine Remodeled 



The Plant of the Faultless Rubber Co 



Review of the Crude Rubber Market 



Planiaiion Rubber from the Far East. 



Exports of Ceylon Grown Rubber. 



(From January 1 to November 20, 1910 and 1911. Compiled by the Ceylon 



Chamber of Commerce.] 



1910. 1911. 



To Great Britain pounds 1,332,477 2,811,151 



To United States 1,335,308 1,568,339 



To Belgium 39,993 641,783 



To Japan 1,480 49,308 



To Germany 12,184 44,338 



To Australia 4,604 38,865 



To Canada 7,476 13,830 



To Holland 12,893 



To Italy 1,909 8,460 



To Straits Settlements 3,216 



To .Austria 3,088 



To India 196 



To France 117 



To Africa 35 



Total 2,735,431 5,195,619 



[Same period 1909, 1,139,702 pounds; same 1908, 679,224.] 



ToT.\L Exports from Malaya. 



[From January 1 to dates named. Reported by Barlow & Co., Singa- 

 pore. These figures include the production of the Federated Malay States, 

 but not of Ceylon.] 



From— 1909. 1910. 1911. 



Singapore (to October 29).. /'oK/irf.y 2,068,008 2,980,439 5,291,205 



Penang (to October 15) 1,810,013 1,826,149 3,828,656 



Port Swettenham (to August 31 ) 5.410,735 7,488,322 



Total 3,878,021 10,217,323 16,608,183 



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Rubber Scrap Prices. 



Late New York Quotations. — Prices paid by consumers for 

 carload lots, per pound — are unchanged: 



January 1, 1912. 



Old rubber boots and shoes — domestic 9]4@ 9^ 



Old rubber boots and shoes — foreign 9%® 9J4 



Pneumatic bicycle tires 4}^@ 4j4 



Automobile tires 8^@ 8J4 



Solid rubber wagon and carriage tires 9J4@ 9J4 



White trimmed rubber 11 @11J4 



Heavy black rubber 4^(g 5 



Air brake hose 4^(g 4J4 



Garden hose 154@ 1?^ 



Fire and large hose 2 @ 2% 



Matting 3i@ l 



UNITED STATES KUBBER CO. IN STTMATRA. 



The following paragraph relative to the plantation enterprise 

 of the United States Rubber Co. in the Middle East appeared in 

 a recent issue of "The Malay Mail," and is credited to a New 

 York source. It states "that with the recent purchase of 70,000 

 acres of land from the New Asahan Tobacco Co., the United States 

 Rubber Co., through its subsidiary the General Rubber Co., has 

 acquired 83,000 acres of land in Sumatra. Prior to this last pur- 

 chase the rubber company secured two parcels of land of 10,(XX) 

 and 3,(XX) acres respectively. On the latter a large number of 

 rubber trees have already been planted. The purchase from 

 the New Asahan Tobacco Co. is regarded by the management of 

 the rubber company as particularly valuable. It is authoritatively 

 stated that when these 83,000 acres are producing, the United 

 States Rubber Co. will be in an independent position with respect 

 to the crude product. In buying these lands in the Far East 

 no effort has been made to control the crude rubber supply. The 

 only idea has been to strengthen the position of the United States 

 Co., particularly during periods of extreme fluctuation, such as 

 have prevailed in the trade for some time." 



