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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[February, I. 1912. 



\'0L. 45. 



FEBRUARY 1. 1912. 



No. 4. 



TABLE or CONTENTS. 



Editorial: 



Kiiliber ami the West Irdian t'onfererce 



Two .Addresses Before the Uiibber Club 



Prospects of Rubber Production ami Consuini)tioii. 



Increased Malaya Rubber Kxports a Reality 



Rubber and the .Abai doned Farm 



The Day of Plastic Masses 



Minor Editorial 



Page. 



-'07 

 207 

 208 

 208 

 208 

 209 

 209 



Coagulating by Carbonic Acid 



I With 1 Illustration. 



iVillii-lm P„l,l 211 



Rubber Planting at the London International Rubber Con- 

 gress 



Thirteenth Annual Banquet of the Rubber Club of America. 



[With 6 Portraits and a Full Page Picture of the namjuct.] 



Tires in Garden and Palace 



The India Rubber Trade in Great Britain 



Our Regular Correspondent 

 London Rubber Notes 



The Rubber Industry of Japan 



Sf^ecial Correspondent 



Special Correspondent 

 IVVitli i Illustrations.] 



Some Notes on Rubber Planting 



The Obituary Record 



[With Portrait of Franklin Farrel.j 



New Rubber Goods in the Market 



Recent Patents Relating to Rubber 



[United States. Great Britain. France, (iermany. P.elgiuui.] 



Miscellaneous: 



Brazilian Conditions 



Plantation Versus Wild Rubber 



The .Agricultural Conference at Trinidad 



Banquet of the Motor .Accessory Manufacturers Illustrated 



Estimates Dividends of English Rubber Companies 



The North British Rubber Co., Limited Illustrated 



Some Rubber Interests in Europe 



Suggested Charges in Government Rubber Specifications 



Notes from British Guiana Special Correspondent 



New Trade Publications 



A New Hose Mold Illustrated 



A New Sectional Rubber Sijuecze Roll Illustrated 



213 



215 



23U 

 2J5 

 23S 



230 

 240 



243 

 25' 



210 

 210 

 214 

 22.1 

 232 

 233 

 234 

 234 

 237 

 241 

 242 

 242 



News of the American Rubber Trade 245 



I With 3 Illustrations.! 



The Trade in P.oston 



The Trade in -Akron 



The Trade in Rhode Island 



The Trade in Trenton 



The Trade in Chicago 



The Trade in .San I'lancisco 



223 

 224 

 225 

 227 

 2''7 

 228 



Review of the Crude Rubber Market 253 



CHANGES IN PARA AND MANAOS FIRMS. 



Under date of Decemljcr 31. 1911. Messrs. Gruner & Co.. of 

 Para, and Messrs. DusendschiJn, Zarges & Co., of Manaos, an- 

 nounced by joint circular the extinction of those firms, in conse- 

 quence of the expiry on the date named of partnership contract. 



By annexed circular of January 2, 1912, the formation is 

 announced of two new firms, Messrs. Zarges, Berringer & Co., 

 Para; and Messrs. Zarges, Ohliger & Co., Manaos, wlio will con- 

 tinue the business of the above-named firms, whose assets and 

 liabilities they assume. Messrs. Heilbut, Symons & Co., of Lon- 

 don and Liverpool, become special partners in both firms. The 

 management of the Manaos house is in the hands of Mr. Emil 

 Albert Zarges and Mr. Hugo Ohliger, while .that of the Para 

 house devolves upon Mr. Franz Christian Adolf Berringer, these 

 three gentlemen being the general partners in the new firms. 



Antiverp. 



RinutR St.\tistics for Uki-Emuer. 



Details. 1911. 



Stocks, Nov. 30.. .*i/o.v 634,262 



.Arrivals in December. 451.314 



Congo sorts 321.169 



Other sorts 130.145 



.Aggregating 



Sales in December... 



.Stocks, December 31. 



Arrivals since Jan. 1. 



Congo sorts 



Other sorts 



1,085.376 

 410,838 



868.851 

 280.639 



1.051,613 1.124,352 1,234,825 

 510,101 528,617 227,932 



674.738 588.212 541.512 595,735 1,006,894 



4,335,813 4,058,676 4,685,958 5,035,344 5,054,473 

 3,175,581 3,105,357 3,492.332 4.262.531 4.346,141 

 1,160,232 953,319 1.193,626 772,813 708,332 



Sales since Ian. 1 4.249,387 4,011.974 4,740,181 5.446,503 4.705,7*3 



Rubber Arruals fro.m the Congo. 

 Dece.mber 7. — By tlie steamer ElizabethviUe : 



Bunge & Co (Societe Generale .Africaiiie) kilos 65.700 



do (Comptoir Commercial Congolais) 



do (Cbemins dt fer Grands Lacs) 



do (Cie. du Kasai) 



Societe Colonial -Anversoise (Beige du Haul Congo) 



do (Cie. du Lomami) 



L. & W. Van de Velde. 



(.Societe Conun. and Fiuanc. .Vfricaine) 

 do 



4,400 



2.400 



57.500 



260 



3.400 



1 .300 



4.000 138.960 



Plantation Rubber from the Far East, 



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CtvLON Grow.n Rubber. 



Compiled by the Ceylon 



om January 1 to December 18, 1909 and 1910. 

 Chamber of Conunerce.l 



1910. 



Gre;it ISritain poiiitds 1,495,071 



United States 1 ,4,S0,693 



Belgium 



.Australia 



Japan 



Germany 



Canada 



Holland 



Italy 



.\ustria 



India ■. 



Straits Settlements. 



France 



.\frica 



66,114 

 5.030 

 3.246 



14,203 

 7.476 



1,909 

 1,041 



1911. 

 3.374.226 



1.807,0H5 



729.174 



47,547 



56,000 



4X,254 



18,871 



12.893 



8,460 



6,648 



3.216 



196 



117 



35 



Total 3,074,783 0,112,722 



[Same period 1909, 1,332,055 pounds; same 1908, 790,815.] 



ToT.Ai, Exports from M.\1-.\v.a. 

 [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 Nov. 30) . . .t'>uiuls 2Mi^,27\ 3.512.787 6.009,206 



Penang (to Nov. 26) 1.976.843 2.234.569 4.547.062 



Port Swettenham (to Sept. 30) 5.946.053 8.525,001 



Total 4.325,114 11.693.409 19,081,269 



Rubber Receipts at Manaos. 



November. 



From — 

 Rio Purus-Acre - . . 



Rio Madeira 



Rio .lurua 



Rio Javary-Iquitos 



Rio Soliinoes 



Rio Negvo 



Total 1.917 



Caucho 



Total 2,087 



For Sliif^viciit from 



Manaos 



Para 



Total 2.087 2,109 ;3,349 



Li'verpool* 



WiLLi.wi Wright & Co. report [January 5] : 



F!}ic Para. — The deniaiid on the whole has been good, e-^pecially dining 

 the last six niontlis, deliveries to the trade ( Europe and America) during 

 that period showing the large increase of 6.141 tons. During the first six 

 months of 1911 heavy fluctuations took place owing to speculative holding-i; 

 these having been cleared, prices have settled dov^n to a reasoi-'ahle level, 

 nnd the year closes with the prospect of a good demand and moderate 

 fluctuations. 



