364 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[April I. 1912. 



Cft^^t, -y 



.^i^um-f*'^^ 



Vol. 46. 



APRIL 1, 1912. 



No. 1. 



TABL6 OF CONTENTS. 



Editorials: 



Haste and Its Penalties 



That Tariff on Crude Rubber 



(letting the Ear of the Press 



New Jersey Rubber Irdustries 



.Arbitration on Cancellation of Orders. 

 .Aviation and Rubber 



Page. 

 309 

 309 

 310 

 311 

 311 

 312 



Castilloa in Cuban Valleys 



The Editor 

 I With IN llluMiati.jii>,l 



Window Displays for the Rubber Goods Dealer 



By a Practical Window Trimmer. 

 [With 3 illustrations.] 



India-Rubber Trade in Great Britain 



Our Regular Correspondent 



Japanese Rubber Planting in Malay Peninsular 



Japanese India-Rubber Imports 



Some Notes on Rubber Planting 



Rubber Hoof Pads for Horses 



I \\ itii 13 Illustrations.] 



Editor's Book Table 



Obituary Record 



I With I'.rlraits of F. II. Nazro and H. H. Francis.] 



New Rubber Goods in the Market 



Miscellaneous: 



Plantation Expenditure 



The Future of Rubber Prices 



Technical Uses of "Manihot" and "Kjck,xia" 



Rubber Production of the German Colonial Possessiors 



Rubber Hose to Protect Petroleum 



Rubber Matters in Japan 



English Rubber Planting Companies j... 



Rubber Growers' .Association 



Notes from British Guiana Regular Correspondent 



New Trade Publications 



Rubber Machinery .■ 



Recent Patents Relating to Rubber 358 



315 

 325 



333 

 339 

 339 



343 

 344 



347 

 349 



351 



322 

 323 

 323 

 324 

 327 

 338 

 340 

 341 

 341 

 346 

 350 



[United States. Great Britain. France. 



News of the American Rubber Trade. 



Germany. Belgium.) 



Tlie Tr.tdc in .Akron Our Correspondent 



The Trade in Boston Our Correspondent 



The Trade in Chicago Our Correspondent 



The Trafle in Rhode Island Our Correspondent 



The Trade in San Francisco Our Correspondent 



The Trade in Trenton Our Correspondent 



353 



330 

 331 

 332 

 333 

 333 

 334 



Review of the Crude Rubber Market 360 



TOO MirCH WAB FOK GUAYTIXE. 



The Guaytile factory of the Continental Rubber Co. of New 

 York at Torreon. Me.xico. which closed down on February 

 17, owing to the very unsettled condition of the country, re- 

 sumed operations again last week. During the si.x weeks 

 when the factory was closed, all railroad communications 

 were stopped and all telegraphic and mail connections were 

 practically cut off; but the company reports that no harm has 

 been done, either to its property or to any of its employes. 



The prolit-sharing plan which has been under consideration 

 by the United States Rubber Co. for some months has not 

 yet been officially announced, although its announcement is 

 promised within a very short time. Some references have 

 been made to this plan in the daily press and descriptions 

 .given of it, but none of thein were authoritative or contained 

 all the features which it is said the plan will embody. 



Antiverp. 



Rubber St.atistics for Febru.ary. 



Details. 1912. 



Stocks, January 31.. kilos .^86,056 



Arrivals in February... 466,303 



Congo sorts 331,775 



Other sorts 134,528 



-Aggregating 1,052,359 881,735 996,786 897,788 1.537,452 



Sales in February 530,403 342,528 480.252 566,355 630,348 



Stocks, February' 28. . 



521.956 539,207 516,534 331,433 907,104 



Arrivals since Jan. 1.... 787,736 



Congo sorts 558,023 



Other sorts 229,713 



786,272 

 575,499 

 210,773 



776,491 

 656,663 

 119.828 



583,966 

 370,549 

 213,417 



825,411 



759,451 



65,960 



Sales since Jan. 1 940.518 835,277 801,469 848,268 925,201 



K LEBER -VRRnALS FROM THE CoNGO. 



I-"ebri ARV 27. — By the steamer Lcopoldtnllc: 

 Bunge S: Co . . . . ^Societe Generale .Africaine) kilos 89,900 



Do 

 Do 

 Do 

 Do 

 Do 



.(Chcmins de fer Grand I,acs) 7,800 

 . (Comptoir Commercial Congolais) 11,300 



(Cie. de Kasai) 68,300 



170 



. (Equatoriale Congolais) 870 



"■ " 8,200 



4,100 



21,000 



3,500 



3,400 



8,000 



300 



Societe Coloniale Anversoise (Cie. du Lomami) 



Do (Haut Congo) 



L. & W. Van de Velde (Comfina) 



Do 



Charles Dethier (.American Congo Co.) 



W'illr.ert Freres 



Comptoir d'Irebu 



Plantation Rubber from the Far East. 



E.xpoRTS OF Ceylon Grown Ri;bber. 



fl-'rom January 1 to February 19, 1911 and 1912. Compiled by tl 

 Chamber of Commerce.] 



1911. _ 



To Great Britain pounds 389,715 



To L'nited States 251,455 



To Belgium 38,694 



To Germany 3,648 



To .Austria 



To Canada 



To Japan 7,135 



To Norway and Sweden 



To .-Australia 6,518 



226,840 



le Ceylon 



1912. 



883,110 



287.856 



209,827 



13,132 



2,392 



2242 



2!l8T 



39 



Total 697,165 1,400.779 



[Same period 1910—345,410: same 1909—143,341.1 



Total E.xports from Malaya. 



f I'^rom January 1 to dates named. Repforted by Barlow & Co.. Singa- 

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

 but not of Ceylon.] 



From— 1910. 1911. 1912. 



Singapore (to Jan. 31 ) pounds 252.551 664.995 973,006 



Penang (to Jan. 18) 291,166 210,737 371,639 



Port Swettenham (Jan. 31) 767,182 1,531,350 1,546,960 



Total 1,310,899 2,407,082 3,891,605 



Rubber Scrap Prices. 



Late New York Quotations. — Prices paid by consumers for 

 carload lots, per pound — are in some cases slightly higher. 



.April 1. 



Old rubber boots and shoes — domestic 9V^(Si. 9^.< 



Old rubber boots and shoes — foreign 9'^@ 9^/i 



Pneumatic bicycle tires 4^4® 4J4 



.Automobile tires 8'/2(«' 85'8 



Solid rubber wagon and carriage tires 9%(ci 954 



White trimmed rubber 11 ffiW/i 



Heavy black rubber 4346 5 



.Air brake hose ^1& 5 



Garden liose l/4(?? l^if 



Fire and large hose . . . .• 2 (a 2'/4 



Matting ''/i@ '^ 



