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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[July 1, 1912. 



Vol. 46. 



JULY 1, 1912. 



TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



Editorial: Pago. 



The Importance of the Rubber Conference 467 



Can Rubber be Produced in the United States? 468 



Auto Trucks for National Defense 468 



Do We Export Bad Manners? 469 



A Glut of Securities 470 



Rubber Courses in London 470 



Trinidad and Its Rubber 



Bv the Editor 471 

 I Willi 13 Illustrations.] 



Rubber Investigation at Berlin 475 



The Manaos Rubber Congress of 1910 477 



Progress in Artificial Rubber Production 478 



The New York Rubber Exposition 479 



The India-Rubber Trade in Great Britain 



Our Regular Correspondent 489 



Some Rubber Interests in Europe 492 



The Rubber Industry in Japan 



Our Regular Correspondent 494 



Some Notes on Rubber Planting 495 



Obituary Record 501 



I Portrait of S. Lewis Gillette.] 



Editor's Book Table 500 



New Rubber Goods in the Market 502 



Miscellaneous: 



The Henriques Chemical Laboratory, Berlin 476 



fPortr.iils of llrs. -Marckwald and Frank.] 



The Rubber Club of America 481 



The Rubber Section of the American Chemical Society 481 



Experimental Mill for Laboratory Purposes 



Illustrated 4SS 



Specific Gravity from a Manufacturer's Standpoint 



ir. r. Bonner 488 



Some London Rubber Notes 



Occasional Correspondent 490 



Destruction of Balloon Fabrics 491 



Rubber and Its Substitutes 492 



German Manufacturers' Views on Business Prospects 492 



Leading Plantation Returns 496 



Some News Notes from Manaos 



A Resident Correspondent 496 



Notes from British Guiana 



Regular Correspondent 497 



"Hevea" and "Castilloa" in Honduras 



Illustrated 499 



New Trade Publications 501 



Rubber Production of Various States 504 



Life Saving Rafts Illustrated 504 



Recent Patents Relating to Rubber 510 



[I'nited States. Great liritain. France. Germany.] 



News of the American Rubber Trade 505 



The Trade in .\kron Our Correspondent 483 



The Trade in Boston Our Correspondent 482 



The Trade in Chicago Our Correspondent 485 



The Trade in Rhode Island Our Correspondent 486 



The Trade in San Francisco Our Correspondent 487 



Review of t he Crude Rubber Market 512 



Rubber Scrap Prices. 



Late New York Quotations. — Prices paid by consumers for 

 carload lots, per pound — are practically unchanged. 



July 1. 



Old rubber boots and shoes — domestic 95^@ 9J4 



Old rubber boots and shoes — foreign 9 @ 9% 



Pneumatic bicycle tires 4l4@ 4J^ 



Automobile tires 9 ® 9% 



Solid rubber wagon and carriage tires 9yi@ 9^4 



White trimmed rubber 11 @1154 



Heavy black rubber 4J^@ 5 



Air brake hose 5%@ SJ4 



Garden hose iVz© 15^ 



Fire and large hose 2^@ 2% 



Matting %@ 1 



Aniiverp. 



Rubber St.vtistics for May. 



Details. 1912. 1911. 1910. 



Stocks, April 30. .kilos 437,513 599,114 470,468 



.'\rrivals in May — 



Congo sorts 152,024 187,106 128,052 



Other sorts 12,902 29,125 17.969 



Plantation sorts 107,367 41,754 44,037 



1909. 

 607,787 



442,098 



64,728 



8,235 



1908. 

 717,913 



337,368 

 62,757 

 15,279 



Aggregating 709,806 857,099 660,526 1,122,848 1,133,317 



Sales in May 265,369 243,089 116,663 433,610 361,740 



No. 4. Stocks, 



May 31 444.437 614,010 543,863 689,238 771,577 



1- 



.•\rrivals since Jan. 



Congo sorts 1.243.101 



Other sorts 58,637 



Plantation .sorts 514,692 



1,259.621 

 235,093 

 299,316 



1,299,338 

 138.138 

 222,131 



1.443,130 



433,700 



96,600 



1,859,791 



236,491 



48,480 



.Aggregating 1,816,430 1,794,030 1,659,607 1,973,430 2,144,762 



Sales since .Ian. 1 2,046,531 1,768,232 1,657,256 1,879,927 2,380,079 



Rubber Arrivals from the Congo. 

 May 21. — By the steamer Bru.relles'L'ille: 

 Bunge & Co (Societe Gcnerale .Africaine) kiio 



(Chemins du fer Grand Lacs) 



(Coniptoir Commercial Congolaisj 



,. (.Albcrla) 



Anversoise (Haul Congo) 



(Cie. du Kasai) 



de Velde (Comminiere ) 



^ (CorafinaJ 



do 



do 



do 



Societe Colonial 



do 



do 



I,. & W. \-a 



do 



do 

 Osterrieth & Co (Lubefu) 



do 



Charles Dethier (American Congo Co.) 



Rubber .Arrivals from the Congo. 

 June 11. — By the steamer EHsahethville: 

 Bunge & Co (Societe General .Africaine) 



do 

 do 

 do 

 Societe 

 do 

 & W. 

 do 

 do 

 do 



kilos 

 (Chemins de fer Grande Lac?) 

 (Comptoir Commercial Congolais) 



Colo 



ale 



L. 



Anversoise (Haut Congo) 



(Cie. frang du Haut Congo) 



Van de Velde (Cie. du Kasai) 



(Comfina) 



(Cominiere) 



(Velde) 



Congo Trading Co 



Willaert Freres 



23.800 

 8,700 



14,700 

 1. 100 

 4,250 



51,000 

 2,400 

 9.000 

 8.800 

 1,800 

 2,400 

 300 

 850 



30,500 



2,800 



8,300 



900 



6,390 



5,375 



83,500 



17,170 



6,000 



6,800 



4,600 



4,000 



129,100 



176,335 



Plantation Rubber from the Far East. 



Exports up Ceylon Grown Rubber. 



[From January 1 to May 20, I9II and 1912. Compiled by the Ceylon 

 Chamber of Commerce.] 



1911. 



To Great Britain pounils. 947,187 



To United States 669,141 



To Belgium 127,606 



To Germany 7,585 



To Australia 16.013 



To Canada 9.971 



To .Austria 



To Japan 15,165 



To Italy 



To Norway and Sweden. 



To France 



To Holland 



To India 



3,597 



117 

 100 

 40 



1912. 



2,205,112 



1,268,502 



489,501 



41.978 



37,655 



12,121 



11,920 



5.708 



4,692 



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Total 1,796,522 4,077,628 



[Same period 1910—838.280 pounds; same 1909—359.661.] 



Total 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.] " 



Singapore 

 May 3. 



Great Britain. . ./>oi(;i(/^ 3,214710 



United States 752.749 



Japan 105.356 



Continent 84,147 



Australia 12,304 



Ceylon 



Penang. 

 April 30. 

 2,270.432 



Port Swet- 

 tenham. 

 May 15. 

 6,874,146 



25,863 907,364 

 67.627 408,676 



Total. 



1912. 



12,359.288 



752,749 



105,356 



1,017,374 



12,304 



475,703 



Total 4169,266 



Same period, 1911 1,903,169 



Same period, 1910 1,012.863 



Same period, 1909 832,793 



2,363.322 8.190,186 14,722,774 



1,480,300 4.494251 7,877,720 



671.186 2.622,166 4306,215 



1,113,491 1,946.284 



