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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[September 1, 1912. 



Vol. 46 



SEPTEMBER 1, 1912. 



No. 6. 



TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



EDITORIAL: 



Our Special Exposition Number 



Two Opposing Views of Synthetic Rubber. 

 A Memorable Day in the Rubber Country. 



Are Rubber Goods Deteriorating? 



The Rubber Chemist 



Trinidad and Its Rubber— III 



[With 7 Illustrations.] 



Rubber Floors in Churches 



[With 2 Illustrations.] 



The New York Rubber Exposition 



By the Bdito r 



[With i Illustrations,] 



The History of Synthetic Rubber 



India-Rubber Trade in Great Britain 



Our Regular Correspondent 

 Some Rubber Interests in Europe 



The Rubber Industry of Japan 



Our Regular Correspondent 



Some Rubber Planting Notes 



The Editor's Book Table 



New Rubber Goods on the IVIarket 



[With S Illustrations.] 



Miscellaneous: 



.■\n E.xample of South American Civility 



Third International Rubber Conference 



The New British Synthetic Rubber Process 



The All-Ceylon Exhibition 



Para vs. Plantation Rubber 



An English View of the Crude Rubber Situation 



Bolivian Rubber Industry 



Notes from British Guiana Regular Correspondent 



Testing Rubber at Plantations 



Some News Notes from Manaos Regular Correspondent 



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New Trade Publications 



India-Rubber Goods in Commerce. 



Recent Patents Relating to Rubber 



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



News of the American Rubber Trade 



[With 3 Illustrations.] 



The Trade in Akron Our Correspondent 



The Trade in Boston Our Correspondent 



The Trade in Chicago Our Correspondent 



The Trade in Rhode Island Our Correspondent 



The Trade in San Francisco... Our Correspondent 



The Trade in Trenton Our Correspondent 



Review of the Crude Rubber Market 



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Rubber Scrap Prices. 



Late New York Quotations. — Prices paid by consumers for 

 carload lots, per pound — are practically unchanged. 



September 1. 



Old rubber boots and shoes — domestic 9ji@ 9j4 



Old rubber boots and shoes — foreign 9ys@ 9% 



Pneumatic bicycle tires 4}^@ 4^ 



Automobile tires 9}i@ 9'A 



Solid rubber wagon and carriage tires 9J4@ 9j4 



White trimmed rubber 11 @115/^ 



Heavy black rubber ,.,...., 4f^@ 5 



Air brake hose .'.'...■.'i';- SYz® 5j4 



Garden hose l/4@ 15^ 



Fire and large hose 2 @ 2% 



Matting y^@ 54 



Anituerp 



Rubber St.\tistics for July. 



Details. 1912. 



Stocks. June iO.. Kilos 343,191 



Arrivals in July — 



Congo sorts 296,528 



Other sorts 21,662 



Plantation sorts 57,405 



Aggregating 718,786 



Sales in July 284,475 



1911. 

 773,977 



198,520 

 21,790 

 42,741 



1,037,028 

 571,294 



1910 

 460,517 



144,697 

 42,685 

 65,517 



710,416 

 190,451 



1989- 

 476,420 



461,506 

 56,358 

 12,056 



1,006,340 

 481,828 



1908. 

 684,866 



172,828 



48,816 



5,558 



912,068 

 216,517 



Stocks, July 31 434,311 



Arrivals since Jan. 1 — 



Congo sorts 1,713,944 



Other sorts 90,828 



Plantation sorts 670,039 



465,734 519,965 524,512 695,551 



1,841,113 

 268,743 

 374,217 



1,800,323 

 210,207 

 324,577 



2,177,715 

 610,922 

 144,787 



2,430,364 



333,921 



68,742 



Aggregating 2,474,811 



Sales since Jan. 1 2,715,038 



2,484,073 2,335,107 2,933,424 2,833,027 

 2,606,551 2,356,652 3,004,647 3,144,370 



Rubber Arrivals from the Congo. 

 July 23. — By the steamer Bruxellesville: 



Bunge & Co (Societe Generale Africaine) Kilos. 112,000 



do (Chemin de fer Grands Lacs) 8,000 



do (Alberta) 2,809 



Societe Coloniale Anversoise (Cie. du Kasai) 63,800 



do (Coniminiere) 15,609 



L. & W. Van de Velde (Comfina) 14,500 



do (Velde) 6,000 



Charles Dethier (American Congo Co.) 6,700 



Congo Trading Co 8,600 



Societe Generale de Commerce....- (Alimaienne) 1,200 



Cassart & Henrion 700 



August 13. — By the steamer EUzabethvUle: 



Bunge & Co (Societe Generale .Africaine) Kilos 120,000 



239,900 



do 

 do 

 do 

 do 

 do 



. (Chemins de fer Grande Lacs) 



(Alberta) 



(Belgika) 



. (Comptoir Commercial Congolais) 



Societe Coloniale Anversoise (Haut Congo) 



do (Societe Fran^aise du Haut Congo) 



L. & W. Van de Velde (Cie. du Kasai) 



do (Comtina) 



do (Velde) 



Charles Dethier (.American Congo Co.) 



do (Coraminiere) 



Willaert Freres : . . 



Congo Trading Co 2,000 293,680 



Plantation Rubber From the Far East. 



Exports of Ceylon-Grown Rubber. 



(From January 1 to July 1, 1911 and 1912. Compiled by the Ceylon 

 Chamber of Commerce.) 



32,000 

 2,400 

 430 



30,000 

 1,750 

 3,609 

 5,400 



60,500 

 6,000 

 4,000 

 5,500 



15,100 

 5,000 

 2,000 



1911. 



To Great Britain pounds 1,223,384 



To United States 845,941 



To Belgium 



To Australia 



To Germany 



To Canada 



To Austria 



To Japan 



To Italy 



To Holland 



To France 



To India 



To Norway and Sweden. 



181,519 



18,824 



8,590 



9,971 



21,684 



3,597 



100 



117 



85 



1912. 



2,824,486 



1,630,163 



546,922 



76,494 



65,280 



16,065 



12,563 



8,315 



5,885 



2,282 



100 

 39 



5,188,594 

 497,677.] 



Total 2,313,812 



[Same period 1910—1,087,620 pounds; same 1909- 



Tot.\l E.xports from Malaya. 



(From January 1 to dates named. Reported by Barlow & Co., Singapore. 



These figures include the production of the Federated 



Malay States, but not of Ceylon.) 



Port Swet- 

 To — Singapore. Penang. tenham. Total. 



June 30. 

 Great Britain. ../'OKHd.s- 4,424,045 



Continent 118,190 



Japan 211,607 



Australia 28,476 



Ceylon 



United States 1,129,025 



June 23. 

 3,782,341 

 27,867 



June 30. 

 7,650,658 

 1,046,019 



123,751 438,819 



Total 5,911,343 



Same period, 1911.... 2,766,372 

 Same period, 1910.... 2,533,732 

 Same period, 1909.... 1,240,137 



3,933,959 

 2,055,652 

 1,006,176 

 1,436,128 



1912. 



15,857,044 



1.192,076 



211,607 



28,476 



562,570 



1,129,025 



9.135.496 18.980.798 

 5,994,795 10,816,819 

 4,069,587 7,609,495 

 2,676265 



