February i, 1904.] 



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of nice quality and well liked. Imports should be encouraged. It sells 

 very readily on basis of Ceylon prices. 



East Indies. — Rangoon sent more ; also Penang. Borneo moderate 

 supply and not readily sold. Indo China sold better, and better liked. 



Balata. — Block in fair supply ; first eight months prices firm and up 

 to 2j. l%d. ; during later months stocks have accumulated and prices 

 are lower ; nominal value now is. &%d. Sheet supply has increased 

 during the year, and has sold well, but prices are now lower ; spot value 

 of Pile I is 2s. 4</. 



Gutta Percha. — There has been very little doing during the year. 

 Stocks have been firmly held, but demand is very slow and prices all 

 round are lower. 



England's imports for the year. 

 Para sorts tons 10,630 Madagascar tons 83 



Rangoon and Assam 88 



Penang and Borneo 101 



Penang 296 



Various 1 



Peruvian. 2,216 



Mollendo 148 



Central American, Ceara, 



and Pernambuco 1,798 



African 3,890 



Zanzibar and Mozambique 213 Total 19,464 



Edmund Schluter & Co. (London and Liverpool) have favored us 

 with their chart of " Annual India-Rubber Statistics" for 1903, show- 

 ing not only the fluctuations in prices of the leading grades, but also the 

 London and Liverpool stocks of rubber of all kinds at the end of each 

 month, not only for 1903 but for the four years preceding. There is 

 given also a detailed statement of the visible supplies of Para rubber at 

 the end of each month since the beginning of 1899. The chart is 

 mounted for convenient use in the counting house of the rubber man. 



Messrs. Hecht, Levis & Kahn, India-rubber merchants, of London 

 and Liverpool, announce the admission to their firm, as a partner, from 

 January I, of Mr. Robert Kahn. 



Edward Till & Co. [December 31] report stocks : 



1903. 



Para sorts tons — 



Borneo 32 



Assam and Rangoon 4 



^Other sorts 224 



1902. 



1901 



London 



55 

 2 



175 



144 



52 



442 



Total 260 



Liverpool 



Para. 



546 



Other sorts 630 



232 



894 

 456 



638 



1302 

 854 



Total, United Kingdom 1436 



Total, December 1 1 185 



Total, November 1 866 



Total, September 1 1 364 



Total, August I 1781 



Total, July 1 22S5 



Total, June 1 2248 



PRICES PAID DURING DECEMBER. 



1903. 

 Para fine, hard 3/io%@4/l 



Do soft 3/ <)X@3/' 1 



Negroheads, scrappy. .3/ 2^(0)3/3^ 



Do 

 Bolivian 



Islands . .2/ 4'4@2/5 

 4/- 



1902. 

 3/4 ^©3/10 

 3/i}£@3/ 8' 4 

 2/9 @3/ I 

 2/l^©2/ (Ai 

 3/7 @3/lO 



1582 2794 



2083 2525 



2464 2802 



2731 2736 



3053 2944 



3595 3128 



3687 3502 



■ 9DI. 



3/7 



3/ 4^@3/6J^ 

 2/ 7 ©2/9 



2/ 0^@2/l 



3/7^@3/o 



Lisbon Rubber Receipts. 



Benguella niggers tons 1879 



Loanda niggers 8S5 



Congo thimbles 264 



Other sorts 3° 



\Rrt>ortcd by Martin Weinstein & Co.J 



1901. 



I460 



754 



1900. 



1614 

 678 

 206 

 48 



145 

 71 



1902. 



648 



803 



95 



85 



1903. 



1556 



1051 



126 



109 



Total 3058 2546 2430 1631 2842 



Antwerp. 



To the Editor of The India Rubber World: We en- 

 tered the year with a stock of 611 tons — or 47 tons less than 

 last year. Imports during the year just closed were as follows : 



Congo sorts 5180 tons, against 4993 tons in 1902. 



Other sorts 546 " " 411 " 



Total 5726 " " 5404 " " 



Consequently there is practically no change in the quantities 



exported from the Congo, in spite of improved facilities for 

 reaching the seaboard. 



The next large sale here will take place on January 29, when 

 about 693 tons — mainly Congo sorts — will be exposed. Among 

 the more important lots will be the following, with the brokers' 

 estimations: 



Tons. Francs 



31 Lapori 1 9.10 



26 Lapori II 7. 



28 Upper Congo ball 9.40 



13 Wamba thimbles, red. ... 4. 



72 Uele strips 8.50 



24 Mongalla strips 9.15 



Tons. Franca. 



22 Aruwimi 8.15 



1 2 Kasai red 1 10. 07}^ 



15 Kasai — Loanda 9.30 



31 Kasai— Sankuru.. .... 8.80 



16 Kasai black I. . 9.50 



7 Equateur 1 9-50 



There are included also some 12 tons of French Congo rub- 

 ber; about 5 tons Benguella sorts; 19 tons Mozambique, and 

 3 tons Madagascar. 



No sale of importance has occurred since December 16, as 

 reported in these pages. C. SCHMID & CO., SUCRS. 



Antwerp, January 15, 1904. 



[From reports which have reached us through other chan- 

 nels it appears that the prices realized at the above sale were 

 far above what New York rubber men, at least, had expected. 

 As a result, the amount of the rubber sold that was secured for 

 American consumption was much less than had been counted 

 on. It is stated that one New York house, that instructed its 

 Antwerp correspondent tobid on 125,000 pounds at an advance 

 of 5 cents per pound over December prices, failed to secure any 

 of the rubber. On another page will be found the annual 

 review of the Congo rubber situation by Messrs. Grisar & Co., 

 of Antwerp.] 



ANTWERP IMPORTS OF RUBBER. 

 Ykar. Congo State. 



1896 kilos 1,106,375 



1897 1,557,861 



1898 1.734,305 



l8gg 2,992,414 



1900 4,902,003 



1901 5.417,456 



'9°2 4,992,954 



1903 5,180,401 



COMPARATIVE PRICES— EXTREMES. 

 [In Francs per Kilogram.'] 



[* In English money, per Pound. 1 

 tio Francs per KUogram=87^ cents per Pound 



ANTWERP RUBBER STATISTICS FOR DECEMBER. 



