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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[February i, 1904. 



RUBBER ARRIVALS AT ANTWERP. 



Dec. 30. — By the Albeitville, from the Congo : 



Societe ABIR kilos 73,000 



Comptoir Commercial Congolais 1,000 



Bunge & Co (Societe Generale Africaine) 184,300 



Do (Societe Anversoise) 41,300 



Do (Societe " La Kotto ") 2,000 



Do (Sultanats du Haut Obangi) 25,500 



Societe Coloniale Anversoise (Cie. du Kasai) 54,000 



Do (Cie. de Lomami) 12,000 



Do .(Beige du Haut Congo) 6,000 



Comptoir des Produits Coloniaux ... 1,600 



Do (Cie. de la N'Goko) 4,600 



Do (Cie. des Produits de la Sangha) 300 



Do (Cie. de Ekela & Kadei Sangha) 9,700 



Charles Dethier (La Haut Sangha) 25,000 



M. S. Cols 1,200 



Do (Societe Baniembe) 1.100 



Do (Societe L'Ikelemba) 400 



Socie'te' Equatoriale Congolaise 1,000 



W. Mallinckrodt & Co . (Alimaienne) 11,400 



Cie. Cotnmerciale des Colonies 500 



Rotterdam Rubber Statistics. 



[Supplied by Weise & Co.] 

 INDIA-RUBBER ARRIVALS (KILOS). 



Thimbles, red 09,000 



Congo ball 15,500 



Kassai, red 146,600 



Kassai, black 43,200 



Upper Congo . 370.300 



Sierra Leone 19,900 



Mozambique 9,400 



Java and Sumatra 15,600 



1904. 



Stocks, January 1 . . . . 64,000 



Soudan. . 

 All other 



Surinam sheet . . 

 Venezuela block . 



Total, 1903 



Total, 1902 



Total, 1901 



Total, 1900 



Total, 1899 



1903. 1902. 1901. 



8,100 67,300 80,600 

 BALATA ARRIVALS (KILOS). 

 1903. 1902. 1901. 1900. 



28l,000 244,500 211,950 161,600 

 22,000 30,700 31,450 23,500 



455,900 



66,600 

 I3,20O 



799.300 

 991,700 

 853.25O 

 877,450 

 804,750 

 1900. 

 38.900 



1899. 

 95,200 

 52,200 



Total 303,000 275,200 243,400 185,100 147,400 



Stocks, end year 3,700 



GUTTA-PERCHA (TONS). 

 1903. 1902. 1901. 



Stocks first of year 218 263 185 



Arrivals during year 148 267 314 



Aggregating 366 



Sales during year 172 



53° 

 312 



499 

 236 



307 

 280 



587 

 402 



263 185 



1899. 

 180 

 495 



675 

 368 



307 



5,000 



130 



265 



395 

 215 



180 



Stocks end of year. . . 194 218 



Rubber Production of Para State. 



We are again able to present some details of the production 

 of rubber in the state of Grao Pard, as distinguished from that 

 derived from sources up the Amazon, but included in the sta- 

 tistics of shipments from Para. The figures here relate (1) to 

 the total arrivals at Pard during the last three calendar years, 

 (2) to the share which was produced in Pari state, and (3) the 

 percentage of the total produced in Pard — the figures including 

 Caucho : 



Tolal. Para State. Per cent. Para. 



1901 tons 29.930 9,866 32-9/6 



1902 28,620 10,566 36.9 % 



1903 31.090 an, 017 35-4!f 



[a Arrivals for June, 1903. estimated by us at 500 tons.] 



The interest which these figures have for the trade is the in- 

 dication which they afford of the permanence of the Hevea 

 rubber supply. Pard state, it will be remembered, was the dis- 

 trict in which this kind of rubber was first gathered, and for a 

 long time was the sole source of supply. Later, when Upriver 

 rubber came into the market, from the regions tributary to 

 Mandos, an impression prevailed that the exploiting of new 

 fields was due to the exhaustion of rubber in the Pard or 

 " Islands " district. This, however, is not the case; more rub- 

 ber was needed, and the rubber field has been widened. But 

 the state which was first to yield Hevea rubber, and the one in 



which the forests have been longest worked, is now yielding 

 more than ever before. During the last six months the arrivals 

 in market from Para state compare with the same period of 

 the three preceding years as follows : 



1900. 1901 . 1902. 1903. 

 Tons 5521 6149 5295 6403 



The state of Para of late has begun the export of Caucho, the 

 arrivals in market having increased from 66 tons in 1901 to 142 

 tons in 1902 and 366 tons in 1903. During the last six months 

 arrivals of Caucho amounted to 98 tons, against 64 tons in the 

 same period of 1902 and 4 tons in July-December, 1901. 



These new supplies of Caucho are drawn from the river 

 Tapajoz, where the development first began, and more largely 

 from the Tocantins. Our Para correspondent reported in July 

 last : " From the latter river we shall not have any supplies for 

 some months to come, due to low water, but from the Tapajoz 

 there are always shipping facilities." If the same rate of in- 

 crease should be shown by the Tocantins this spring as during 

 the past two years, several hundred tons of Caucho should 

 come out with the rise of the river. 



Rubber Receipts at Manaos. 



During December and the first six months of the crop sea- 

 son for three years [courtesy of Messrs. Witt & Co.] : 



Rio Puriis tons 



Rio Madeira 



Rio Jurua 



Rio Javary — Iquitos 



Rio SolimOes 



Rio Negro 105 



Total. . . 

 Caucho. 



Total 2545 2029 2066 8145 6720 8665 



The firm Witt & Co. underwent a change at the end of the year. 

 The old firm was composed of Nicolao Henrique Witt, Cezar Jose de 

 Figueiredo, and Jose da Figueiredo, with an interest held by the Para 

 house of Frank da Costa & Co. The firm as reconstituted consists of 

 N. H. Witt and Waldemar Scholz. 



IMPORTS FROM PARA AT NEW YORK. 



[The Figures Indicate Weights in Pounds.] 

 January 2. — By the steamer Benedict, from Manaos and Para : 



Importers. Fine. Medium. Coarse. Caucho. 



A. T.Morse&Co 188,500 24,400 166,000 1,400= 



Poel & Arnold 131,000 27,500 42,80010,200= 



United States Rubber Co. 83,600 17,800 10,10024,700= 



New York Commercial Co. 62,500 11,100 12,900 = 



William Wright & Co. .. . 13.800 1,700 19,000 100= 



G. Amsinck & Co 14,900 3,100 5,700 600= 



Lionel Hagenaers & Co.. 20,200 2,700 — 



Edmund Reeks & Co. .. . 4,100 7,300= 



Hagemeyer & Brunn 4,400 1,700 900 .... = 



Thomsen & Co 5, 500 400 1,400 .... = 



Total 528,500 87,700261,50044,300= 



January 11. — By the steamer Duns/an, from Manaos and 



New York Commercial Co. 236,100 68.300 62,600 .... .= 



A. T. Morse & Co 185,200 29,400 65500 ... .= 



United States Rubber Co. 76,300 20,400 52,40067,600= 



Poel & Arnold 100,100 16,000 41,500 3,800= 



William Wright & Co. .. . 11,400 1,100 34,200 = 



Hagemever & Brunn. .. 11,900 2,800 = 



Lionel Hagenaers & Co. . 9,600 2,800 = 



Total. 



380,300 



211,500 



136,200 



86.500 



34,600 



24,300 



22,900 



11,400 



7,000 

 7,300 



921,000 



Para : 

 367,000 

 280,100 

 216,700 



: l6l,400 



46,700 

 14,700 

 12,400 



Total 630,600 135,200 261,800 71,400=1,099,000 



January 19. — By the steamer Scguranca, from Mollendo : 

 Fine. Coarse. Caucho. 



Chicago Bolivian Rub. Co. 23,000 2,200 



Flint & Co 8,300 



