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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[March i, 1904. 



has purchased the interest of John S. Harshman, the retiring 

 president, and that the present capital of $100,000 is to be 

 largely increased. 



= A meeting of the stockholders of the Goshen Rubber 

 Works (Goshen, Indiana), several of , whom live at a distance, 

 was held at that place on February 17, and it is reported that 

 the object of the meeting was to plan an important increase of 

 the plant. 



=The New York-Broadway Rubber Tire Co. (distributors in 

 the New York territory for the tires of the Goodyear Tire and 

 Rubber Co.) have leased for three years the three story build- 

 ing. No. 253 West Forty-seventh street, New York. 



=The Joseph Banigan Rubber Co., of Providence, Rhode 

 Island, with $1,500,000 capital, have formed a corporation in 

 Illinois, to cover their business in that state, with $175x00 capi- 

 tal. 



=President Lewis D. Parker, of the Hartford Rubber Works 

 Co., during the month made a business trip to the Pacific coast. 



= The Singer Manufacturing Co., on account of the great 

 fire in Baltimore, which burned out their manufacturing de- 

 partment, have secured a temporary location at No. n South 

 Eutaw street, in that city. 



= Notwithstanding the strike in the rubber industry prevail- 

 ing in their town, The Eureka Rubber Manufacturing Co. of 

 Trenton, N. J., do not seem to be much affected. Their January 

 shipments were the largest since they began business, and in- 

 cluded a carload of steam hose, suction hose, sheet packing, and 

 other high grade goods for the United States government; a 

 carload of garden hose ; and a carload of fruit jar rings. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



Mr. Henry C. Pearson, Editor of The India Rubber 

 World, has returned from a trip around the world, in the in- 

 terest of this Journal, involving an absence of several months, 

 during which time he made a careful study of the important 

 work in rubber planting in progress in the Far East, the results 

 of which will be reported in our forthcoming issues. 



= Mr. George A. Lewis, president of the Beacon Falls Rub- 

 ber Shoe Co., is spending a few weeks at Aiken, South Caro- 

 lina. 



= Mr. Charles H. Dale, president of the Rubber Goods Manu- 

 facturing Co. has been taking his annual vacation at Palm 

 Beach, Florida. 



= Frederick W. Peck, a well known citizen of Chelsea, Massa- 

 chusetts, died on February 17, aged about 54 years. For sev- 

 eral years he had been engaged in handling scrap rubber. 



NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE TRANSACTIONS. 

 United States Rubber Co. : 



THE PARA RUBBER PLANTATION CO. 



Rubber Goods Manufacturing Co. : 



DATES 



Week ending Jan. 23 



Week ending Jan. 30 



Week ending Feb. 6 



Week ending Feb. 13 



Weekending Feb. 20 



Week ending Feb. 27 



THERE exists at Ciudad Bolivar, in Venezuela, a daily 

 journal, printed in Spanish, under the title El Anuncia- 

 dor, whereof we have received the issue dated January 9, 1904. 

 Not the least interesting feature of that particular journal ap- 

 pears beneath the heading " Caucho "— the Spanish word for 

 India-rubber — and that our readers may have the benefit of it, 

 a translation of the article is given below. It may be added 

 that The India Rubber World had not before seen or heard 

 of this letter, and that it possesses no knowledge of the person 

 whose name is signed to the letter : 



San Carlos df. Rio Negro, December 3, 1903. 



To the Editor of The India Rubber World, New York— Dear 

 Sir : I have just read in the last issue of your esteemed review an article 

 entitled " How ' the Para Rubber Plantation Co.' Works," and, bearing 

 in mind what is stated in that article, I hasten to furnish you the follow- 

 ing data : 



First. Up to the present time that company has done no work, and it 

 does not possess a single kilogram of Caoutchouc in the regions of the 

 Casiquiare or anywhere else in this country. Those 300,000 pounds 

 spoken of, exist only in the imagination of the company. 



Second. The alleged transfer of a perpetual lease made to the Para 

 Rubber Plantation Co., is obscure, dishonest, and, besides, it is entirely 

 null and void according to the constitution and laws ol Venezuela. These 

 entangled transactions will cause the stockholders of the company seri- 

 ous trouble. 



Third. The invalidity 1 refer to will be brought before the proper 

 authorities in a short time, and these authorities will order its abroga- 

 tion, because, under the law in force, lands exoeeding 500 hectares can- 

 not be sold, and in accordance with the statement of the company, it 

 appears that the company has bought 900,000 hectares ! 



Fourth. The Para Rubber Plantation Co. does not possess, and it has 

 not bought from anyone in this locality, any properties whatever, of any 

 kind, and no one here is acquainted with any of the gentlemen forming 

 such a company. 



Fifth. The reports given by Dr. Lucien Morisse are not only exagger- 

 ated in regard to the production of Caoutchouc, but such information 

 has already been refuted by a Venezuelan writer, who formerly resided 

 here. 



If you wish me to furnish you with further particulars, please write 

 me at Ciudad Bolivar (Venezuela). Respectfully yours, 



RICARDO BUENO CAMICO. 



The above letter in El Anunciador is followed by a reproduc- 

 tion, in Spanish, of the article in The India Rubber World 

 of October 1, 1903 (page 19)—" How the ' Para Rubber Planta- 

 tion Co.' Works " — to which the letter refers. The India Rub- 

 ber World has also received a pamphlet printed at Caracas, 

 entitled " El Caucho en Venezuela," by B. Tavera Acosta, which 

 is devoted to a refutation of the statements made by Dr. Lucien 

 Morisse regarding rubber on the Casiquiare, and which serve 

 as the basis of the printed prospectus of the Para Rubber Plan- 

 tation Co. Senor Tavera-Acosta, by the way, is the Vene- 

 zuelan writer mentioned in the above communication, and his 

 pamphlet in reply to Morisse will have further attention in 

 these pages. 



Rubber Shoes in Australia. — The Canadian Commercial 

 Agent at Sydney, New South Wales, reports [November 9, 

 1903]: "Canada has done a good trade in rubber shoes, but 

 the Canadian prices have recently been raised and properly so, 

 I think, but the consequence is that a Russian manufacturer 

 has accepted the orders at the old price and has obtained the 

 business for this season. Whether the goods will be equal in 

 quality to the Canadian product is yet to be determined." 

 Russian shoes have not been offered in Australia hitherto. 



