September i, 1904.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



403 



THE TRADE FOR FIFTEEN YEARS. 



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TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



PAGE. 



Editorial: 



The Trade for Fifteen Years 403 



The Alleged "Corner" In Rubber 404 



Minor Editorial 405 



The Governor of Para State 406 



[With Portrait of Dr. Montenegro.] 



Rubber Planting in Ceylon and the Malay States— VI. • . . The Editor 407 

 [Rubber Plantations at Klang, in Selangor. Mr. Bailey and his Work. 

 Distance of Planting. Age at which Hevea Trees Yield. The Labor 

 Question. Mr. Carey's Planting. The Chinese as Rubber Planters. 

 The Selangor Rubber Co. Return to Singapore and Departure for 

 Hong Kong.] 



[With 16 Illustrations.] 



Damn's Machine for Smoking Rubber (Illustrated) 413 



The Manufacture of Rubber Heels J.W.C. 414 



The India-Rubber Trade in Great Britain. Our Regular Correspondent 415 

 [The Use of Low Grade Gums. Rubber Pavements. Heel Pads. 

 Wireless Telegraphy. Rubber Thread Manufacture. Copenhagen.] 



German Views of the Rubber Crisis 416 



India Rubber Goods in Commerce 417 



[United States. Austria-Hungary.] 



Eureka Fire Hose" Co. at the World'siFair 418 



[With 1 Illustrations.] 



Chicago Police Invest in Rubber 419 



Apsley Rubber Co. at St. Louis 419 



[With an Illustration.] 



Rubber Factory Appliances (Solution Strainers) 420 



[With 2 Illustrations ] 



New Goods and Specialties in Rubber 421 



["Monarch" Massage Bath Spray. A Novel Solid Rubber Tire 

 "Tied-air" Heels and Heel Cushions. The "Autophone" Horn. 

 The " N. I. R." Automobile Pail. Silk Lined Seamless Rubber 

 Glove. New Repair Tape for Motor Tires. More About the Hollow 

 Backed Combs. Miller's Resilient Tire Core 1 

 [With 12 Illustrations.] 



New England Rubber Club-Midsummer Outing 423 



[Illustration.] 



Recent Rubber Patents 423 



[American. British. German. French.] 



Miscellaneous : 



WhoCutsthe Amazon Cable ? ...IT. H. Mardock 403 



The Rubber Scrap Situation 406 



The JImlnez Rubber Plantation 406 



Rubber Trading Profits In Africa 413 



A Tariff Decision on Rubber Toys 414 



Wages in the Rubber Shoe Industry 416 



Rubber News from Colorado 417 



The Price of Rubber Shares 420 



Not Pleased with Consul Conley 420 



More Bahla Rubber in Sight 426 



Rubber Paving in London % 427 



Rubber Interests in Europe 426 



Successful Brazing of Cast Iron 427 



[With 2 Illustrations.] 



News of the American Rubber Trade 428 



Review of the Crude Rubber Market • 432 



"THE completion with the present issue of the The In- 

 *■ dia Rubber World of the fifteenth year of publica- 

 tion seems a proper occasion for indulging in a somewhat 

 retrospective review of the trade which this Journal repre- 

 sents. And first we may be pardoned for observing that, 

 in this era of constant change, it is something of an 

 achievement to keep a newspaper going for fifteen years, 

 under the same name, in the same form, and without de- 

 parture from its original policy, and especially without 

 change in its editorial control, and at the same time to 

 retain the support of its clientele. 



Even the most cursory review of the rubber interest for 

 the last fifteen years reveals a period of remarkable 

 growth. Not the least interesting developments have been 

 in connection with the production of crude rubber. While 

 the Amazon valley has continued the leading source of 

 supplies, the vast rubber fields of Africa, practically 

 unknown fifteen years ago, have been developed on a 

 large scale, and the rubber from there, at first badly pre- 

 pared and received by the manufacturers with distrust, has 

 become better in quality and finds a ready market at prices 

 often on a par with the Para grades. During this period 

 also has come an extended interest in rubber culture in 

 Mexico and Central America and in the Far East, result- 

 ing in the planting of millions of thrifty trees, the oldest 

 of which are now beginning to produce rubber profitably. 

 The attempts to " corner " crude rubber during this 

 period, made by Vianna and Flint, and the spectacular 

 failure of both, are matters of history. In connection 

 with crude rubber supplies, reclaimed stock should be 

 taken into account, and in this line the progress has been 

 most satisfactory, better grades being manufactured, and 

 nearly everything in the way of vulcanized scrap now 

 being recovered. 



In the way of rubber machinery nothing revolutionary 

 has occurred, although many new machines for specific 

 uses have been invented and are in successful operation-. 

 The ordinary factory equipment to-day as compared 

 with that of a decade and a half ago is notable as being 

 much heavier and of greater capacity. At no time in the 

 history of the industry have there been such heavy, large 

 hydraulic presses, so many large calenders, and mills. 



As for the manufacture of rubber goods, the greatest 

 progress in any one line in volume of business, and in new 

 and interesting products, has been, of course, in the way of 

 mechanical rubber goods. The most important develop- 

 ment in this line is the large production of rubber tires, 

 first introduced on a practical basis within fifteen years. 

 The invention of the pneumatic bicycle tire, its wonderful 

 sudden development, and the final settling down into a 

 staple business, will long be remembered as one of the 

 spectacular incidents of the rubber trade. The growth of 

 the solid vehicle tire in public favor, although it has been 

 slower, is equally interesting, while the production of the 

 many types of automobile tires has taxed the ingenuity 

 and the capacity of the brightest minds in the trade. 



In the line of rubber footwear the growth of the busi- 



