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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[October i, 1907. 



Co., in the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo, for 1906, includes among 

 the items of freight transported. 294,004 kilograms of rubber. 



Rubber Concessions, Limited, is the name of a company regis- 

 tered in London August 27, 1907, with £5000 [=$24,332.50] cap- 

 ital, to purchase a concession for the collection of rubber and 

 for other purposes in Ecuador. Registered office; 45 Leaden- 

 hall street, E. C, London. 



The government of Guatemala has granted a concession to 

 Jo3e Weir for cutting timber and gathering india-rubber and 

 chicle gum, in the department of Paten during a period of 5 

 years. 



The Mexican Chicle and Mahogany Co., controlling 556 square 

 miles of lands in the territory of Quintana Roo, in the eastern 

 part of the Yucatan peninsula, have shipped to their property a 

 sawmill said to have a capacity for sawing 1000 trees per day. 

 Their forests, said to be the richest in Mexico, are convenient to 

 Vigia, from which port boats reach New Orleans in 2I/S days. 



THE COTTON CONFERENCE. 



THE International Cotton Conference to be held at Atlanta, 

 Georgia, on October 7-9, will be attended by delegates 

 from practically every foreign country in which American cotton 

 is used in manufacturing goods. The foreign attendance is ex- 

 pected to number about a hundred, and will embrace a number 

 of distinguished persons. The American attendance will include 

 representatives of the leading organizations of cotton growers 

 and cotton spinners. 



The object is mutual benefit. The Cotton Journal, of Atlanta, 

 published in the interest of the growers, says: "The main object 

 is to uncover and expose to the growers the principal abuses 

 which have so long existed in the handling of American cotton 

 and to encourage needed reforms. These reforms can only be 

 put into operation through the adoption of improved methods 

 in baling, covering, warehousing, handling and delivery of Amer- 

 ican cotton in the ports of foreign countries. The leadmg spin- 

 ners of the world will be present at the conference and tell out 

 of their own mouths to the South's representative growers the 

 abuses which exist in the American cotton trade and offer sug- 

 gestions as to how best to bring about the desired reforms. The 

 farmers of the South grow the cotton fiber which the world 

 must have and the spinners and weavers manufacture it into 

 the finished fabric. These interests are in a great measure in- 

 terdependent, and it is right and proper that they should come 

 together and cooperate for the purpose of mutual benefit. The 

 question of prices will probably never be discussed by growers 

 and spinners in joint conference because this is one feature of 

 the cotton trade about which both sides could never agree sat- 

 isfactorily, but there are dozens of other matters of mutual con- 

 cern which are vital to the interests of both." 



The promoters of this conference look forward to the time 

 when raw cotton will reach the manufacturer in better condi- 

 tion than now, and by methods involving less cost than now. 

 Under the hoped for new regime, it would be possible for the 

 planter to realize better prices per pound than at present, while 

 the spinner would be getting more cotton per dollar expended 

 than he now gets. It is felt, therefore, that the move will be- 

 come popular alike with the producers and consumers of cotton. 



Arrangements have been made to give the foreign delegates 

 to Atlanta a comprehensive view of American life, including a 

 lour of the leading cotton growing States. They are expected 

 to remain in the country for nearly a month. 



THE SEA ISLAND COTTOK CROP. 



John Malloch & Co., of Savannah, report: "The coming crop 

 is undoubtedly in better condition at this time than ever before. 

 There is an increase of about 12H per cent, in acreage, and with 

 an average fall we see no reason why there should not be 100,000 

 bales made. In the face of this large crop and tlie example 



that consumers can get along with a very small amount of Sea 

 Island cotton, viz., 59,420 bales, we are surprised to find the in- 

 terior rather bullish." The last crop (1906) was only 58,932 

 bales. The crop for 1905 was 123,780 bales. 



A NEW COTTON DUCK MILL. 



Org.vnized with a capitalization of $500,000, the National Duck 

 Mills of Atlanta, Georgia, began operations about the middle of 

 September with a daily output of from 5CC0 to 10,000 pounds of 

 the best grade of double or twisted cotton duck. The old plant 

 of the Southern Rug and Carpet Mills has been leased for a 

 long term of years. The officers of the new corporation are 

 as follows : President and treasurer, George P. Howard ; vice- 

 president, James P. Escott; secretary and manager, W. L. Byer. 



COTTON PICKINGS. 



The Cotton Journal (Atlanta, Georgia), the organ of the 

 cotton planting interest, deliberately commits itself to the predic- 

 tion that next season the price of spot cotton will reach 15 cents 

 a pound, middling basis, at all interior points in the South. 



Bradstrcct's says : "All the mills have sold their product so 

 far into the future, in order to satisfy the insistent demand, that 

 they have been placed in an extremely independent position in 

 regard to both price and delivery, and cotton goods on spot are 

 almost impossible to obtain at any price, however high." 



Colonel William F. King, superintendent of the New York 

 Cotton Exchange, figures the last cotton crop in the United States 

 at 13,539,948 bales, against 11,233.847 for the previous season. 

 The last crop has been exceeded in size but once — 13,654,029 

 bales — in 1904. The New York Financial and Commercial Chron- 

 icle estimates the last crop at 13,550,760 bales. 



The Madero brothers, whose interest in guayule rubber has 

 been referred to in these pages, are likewise interested con- 

 siderably in growing cotton. On one day recently they de- 

 spatched 100 cars loaded with cotton by the Mexican Central 

 Railway, for export to the United States. 



INDIA-RUBBER GOODS IN COMMERCE. 



EXPORTS FROM THE UNITED STATES. 



/~\FFICI.\L statement of values of exports of manufactures of 

 ^^ india-rubber and gutta-percha from the United States for 

 the month of July, 1907, and for the first seven months of five 

 calendar years: 



Belting, Boots All 



Months. Packing and Other Tot.^l. 



and Hose. Shoes. Rubber. 



July, 1907 $132,686 $213,471 $337-784 $683,941 



January to June.. 663,279 480.604 2.015.086 3,158,969 



Total $795,965 $694,075 $2,352,870 $3,842,910 



Total, 1906 663,536 615,154 1,803,512 3.082,202 



Total, 1905 637,102 588.309 1,671,076 2,896,487 



Total, 1904 504,666 472,128 1.382,582 2.359,376 



Total, 1903 474.684 341.792 1,459,954 2,276,430 



A FEW NOTES. 



The exports and imports of india-rubber goods by Australia 

 for tv.'O calendar years, as compiled from official sources by 

 Special Agent H. K. Burrill, of the United States bureau of 

 manufactures, were as follows: 



1905. 1906. 



Imports, value $1,391,176 $1,690,597 



Exports, value 126,757 161,426 



British South .'\frica in IQ06 imported india-rubber goods 

 valued at $118,698, of which Great Britain supplied $89,011 and 

 the United States $16,284. 



Tenders were invited recently by the Egyptian war department 

 for the supply of 3,500 india-rubber sponges. 



Camphor growing is being experimented with at the Batu 

 Tiga experimental gardens, in the Federated Malay States, in 

 charge of Mr. Stanley Arden, who predicts good results. 



