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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[January i, 1908. 



Vol. 37. JANUARY I, 1908. ~~ No. 4. 



TABLE OF CONTENTS 



Editorial: 



Improvement in Business loi 



Concernirjift Synthetic Rubber loi 



Americaii Imports of Tires j02 



German Sea Cable Industry 102 



Minor Edit' rials ^03 



The Editor's Book Table 104 



Rubber Insulation for Electrical Conductors 105 



A Newspaper on "Wireless" 106 



Germany's Submarine Cable Industry log 



[With full page Illustration.] 



Rubber Interests in Europe no 



The India-Rubber Trade in Great Britain. 



Our Regular Correspondent. 111 

 [Raw Rubber Situation. Medical Plaster Business. Rubber 

 Solution. Dunlop Rubber Co. Golf Ball Litigation.] 



Rubber Heels in England 112 



[With an Illustration.] 



New Rubber Goods in the Market 113 



[Dumb Bells with Rubber Bands. Double Action Foot Bellows. 

 Pneumatic Helmet. 'Hiordon" Adjustable Dust Hood. Olt's 

 "O. K." Hard Rubber Duck Call. Irwin's Folding Bath Tub. 

 "Bubble Quick" Heater. "Continental" Hose Expander. "Em- 

 pire" Automobile Electric Wires. "The Corker."] 

 [With Q Illustrations.] 



Recent Patents Relating to Rubber 115 



[United States. Great Britain. France.] 



Rubber Planting Companies 117 



[ Witli Illustrations of Tapping Tools.] 



Official India-Rubber Statistics 118 



\Vor the L'nited States Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1907.] 



Rubber Trade in Canada 119 



Growth of the "Woven Hose" Plant 121 



[With 3 Illustrations.] 



Crude Rubber Interests 122 



New Trade Publications 124 



Miscellaneous: 



The Ouality of Cement 103 



Better Rubbers for Less Money 104 



A French Rubl)er Directory 104 



Syntlietic Camphor Imiwrted Free 106 



New Repair \'ulcanizing Process 107 



New Reclaiming and Repairing Process 107 



The Synthetic Rubber Situation 107 



Rubbing in Rubber Cement 1(6 



llie Barnum Respirator {Illustrated) 120 



Rubber Footwear Rack (Illustrated) j 20 



Electrical Notes 125 



Wants and Intjuiries 129 



Death of Lord Kelvin 130 



News of the American Rubber Trade 126 



The Trade in San I'raiiciscn Our Correspondent 125 



New York to Paris by Motor 130 



Review of the Crude Rubber Market 132 



Liverpool t 



HuiMUXD ScHLUTEK & Co. feport [November 30] : 

 The history of rubber knows of no decline to compare with one of the 

 present year, which commenced with quotations of 5s. 2yid. for hard fine 

 and 4S. id. for caucho ball. When prices fell to 4.S. 5^. and ^s. s<i- during 

 the summer the trade did not expect the subsequent rise to 4s. loYid.. but 

 there was certainly no belief in a diclinc to 4s., or less. It must therefore 

 be assumed as certain that the decline during October-November was due 

 chiefly to the disturbance in the money market and the severe curtailment 

 of credits. Even so it would probably not have gone so far if the trade 

 had not now made up its mind to expect general retrenchment in business 

 during 1908. With no crop shortage in Brazil and elsewhere it would in 

 these circumstances be easily possible that demand should fall short of sup- 

 plies, and thus the decline be resumed or at any rate the lower range of 

 prices become p:rmanent. 



In the meantime fluctuations after so severe a fall as we have had are 

 more than probable. A further element of uncertainty remains — the Amer- 

 ican demand which is so largely influenced by weather conditions in the 

 United States during the next lew months. 



The World's Visible Supply of Para, November 30. 



1907- 1906. 1905. 1904. 1903. 1902. 



Tons 3908 3116 2738 2224 2900 3167 



Prices, hard rine 3/6 5/2 5/3 5/5;^ 4/- 3/41^ 



Liverpool Stocks of African Rubber, November 30. 



1907 ^82 1904 443 1901 648. 



1906 z^'^ 1903 198 1900 802. 



1905 307 1902 473 1899 533. 



Rubber Receipts at Manaos. 



During October and four months of the crop season (includ- 

 ing caucho), reported by J. H. Andresen, Sucrs. 



From — 1907. 



Rio Purus tons 1073 



Rio Jurua 204 



Rio Madeira 225 



Rio Solinioes 535 



Rio Negro 2 



From Iquitos 249 



JULY-OCTOBER.- 



Total 



1S53 



5868 



Antwerp, 



Antwerp Rubber Statistics for November. 



Details. 1907. 



Stocks, Oct. 31. .kilos 723,816 



Arrivals in November 532,612 



Congo sorts 499,441 



Other sorts 33ii7i 



Aggregating 1,256,428 



Sales in November... 241,146 



994,451 1,178,868 1,047,561 

 279.532 543.572 435.835 



1.238.532 

 558.390 



Stocks, November 30.. 1,015,282 714,919 635,296 611,726 680,142 



Arrivals since Jan. 1. 4,834,929 5,135,602 5,239,553 5,182,012 



Congo sorts 4,156,141 4,014,059 4,006,203 4,263,232 



Other sorts 678,788 1,121,543 1,233,350 918,780 



Sales since Jan. 1. 



4.477.831 5.155.870 5,145.618 5.181.186 5,066,288. 



Plantation Rubber, 



Statistics of Production. 

 1907. 



S clangor Rubber Co.: 



January-June, inclusive f'ouiids 47,303 



January-September, inclusive 83,239 



Bliuk'Lcatcr Estate (.Klung): 

 Januar\-June. inclusive 10,167 



Slicfford Rubber Estate: 

 January -July, inclusive ( about) 5,525 



Perak Rubber Plantations: 

 April-September, inclusive 12,750 



Federated Malay States Rubber: 

 Year ended :May 31 32.17S 



Kepitigalla Rubber Estates: 

 April-October, inclusive 21,785 



i'allambrosa Rubber Co.: 



November 19,890 



April-November, inclusive 1+4.584 



1906. 

 47,776 



2,939 



7,120 



13.222^ 



13.341 



15.062 

 84.392 



The wearing of shoes is not universal among the natives of the 

 mountain districts of India, but some rubber shoes find their way 

 there. The United States consul general at Calcutta reports : 

 "The rubber shoes vv'ith cloth top made in Austria were fairly 

 well made and cheap for the price ; but the whole stock was crude 

 and cheap, not only in price but in quality. The average native 

 is too poor to buy anything but the very cheapest ; hence the bulk 

 of the native dealer's stock is made up of shoes that the American 

 laborer would not look at except through curiosity." 



At the fmu'th .•miuial meeting of the Rritish Vacuum Cleaner 

 Co., Liuiited (London, November 11), it was reported that the 

 year's profits would permit the payment of 5 per cent, dividend. 

 Last year there was no disbursement, and the year before a divi- 

 dend of 6 per cent. The company's business in the London dis- 

 trict is reported to be increasing, and the condition of the 

 company to be sound, but the various subsidiary companies 

 throu.ghout the United Kingdom have yielded smaller returns, 

 than at some times in the past. 



