September i, 1908.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD. 



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INDIA-RUBBER MISCELLANY. 



AN EAST INDIAN RUBBER SYNDICATE. 



■ I ■ iiERE has been organized, with headquarters at Batavia, 

 ■* Algemeen Nedcrlandsch-Iiidisch Rubber Syndicaat (General 

 Dutch Indies Rubber Syndicate), for the purpose of offering its 

 services for the management and administration of enterprises 

 for the cultivation of rubber, for drawing up estimates and ac- 

 counts, and for making reports. The names of those responsible 

 for the control of the syndicate are not stated, but it would seem 

 to be a credible concern from the prominence with which it 

 appears in the representation of Dutch colonial interests at the 

 London Rnliber Exhibition. 



PROGRESS IN BRITISH NORTH BORNEO. 

 At the fifty-tirst hall yearly meeting of tlie British North Borneo 

 Co. ( London, July 28) the chairman referred to rubber culture in 

 optimistic terms. The company hold shares in two of the live 

 rubber companies which are operating within their territory, and 

 indicated an intention to aid in the formation of more such com- 

 panies. He said : "We decided, a few months ago, to commence 

 rubber planting on our own account on the railway. After a cer- 

 tain amount of development it is our intention to sell our estate 

 to a company as a going concern. Then we shall again, in a 

 similar manner, pave the way for another company, and from time 

 to time continue the process, as there is practically no limit to the 

 land in our territory which is suitable for the cultivation of 

 rubber." The income of the British North Borneo Co. was larger 

 in 1907 (£145,816 4s. 6d.) than in any former year, and the divi- 

 dend rate advanced from 3 to 4 per cent. An account of the 

 rubber planting companies on their territories was given in The 

 Indi.v Rubber World. September i. rgo" (page 369). 



A MUSEUM RUBBER GUIDE. 



The authorities of the Koloniaal Museum at Haarlem, Nether- 

 lands, maintain a series of descriptive catalogues or handbooks 

 of the principal economic products contained in the museum, 

 which are exceptionally thorough and well prepared. .-X second 

 edition of the catalogue on "Caoutchouc Getah-Pertja en Balata" 

 has been brought out, having on the title page the name of .\. 

 Slingervoet Ramondt, a chemist connected with the technical high 

 school at Delft, whose "Geschicte der Kautschukforschung" was 

 reviewed recently in these pages. Herr Ramondt. by the way, is 

 a member of the Netherlands committee for the London Rubber 

 Exhibition this month. The museum handbook referred to cm- 

 braces a historical summary of the materials described, their 

 botanical sources, chemical analyses, and the technical processes 

 employed in utilizing the materials, [umo. pp. 71. 24 cents.] 



LIGHTING A RUBBER CAPITAL. 



The latest yearly report of the Para Electric Railway and 

 Lighting Co., Limited, attributes the company's failure to do bet- 

 ter during the year to the financial crisis growing out of the rub- 

 ber situation. "The product was very largely sold in the United 

 States." says the report, "and the recent panic there paralyzed the 

 trade." Better things are hoped for, however, now that horses 

 and mules have been wholly retired from the Para tramways, and 

 the w-hole 35 miles (single line), are operated electrically, with an 

 equipment of 68 motor cars. Besides, the company have a prom- 

 ising business in the supplying of electric light and power. 



A PLEA FOR RUBBER STOPPERS. 



Somebody writes to the Pharmaceutical Era urging the forma- 

 tion of a Rubber Stopper League, "to be composed of retail 

 druggists who will bind themselves to buy their syrups, e.^ctracts, 

 exilirs and any other thing suitable, of the makers who use rub- 

 ber stoppers, rather than from those benighted ones who will still 

 use corks. I hope also that you will point out, in season and out 

 cl season, the value of the rubber stopper as a means of grace, 

 r^robably every man in the trade has lost his temper many, many 

 times when, busy and alone, or short-handed, two or three 

 coiks of stock bottles have broken short off." 



DEATH OF PRESIDENT COLTS BROTHER. 



George DeWolf Cclt died at his home in New York on July 

 2.^, after having been in declining health for two years. He 

 ■.v.'.s born in Hartford, Connecticut, September 18, 1838, being 

 ti-.e eldest son of Christcpher and Theodora G. (DeWolf) Colt. 

 In early life he engaged in business in New Orleans, from 

 which he retired in time, and during the last 25 years he had 

 resided in New York. He is survived by two brothers. Colonel 

 Samuel Pomeroy Colt, president of the United States Rubber 

 Co., and Judge Le Baron B. Colt, of the United States circuit 

 court of the first circuit, and a sister, Mrs. Francesca E. DeWolf, 

 who is now in Switzerland. The interment was at Bristol, Rhode 

 Island, in the family lot at Juniper Hill cemetery, after funeral 

 services at the residence of Colonel Samuel P. Colt. 



UNITED STATES RUBBER 00. 'S SHARES. 



TR.\NS.\(-riONS on the New York Stock Exchange for four 

 weeks, ending August 22 : 



Common Stock. 

 Sales 7,600 shares 

 Sales 17.235 shares 



Week .August i 

 Week .August 8 

 Week .\ugnst 15 

 Week -August 22 



Sales 

 Sales 



6,175 shares 

 1,400 shares 



High 

 High 

 High 

 High 



3I-V4 



i7% 



34 



26. 



Low 27I/2 

 Low- 31^ 

 Low 32J4 

 Low 32^4 



„ 98 

 High i02'Vi 

 High I02!4 

 High loi 



Kor the year— High. p'/i. .\ne. T, Low, i;J<2, Feb. 

 Last year — High, 52H; Low, liVi. 



First Preferred Stock. 

 Week August i Sales i.Soo shares High 

 Week .August 8 Sales 4,378 shares 

 Week .August 15 Sales 3,600 shares 

 Week .August 22 Sales 800 shares 



For the year — High, 102^, Aug. -; Low, 76, Feb. 19. 



Last year — High, 109;^; Low, 61 !4. 



Second Preferred Stock. 



Sales ICO shares High 64 



Sales 1. 000 shares High 74 



Sales .... shares High . . 



Sales ICO shares High 72 

 .Aug. 7; Low, 42. Feb. 21. 



Week -August i 

 Week August 8 

 Week -August 15 

 \\'eek -August 22 

 For the year-y-High_. 74, 



Low 9654 

 Low 98^ 

 Low 9954 

 Low 99y2 



Low 64 

 Low 70 

 Low . . 

 Low 72 



Last year — High, 78!^; Low, 39. 



In addition to his work as consulting and contracting engmeer 

 to the rubber trade, Mr. M. P. Fillingham (No. 2 Rector street, 

 New York) has taken on the manufacture of vulcanizing machin- 

 ery in general. His long connection with some of the largest 

 manufacturers of such machinery, and with the rubber business, 

 has rendered him well informed as to the requirements of the 

 trade. Mr. Fillingham has availed himself of the advantages af- 

 forded by the large shops of the Traylor Engineering Co. 

 ( .AUentown, Pennsylvania), which are admirably fitted for the 

 prompt filling of orders for machinery. 



Review of the Crude Rubber Market. 



THE feature of interest in the market developed since our 

 last report, is the return of "dollar rubber." Prices 

 of most grades are higher than a month ago, indicating 

 an improving demand for rubber, and likewise that supplies 

 of some grades are being cleaned out. Imports at New 



York have been large of late, of the principal classes of rub- 

 ber, thus offsetting the reduced arrivals of a few months past. 

 The mills are moderately busy, but trade in general is quiet, 

 though not to the extent of causing apprehension. The 

 -Antwerp sale on .August 26 created little interest in .America. 



