March 1, 1916.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



321 



RUBBER AFLOAT TO THE UNITED STATES. 



PLANTATION. 



Steamship. 

 Yangtze ... 

 .Sardinia .. 

 Inverclyde 



mda. 



Dec. 10, 19l5...Penang '.Akron and Seattle. 44,275 



Dec. U, 19lS...Penang tNew York 4,480 



l>ec. 17, 1915...Penang New York 124,324 



Dec. 17, 191S...Penang Boston 20,160 



Dec. 25, 191S...Penang tNew York 6,795 



Dec. 25, 1915...Penang tNew York 8,963 



Total 



iig 208,997 



Pyrrhus 



l\c. 22. 1915.. .Singapore 



Ivaseng.i i tc. 24, 1915.. .Singapore 



Hyson Hoc. 25, 1915.. .Singapore 



Hyson i>'.-c. 25, 1915.. . Singapore 



Hyson Dec. 25, 1915,. .Singapore 



Hyson Dec. 25, 1915. . .Singapore 



Asia Mam ....Dec. 26, 1915.. .Singapore 

 Asia Maru ....Dec. 26, 1915.. .Singapore 

 Atsuta Maru... Dec. 26, 1915.. .Singapore 



St. Jacob Dec. 28. 1915.. .Singapore 



St. Jacob Dec. 28, 1915.. .Singapore 



Van Spilbergen. 'lee. 29, 1915.. .Singapore 



Mongara Jan. 6, 1916. . .Singapore 



Mongara Jan. 6. 1916. . .Singapore 



.New York 

 .New York 



22,400 

 14,367 

 3,467 



..Seattle 188,000 



...Akron 41,467 



..New York 216,800 



..Seattle 422,267 



..New York 116,667 



Fi 



..Akron .... 

 ..New York 



:;kew"Yoi^k' 



152.933 

 78.400 



159,067 

 89.600 

 75,333 

 95,198 



Tota 





■gapore 



GUTTA JELUTONG (PONTIANAK). 

 Dec. 28, 1915. ..Singapore ...*San Frj 



*\'ia Hong Kotig. t\"ia London. 



New York. 



In regard to the financial situation, .\lbert B. Beers (broker 

 in crude rubber and commercial paper, Xew York City), advises 

 as follows : 



During February the market for commercial paper contin- 

 ued about the same as in January, there being a good general 

 demand from city banks and out of town, the best rubber 

 names selling readily at 4 per cent, and those not so well 

 known at 4'/2@5j4 per cent, according to grade. 



New York Prices for January (New Rubber). 



1914. 1915. 1916. 



Upriver fine $0.73@0.77 $0.61@0.75 $0.77@0.99 



Upriver coarse 44@ .47 .45® .58 .60@ .76 



Islands fine 59@ .65 .53(a .70 .75(a .90 



Islands coarse 27@ .31 .29® .37 .35@ .53 



Cameta 35@.37 .31®. 41 .39®. 54 



New York Prices from February 1 to 26 (New Rubber). 



1914. 1915. 1916. 



$0.75®0.79 $0.57@0.61 $0.73@0.80 



.46® .47 .44® .48 .52® .60 



.641(1' .69 .50® .54 .67® .74 



.35® .38 



Upriver fine 



Islands fine 



Islands coarse 31fo .32 .28® .32 



Cameta i^a- .iS .30® .36 



Plantation Rubber from the Far East. 



TOTAL EXPORTS FROM MALAYA. 

 (From January 1. 1915. lo dates named. Reported hy Barlow & Co., Singa- 

 pore. These figures include the production of the Federated Malay 

 States, but not of Ceylon.) 



Port Swet- 

 Singapore. Malacca. Penang. tenham. 



November December November January 

 To— 30,1915. 31,1915. 30,1915. 2,1916. Total. 



Great Britain poiinrfj 27.664,267 7,881,65122,125.665 774,253 58,445,836 



Continent 4,310,933 17,333 801,599 5,129,865 



Japan 2,315,915 2,315,915 



Ceylon 248,450 516,666 47,192 812,308 



United States 42,692,667 4,132,467 46,825,134 



Australia 372,459 372,459 



Totals 77,604,691 7,898,984 27,576,397 821,445 113,901,517 



Same period, 1914.. 37,566,695 5,318,379 20.009,367 •2,052,620 64,947,061 



Same period, 1913.. 24,803.020 12.925,467 1,366,990 39,095.477 



Same period, 1912.. 13,689,653 4,057,932 735.577 18,483,262 



•From January 1 to January 8. 

 "" EXPORTS OF CEYLON GROWN RUBBER. 



(From Januarv 1 to 17, 1915 and 1916. Compiled by the Ceylon Chamber 



The 



(Same period 1914, 521,357 pounds; same period, 1913, 481,560.) 

 The export figures for 1914 include the imports reexported. (These 

 amount to 63,815 pounds.) To arrive at the total quantity of Ceylon "-' 

 exported for that period deduct these imports from the total exports 

 figures for 1915 and 1916 are for Ceylon rubber only. 

 SINGAPORE. 



Guthrie & Co., Limited, report f January 12, 1916]: 

 The rubber auction held ti'day opened slowly and proceedings wer 

 dull throughout. 



Some very heavy declines in values have to be reported, the most notable 

 being in fine pale crepe which, at $186, was down $23. Fine ribbed smoked 

 sheet was neglected and most parcels were quickly withdrawn. One lot 

 fetched $187, but the average price obtained for the grade did not exceed 

 $179. 



Ribbed and plain unsmoked sheet were $20 and $23 lower, at $170 and 

 $167 respectively. 



The lower grades came in for special attention and most parcels put 

 up found ready buyers although at lower prices, the average decline being 

 about $14. Scrap shared in the general depression. 



Of some 350 tons catalogued only 10 per cent, changed hands. The fol- 

 lowing was the course of values: 



Sterling equivalent Equivalent 



In Singapore. per pound per pound 



Picul.' in London. in cents.t 



Sheet, fine ribbed smoked $18'J@187 3/ 4K&3/ 6J4 82.60®85.64 



Sheet, fair to good ribbed 



smoked 170@181 3/ 2H@3/ 5 78.55@83.11 



Sheet, plain smoked 175 5 180 3/ 3)i@3/ 4H 80.58®82.60 



Sheet, ribbed, unsmoked 167® 170 3/ 2 @3/ 2H 77.03®78.SS 



Sheet, plain, unsmoked 165cal67 3/ lH(a>3/ 2 76.27® 77.03 



Crepe, fine pale 184e'lS6 3/5H®3/6 84.37@85.14 



Crepe, good pale 179@182 3/ 4H@3/ 5'A 82.35@83.62 



Crepe, fine brown 177®183 3/4}|@3/5H 81.33®83.87 



Crepe, good brown 164®178 3/lH@3/4H 75.76@81.84 



Crepe, dark 147@169 2/9J4@3/2}^ 68.66®78.04 



Crepe, bark 120@I57 2/ 4}i®3/ 57.27@72.98 



Scrap, virgin 112@113 2/2!^@2/2Ji 53.72@54.22 



Scrap, pressed 126®... 2/5^4® 59.80® 



Scrap, loose 75@I07 l/6Ji@2/l/j 38.01®51.70 



•Picul = 133 1/3 pounds. 



tFigured at standard rate of exchange U. = 24.3 cents. 



Quoted in S. S. dollars = 2/4 [56 cents]. 



STRAITS SETTLEMENTS RUBBER EXPORTS. 

 A cablegram from the government to the Malay States Information 

 .^gency gives the exports of plantation rubber from the Straits Settlements 

 tor the month of December as 3,005 tons compared with 4,292 tons in 

 November last and 2,334 tons in the corresponding month of 1914. The 

 total export for the year 1915 was 34,891 tons compared with 19,727 tons 

 in 1914 and 11,889 tons in 1913. 



It is interesting to note the enormous development of the rubber industry 

 during the past few years in the Malay Peninsula. So recently as 1912, 

 the total export from British Malaya (Straits Settlements, Federated Malay 

 States and Unfederated States) amounted to 21,305 tons. In the year just 

 closed the total export was 79,415 tons, or more than half of the whole 

 world's production of wild and plantation rubber. 



.Appended are the comparative statistics for three years: 



1913. 1914. 1915. 



January tons 784 1,181 2,576 



February 743 1,703 2,741 



March 898 1,285 2,477 



April 762 1,548 1,978 



May 814 1,309 3,588 



June 812 1,480 2,249 



July 1,120 1,584 2,324 



August 1,315 1,325 2,295 



September 1,057 1,602 4,725 



October 1,144 2,006 2,641 



Novembei 1,223 2,370 4,292 



December 1,217 2,334 3,005 



Totals 11,889 19,727 34,891 



FEDERATED MALAY STATES RUBBER EXPORTS. 

 An official cablegram from Kuala Lumpur announces that the export of 

 plantation rubber from the Federated Malay States during the month of 

 January amounted to 4,471 tons compared with 3,473 tons in the correspond- 

 ing month last year and 2,542 tons in 1914. 



CRUDE RUBBER IMPORTS AND EXPORTS OF 



UNITED KINGDOM FOR JANUARY, 1916.* 



IMPORTS. 



Pounds. Value. 



Jan., 1915. Jan., 1916. Jan., 1915. Jan., 1916. 

 From— 



Dutch East Indies 633,200 573,000 $338,349 $434,868 



French West .\frica 20,400 138,000 8,879 73,459 



Gold Coast 31,300 78,300 9,414 31,430 



Other countries in Africa.. 887,300 526,900 349,609 249,245 



Peru 71.000 281,500 34,939 200,699 



Brazil 613,000 1,792,600 340,229 1,427,255 



Hriti-ih India 487,000 527,800 249,989 436,997 



Straits Settlements 7,727,800 5,061,500 3,909,394 3,962,348 



Federated Malay States 2,443,200 3,134,600 1,340,879 2,462.805 



Ceylon and dependencies.. . 4,180,600 2,441,400 2,176,177 1,933,731 



Other countries 213,100 224,200 120,178 172.063 



Totals 77^07,900 14,779,800 $8,878,035 $11,384,900 



Waste and reclaimed 104.500 609,800 $11,795 $81,833 



EXPORTS— Foreign and Colonial. 



Pounds. \'alue. 



Ian., 1915. Jan., 1916. Jan., 1915. Jan., 1916. 

 To— 



Russia 737,200 504,500 $382,419 $365,355 



France 687,900 1,539,300 371,484 1,145,590 



United States 766,600 4.873,200 389,553 3,530,776 



Other countries 2,041,700 1,680,300 1,075,766 1,127,995 



Totals 4,233,400 8,597,300 $2,219,222 $6,169,716 



Waste and reclaimed 18,7C0 24,700 $2,712 $4,073 



•Complete United Kingdom statistics for January, 1916, will appear in 

 the April issue. 



