February 1, 1919.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



275 



Review of the Crude Rubber Market, 



NEW YORK. 



A COMATOSE market, with occasional slight signs of ani- 

 mation, is not what an optimist likes to review. We posi- 

 tively decline to join the ranks of the discouraged, how- 

 ever, as the needs of the world for rubber products are too great 

 for the present apathy to continue very long. Whatever troubles 

 rubber men may be facing they can at least be glad that the last 

 government shackles were removed on January 20, when the 

 War Trade Board announced that importations of crude rubber, 

 jelutong, balata, gutta siak, gutta percha, scrap, and reclaimed 

 rubber are no longer to be consigned to The Rubber Association 

 of America, and also that importers of crude rubber are no 

 longer under the necessity of cabling license numbers to their 

 shippers. 



Annual inventories of stocks have been claiming attention and 

 machinery which had been used to the limit for war production 

 is being repaired. Production of rubber goods must soon start, 

 probably not with a rush, but sufficiently to enable us to register 

 a steady monthly improvement from now on. 



The Singapore Government has cancelled the compulsory reg- 

 ulations regarding baled rubber that required a minimum of 220 

 pounds for sheets and 165 pounds for crepe to be packed in five 

 cubic feet. 



Plantations.— On the 7th of January spot latex was 58 cents, 

 January-February shipments 56 cents ; spot ribs were 58 cents, 

 January-February shipments 56 cents ; spot No. 1 amber crepe 

 was 55 cents, January-February shipments 50 cents ; spot No. 

 1 brown crepe was 38 cents, January-February shipments 36 cents. 

 On January 27 spot latex was 52 cents, April-December ship- 

 ments 49 cents ; spot ribs were 51 cents, April-December ship- 

 ments 47 cents ; spot amber crepe was 47^ cents, April-Decem- 

 ber shipments 45 cents. 



Paras. — On January 7 spot upriver fine was 64]4 cents, Janu- 

 ary-February shipments 60 cents ; spot upriver coarse was 34H 

 to 35 cents ; spot upper caucho ball was 35 cents, Febru- 

 ary-March shipments 34j^ cents ; spot cameta was 25 cents, 

 February-March shipments 24 cents ; spot islands coarse was 24 

 cents, February-March shipments 23 cents. 



On January 27, spot upriver fine was 59j4 cents ; spot upriver 

 coarse w-as 35^ cents, February-March shipments 35^ cents ; 

 upper caucho ball was 34 cents ; spot islands coarse was 24 cents ; 

 spot cameta was 24 cents. 



NEW YORK QUOTATIONS. 



Following are the New York spot quotations, one year ago, 

 one month ago and on January 25, the current date : 



BRAZILIAK PARAS— 



Upriver fine 



Upriver medium 



Upriver coarse 



Upriver weak fine.... 



Upper caucho ball 



Islands fine 



Islands medium 



Islands coarse 



Lower caucho ball 



Peruviar fine 



Tapajos fine 



AFKICAM8— 

 Niger flake, prime 



Benguela, extra No. 1 



1. 287<, f 



Bengfuela. No. 2.12'/,% 

 Congo prime, black ) 



Congo prime, red upper 



Rio Nunez ball 



Rio Nunei sheets and ) 

 ""ng" ) 



Conakry niggers 



Massai sheets and strings 

 CENTRALS— 



Corinto scrap 



Esnieialna sausage .. . 



Central scrap 



Central scrap and! 

 strip. 75 per cent. J 



Central wet sheet, 25% 



Guayule, dry 



MAMICOBAS— 



Ceara negro headi. . . . 



Manitoba (basis 30% "1 

 loss washing and j- 



drying) J 



Mangabeira thin sheet. 

 EAST INDIAN— 



Assam crepe 



Penang block scrap.... 

 BALATA— 



Block, Ciudad Bolivar. 

 Colombia 



Surinam sheet 



amber 



PONTIANAK— 



Banjertnassin 



Palembang 



Pressed block 



Sarawak 



OUITA PEBCHA— 



Gutu Siak 



Red Macassar 



•Rubber Association of 



58Ka@ 

 53 @ 

 34^@ 

 45 @ 

 33^@ 34 

 49 @ SO 

 43 @ 44 



36 @ 36^ 36 



33 @ 33-4 33 



W/2@ 



I4M@ 

 IS'A® 



America nomenclature. 



FLANTATION HEVEA- 



First latex crepe. ... 1 

 •Hevea first crepe... 5 

 Amber crepe No. 1... 

 Amber crepe No. 2... 

 Amber crepe No. 3... 

 Amber crepe No. 4... 

 Brown crepe, thick clean 

 Brown crepe, thin clean 

 Brown crepe, thin specky 

 Brown crepe, rolled. . . . 

 Smoked sheet, ribbed ] 



standard quality. 

 •Hevea ribbed smoked | 



•heets 



Smoked sheet, plain 1 



standard quality. . . I 



•mooth smoked iheeta 1 

 Un»moked sheet 1 



standard quality... 1 

 •Hevea unsmoked f 



•heets J 



Colombo Krap No. 1., 

 Colombo acrap. No. 3.. 



RECLAIMED RUBBER. 

 New developments were lacking in the reclaimed rubber mar- 

 ket during the past month. The inactivity on the part of the con- 

 suming trade is attributable to the hesitancy that dominates most 

 industries in the period of reconstruction. The demand has been 

 of a routine nature, but of sufficient volume to maintain prices that 

 are unchanged from those quoted a month ago. 



NEW YORK QUOTATIONS. 



January 25, 1919. 



Subject to change without notice. 

 Standard reclaims: 



Floating lb. .35 @ .40 



Friction lb. .35 @ .40 



Mechanical lb. .12 @ .13 



Red lb. .20 @ .25 



Shoe lb. .IS @ .ISfi 



Tire, auto lb. .I7)i@ .18M 



truck lb. .13 @ .1354 



White lb. .24 m .25 



