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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[January 1, 1915. 



THE RUBBER SCRAP MARKET. 



IN the early days of the month collections of boots and shoes 

 were light, which caused dealers to look for higher prices. 

 It was, however, understood that there were some large stocks 

 of waste, which would affect the possibilities of an advance. 

 Dealers were paying 7 l /$@7 l A cents and getting 7H@7H cents 

 from the mills. Rumors of sales, or offers, a little later in the 

 month, at 8 cents were not confirmed. In the closing days of the 

 month it becomes evident that for good-sized lots reclaimers 

 will have to pay 8 cents. Some business has been proposed to 

 collectors by dealers at the equivalent of the price offered by (he 

 mills. The future of the waste shoe market depends in a large 

 measure on the extent of crude rubber importations. 



Trimmed arctics are firm. Auto tires have realized 4 ./4m 

 cents, though the quantity handled at latter price is doubtless 

 limited. Dealers have been offering $4.20@4.S0 Solid tires 

 have realized 4 1 J fn4>4 cents from mills, and bicycle tires 3J4 

 cents. Inner tubes have been held firmly, dealers paying 23 cents 

 for No. 1, and getting from mills about 24 cents. Accumulations 

 of tubes are being held by dealers. 



Collections from the West are coming in slowly, and dealers 

 are looking for higher prices from that quarter. In Boston the 

 advances on crude rubber led to a firm tone in No. 1 tubes. Col- 

 lectors in Philadelphia have not been sending in much material. 

 Scrap rubber dealers, while meeting with a dull trade, are look- 

 ing for better times in 1915. 



RUP.RFR SCRAP PRICES PAID BY CONSUMERS FOR CARLOAD 



LOTS. 



New York, December 30. 1914 



Per Pound. 



Boots and shoes cents 7H@ 7% 



Trimmed arctics 5§i@ 5% 



Auto tires tys® 4H 



Solid tires 5 @ 5A 



No. 1 inner tubes 21 @22 



No. 2 inner tubes lV/ 2 @Uy 2 



Red tubes 13 @13J4 



Bicycle tires 2j4@ 3 



Irony tires 1 Va@ 2% 



No. 1 auto peelings 8A@ 9'A 



Mixed auto peelings 6J4@ 7 



No. 1 soft white rubber 10J4@ 



White wringer rubber 6A@ 7A 



No. 1 red scrap 9 ! A@ 



Mixed red scrap 6 l A@7A 



Mixed black scrap 2*A@ 



Rubber car springs $ l A@ 



Horse shoe pads 2A@ 2J4 



Matting and packing Yi® Va 



Garden hose Vs,® Va 



\ir brake hose 3 @ 3A 



Cotton fire hose 2J4@ 



NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WASTE MATERIAL DEALERS. 



The usual quarterly meeting of the National Association of 

 Waste Material Dealers was held on December 15 at the Hotel 

 ^.stor, \i". York, under the chairmanship of President Birken- 

 stein, when various subjects were taken up, including the ad 

 in freight rates on certain lines of waste materials. The 

 report of the Western Traffic Committee referred to the fact 

 of the old classification having been restored, under .which com- 

 bined shipments of metals, rubber and rags can be made. 



CONSERVATION OF WASTE. 



In his recent address at the Pittsburgh Publicity Association, 

 Newell J. Lewis, general manager of the Pennsylvania Paper 

 Stock Co., quoted a statement of Theodore Hofeller, of Buffalo, 

 who has been thirty years in the waste business, as to rubber 

 waste. The latter authority had estimated that during the year 

 1915 10.000,000 automobile tires would be manufactured in the 

 United States, which, when worn out, would realize $10,000,000, 

 on the basis of 5 to 6 cents per pound. The general advantages 

 of the utilization of waste were forcibly presented by Mr. Lewis. 



BALTIMORE FIRM CHANGES NAME. 



With quarters still at 428 East Saratoga street and 428 Falls 

 Way, Baltimore, the firm hitherto known under the name of 

 H. Klaff & Co., will in future be styled the "National Metal and 

 Pipe Supply Co." It will carry scrap iron as well as rubber 

 and other watse products. 



COMPARATIV 



for 

 -crap 



October, 

 October. 

 First 10 

 rst 10 

 Exports : 

 Oct 



October, 

 First 10 

 First 10 



E STATISTICS OF SCRAP RUBBER IMPORTS AND 

 EXPORTS. 



the month of October show United St 

 r as follows : 



Pounds. Value. 



1913 1,788.409 $132,770 



1914 967,994 63,113 



months of 1913 33.534.559 2.927.205 



norths of 1914 17,504,670 1,254.104 



1913 322,543 $45,013 



1914 70.774 5,731 



month s of 1913 4.906,970 672,261 



months of 1914 4,056,071 393,737 



SOME AUTOMOBILE NOTES. 



The United States exported during the first nine months of 

 1914 20,167 automobiles— 637 commercial, valued at $1,066,545. 

 and 19,530 passenger at $17,209,964 — and parts, exclusive of en- 

 gines, and tires, to the amount of $4,451,163. This is a slight 

 decrease from the figures for the same period in 1913. when a 

 total of 20,953 vehicles were exported, worth $20,301,858, and 

 parts valued at $4,44S,792. The total export of automobiles for 

 the fiscal year ending January 30 last reached $40,000,000. Im- 

 ports into the United States up to October 1, 1914, included 186 

 automobiles, worth $293,601, with parts, exclusive of tires. 

 $698,624. 



It is estimated that there will be made in Canadian factories 

 during 1915 36,000 cars of United States design, the predicted 

 production there of Fords alone being 30,000. Canada's imports 

 of automobiles from the United States for the first nine months 

 of 1914 totaled 3.854 cars, against 5,260 for the same period in 

 1913. 



Three hundred automobile trucks have recently been purchased 

 in Chicago by representatives of the Russian government, 200 

 three-ton and 100 five-ton. 



The Massachusetts Highway Association received during the 

 fiscal year ending November 30 last fees for automobile regis- 

 tration and licenses amounting to $925,964, an increase of $700 

 over the receipts for the previous year. During the year there 

 were registered 77,246 cars, against 62.660 for the previous fiscal 

 year, and the licensed drivers increased from 81,144 to 99,532. 

 The amount received in fees will be expended for road main- 

 tenance and improvement. 



A "Made in the U. S. A. Industrial Exposition" will be held at 

 the Grand Central Palace, New York, March 6 to 13, in the move- 

 ment to establish the "Made in the U. S. A." slogan or national 

 trade-mark and increase American industry and trade. This ex- 

 position is intended to show "American Made" and "American 

 Grown" products in practically all branches of business. 



The report of the agricultural station of Annam says that the 

 ten trees in the station in Hue which have served for experi- 

 mental purposes do not develop freely. Their progress is not very 

 satisfactory, and it seems that the climatic conditions of Centra! 

 Annam differ too much from those in their native country. 



