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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[January 1, 1915. 



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January 1. 1915. 



No. 4. 



TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



Editorials: 



The Season's Compliments 



Our Contemporaries 



The Rubber Embargo 



The Rubber Industry 25 Years Ago and Now 



Some Greetings on Our Twenty-fifth Birthday 



A Rubber Representative in London 



American Manufacturers and the War 



Minor Editorials 



The Rubber Industry of Germany 



Ilin - 

 Rubber at the Safety Show 



What Rubber Manufacturers Want in Crude Rubber 



By the Editor 



Rubber Shoe Varnish 



Bv a Rubbei SI • e Mill Superintendent 

 A Remarkable Salvage Operation Which Rubber Made Pos- 

 sible 



By Robert G. Skerrett —Illustrated 

 New Rubber Goods in the Market 



lllusti iltCll 



What the Rubber Chemists Are Doing 



Illustrated 

 Physical Tests of Rubber 



New Machines and Appliances 



Illustrated 



Embargo Notes 



Embargo Effects 



Mechanical Rubber Goods Manufacturers' Association Be- 

 comes a Division of the Rubber Club of America 



The Editor's Book Table 



lllusti ,ltCii 



New Trade Publications 



Some Interesting Letters from Our Readers 



Prizes at the Batavia Rubber Exhibition 



Official India Rubber Statistics for the United States 



Twenty-fifth Anniversary Congratulations 



News of the American Rubber Trade 



Adjutant Trumbull 



Pot trait 

 Pot trait 

 Pin trait 



By Our Correspondent 



By Our Correspondent 



By Our Correspondent 



B : Our I ''ii espondenl 



By Our c orrespondent 



By Our Cart , ■spun, It-tit 



By Our Correspondent 



By Our Correspo 



German Notes 



A German View of Shoe Manufacture 



The Jinrikisha and Its Tires in China 



By Our i ' i 



Decomposition of Rubber Through Microbes 



Some Rubber Planting Notes 



Rubber and Balata Notes from Dutch Guiana 



By Our Correspondent 

 Recent Patents Relating to Rubber 



[United States. Great Britain. France. Germany.] 



The Market for Chemicals and Compounding Ingredients. . . . 



Rubber Scrap Market 



Review of the Crude Rubber Market 



Edward H. Huxley 



Purchasing Agent Roswell C. Colt 



The Rubber Trade in Akron 



The Rubber Trade in Boston 



The Rubber Trade in Chicago 



The Rubber Trade on the Pacific Coast 



The Rubber Trade in Trenton 



The Rubber Trade in Rhode Island . . . 



Transatlantic Notes 



India Rubber Trade in Great Britain. . 



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RUBBER STATISTICS FOR LONDON AND LIVERPOOL. 



Govv, Wilson & Stanton, Ltd., report [November, 1914] 



Stocks, 



Deliv- , A — 



I '■!' I Iini ml 



Plantation tons 2,787 



kind* 125 



Total 2,912 



2,300 

 194 



1914. 



3,681 



820 



1913. 

 782 



2,494 4,501 4,514 







i M hi 



441 

 96 



577 



207 

 343 



424 



1,240 



1912. 



2,530 



817 



3,347 



263 

 606 



537 869 550 1,664 869 



Total London and Liverpool. 3,449 3,363 5,051 6,178 4,216 



The following quantities represent the figures in tons of the 



English rubber imports and exports fur the' first eleven months 



' 'i the last three years : 



English Rubber Statistics. First 1! .Months. 



Imports. 1912. 1913 1914. 



Plantation tons 19.068 28,844 34,526 



Other km<N 30,192 35.GO.S 25,157 



Total 49,260 64,452 59,683 



Exports 33.508 41,193 43,577 



(For the month of November alone.) 



Plantation 2,028 2,920 3,823 



Other kinds 3.028 3,115 1.197 



Total 5.056 



Exports 3,551 



6,035 

 4,352 



5,020 

 6.269 



PLANTATION AND BRAZILIAN RUBBER PRODUCTION 



i 1. RlCKINSON & 



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Son repo 



ANTATION 



F. M.S. 

 January. . .tons 2.542 



February 2,364 



March 2,418 



April 

 May 

 June 

 July 



2,151 

 2.069 

 2,306 

 2,971 

 August . . 1,850 

 September . . . 2,903 



October 



November 



December 



Sti alts 



Settle- 

 ments. 

 1,181 

 1.703 



1 .285 

 1,548 

 1.309 

 1.460 

 1.584 

 1,325 

 1.602 

 2,006 



rt [December. 

 Production. 



1914 



1914]: 



Cevlon. 



1,333 



1,459 

 1.309 

 757 

 819 

 1.070 

 1,156 



Rest. 

 185 



158 



102 



66 



65 



86 



142 



Total 



per 



month. 



5,241 

 5,1.84 

 5,114 

 4,522 

 4,262 

 4,922 

 5.853 

 4,000 

 5,300 

 5,000 

 5.500 



Totals 



month 



on month. 



5,241 

 10,925 

 16,039 

 20,561 

 24,823 

 29,745 

 35,598 

 39,598* 

 44.898* 

 49,898 

 55,398 



Total 21.574 15,023 7.903 804 55,398 



'Estimated. 



Brazilian Production, Etc. 



, 1914- 



Receipts 

 at Para. 



Januarv tons 4.430 



February 4,600 



March ". 4.850 



April 3.830 



May 2.890 



June 2,050 



July 1.340 



August 1,610 



September 2,400 



October 2,980 



November 



December 



tWorld's 



stock. 



(all 



kinds) 



11,768 



11,850 



12.150 

 12,300 

 11.369 

 12,869 

 11,021 

 11.300 

 10,640 

 10.250 



t World's 

 visible 

 supply. 



(all 

 kinds) 

 19.268 



22.202 

 23.800 

 24,000 

 21,500 

 21,939 

 21,160 

 21,210 

 22,020 

 20,041 



Total 30,980 



'And Caucho. fEstimated. 



58.783 115,517 217,140 



BALBUSE GUM DUTIABLE. 



The Assistant Secretary of the Treasury has instructed the 

 Collector of Customs, New York, that "Balbuse Gum" which has 

 been imported free as crude rubber, has been washed, cleaned, 

 dried and pressed into sheets for convenience in handling and 

 transportation. It will be therefore be subjected to a duty of 15 

 pet ceijt. under paragraph 385 of the tariff of the 3rd of October, 

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