July 1, 1915.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



533 



a tabulation is given, in considerable du.nl. of th< German goods 

 imported into Russia in the year 1913, as follows: 



EXPORTS OF VMERK \\ EM BBEK S Rl 5SIA. 



Fiscal Year I > 30. 



1904 L905 



1905 1906. 



'i phi 



190/1908. 



I'ui.x | -.()•- 



1909-1910. 



1910-1911. 



1911 1912 



1912-1913. 



19131914. 



RUBBI R 



ai .1 I lose. 

 \ alue. 



. . $1,149 



(US 

 . . 11,636 



. . 1,934 

 . . 6,391 

 . . 7,023 

 . . 14,801 



7.44S 



Boi i- 

 .ui.l Shoes. 



1' 



132 

 2,500 

 1,557 



1.71.! 



7,249 



605 

 114 

 359 



$121 



8,040 



797 



3.755 

 1,231 



8,034 



510 



62 



279 



FOI V: i 



\ 



1,168 



All 



$764 

 4,831 



i Ithei 

 11.541 



I otal 

 \ 



13,589 



24.115 



26,909 

 12,1 15 



AMI RUBBI R G S EXPORTED BY 



RUSSIA DURING 1913. 



• ,l l;\l \\Y T( > 



Crude rubber 



Gutta percha 



Balata 4.3 



Rubbei waste 120.6 



Substitutes 



American cloth 



Rubber collars 



W.d. i proof cloth 



Dissolved rubber 



Soft rubber, gutta per 



Cut rubber sheets, unvulcanized 



Automobile pneumati tubes) 



Cycle pneumal ics (tubes) 



Hose 



Belting 



Tarpaulins 



Rubber thread 



Rubber shoes 



Solid rubber tires 



16.5 



11.9 



19.4 



1.5 



27.5 



17.7 



3.7 



JS.2 



2U.3 



15.6 



31.3 



0.3 



25.6 



0.3 



=n. J 



Automobile tire casings 



Cycle tire casings 



Rubbei sheet, with textili tion 1 



Bottle rings, etc 



Elastic ribbons 



Printers' sheets 



Rubber for dentistrj 



Hard rubber pi essed in .li-. 



Tubes from hard rubber 



Other hard rubber goods 



Surgkal instruments 



86 2 



35.7 



37.6 



7 



1.0 



19.8 



i 9 



108.0 



Value. 



5680, 



17.7511 



| i 



14.751) 



i 00 

 10,500 



i 



58, 



20. 



37, 



500 

 117,250 



490, ) 



-". 



4 15.750 



22.0(111 

 1(13.5111) 



l.nn 

 7. poo 



!7,500 



I 



441.5DP 

 1.668.7 $3,106,500 



While our own sales of rubber manufactured goods to Russia 

 have been so small as to he practically negligible, as indicated 

 by the table given above, it cannot be said, on the other hand, 

 that our purchases from Russia have ever readied any consider- 

 able figure. Be- 

 ginning ten 

 years ago with 

 a value of about 

 $33,000, they 

 dropped stead- 

 ily for the next 

 five years, being 

 in 1909 - 1910 

 less than $8,000 

 But from that 

 pi ant they have 

 increased with 

 considerable ra- 

 pidity, reaching 

 for the year 

 ending June 30. 

 1914, a value 

 close to $150.- 

 000. The brief 

 table which fol- 

 lows shows the 

 value of these 

 grouped under 

 - ds. without 



I 'rowodnik" Tire. 



Factory of the Rr: 



;ian-French India-Rubber Gutta Percha 

 "Prowodnik." \ i Rica, 



imports for each year, all the imports being 

 the general head of rubber manufactured 



any detailed tion. Undoubtedly, how- 



ever, by far the greater part of these imports during the last 

 two or three years has consisted of tires. 



VALUE of IMPORTS INT SIT] 



MANUF VCTURES I ROM Rl SSI \. 



i 



»u o,(i5 $32,990 191 $7,801 



14! 15,170 



907 ' 37,259 



908 ' i - i •■'''" 



■ 19.066 1913-1914 149,826 



It cannot be said that the rubber industry in Ru< thing 



of mushroom growth, for as a matter of fact l- k to 



the very beginning of rubber manufacture anywhere in I 



The first rubber mill 



ll in Russia s,., ,, after 



i -how- that the 



industry took roi I :n that 



country at about tin same 



as in the ' 



and England. The 



tirst factor} ned in 



Si. Peti Henry 



Kirstein. 



Fourtet n years later, in 

 1844, another factory was 

 built, and bj 1845 the com- 

 bined output of thes« two 

 factories had reach' 

 value of 90,000 i 

 350). In thi ". two 



up ire manufactui 

 panies enteri d thi i Id. 

 but during the next three 

 or four years the industry 

 appeared to languish, until 

 in 1857 I'a % • rnment. 

 lizing the importance 

 i rubber manufactures for 

 the general welfare of the people, put on a prote anil 



encouraged the Russian industry. 



In 1860 the Russian-American [ndia Rubber : •. hich. 



by the way, had neither Russians m r Americans among 

 directors or stockholders — all being German — wi 

 in St. Petersburg, and it soon absorbed the smaller 

 then in existence. Its chief output— a very natural one consider- 

 ing climatic o mditii ns in 1 hal « inl r em] in 



-. The pro- 

 duction in that 

 year amounted 

 ■ airs 

 Ten years lat( r 

 the product had 

 increased ti i al- 

 300,000 

 pairs, and in 

 h a d 

 reached 3 



gulari 



for. not- 

 w i t ' 



famous ; the 



exceeding 15 or 20 



any had completed 

 the largest rubl 

 nearly 3.000 em| 

 The production of 



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