September I, I 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



687 



Year. 



1886... 

 1890... 

 1894... 

 1895.. . 

 1900. 



JAPANESE IMPORTS OF CRUDE Rl 



Value [U. S. 

 Currency.) 

 $489 

 866 



Pounds. 

 1.941 

 5.860 



-•7,55.1 

 107.439 



1904 48 



Value [U. S. 



Year. Pounds. Currency.] 



1905 729,736 $422,975 



1910 1,590,918 1,515,093 



1911 2,054,864 1,530,008 



n 556 2,004.010 1.514,560 



52 159 1.725,922 



^84,327 1'lf 2,305.262 1,073,319 



• I), due '•> British embargo. 



In 1914 the general rubber companies bad $2,500,000 capital 

 and 4,000 workmen 



JAPANESE IMPORTS OF Rfi:l)ER GOODS. 



(Exclusive of submarine and underground cables.) 



Year. Value. Year. Value. 



1886 $26,862 1905 $1,742,221 



1890 67,376 1910 2,601,762 



1894 94,593 1911 4,307,024 



1895 154,375 1912 *'f 8 H'? 



1900 595,204 1913 2,623,026 



1904 796.S99 1914 1,025,812 



Japanese exports of rubber goods are made mostly to China 

 and Asiatic districts, the value of such imports being, in 1913, 

 $330,859, in 1914, $740,063. In addition to which, the annual 

 exportation of toy balloons amounts to about $30,000. 



Japanese Rubber Plantations. 

 The Japanese rubber plantations are located in the Ogasa ■ 

 Island, Formosa and in Malaysia and Borneo. Those in Formosa 

 in 1894 began the cultivation of the vine "Gomu Katsura," but 

 abandoned it in 1904 in favor of Monihot, Hevea and Fiats. The 

 Formosa plantations comprise a total of 35,000 acres. The yield 

 is not as good as that in Malaya, the climate being less favorable. 

 The Japanese plantation area in Malaya totals 95,000 acres, of 

 which 40,000 are cultivated and 1,881 acres yielding. The capital 



Typh u. Japanese Advertisement. 



] I i c wire insulating companies had about $3,000,000 capital 

 and 3.000 workmen. 



In addition to the incorporated companies there are hundreds 

 of small plants where toy balloons and other articles are made 

 by band dipping Mi larger companies, however, have dis- 



p lace d this 

 hand work 



by a machine 



patented by 

 isco A. 

 Loayza, Peru- 

 vian Consul .il 

 Y o k o h a ma. 

 The machine 

 enables the 

 operator to do 

 more and bet- 

 ter work. One 

 machine can 

 equal the out- 

 put of 400 

 hand workers 

 in the same 

 time. 



Japan's im- 

 ports of rub- 

 ber goods 

 have also 

 steadily in- 



-ed since 

 1886. w h e n 

 they amounted 

 to $26,862, un- 

 til 1913, when. 



largely because of the development of the home industry, they 

 commenced to decrease, 1914 showing a still further reduction, 

 as indicated by the table which follows, and which gives the 

 value of exports for the same years covered in the preceding 

 import table 



Loayza Dipping Machi 



^SS?* 



[ panese Rubber Plantation in Malay 



invested is $4,500,000 and it is estimated that $7,500,000 more will 

 be needed to develop the total acreage. 



In Borneo the Japanese have only 1.000 acres in rubber 

 plantations. 



The rubber manufacturing plants are at present enjoying ex- 

 cellent business, with special demand for toy balloons, the supply 

 of which in Europe as well as in America has hitherto come 

 largelj from ' iermany. 



fapan has a monopoly of the production of the rubber latex 

 cups used in Ceylon and the Federated Malay States, where the 

 demand reaches hundreds of thousands yearly. 



T.AND0LPHIA RUBBER EXPORTS FROM PORTUGUESE EAST AFRICA. 



There was a time when th aion of Landolphia was 



one of the principal items of the export trade of Mozambique 

 Province, Portuguese East Africa, but it is rapidly becoming 

 impracticable to export rubber from this province on account 

 of the low prices prevailing in European markets. In 1913, 

 though a large decrease in these exports had already occurred, 

 value -till amounted to $44,665, but in 1914 it only amounted 

 11,075. The supply of Landolphia is said to be practically 

 unlimited, but it cannot be gathered profitably unless there is a 

 marked improvement in European prices. Such an improvement 

 is improbable and. at the present rate of decrease the rubber 

 item will soon disappear from the export statistics of Mo- 

 zambique. 



Exports of crude rubber from the N'yassa Co.'s territory in 

 Portuguese East Africa during 1914 amounted to $18,413. 



