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GOW, WILSON & STANTON, LIMITED— 
India Rubber Market Report. 
13, Rood Lane, London, E. C. 
December 2 %th, 1907. 
The Rubber producing industry in Malaya and Ceylon continues 
to expand, while the price of British grown Rubber maintains its 
position at the top of the markets of the world. 
There has recently been a very rapid increase in the cultivation of 
Rubber both in Malaya and Ceylon. The features of the past year 
having been the large opening up of both these countries with 
Hevef Braziliensis, and the inception of many new Companies, 
The potentialities of this new business are so great that it ad flkuk 
to forecast what the result may be in a few years time. So far the 
soil and climate of both Malaya and Ceylon appear thoroughly well 
adapted to the healthy growth of Hevea Braziliensis, the spec, es so 
far giving the best return to growers, while the profits, even at 
recent quotations, are very satisfactory. 
The Price of Rubber has, however, fallen very materially during 
the past year, and while the finest class of Rubber from our 
Ea, 4 n Dependencies wai selling in January at 5/9 per lb., its 
value has gradually declined until m November it fell to 3/10 the 
lo i poiui reached since August, 1902. Since then there has been 
1 vest P olnl , it - c now quoted at about 4/-. The highest 
a 'ght mfov d th) , month of May, rgos, viz., 6/9I. No 
priL qjbtaid h j e f cai es f or the recent decline was the financial 
doubt c*ne of v.c « ^ States of America, which has prevented many 
trouble ir? the ; nl tilling their requirements. The fact of these 
Houses there f orn . a t ime when the motor and electrical industries 
difficulties, cornet a e t,me a te d ^ depression 
were qu<^ , uun ^ XDorte d f ro m Malaya from January ist to the 
The total quan*-/ ^ ag ggg tons, and from Ceylon, 1S1 tons, the 
end of October, ^ com pl e te years from these places being 
quantity foi' the previous an( j 75 anc j tons f ro m Ceylon. 
i 3 oand 385 .0ns from the ^ ^ * 
It is gratifying o • - w asS te rn Dependencies so readily, but that 
take the product from '1 higher price than for any other kind, 
they are willing to pay amuch^ ^ / am was worth 5/ ; to-day 
When Plantation vas se ‘5 r r :im the Far East is 4/ while that 
the highest price for Rubi -r tr 
of Para is 3/5^- - St that in six or seven years’ time 
There is now very 1 , . large figure, but it is impossible 
production will ^ ve that time have fallen to any very 
to say whether the p ^ X n 0 f the article s.zms likely to 
great extent, as tb. P ow j,,.g to the number of uses to 
increase rather than > • ; n le various classes of 
which Rubber is put, and to the expansion 
motor industries future ot British grown Rubber. 
ThfrepulatTn whkh it has already acquired is mainly due to its 
