The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-11-09
By Fredericl< J: Hasisin.

business men as yet have no facil-
tiles for giving long credit. 4
The trade for the remafrider Of the
year ip the United States is assured.
as the manufacturers have brought
IN and ordered SUFFICIENT quantity;
OF rubber to keep them going at full !
time until January 1, and i'm the
meantime the South and Central
American rubber fields viii be pre-
pairing to meet the demands Of thel
United States after January i. a
The importations. OF crude rubber
for the first eight months of this
year amounted to lac, 725,367l
pounds. at cost Of $50, 08S.O14. mi
September 14,087, $50 pounds were
imported. and since then the usual
amount has been ordered and ii In
course of being delivered. Most or
this rubber comes from Brazil, Peru
Salvador, the Federated Malay
States, Java and Madura, Sumatra.l
and Dutch Borneo and Africa. It IL
not all pure India rubber or parai
rubber which is imported and used I'M
the manufacture Of rubber Rrticles.i
Rubber has many substitutes and
large quantities Of these snbstit flutes
are used with pure India or para
rubber. For instance, in 1919. the
pure India rubber impo rted amounted
to 4 81 ,995.742 pounds, or about
three-fourths of the total OF impor-l
itations. The balance of the crude
product consisted Of Balata, Guayule
gum, a-joolatong, gutta-percha
and India rubber scrap, OF these
scrap and gutta-J oolat tong comprised
the bulk Of the importations OF sub
stitutes. Gutta joplatong is an East
Indian gum and SIS obtained largely
from the Straits ettlements and ID
imported through Great Britain.
The manufacture OF rubber goods
In all the European nations now at
war has been almost completely stop
ped. In Great Britain and France
only that part Of the industry which
makes automobile and cycle tires,
rubber hospital supplies and mats
orient floors is working The coat'I
hat, boot and shoe manufacturing
plants virtually have closed down
and the employees have gone to war.
In Belgium the Industry is as dead
as though It never existed. In Ger
many the manufacturing of rubber
goods has been curtailed to the mak-l
ing OF articles necessary for domestic
consumption and those used by the
army and navy.
Large orders for automobile tires
from Europe are being received by
American manufacturers. An illus-i
tration Of the growth Of the automo-[
bile industry in the United States Is /.
had in the figures Of the output of
automobile tires and inner tubes. m
1890 virtually there was no tire inSl
dustry In 1900 there were 10000
tires and the same number Of inner
tubes made. In 1918 there were
500, 900 tires and the same number
United States.
When the war first began, Brazil
the largest rubber growing country
placed an embargo on an rubberi]
since the financial situa-
ton was such that no shipmentsl
could be handled. The embargo vast
removed In about twenty days and |
since then shipments have been goingiI
forth as usual. OF all the countriesiI
not at wal, Brazil was the hardest
hit by the conflict. It is expected
that in the end her rubber
Industry will profit because Of the
war. This will be so If the struggle
extends to the rubber sections Of, the
Straits Settlements and Africa, which
1t threatens to do. OF all the pure
rubber produced, Brazil sends to the
world almost half.
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