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Brazil, the land of rubber : $b At the third international rubber and allied trades exhibition, New York, 1912Brazil. Commissão, Exposição internacioncal de borracha de New York, 1912

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Brazil, the land of rubber : $b At the third international rubber and allied trades exhibition, New York, 1912

Name: Brazil, the land of rubber : $b At the third international rubber and allied trades exhibition, New York, 1912
Author: Brazil. Commissão, Exposição internacioncal de borracha de New York, 1912

Brazil. Commissão, Exposição internacioncal de borracha de New York, 1912

Rubber -- Exhibitions; Rubber industry and trade -- Brazil

Rubber is the chief industry of the State, being its principal product
and source of income. The predominance of this industry dates from 1863,
and within a few years it superseded entirely the planting of rice,
coffee, cocoa, sugar cane, beans and maize.

Up to 1870 rubber was generally exported in the form of roughly made
shoes, hats and caps, as well as in sacks and in bulk, the greater part
of it going to New York, via Pará. Later, the present system of biscuits
or balls, cut and packed in cases, came into use.

Considerable business has always been done in Amazon with the United
States of America, although formerly the proportion shipped to America
was greater than at present, as it was only in later years that the heavy
competition by London and Liverpool came into being.

The production of the various rivers during 1911 was:

    River Solimões        865,000 kilos
          Purús         3,019,000   ”
          Acre            371,000   ”
          Juruá         2,055,000   ”
          Madeira       1,370,000   ”
          Javary        1,420,000   ”
          Japurá           70,000   ”
          Jutahy          287,000   ”
          Negro           679,000   ”
          Branco           33,000   ”
          Lower Amazon    194,000   ”

The rubber exporting houses are:

    Zarges Ohliger & Co. (German).
    Adelbert H. Alden, Ltd. (American).
    Ahlers & Co. (German).
    General Rubber Co. of Brazil (American).
    De Lagotellerie & Co. (French).

[Illustration: “DEFUMADOR,” OR SMOKING-HUT.]


STATE OF AMAZON EXHIBIT INCLUDES:

    Pyramid of 50 tons rubber.
    Models of River Steamers.
    Rubber Milk.
    Photographs and Maps.
    Rubber Toys, etc., made by natives.
    Basins, Pails, etc.
    Large Rubber Tree Stump and several Young Rubber Trees.

                       =Exhibited by Messrs. Asenei & Co., River Madeira.=

    Rubber Milk.
    Nuts and Appliances for Smoking Rubber.

                           =Exhibited by Sno. Raymundo Monteiro da Costa.=


COMPARATIVE RUBBER STATISTICS

            Comparative Rates of Fine Pará.
             Liverpool.          New York.

           s. d.     s. d.
    1894   2  9  to  3  1     $0.64½ to $0.73
    1895   3  0¼ to  3  4¼      .70  to   .81½
    1896   3  0½ to  3  8¾      .71  to   .85
    1897   3  5  to  3  9       .79½ to   .89
    1898   3  7½ to  4  5       .82  to  1.06
    1899   3 10  to  4  7¼      .91  to  1.10
    1900   3  8½ to  4  9       .83  to  1.11½
    1901   3  4  to  3 11½      .76  to   .95
    1902   2 10  to  3  9½      .66  to   .92
    1903   3  6¼ to  4  8       .78  to  1.13
    1904   3 10¾ to  5  6       .89  to  1.32
    1905   4 10¼ to  5  8¾     1.13  to  1.35
    1906   4 11½ to  5  5½     1.16  to  1.28
    1907   2 11¾ to  5  3       .69  to  1.24
    1908   2  9¼ to  5  5       .65  to  1.30
    1909   4 10  to  9  2      1.13  to  2.15
    1910   4 10  to 12  4½     1.16  to  2.90
    1911   3 10  to  7  1       .90  to  1.67

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Brazil, the land of rubber : $b At the third international rubber and allied trades exhibition, New York, 1912Brazil. Commissão, Exposição internacioncal de borracha de New York, 1912

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Brazil, the land of rubber : $b At the third international rubber and allied trades exhibition, New York, 1912

Brazil. Commissão, Exposição internacioncal de borracha de New York, 1912

Rubber -- Exhibitions; Rubber industry and trade -- Brazil

Rubber is the chief industry of the State, being its principal product
and source of income. The predominance of this industry dates from 1863,
and within a few years it superseded entirely the planting of rice,
coffee, cocoa, sugar cane, beans and maize.

Up to 1870 rubber was generally exported in the form of roughly made
shoes, hats and caps, as well as in sacks and in bulk, the greater part
of it going to New York, via Pará. Later, the present system of biscuits
or balls, cut and packed in cases, came into use.

Considerable business has always been done in Amazon with the United
States of America, although formerly the proportion shipped to America
was greater than at present, as it was only in later years that the heavy
competition by London and Liverpool came into being.

The production of the various rivers during 1911 was:

    River Solimões        865,000 kilos
          Purús         3,019,000   ”
          Acre            371,000   ”
          Juruá         2,055,000   ”
          Madeira       1,370,000   ”
          Javary        1,420,000   ”
          Japurá           70,000   ”
          Jutahy          287,000   ”
          Negro           679,000   ”
          Branco           33,000   ”
          Lower Amazon    194,000   ”

The rubber exporting houses are:

    Zarges Ohliger & Co. (German).
    Adelbert H. Alden, Ltd. (American).
    Ahlers & Co. (German).
    General Rubber Co. of Brazil (American).
    De Lagotellerie & Co. (French).

[Illustration: “DEFUMADOR,” OR SMOKING-HUT.]


STATE OF AMAZON EXHIBIT INCLUDES:

    Pyramid of 50 tons rubber.
    Models of River Steamers.
    Rubber Milk.
    Photographs and Maps.
    Rubber Toys, etc., made by natives.
    Basins, Pails, etc.
    Large Rubber Tree Stump and several Young Rubber Trees.

                       =Exhibited by Messrs. Asenei & Co., River Madeira.=

    Rubber Milk.
    Nuts and Appliances for Smoking Rubber.

                           =Exhibited by Sno. Raymundo Monteiro da Costa.=


COMPARATIVE RUBBER STATISTICS

            Comparative Rates of Fine Pará.
             Liverpool.          New York.

           s. d.     s. d.
    1894   2  9  to  3  1     $0.64½ to $0.73
    1895   3  0¼ to  3  4¼      .70  to   .81½
    1896   3  0½ to  3  8¾      .71  to   .85
    1897   3  5  to  3  9       .79½ to   .89
    1898   3  7½ to  4  5       .82  to  1.06
    1899   3 10  to  4  7¼      .91  to  1.10
    1900   3  8½ to  4  9       .83  to  1.11½
    1901   3  4  to  3 11½      .76  to   .95
    1902   2 10  to  3  9½      .66  to   .92
    1903   3  6¼ to  4  8       .78  to  1.13
    1904   3 10¾ to  5  6       .89  to  1.32
    1905   4 10¼ to  5  8¾     1.13  to  1.35
    1906   4 11½ to  5  5½     1.16  to  1.28
    1907   2 11¾ to  5  3       .69  to  1.24
    1908   2  9¼ to  5  5       .65  to  1.30
    1909   4 10  to  9  2      1.13  to  2.15
    1910   4 10  to 12  4½     1.16  to  2.90
    1911   3 10  to  7  1       .90  to  1.67

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Brazil, the land of rubber : $b At the third international rubber and allied trades exhibition, New York, 1912

Brazil, the land of rubber : $b At the third international rubber and allied trades exhibition, New York, 1912

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