India rubber world . liances (not machinery) for electric lightingand power : (a) - - - insulating coils ; and all insulating materials notelsewhere expressly provided for, N. W., 100 kilos, $ ; - - -Only articles used exclusively in the generation and distribution ofelectric currents for light or power shall be classed under this number. 339. Combs: (a) Of horn or India-rubber, N. W., kilo, $; In the free list appears: 395. Submarine telegraph cables. The following calculation gives the equivalent rate of dutiesin gold, per 100 pounds, net weight, on the articles referred toin the pre
India rubber world . liances (not machinery) for electric lightingand power : (a) - - - insulating coils ; and all insulating materials notelsewhere expressly provided for, N. W., 100 kilos, $ ; - - -Only articles used exclusively in the generation and distribution ofelectric currents for light or power shall be classed under this number. 339. Combs: (a) Of horn or India-rubber, N. W., kilo, $; In the free list appears: 395. Submarine telegraph cables. The following calculation gives the equivalent rate of dutiesin gold, per 100 pounds, net weight, on the articles referred toin the preceding classification : Rubber hose and piston packing. .. % Hose of textile and rubber Rubber boots and shoes Hard rubber combs Hard rubber, not otherwise specified Other rubber and Gutta-percha Goods in cotton schedule Goods in linen schedule Insulation for light and power plants 35-45 November i, 1901.] THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 39 DEVELOPED lirBUER DISTRICTS OF WEST AFRICA. Dotted lines denote Boundaries. Unbroken lines, Telegraph routes. Lines outside the Coast, Submarine Cables. ]5| E EnTT. Now T«k| FRENCH SOUDAN AS A SOURCE OF RUBBER. THE widening of the French sphere ol influence in Africapromises to have an important bearing upon the ques-tion of rubber supplies during the next few a recent period colonial administrations havebeen developed in Senegal, French Congo, and French Guiana—not to mention Madagascar—to a degree that has fosteredthe investment of French capital in commercial and industrialenterprises in those regions, and led to the establishment ofdirect lines of shipping to French ports, and the creation ofmarkets in those ports for colonial produce. As in the case ofthe English, Belgian, and German possessions in the middlethird of Africa, the exploitation of India-rubber has appealedto the French administrators and traders as affording the readi-est means of developing commerce in their new
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