. India rubber world. hern Chiapas arc gradually dying and that extensive areasare to be abandoned, having been found unsuited to the cultiva-tion of rubber trees. Imports from this district into the UnitedStates amounted in 1911 to $369,530, in 1912 to $353,578. Importations of motor cars into Panama average about a dozena year, the number now licensed being in the neighborhood of120—all gasolene and with two exceptions of American manu-facture. Imports of cars from the United States amounted in1912 to $19,800, from France, $809. 526 THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD [March 1, 1914. MR. DA COSTA INVENTS


. India rubber world. hern Chiapas arc gradually dying and that extensive areasare to be abandoned, having been found unsuited to the cultiva-tion of rubber trees. Imports from this district into the UnitedStates amounted in 1911 to $369,530, in 1912 to $353,578. Importations of motor cars into Panama average about a dozena year, the number now licensed being in the neighborhood of120—all gasolene and with two exceptions of American manu-facture. Imports of cars from the United States amounted in1912 to $19,800, from France, $809. 526 THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD [March 1, 1914. MR. DA COSTA INVENTS A NEW COAGULATINGMACHINE. ■]V4R. J. SIM.\0 D.\ , of Rio tie Janeiro, prominent for•••* many in the South .American ruliber trade because ofhis various inventions, soon to put a coagulating machineon the market which will he used in the ruliber camps, coagulat-ing on an endless mandrel in thin pellicles by the use ofsmoke. These pellicles or thin films of rubber are wound around. J. SlM.\0 D.\ CosT.\. a bobbin and may hand. PRODUCTION OF FINE RUBBER IN BRAZIL. In a circular t<i the proprietors of Scriiigucs, the Revista (orReview) of the Commercial Association of Atnazonas, urging theadvantages of ihe smoking process, says: .As this method tends to the production of a high i|uality, itis the only one adapted for our industry, provided it is carriedout in such a manner as to assure the rubber bei


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