returns of imports into Canada. There separate accounts are kept of
crude India rubber and of recovered rubber received in each year, and
as only a consuming market exists for these commodities in the
Dominion, the figures given below may be taken to represent closely
the actual consumption by the rubber factories of Ontario and Quebec.
It is interesting to note the heavy growth of the percentage of
recovered rubber shown in the table, all the figures representing
pounds:

Fiscal Crude Recovered Total
Year. Rubber. Rubber. Imports.
1885-86 739,169 19,499 758,668
1886-87 785,040 46,508 831,548
1887-88 1,225,893 88,471 1,314,364
1888-89 1,669,014 221,674 1,890,688
1889-90 1,290,766 147,377 1,438,143
1890-91 1,602,644 8,254 1,610,898
1891-92 2,100,358 106,080 2,206,438
1892-93 2,152,855 195,281 2,348,136
1893-94 2,077,703 529,900 2,607,603
1894-95 1,402,844 611,745 2,014,589
1895-96 2,155,576 643,169 2,798,745
1896-97 2,014,936 1,061,402 3,076,338
Percentage, 1885-86 97.5 2.5 100
" 1896-97 65.5 34.5 100

If it were possible to examine the books of the several rubber
reclaiming plants on this side of the border, including rubber shoe
and mechanical goods factories producing their own reclaimed rubber,
the percentage of this material used, in comparison with the total