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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[January i, 1907. 



The Pure Gum Specialty Co., after having been engaged 

 for several years at Barberton in the manufacture of drug- 

 gists ' supplies, have filed a deed of assignment. The action 

 was the result of a vote of the directors to bring about 

 the liquidation of the company. It is said that financial 

 conditions could not have been better, as the assets of the 

 concern far exceeded the liabilities, but that the step was 

 taken because the sentiment prevailed among the stockhold- 

 ers that the winding up of its affairs and the distributing of 

 the capital was most advisable. 



John Eastman has resigned his position as night fore- 

 man at the plant of the Alkali Rubber Co. to become assist- 

 ant superintendent of the Northwestern Rubber Co. 's plant 

 at Liverpool, England. 



The new building of the Faultless Rubber Co. at Ashland 

 are rapidly nearing completion, and it is believed that the 

 removal from Akron to that city can be accomplished in the 

 next three months. The concern's capacity will have been 

 tripled when the Ashland plant is in full operation. 



Lemon Greenwald, an employe of The B. F. Goodrich Co. 

 has secured a patent on a puncture-proof automobile tire 

 which promises to be a marked success. The tire is referred 

 to as retaining all of the elasticity of the tires now in use, as 

 well as being tougher than tires made heretofore. The offi- 

 cials of the Goodrich company have interested themselves in 

 his work. Greenwald 's tire was placed upon a heavy tour- 

 ing car owned by an Akron physician and put to many se- 

 vere tests, one of which was the driving of the machine over 

 a roadway of planks through which nails and spikes of 

 various sizes projected. The car was sent over this obstruc- 

 tion first slowly, and then at full speed, but the tires came 

 out of the test uninjured. 



THE TRADE IN SAN FRANCISCO. 



BY A RESIDENT CORRESPONDENT. 



THE manager of the San Francisco branch of the Pacific 

 Coast Rubber Co., Mr. H. C. Norton, asserts that 

 business of late has been very much better than at the same 

 time last year, and his statement is corroborated by all of 

 the rubber houses in this city. Usually in November and 

 early December business is a little slack, but the unusual 

 demand for rubber goods of all kinds in San Francisco, in 

 addition to an exceptionally good class of business which 

 has been coming in from all of the cities along the coast, 

 have kept the rubber establishments working to their full 

 capacity, and have kept them adding to their facilities as 

 fast as possible. The rubber goods business for the winter 

 promises to be a record breaker in spite of the big fire. 



Mr. C. H. Minto, coast representative of the Hartford 

 Rubber Works Co., states that they are doing more now 

 than they ever did before the fire. This firm's establishment 

 was on the corner of Polk street and Golden Gate avenue 

 where it was destroyed. After the fire this companj-, to- 

 gether with Morgan & Wright and the G & J Tire Co., de- 

 cided to secure a common location and they leased the 

 lot and built the large building which they now occupj' at 

 Nos. 423-433 Golden Gate avenue. The}' were the first to 

 secure a lease in that neighborhood, and following their lead 

 practically all of the automobile houses have built and lo- 

 cated in temporarj' buildings in two or three blocks sur- 

 rounding. The three companies have a joint repair shop 



which is probably the largest on the coast. The Hartford 

 Rubber Works Co. have agencies in the Northwest and a 

 branch in I,os Angeles, and they are preparing to make an 

 exhibit at the Los Angeles automobile show. 



Business is on the rush in the temporary location of the 

 Gorham Rubber Co., but they are cramped for space and are 

 waiting anxiously until they can get into their new perma- 

 nent quarters. The new building, five stories and basement, 

 will be built of reinforced concrete and will be ready for oc- 

 cupancy by February. 



Mr. Ed. C. Garratt, manager of the Seattle branch of the 

 (iorham Rubber Co., while in San Francisco recently re- 

 ported that the state of Washington is more prosperous than 

 ever and that he is doing far more business in Seattle than 

 be did last year. At the Seattle branch he employs 43 peo 

 pie and operates the onlj' rubber factory outside of San Fran- 

 cisco on the whole coast. 



Barton, Squires & Byrne expect to be able to occupy their 

 new permanent building on Howard street in about 60 daj's. 

 They report that thej' are doing all that their present capac- 

 ity will admit of. 



The factory of the new Phoenix Rubber Co. is nearl}- com- 

 plete and will be running within a few weeks. The firm are 

 looking for an exchisive line of fire hose reels and a line of 

 fire extinguishers to make their stock complete. 



The Sterling Rubber Co. are a new corporation, lately 

 formed to carry on a rubber goods business in San Francisco, 

 at No. 222 Market street. W. Perkins is president. 



THE TEXTILE GOODS MARKET. 



THE cotton duck market continues exceedingly strong, 

 the mills finding it extremely diflBcult to meet demand 

 from manufacturers in practically every branch of the rub- 

 ber trade. Rubber manufacturers are as usual consuming 

 in advance of their contracts and there is every prospect of 

 an indefinite continuance of this condition. A prominent 

 authority states : " A factor of supreme importance, the big 

 demand for the actual cotton, has by no means lost its force. 

 The advices from practically all parts of the South are of the 

 same tenor. The demand, particularly for the better grades, 

 is sharp and persistent, the premiums paid are high and even 

 in such circumstances it is no easy matter to obtain the cot- 

 ton so badly needed to meet the large engagements of the 

 mills both at home and abroad. Here and there the lower 

 grades may have been pressed for sale at somewhat lower 

 prices, but the fact remains that Southern spot prices are 

 far above the level of New York futures. This demand for 

 the actual cotton is merely the natural and inevitable result 

 of the enormous trade in cotton goods on both sides of the 

 water. Many of the mills are sold ahead for three to six 

 months, and some as far ahead as next September, while 

 now and then one hears of a mill which has sold its entire 

 output for the year 1907. Big receipts tend to favor at times 

 the speculator for a decline, but the big consumptive de- 

 mand the enormous trade in goods, as well as the bullish 

 interpretation put by some experienced judges on the gin- 

 ners' report as indicating a yield not much over 12,500,000 

 bales, are facts which may in the end have a very decided 

 influence, especially as the short interest is heavy." 



Sea Island and Egyptian cotton have advanced 25 per 

 cent, during the past two months. 



