May I, 1907.] 



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used in the construction of the other big factory building re- 

 cently erected facing Main street. 



Although no authoritative statement has been made to this 

 effect, it is generally understood among Akron tire manufac- 

 turers that no attempt will be made to contest the decision of 

 the United States Circuit Court, at New York, in favor of the 

 owners of the Grant patents on solid tires, in their suit against 

 the Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. [See Tni; Ixi)i,\ Rubber 

 World, March 1, 1907, page 189.] 



Frank A. Seiberling, general manager of the Goodyear Tire 

 and Rubber Co., has filed suit in the United States Circuit 

 Court at Buffalo, New York, against the Hartford Rubber 

 Works Co., alleging infringement of patent No. 765,044, granted 

 to him July 12. 1904, for a vehicle wheel rim. Morgan & 

 Wright and the G & J Tire Co. are also made defendants. The 

 plaintiff asks for an injunction restraining the defendants from 

 making or selling the wheel rims alleged to infringe his patent, 

 and also that the profits from the sale of such articles hitherto 

 be turned over to him. 



RUBBER INTERESTS IN EUROPE 



THE RUBBER TRADE IN SAN FRANCISCO. 



BV A KESI1>F.NT CORRK.SI'O.N'IIK.N'T, 



"T" I IE first anniversary of the great San Francisco fire (April 

 •'■ 18) found a great amount of rebuilding completed or in 

 progress, and the people of the city imbued with a spirit of 

 hopefulness and determination that bespeaks a greater and more 

 splendid city than before the catastrophe. But much remains to 

 be done to remove the traces of the fire, particularly in the way 

 of restoring the streets. These notes have referred already to 

 the heavy demand for rubber footwear due to the muddy con- 

 dition of the streets, and now that the winter is over the rough 

 condition of the streets may be credited with an increased de- 

 mand for rubber automobile tires. 



The Diamond Rubber Co., who have maintained their Pacific 

 coast branch in Oakland since the fire, have opened a fully 

 equipped store on Golden Gate avenue, in the heart of the San 

 Francisco automobile district, in charge of J. H. Ingersoll. The 

 Oakland branch will be continued until the Diamond company 

 are installed in a permanent building, which they hope will be 

 within a year. 



The Pacific coast agency of the Consolidated Rubber Tire Co., 

 in charge of H. W. Bogen, is located in well arranged quarters 

 at No. 766 Golden Gate avenue, where a complete line of goods 

 is carried. 



Chanslor & Lyon have opened a store at No. 542 Golden Gate 

 avenue, for the sale of rubber goods and automobile supplies. 



The International Rubber Co. (Milltown, New Jersey) have 

 opened an uptown branch at No. 426 Golden Gate avenue, while 

 maintaining their wholesale branch on Market street, both being 

 in charge of Hughson & Merton, their Pacific coast representa- 

 tives. 



Mr. Squires of the lately organized firm of Barton, Squires, 

 Byrne, Inc., is reported to have severed his connection with the 

 house. 



The Pacific Coast Rubber Co. are about to sign a lease for 

 space in a large permanent building to be erected at Fremont 

 and Mission streets. 



P. T. Sprague, who left the Goodyear Rubber Co. a year ago 

 to engage in business as a manufacturer's agent, and who has 

 been since the fire located at his residence in Pine street, has 

 opened an office at No. to Front street. 



Louis Fotro. after having been connected with the Goodyear 

 Rubber Co. for more than 20 years, has retired, with a view to 

 opening a store at Haywards, California. 



Hugson & Merton, representing the International Rubber 

 Co. on the coast, have taken offices at No. 438 Market street, and 

 are fitting up a modern store for carrying a stock on Golden Gate 

 avenue, in the midst of the automobile trade district. 



GBEAT BHITAIM. 



'X'HE last year's trading of British Insulated and Helsby 

 '^ Cables, Limited, showed a profit of £197,112, against 

 £13.3.902 in the year previous. Dividends: 6 per cent, on the 

 preference and 8 per cent, on the ordinary shares, with a bonus 

 of 2 per cent. 



Turner Brothers, Limited (Rochdale), have laid down special 

 plant for making balata belting, an article for which the demand 

 in this country is increasing rapidly. 



Dividends amounting to 6</2 per cent, were paid by The Gandy 

 Belt Manufacturing Co., Limited, out of their profits for 1906; 

 additions to reserve, £2,000; carrieil forward, £1,654. 



The Palatine Rubber Co., makers of rubber heels, at Preston, 

 have gone into liquidation ; their assets have been purchased by 

 The Leyland and Birmingham Rubber Co., Limited. 



The only British firm having the right to use the patented 

 winding machine used in making the Haskell golf ball is The St. 

 Mungo Manufacturing Co., of Govan, Glasgow, Scotland. 



The news appears in a Ceylon newspaper of the liquidation 

 of the Thrcnfall Carr Rubber Syndicate, Limited, formed in Eng- 

 land a few months ago to exploit the wheat or cereal rubber 

 to which the daily newspapers for awhile devoted so much space. 

 A notice of the liquidation of the company is said to have ap- 

 peared in the London Standard of January 28 last. 



SUBSTITUTE FOR CHICLE. 



/^ .'M-C.'VRBG, one of the products from cotton seed oil by 

 ^^ processes owned by The Gum Carbo Co. (Gulfport, Missis- 

 sippi), is being offered as a substitute for india-rubber for a 

 number of purposes, at varying prices, depending upon the uses 

 to which the material is to be applied. It is also being marketed 

 as a substitute for chicle in the manufacture of chewing gum. 

 There are now in the United States a large number of chewing 

 gum manufacturers, whose requirements call for the importa- 

 tion of the crude gum at the rate of about 500,000 pounds per 

 month, and the New York retail price of the crude gum is now 

 45 to 48 cents per pound. The Gum Carbo Co. are offering their 

 chicle substitute at 20 cents. 



GUAYULE INTERESTS. 



'T~'HE holdings of guayule lands in Mexico of the Madero 

 •*• family were stated at 300,000 acres in an article in The 

 India Rubber World of March i (page 177). Such an area 

 would not be considered at all large in the region referred to. 

 The fact is that the Messrs. Madero own upward of 3,000,000 

 acres. 



The Coahuila Mining and Smelting Co. (Viesca, Mexico) re- 

 quests that the name Mexican Crude Rubber Co. be used in all 

 correspondence with their guayule department, though the min- 

 ing department will continue to be conducted under the old 

 name. 



A NEW GUAYtJLE FACTORY. 



There has been organized lately at Torreon, Mexico, a new 

 company in the guayule interest — La Gompaiiia Hulera de la 

 Laguna — for which a factory is being constructed at Gomez 

 Palacio, in the state of Durango. On March 16, A. S. Valdespino 

 was elected president; Miguel Torres, treasurer; S. A. Suarez, 

 secretary; Enrique Sanchez, director, and H. G. Guenther, man- 

 ager. The capital stated is $60,000 (Mex.), and the intended 

 capacity one ton of product daily. 



.'\rticles of incorporation have been filed under the laws of 

 Texas by the Texas Rubber Co., composed of leading citizens 

 of San Antonio, in that state, with $100,000 capital, to establish 

 a factory at Marathon, in Pecos county, to extract rubber from 

 the guayule plants abounding there. 



