July i, 1907.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



315 



A Canadian Industrial Leader. 



MK. S. H. C. MINER, whose letirciiiciil from iIk- prisiilcncy 

 of the Canadian Consolidalcil Rubber Co., Limited, was 

 noted in The India RfisiiER World recently, has been 

 associated with manufacturing in Canada generally for the past 

 50 years, and witli the rubber manufacture in particular for 

 about 25 years. Although having reached his seventy-second 

 yi-ar with health and vigor preserved to a remarkable degree, 

 his retirement from the presidency of the Consolidated Com- 

 pany marks his entering upon a period of well-earned rest, to 

 which he has been looking forward for some time past. Mr. 

 Miner played an important part in the formation of the Canadian 

 Consolidated Rubber Co. a year ago. Mis thorough familiarity 

 with the details of the rubber 

 business, his experience in 

 handling large financial under- 

 takings, and above all the high 

 esteem and confidence which 

 he enjoyed from tlic whole 

 business community, were in- 

 valuable in the adjustment of 

 divergent interests involved to 

 a common equitable basis. Mr. 

 Miner became the first presi- 

 dent of the company temporar- 

 ily to permit the completion of 

 the organization. This has 

 now been accomplished, by the 

 inclusion within the Consoli- 

 dated company of five import- 

 ant rubber manufacturing con- 

 cerns in the Dominion, includ- 

 ing the Granby, his own conh 

 pany. 



Mr. Miner has so long been 

 identified with the rubber busi- 

 ness in the history of the 

 Granby Rubber Co. that he is 

 perhaps considered by many in 

 the trade to be simply a rub- 

 ber man. The fact is, how- 

 ever, that few men to-day have 

 followed so many and such 

 varied lines of manufacture, at 

 least successfully. He was, for 

 example, the pioneer sole 

 leather tanner in Canada, and 

 when the bark on his limits 

 was exhausted, he carried 

 extensive lumbering opera- 

 tions over the vast forest regions that he controlled. Since that 

 time his experience and judgment, and above all his exceptional 

 powers to direct and inspire those upon whom the active man- 

 agement of enterprises is laid, have caused him to be sought 

 after as a director by many Canadian companies. Among other 

 directorates of which he is a member may be mentioned The 

 L. H. Packard Co., Limited, The Standard Explosives Co., 

 Foster Rubber Co., of Boston: Rorton Tool and Mill Co. and 

 several mining companies. 



The foregoing, however, are small propositions compared 

 with some of Mr. Miner's commercial undertakings. He con- 

 trols the Hastings Shingle Manufacturing Co., of Vancouver, 

 B. C, with a mill that turns out 600.000 shingles a day. besides 

 which the company operate a very large lumber mill and own 

 and control some of the largest timber properties in British 



Columbia. Mr. Miner was instrumental in the formation of 

 the International Coal and Coke Co., owning one of the best 

 equipped coal mines in the Northwest, situated at Coleman, 

 Alberta. The capital of this company is $3,000,000, and Mr. 

 Miner is its largest stockholder. He is also one of the largest 

 stockholders in the Alberta Coal and Coke Co., which owns 

 some 5,000 acres of hard coal land in .Vlbcrta now under de- 

 velopment. This company is ca|)itali/.ed at $2,500,000. He is 

 also at the head of the Granby-Alaska Mining Co., which has 

 very large silver-lead deposits up in Alaska. Perhaps his most 

 important creation, however, was the Granby-Consolidated 



Mining. Smelling and Power 



SAMtTEL HENDERSON CAMPBELL MINER. 



Co.. a $15,000,000 corporation 

 operating copper mines in 

 southern British Columbia, 

 which netted last year more 

 than $2,000,000 profit. Mr. 

 Miner, although he sold con- 

 trol of this company three years 

 ago, is still one of the largest 

 stockholders. 



His connection with the 

 Granby Rubber Co., of course, 

 is well known. The concern 

 was started in 1882 to manu- 

 facture rubber clothing. In 

 1887 Mr. Miner built new mills 

 ,ind appeared in the market 

 with the well known Granby 

 rulil)er footwear. His factory 

 made from 5,000 to 6,000 pairs 

 of shoes a day, and the com- 

 pany, it is said, made more 

 money in proportion to its out- 

 ))ut than any of the other 

 Canadian factories. Mr. Miner 

 was also interested in the 

 formation of the .■Xmes-Holdcn 

 Co., one of the largest jobbing 

 houses in Canada and who are 

 sole selling agents in Canada 

 for Granby rubbers. 



It was natural, with all the 



commercial interests carried 



liy the subject of this sketch, 



that he should become more or 



less interested in banking, and 



be long ago became connected 



with the Eastern Townships 



Bank, with head office at 



Sherbrooke. Quebec, and with branches in 57 cities and towns 



throughout Canada. Of this bank, which has a capital of $4,000,- 



000, ^Ir. Miner is vice president. 



One of the most influential men in Canada, Mr. Miner has 

 always resolutely refrained from accepting political office, al- 

 though often urged — the single exception being the mayoralty 

 of the town of Granby, which he has held for 20 years past, 

 the place being the location of the Granby Rubber Co., his sum- 

 mer home, and in fact, his town financially and sentimentally. 

 .\lthough he won't take office he is intensely interested in pub- 

 lic matters, and often lends efficient help to the passage of laws 

 that he believes will upbuild his country. 



Mr. Miner is president of the advisory board of the' Congre- 

 gational College of Montreal, in which he takes a great interest, 

 and which with many other good works and charities he and 



