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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



I March i, 1909. 



ikir. Grant, one of the old-time and well-known salesmen for 

 the Gorham Rubber Co., severed his connection with that firm on 

 the first of February, and he is now on his way to New York, 

 where his object is to secure some new rubber lines for him- 

 self, and it is rumored that he will probably become associated 

 with the Eccles & Smith Co., of San Francisco. 



Mr. H. C. Norton, of the Pacific Coast Rubber Co.. lately 

 visited Seattle, Washington, where his firm has a branch store. 



Mr. Bushnell reports that conditions have been quiet but are 

 now looking very favorable to the rubber interests. 



Mr. W. J. Gorham, of the Gordon Rubber Co., has returned 

 from his trip to Akron, Ohio, to Los Angeles, where he will stay 

 with the company's local branch for about a month, and then 

 ■come back to the main store in San Francisco. Mr. Sargent, of 

 the San Francisco oflice, states that, while the rains have caused 

 quite a set-back to general business in rubber, they have been 

 selling a lot of rubber boots and shoes. 



The new branch store of the Diamond Rubber Co., at No. 602 

 East Pike street, Seattle, is now fully equipped. A. M. Olsen, 

 traveling man for tlie San Francisco branch of the Diamond 

 company, whom report had it that he had joined the navy re- 

 cently, is still traveling for the Diamond Company. 



Mr. C. H. Chase, manager for the Bowers Rubber Works, 

 reports from the San Francisco headquarters that his company is 

 well pleased by the acceptance of 12,000 feet of fire hose by the 

 Los Angeles fire department. This department put the fire 

 hose through a test more severe than the government or anybody 

 else demands, and yet it passed in good shape. 



Mr. A. T. Dunhar, of the Revere Rubber Go's branch, is wait- 

 ing for the spring to open up the big business which is bound 

 to come as soon as people get started. 



R. H. Pease, president of the Goodyear Rubber Co., has re- 

 turned from the company's branch store at Portland, Oregon, 

 where he reports having found conditions very much better 

 than they were at this time a year ago. There have been, he says, 

 big storms throughout the northwest, as well as in California. 



Consequently the jobbing and retail trade both have disposed 

 of a good deal of stock, which ought to result in a big business 

 for next fall. As soon as the weather settles there will be a 

 good belting, packing and hose business. There will be plenty of 



water for working the mines, and the reservoirs are being well 

 filled and this should improve the sale of garden hose during the 

 spring. The great loss in certain parts of the state owing to 

 floods, has been more than offset to the state at large on account 

 of the good that will come from having so much rairu Mr. 

 Pease and his son, R. H., Jr., treasurer of the company, expect 

 to leave in the middle of March for New York, where they 

 will remain for a month or two. 



The Gutta-Percha and Rubber Mfg. Co. state that conditions 

 are miuch brighter on the coast than they have been for a long 

 time, and that business will begin to open up probably about the 

 first of March after the rains. 



The Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. has opened a new factory 

 branch in Los Angeles. 



Seeley, Van Zandt & Crackel, at No. 938 South Main street, 

 Los Angeles, report a very flourishing business in the auto- 

 mobile supply line. They have just received a large new ship- 

 ment of "Continental tires." 



THE NEW HOFELLER PREMISES. 



npHE new six-story warehouse of Theodore Hofeller & Co., 

 •'• Buffalo, is probably the largest and most elaborately 

 equipped waste rubber plant in the world. The first floor is 

 devoted to receiving and shipping, is equipped with three side 

 car doors, and affords facilities for handling large quantities of 

 scrap. An elaborate weighing system and a vast number of bins 

 marked to indicate the contents of each are the features of the 

 second floor^ while the third floor is used for baling, which is 

 done by three large presses. The sorting and packing are done 

 on the fourth floor, which also contains coat rooms and wash- 

 rooms for the employes. The growth of the scope of the busi- 

 ness of Messrs. Hofeller has been continuous since its formation, 

 28 years ago, and a comparison of the new warehouse and 

 offices — ^illustrated on this page — with the original premises is 

 the most eloquent proof that could be desired of the rate of 

 development of the waste rubber trade in the United .States 

 within the history of this company. 



NEW WASTE RUBI'.ER WAREHOUSES OF THEODORE HOFELLER & CO. 



