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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[December i, 1904. 



CANADA'S OLDEST RUBBER FACTORY. 



THE Canadian Rubber Co. of Montreal completes this year 

 the first half century of its existence, though if it be con- 

 sidered the successor of an older establishment which operated 

 the first rubber industry in Canada, it has several years more 

 to its credit. Not only is the company the oldest in the rub- 

 ber industry in the Dominion, but it has lost none of the enter- 

 prise and progressiveness which, early in its history, gave it 

 important standing in the ranks of rubber manufacturers. 

 During a year past the company has spent more than §300,000 

 for new machinery and various improvements of the factory, so 

 that the whole plant is now in fine order, and other additions 

 and further improvements are already under consideration by 

 General Manager McGibbon. 



As illustrating the improvements recently made, mention 

 may be made of the new boiler house, which is one of the most 

 complete in the Dominion. The following is a description of 

 the boiler plant : 



There is an equipment of Stirling water tube boilers, com- 

 prising four units of 348 HP. each, or a total of 1392 HP. The 

 furnace gases pass through a Green economizer on their way 

 to the stack, and draft is furnished by a 200 inch Sturtevant fan, 

 direct connected to a horizontal engine. The feed water is sup- 

 plied to the boilers by two double acting outside packed 

 plunger pumps, built by the Canada Foundry Co., each 

 6>^" X 4.K' X 8". and it passes from these through a vertical 

 Wainwright feed water heater, and thence through the econo- 

 mizer to the boilers. Two injectors are provided for use in 

 case of emergency. Coal bunkers, sufficiently large to carry a 

 three days' supply, open off the boiler room and are so arranged 

 that teams can be driven over the tops of them and the loads 

 dumped through coal holes in the roof. At the rate of 34;^ 

 pounds of water per HP. per hour, the boilers, running at their 

 full capacity, would require 800.3 pounds of water per minute, 

 or 240 United .States tons per day of 10 hours. The mechanical 

 plant is operated by a Scotch engine 20" and 34" X 60", giving 

 438 indicated HP., and one Laurie-Corliss engine 20* and 40" X 

 48', giving 700 HP. 



The factories, warehouses, and general executive offices of 

 the Canadian Rubber Co. are situated near the St. Lawrence 

 river, in the busy manufacturing center of Montreal, and in an 

 ideal location for receiving raw material and shipping manu- 

 factured products. The factories alone cover several acres of 

 ground, and employ from 2000 to 3000 persons, according to 

 the season. Extensive sales branches have been established 

 for many years at Halifax, Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg, and 

 Vancouver, where large stocks of the company's products are 

 always carried. The company deals directly with the retail 

 trade and with the wholesale jobbing trade, and transacts a 

 business of several million dollars a year, covering all parts of 

 the Dominion, besides making considerable exports to other 

 countries. Practically every class of rubber goods is manufac- 

 tured by the company. 



The company for many years has specialized in heavy me- 

 chanical rubber goods, and particularly in the line of large ele- 

 vator belts for use in the extensive grain elevators in the Do- 

 minion. The last elevator to be equipped with belting from 

 this company was the Canadian Pacific Railway Co.'s " B " ele- 

 vator at Fort William, Ontario. All the belting used in this 

 elevator was made to special specifications and was pronounced 

 by experts to be one of the finest lots of elevator belting ever 

 produced. 



In rubber footwear of every style the ■" Canadian " brands of 

 this company have been standard in the trade for 50 years. An 



enormous business is done in heavy footwear, the requirements 

 of the great lumbering interests of the Dominion in this respect 

 being given special attention. The daily output of the shoe 

 factory is over 15.000 pairs. Many special brands are made, 

 but the product of the Canadian Rubber Co. in footwear has 

 always been broadly identified with the word " Canadian." 



Sir H. Montagu Allan is the president of the company, and 

 the directors are all men who, for many years, have been prom- 

 inent in the banking and commercial interests of the I3ominion. 



A portrait is presented here of Mr. 

 D. Lome McGibbon, general man- 

 ager of the company, who is one of 

 the foremost industrial organizers 

 of the Dominion. He gained de- 

 served prominence among Cana- 

 dian manufacturing interests some 

 few years ago by his successful 

 management of the Laurentide 

 Pulp Co .(Grand Mere, Quebec), 

 the largest pulp and paper concern 

 in Canada. He has met with 

 marked success in his present im- 

 portant position, and under his 

 control the Canadian Rubber Co. 

 has made remarkable progress, in keeping with the great 

 expansion of the Dominion. Mr. McGibbon is one of the lead- 

 ing members of the Canadian Manufacturers' Association, and 

 is also identified with many other kindred organizations. 



D. LORNE M'QIBBON. 



INDIA-RUBBER GOODS IN COMMERCE. 



EXPORTS FROM THE UNITED STATES. 



OFFICIAL Statement of values of exports of manufactures 

 of India-rubber and Gutta-percha, for September, 1904, 

 and for the first nine months of five calendar years : 



Japan. -The value of exports of India-rubber goods from 

 the United States to Japan during recent fiscal years is thus 

 stated in oflScial publications from Washington : 

 1897-93. 1896-97. 1900-Qi. 1901-02. 1902-03. 



$27,984 $42,006 $97,580 $114,586 $159,100 



British exports of rubber goods to Japan, for the last five 

 calendar years, have been in value as follows — official figures 

 stated in equivalents in American money : 



1899. 1900. 1901. 1902. '903. 



$129,078 $145,763 $121,815 $i4i,90g $129,005 



Canada. — Value of exports of manufactures of India-rubber 

 and Guttapercha, of Canadian production, by fiscal years, and 

 the distribution of the same : 



United 

 Slates. 



Years. 



189S-99 $ 85,084 



1S9900 I0S.8l 1 



1900-01 57.772 



igot-o2 189,664 



1902-03 124,426 



1903-04 9.994 



Great 

 Britain. 



$23,290 

 14,392 

 15.690 

 36,824 

 46,155 

 39.378 



Exports to " Other Countries " include shipments on a liberal 

 scale to Australia. 



Other 

 Countries. 



$24,958 

 47.245 

 78.194 

 96,084 

 92,126 

 78.695 



Total. 



$133,332 

 170,448 

 151.656 

 322.572 

 262,707 

 128,067 



