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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[Makch 1, 1913. 



shares are held at $10 a share. The incorporators named arc: 

 William McGinnis, of this city ; William Morgan, of Ewing, 

 and A. Trapp, of Trenton. Mr. McGinnis is named as the presi- 

 dent of the concern. 



THE RUBBER TRADE IN SAN FRANCISCO. 



(By a Ki'sideiit Correspondent.) 



CALIFORNIA has suffered considerable loss as a result of 

 the material damage to the orange crops in the southern 

 part of the State. Such a loss is felt by nearly every industry. 

 The rubber industry has felt it through certain lumber mills 

 and box factories which supply the lumber and boxes for the 

 oranges. A sufficient number of orders have been cancelled for 

 boxes to affect such mills and factories to such an extent that 

 they will not order rubber belting this year. In other respects 

 the State has shown great growth and increase of commercial 

 activity, and the improvements which are being made in and 

 about San Francisco, in preparation for the 1915 fair, certify 

 to the big increase which business of this city is to receive. 



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Mr. Nat. Dodge, of the Western Belting & Hose Co., on 

 Mission street, has taken an interest in the American Rubber 

 Manufacturing Co. The death of Mr. Griffiths, whose guiding 

 hand had done much to bring the business of the concern to 

 a high state of success, made it necessary to secure some one 

 who would assist in maintaining the high standard which Mr. 

 Griffiths had set. The business of the company, which has 

 many important eastern connections, will continue as before. 

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The Panama Rubber Co. has been organized for the purpose 

 of making automobile and motor tires in a factory to be erected 

 in or near San Francisco. The new company, when the in- 

 corporation is fully perfected will have a capital stock of 

 $1,000,000, and the men connected with the enterprise are prom- 

 inently associated with big automobile and extensive financial 

 enterprises on this coast. W. D. Newerf, one of the best known 

 rubber tire merchants in the West, has been the prime mover 

 in the new plan, and will have an important connection with 

 the company. Mr. Newerf is at present coast distributor for 

 the Miller tires. The exact location of the big factory has not 

 been determined upon, but it will be either in San Francisco 

 or in one of the cities close by on the bay, and as soon as the 

 site is selected the work of erecting one of the most thoroughly 

 equipped tire plants of the country will be rushed to completion. 

 This western territory has been a wonderful field for the sale 

 of tires, and a big factory located here can hardly fail to suc- 

 ceed. 



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A new concern known as the Acme Rubber Co. has opened 

 an establishment on Golden Gate avenue, near Van Ness. Con- 

 siderable machinery has been installed. The rubber used, how- 

 ever, is artificial, being a substance derived by a patented 

 process of a local inventor. Mr. Schwartz, who was formerly 

 with the Plant Rubber & Supply Co., has become associated 



with the new company. 



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Some big houses are wondering why it should be necessary 

 to have automobile shops and tire shops out on Golden Gate 

 avenue, strictly in the residence district. This of course was 

 natural after the fire of 1S06, when business of all kinds lo- 

 cated there, but now al! business has moved down to the regu- 

 lar business quarters except the automobile shops and tire 

 shops. The big dealers have moved down, but they still main- 

 tain branch stores there, which doubles their expense. Setting 

 a suitable example, the Gorham-Revere Rubber Co. has closed 

 its Van Ness avenue and its Oakland tire branch, and has moved 

 everything down to the factory on Freemont street. 



^\'. L. Eaton, with the New York Belting & Rubber Co., has 

 returned from a recent trip to Honolulu in the interests of the 



lirni. 



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N. Lincoln Green, of the United Stales Rubber Co., has been 

 a recent visitor in San Francisco. > 



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E. J. Day & Co., of Oakland, an old established automobile 

 supply firm have just completed arrangements with the Federal 

 Rubber Manufacturing Co. to distribute Federal tires in Alameda 

 and Contra Costa counties. Day & Co. are making extensive 

 alterations in their present store in order to accommodate a 

 large stock of Federal tires, and in connection with the tires 

 a service department will be maintained, so that automobilists 

 will get the same service for repairs as from a direct factory 

 branch. H. V. Overington, who has been with the Diamond 

 Rubber Co., as manager of their Oakland branch, has accepted 

 a position with Day & Co., to take charge of their new tire 

 department. 



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Frank E. Carroll, manager of the San Francisco branch of 

 the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., held in February the first 

 of a series of monthly conferences with the employes selected 

 from all of the branch stores. 



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The Plant Rubber & Supply Co., of this city, has recently 

 bought out the stock and business of the Magnesia Asbestos 

 Co., a concern of this city. 



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Mr. Oliver, formerly superintendent of the American Rubber 

 Manufacturing Co.. and now proprietor of a factory of his own 

 on Telegraph avenue in Oakland, is enjoying a big business 

 on his speci.'ilty of inner tubes for automobile tires. 



NO OFF AUTO SEASON THIS YEAE. 



Unfortunately all rubber manufacturers cannot be equally 

 happy at the same time. When the ground is covered two feet 

 deep with snow the footwear makers are in a most contented 

 state of mind, while the tire makers begrudge every day that the 

 snow remains on the ground. This past winter the makers of 

 boots and shoes have had considerable ground for complaint — ■ 

 one might say, bare ground for complaint— while the tire makers 

 have looked upon it as their lucky year. Owing to the open 

 character of the winter and the meager fall of snow thousands 

 of autos have remained in commission which ordinarily would 

 have remained in the garage. 



This naturally has made an appreciable difference in the de- 

 mand for tires. Sales manager J. D. Anderson, of the United 

 States Tire Co., recently made the following statement : "From 

 a sales standpoint this is proving by all odds the best winter I 

 have ever known in the industry. And the logical explanation 

 for this fact is that owners owing to good weather, have deferred 

 laying up their cars until it commences to look as though they 

 would keep them in operation straight through the winter 

 months. Our factories all have been running night and day, still 

 we haven't been able to keep so very far ahead of our orders. 

 This winter has proved conclusively that the motor car is now 

 distinctly a year round utility." 



A EXTBBER PLANT AT LOS ANGELES. 



Los Angeles, California, is to have a rubber factory for the 

 manufacture of tires, belting, hose and other kinds of rubber 

 goods. The company back of this enterprise is the W. C. Hendrie 

 Rubber Co., of Denver, Colorado. Its operations have hitherto 

 been confined to Denver, w-here it has been simply a distributing 

 concern, handling the various articles manufactured by the Re- 

 public Rubber Co., of Youngstown, Ohio. It purposes now to 

 go into the manufacturing line, and will erect a $100,000 factory 

 in Torrance, in the suburbs of Los Angeles. 



