May 1, 1911.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



285 



THE RUBBER TRADE IN SAN FRANCISCO. 



BY A RESIDENT CORRESPONDENT. 



WJIILE there are still complaints of depressiun in some 

 lines of business, improvement is confidently looked for 

 along all lines and has already reached manufacturers of me- 

 chanical goods, tires and druggists' sundries. The general feel- 

 ing is that a prosperous time for the Pacific Coast is coming. 



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While making his tour of the State, General Manager F. A. 

 Sieberling, of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., who has 

 been spending several months in the southern part of the State, 

 passed a few weeks in San Francisco. From here he returned 



to Akron. 



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The B. F. Goodrich Co. of Akron has registered to do busi- 

 ness in California under the laws of the State, with a declared 

 capital of $10,000. H. C. Miller, C. B. Raymond and W. P. 

 Smith, each holding one share, qualified as incorporators. The 

 company's business has been unusually good during the month. 

 Mr. Cook, of the company's staff, has left for a visit to Akron. 



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Now that the Japanese have started in to equip their jin- 

 rickishas with rubber tires, there is likely to be a big demand 

 for tires from that country, as the Japanese, though they have 

 tried to make them at home, find that they cannot produce tires 

 having the wearing qualities of those made in the United States, 

 Diamond Rubber Company has just shipped them 4,000 pounds 



of "ricksha" tires. 



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The Powers Rubber Works of this city will substitute electri- 

 city for steam power in its Bay Point factory and will take 500 

 h. p. from the Great Western Power Company. 



Walter Titcomb, formerly with the Pacific Coast Rubber Co., 

 of this city, has associated himself with the Plant Rubber and 

 Supply Co., San Francisco, who have secured in him the as- 

 sistance of one of the oldest mechanical rubber goods men on 

 the coast. 



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The United States Rubber Co. takes over the business of the 

 Pacific Coast Rubber Co., in Oregon and the three stores of the 

 Washington Rubber Co., in Washington. The purchase was 

 made in accordance with their policy to cover the coast through 

 the Gorham-Revere Rubber Co., recently organized. In Port- 

 land, Ore., the branch stores of the former Gorham Rubber 

 Co. and of the Pacific Coast Rubber Co. have been merged and 

 the name changed to the Gorham-Revere Company, with F. S. 

 Winslow, formerly manager of the Pacific Coast Rubber Co., 

 in charge. The Gorham Co. branch and the Washington Rub- 

 ber Company branch at Seattle are also consolidated, with Ar- 

 thur J. Hamlin, of the Gorham branch, as manager. The stores 

 in Spokane and Tacoma, Washington, while still retaining the 

 name of the Washington Rubber Company, will be under the 

 supervision of the Gorham-Revere Rubber Co. Mr. Thompson 

 has been given the management of the Spokane store, vice Mr. 

 Biddinger resigned. Otto Richter will continue as manager of 

 the Tacoma store. W. J. Gorham, San Francisco, is now in the 

 northern cities, looking after the details of the various changes 

 which have taken place. 



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After being on the sick list for the past three weeks, A. H. 

 Gregory, manager of the San Francisco branch of the New York 

 Belting and Packing Co., is again in harness. W. L. Eaton, 

 also with this company, is absent on a trip to Portland. 



The Phoenix Rubber Co. and the Republic Rubber Co. are 

 moving into their new offices at 604 Van Ness avenue. 



The Central American Rubber Co. has been incorporated at 

 Spokane and the Western Tire Co. at Seattle, Wash. 



E. H. Parish and J. Brendan, of the Gorham-Revere Rubber 

 Co., which has a branch at Osaka, Japan, arc now making a trip 

 to that country. 



During the past month there has been an unusually large de- 

 mand for rubber boots for the Alaskan trade, some of the local 

 firms being completely sold out. 



After serving, for a time, as chief accountant for the former 

 Revere Rubber Co.'s branch store, H. E. Crocker has returned 

 to the factory to assume a similar position. 



THE RUBBER TRADE AT AKRON. 



BY A RESIDENT CORRESPONDENT. 



ALTHOUGH the tire departments of all the Akron rubber 

 factories have been running full force, the backward 

 spring has affected the tire business in Ohio. The country roads 

 are in worse condition than they have been for many years and 

 the Good Roads movement has been given a corresponding im- 

 petus. But dealers' shelves are still loaded with tires, although 

 the advent of fine weather will be followed by a rush that will 

 speedily deplete the stocks and then, those dealers who have 

 been tardy in placing orders, will have to wait for a supply. 

 There has been a heavy demand for bicycle tires in all the fac- 

 tories. 



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Evidence of the popularity of the No-Rim-Cut tire, manu- 

 factured by the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., is furnished by 

 their establishment, within the past six months, of fourteen new 

 branches in various parts of the States. The demand for these 

 tires trebled during 1910, and the prospects are that the business 

 will be even larger during the current year. The company's 

 Cleveland branch has been removed to 1733 Euclid avenue, and 

 its Chicago branch to 177-179 N. Michigan avenue. 



The motorcycle record, made by Jake De Rosier at Los 

 Angeles, California, of 84 miles in an hour, is said to have been 

 made possible by his use of Goodyear "blue-streak" motorcycle 

 tires. ♦ ♦ • 



Several lines of waterproof garments, including waterproof 



coats, ponchos, capes, slickers, etc., which have been approved 



for use by the United States army, have been placed on the 



market by the Federal Water Proofing Co. ; this department of 



their business is growing rapidly. 



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The Rubber Goods Supply and Manufacturing Co., of Akron, 

 was incorporated under the laws of Ohio on April 7, with a cap- 

 ital of $10,000. The principal incorporators are Clinton Falor. 

 C. Forest Falor and E. H. Trump. The company is composed 

 of a number of experienced rubber men who expect to com- 

 mence the manufacture of rubber goods on a small scale im- 

 mediately and have bought a small building in South Akron 

 for this purpose. 



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The Miller Rubber Co. is adding another story to one of its 

 buildings, 60 x 100 feet. The additional story will be used for 

 tire manufacturing. 



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Invited by the Diamond Rubber Co., a party of over 100 sta- 

 tionery engineers visited their plant on April 4 to inspect their 

 new turbine engine, erected for them, as a supplementary en- 

 gine, by the AUis-Chalmers Co. The latter company's salesman, 

 Mr. Wolf, delivered a "talk" on the turbine engine and the vis- 

 iting engineers were entertained at a social and smoker by the 

 Diamond Company. 



O. C. Barber, a director and one of the founders of the com- 

 pany, was recently entertained at the Country Club at a dinner 

 given to commemorate his seventieth birthday. W. A. Johnson, 

 president of the Rubber Products Co., of Barberton, was one 

 of the principal speakers and complimented Mr. Barber on his 

 successful work iti building up the Diamond Rubber Co., the 



