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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[January 1. 1911. 



UNITED STATES RUBBER CO.'S ISSUES. 



Tr.knsactio.vs on the New York Stock Exchange for four 

 weeks, ending December 17: 



Common Stock. $25,000,000. 



[The trc.Tsury of a subsidiary company holds $1,344,000.] 



L^st Dividend, April 30. 1900—1%. 



Week Xovember 26 Sales 500 shares High 36j^ Low 34f^ 



Week Deceniher 3 Sales 2.800 shares Hijjh 35 Low 32 



Week December 10 Sales 2,100 shares High 33 Low 32 



Week December 17 Sates 1,700 shares High Si'A Low 32'/, 



l"or the ve.nr— High. 521^, Jan. 3; Low. 27, July 26. 



Last year— High, 57%; Low, 27. 



First Prefebrfd Stock, $39,824,400. 

 Last Dividend, October 31, 1910— 27i;. 



Week Xovember 26 Sales 300 shares High 111 Low 110 



Week December 3 Sales 715 shares High 110 Low 109 



Week December 10 Sales 705 shares High 110 Low 109 



Week December 17 Sales 500 shares High 110 Low 109'4 



For the vear— High, I16'A, Jan. 10; Low, 99, Julv 26. 

 Last year- High, 123y2; Low, 98. 



Second Preferred Stock, $9,965,000. 

 Last Dividend, October 31, 1910— 1%%. 



Week November 26 Sales 200 shares High 72;X Low 72f^ 



Week December 3 Sales 300 shares High 72 Low Tlyl 



Week December 10 Sales 400 shares High 73i-^ Low 72 



Week December 17 Sales 100 shares High 73 Low 73 



For the year — High, 84, Jan. 3; Low, 59>.i, July 2/. 



Last year — High, 89".^; Low. 67 Vj. 



Six Per Cent. Trust Gold Boxds, $19,500,000. 

 Week November 26 Sales 33 bonds High 102-8 Low 102% 

 Week December 3 Sales 77 bonds High 102;i> Low 102^ 

 Week December 10 Sales 30 bonds High 103 Low 1025<J 

 Week December 17 Sales 28 bonds High 103 Low 102% 



For the vear— High. 1041/2. Jan. 15: Low, lOl'i, July 30. 

 Last year — High, 106; Low, 102%. 



GOODYEAR TIRE AND RUBBER CO. ACCOUNTS. 



The annual balance slieet of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber 

 Co., as of October 31, 1910, is shown herew-ith, compared with 

 the corresponding figures for the preceding year. The item of 

 "notes receivable" in the assets is referred to as being "for com- 

 pany's capital stock secured." 



ASSETS. 



1909. 1910. 



Plant and propertv $920,355.42 $1,484,036.35 



Patents 1.00 1.00 



Securities owned 5,001.00 80,519.23 



Notes receivable 97,474.42 141,942.55 



Inventory 1,212,060.51 



Notes and accounts receivable 1,076,864.83 



Cash on hand 1,549,348.98 576,359.51 



Prepaid rentals, etc 25,808.04 40,220.88 



Total $2,597,988.86 $4,612,004.86 



U.MilLITilCS. 



Capitrd, preferred $432,100.00 $1,000,000.00 



Capital, common 904,700.00 2,286,100.00 



Current liabilities 431,379.47 227,085.07 



Reserved : 



For fluctuations in crude rubber 



market 350,000.00 500,000.00 



For doubtful accounts 63,889.72 94,464.26 



For depreciation 192,664.61 260,713.29 



Surplus 223,255.06 243,642.24 



Total $2,597,988.86 $4,612,004.86 



S. p. WETHERILL CO.— CHANGE OF STYLE. 



The Philadelphia firm The S. P. Wctherill Co.. manufacturers 

 and importers of various rubber manufacturers' supplies, have 

 adopted the name of The Westmoreland Chemical and Color 

 Co., from January 1. This has been due to the desire of Mr. 

 Wetherill to retire from active business, and his resignation as 

 president of the company. The officers are now Henry C. 

 Stewart, president; Milton Birch, vice president; William R. 

 Paul, treasurer; and John C. Nippes, secretary. 



THE KNOX HOSE COUPLINGS. 

 The line of couplings made by the Knox Manufacturing Co. 

 No. 19 North Seventh street, Philadelphia, for high pressure 



and drill hose, are offered to the trade on the recommendation 

 that they will not injure the tube of hose. The company will 

 be pleased to send an illustrated list of these goods to all per- 

 sons in tlic trade who may be interested. 



THE NEWEST CRUDE RUBBER. 



The Durango Commercial Co. has been incorporated in 

 Michigan, with headquarters in Detroit, to exploit rubber from 

 a Mexican tree called "palo calorado," which is reported to be 

 particularly abundant in the state of Durango. This develop- 

 ment is due to studies made by Professor John R. Allen, of the 

 University of Michigan, during a visit some months ago to 

 Mexico. The officers of the company are Joseph H. Hunter, 

 president ; Henry W. Campbell, vice president : John R. Allen, 

 secretary; Herbert W. Noble, treasurer; J. Wilfred Tliompson 

 and Emil E. Keller, directors. 



NEW CALENDARS. 



The Oxford Tripoli Co., Limited (No. 11 Broadway, New 

 York) send us a handsome calendar for 1911 with a tear-off leaf 

 for each inonth embellished with a handsome illustration of a 

 scene in Nova Scotia in the vicinity of their mines of fossil flour. 



The New Jersey Rubber Co. ( Lambertville, New Jersey), 

 send out again the "Handy Desk Calendar." It embraces a 

 memorandum leaf for each day in 1911, and is a useful desk 

 fixture. 



SALE OF THE OSULLIVAN COMPANY. 



The sale is reported of the business of the O'Sullivan Rubber 

 Co. (Lowell, Massachusetts) to New York capitalists. This 

 company was incorporated in Jtlaine, with $50,000 capital, in 

 1899, since which time a very large business has been built up 

 in rubber soles and heels. While Lowell has been the home of 

 the company, their goods have been manufactured by The B. F. 

 Goodrich Co., of Akron. It is understood that Humphrey 

 O'Sullivan, who has always been the active head of the business, 

 will continue as treasurer, and J. Munn Andrews as secretary. 

 It is reported that a new corporation will be formed. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



At the recent banquet of the \'ictorian Club — a Boston social 

 organization composed of Britishers born — at the Hotel West- 

 minster, in Boston, among the speakers was Mr. Elston E. Wad- 

 brook, a former president of the club. Mr. Wadbrook, who is 

 now a resident of New Y'ork, where, by the way, he is inter- 

 ested in rubber, talked of "old times," demagogy in the LTnited 

 States and the growth of sanity, and other topics of general 

 application, besides which he brought a message of good w-ill 

 from the British and L'nivcrsities Club of New York. 



At a meeting of a committee of business men of Rhode Island, 

 held in Providence on December 12, a resolution was adopted 

 recommending the support of all Republicans in the state for 

 the candidacy of the Hon. Le Baron B. Colt for L^nited States 

 senator. 



Mr. Edgar B. Davis, second vice-president of the General 

 Rubber Co., sailed from New York on December 10, for the 

 Far East. Mr. Davis is concerned in the development in that 

 region of crude rubber properties for the United States Rubber 

 Co., of which the General Rubber Co. is a subsidiary. This is 

 Mr. Davis's fourth visit to the Far East and the third in the 

 interest of the rubber company. 



Mr. Lester Leland, second vice-president of the United States 

 Rubber Co., sailed from New Y'ork on the last day of November 

 for an extended visit to Europe. 



The Foster Rubber Co. (Boston) have removed their office 

 and sales room to No. 105 Federal street. Previously their office 

 and sales room have been in different locations, and their com- 

 bination, in more cominodious quarters, will enable the company 

 to better serve the interests of their customers. 



