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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD. 



[April I, 1910. 



fornia) have a little over 6,ooo acres of land. They have be- 

 tween 125,000 and 150,000 trees growing on the property, rang- 

 ing from two to eight years old, and covering some 750 acres. 

 They began their tapping last year, when they shipped 1,002 

 pounds of dry rubber. The resident manager, Mr. L. L. Kochen- 

 derfer, accidentally spilled a can of rubber milk last Novem- 

 ber, and in that accident discovered a new process of separation 

 with which he is now experimenting. He believes he can sepa- 

 rate the rubber from the milk in 30 minutes with absolutely no 

 coagulant, and get a perfectly hard rubber with absolutely no 

 stickiness. I hope to report to you further on this later. 



Elvria, Ohio, March 14. .9.0. "■ J- HAMILTON. 



UTAH PLANTERS IN MEXICO. 



The Utah-Mexican Rubber Co. (Salt Lake City, Utah) have 

 about 5,000 acres planted to rubber in the state of Tabasco, 

 Mexico. The rubber now ranges in age from two to six years. 

 The India Rubber World is advised that Mr. Noble Warrum, 

 general manager of the company, is now on the plantation, pre- 

 paring to tap the six-year-old trees. There are about 300 

 workmen, with their families, on the property. The company re- 

 cently purchased 5,000 acres of adjoining land, with an idea of 

 planting it to bananas. 



RUBBER PLANTING NOTES. 



The Paris edition of the New York Herald, supported mainly 

 by American readers, in common with most of the leading 

 European newspapers, is devoting much space to the progress 

 of rubber culture in the Far East, and especially to the British 

 rubber craze. 



Three rubber plantations in the Federated Malay States are 

 mentioned as having been in the market six years ago at 

 1 1 50,000, without a buyer. They are now regarded as worth 

 £6,000,000. 



L. Bonaparte Wyse, a French owner of rubber plantations in 

 the Far East, is quoted by the Paris edition of the New York 

 Herald as of the opinion that 15 or 20 per cent, of the plantations 

 now being formed will never become productive. 



An official of The Castilloa Rubber Plantation Co. (Portland, 

 Oregon), advises The India Rubber World regarding their 

 planting operations in Mexico : "Our company has cleared and 

 planted 1,500 acres of rubber in the last two years, and has 

 already cleared 500 acres more which are now drying under 

 the hot sun, and will be burned over in April or early May, and 

 will be planted not later than June, with 200 trees to the acre." 



THE RUBBER TRADE IN SAN FRANCISCO. 



BY A RESIDENT CORRESPONDENT. 



"THE past month has been a repetition of big hopes and small 

 *■ results. Favorable as conditions may seem, yet this is not 

 only not the active time of the year, but it is not an active 

 dull season. The rubber business is not different from am other 

 line of industry, and the same fate is common to all — good pros- 

 pects and quiet business. One and all the rubber establishments 

 state that there is very little to call good trade just now, although 

 they are all planning on a very good season to come. There 

 were nearly three weeks of <the past month in which the rain 

 ceased entirely and for a while it looked as though all of the 

 forecasts about prosperous years were coming to naught. There 

 was a great cry from the southern and central portions of the 

 state on account of the threatened drought, and immediately 

 business began to suffer. Fortunately during the past week the 

 rains began again and the crops are saved. It is so long in the 

 season now that there is little to fear as to further dry spells. 

 In fact this week, the feeling is so improved that merchants 

 are holding out once more the argument that San Francisco 

 and the coast is at last on the verge of a most pi perous year. 

 There is plenty of money to invest, but investors have not as yet 



shown much confidence and put too many strings on their loans. 



The Crandley Rubber and Supply Co. are a new company 

 formed and incorporated in this city to enter upon an independent 

 career in the rubber business. W. J. Crandley is the president 

 and manager, Roy Hand, vice-president, and E. M. Crandley, sec- 

 retary. Mr. William J. Crandley was formerly the active man- 

 ager for the Plant Rubber and Supply Co. and is well and favor- 

 ably known through the entire coast territory as an efficient 

 and well informed rubber man. Roy Hand was formerly with 

 the Callaghan Boiler Compound Co. E. M. Crandley was not 

 heretofore engaged in this line of business. The new firm has 

 leased a store at No. 41 California street, near to the water front 

 and very convenient to the principal downtown stores of the 

 wholesalers. 



Squires & Byrne, dealers in rubber hose belting and packing, 

 formerly located at No. 52 Steuart street, have moved to very 

 much larger and more convenient quarters at No. 565 Mission 

 street, where they have fitted up two stories and basement of 

 a building 85x40 feet in dimensions. Several considerations 

 had a share in the moving, although the principal one is that 

 this firm's business has increased to such dimensions that their 

 quarters on Steuart street could no longer accommodate them, 

 and although their lease there had not yet expired thy found it 

 necessary to move. Their move was decided upon prior to their 

 securing the agency for the Seamless Rubber Co. (New York 

 and New Haven), but this acquisition will be much more con- 

 veniently handled in the new store. Another very important 

 move which this progressive firm just made was the purchase 

 of all the stock and lines of the Sterling Rubber Co. 



Mr. A. F. Libis, the general auditor of The B. F. Goodrich Co., 

 has been paying San Francisco a visit. Speaking of his opinion 

 relative to tire conditions he said that although the price of 

 tires was now unreasonably high, he believes they will un- 

 doubtedly be reduced before the output for next season is put 

 on the market. 



H. C. Norton, manager for the American Rubber Manufac- 

 turing Co., whose factory and salesrooms are at Emeryville, 

 near Oakland, reports a very active business. This firm has 

 been working overtime of late to get up with orders. 



R. J. McXeilly, with the Barton Packing and Rubber Co., is 

 now in Los Angeles looking after business for the firm in that 

 locality. Mr. McNeilly is the sales manager for the company. 

 They report the packing business as being very good. 



William J. Gorham, of the Gorham Rubber Co., came back from 

 Seattle, spent one day in San Francisco and then went on down 

 to Los Angeles. There is not enough excitement here in the 

 business line to detain him long, and he finds it most congenial 

 to keep moving. 



THE "CARPRINGCO" TIRES. 



IN an age of machine-made products anything hand made, as 

 * a rule, carries a premium price ; but like all rules, plus excep- 

 tions, this one has its exception in "Carpringco," which is an 

 entirely hand made tire, yet is being marketed at standard 

 prices. The New Jersey Car Spring and Rubber Co. manu- 

 facture this tire, and in an interview one of the company's 

 officials stated : 



"Last May when we started the manufacture of "Carpringco," 

 our initial output was modest indeed, in view of the several 

 excellent makes and at really low prices already on the market. 

 But we felt so certain that our process would produce a tire 

 as near perfection as is possible, that we did not hesitate to 

 enter into the field of tire manufacture, and our confidence was 

 fully justified, for we are now finding it necessary to run our 

 tire factory to the fullest capacity in order to meet the increas- 

 ing demand ." In addition to tires, the Car Spring company are 

 making a full line of casings and inner tubes. 



