May 1, 1921 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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has been connected with the rubber and belting industries for 25 

 years and Mr. Mowrey for about 20 years, while both are very 

 well known among jobbers and dealers throughout the country. 

 With the intention to handle only quality products and backed 

 by years of experience, they are hopeful of quickly establishing 

 a reputation for their products. 



J. C. Finck Mineral Milling Co. and the Nulsen Corporation 

 are consolidated under the name "National Pigments & Chemical 

 Co." with headquarters at Levee and Sydney streets, St. Louis, 

 Missouri. 



R. W. Smith was recently elected secretary of the Milwaukee 

 Tire Dealers' Association, 142 Oneida street, Milwaukee, Wiscon- 

 sin. 



The Wildman Rubber Co., Bay City, Michigan, advises that 

 they will let the contract for their new factory at Bay City within 

 the next thirty days. The main structure will be 365 by 160 feet, 

 three stories and basement, of reinforced concrete construction. 

 The total cost, including power plant and office building, will be 

 approximately $1,250,000. All the excavating and the concrete 

 footers have been completed. The company hopes to have the 

 new plant in operation the latter part of September. 



The Hawkeye Tire & Rubber Co., Des Moines, Iowa, announce 

 the officers of their company as follows: J. T. Christie, president 

 and treasurer, and John Frederick, vice-president. 



The American Insulated Wire & Cable Co., 954 West 21st 

 street, Chicago, Illinois, are preparing plans to remodel a one- 

 story plant, 198 by 200 feet, at the northeast corner of 22nd and 

 Fisk streets, to cost $100,000. The equipment will involve an 

 outlay of $200,000. 



The Jefferson Rubber Co., Jefferson, Wisconsin, made the 

 first shipment of tires and tubes from its new factory about the 

 middle of March and is now in position to make daily deliveries 

 of 125 tires, including both cord and fabric, and of 300 red and 

 gray tubes. The company reports a good volume of future busi- 

 ness booked and hopes the rubber industry generally "will be as 

 bothered with business" as it is. 



THE RUBBER TRADE ON THE PACIFIC COAST 

 By Our Regular Correspondent 



A CHEERFUL TONE is heard among the rubber manufacturers 

 and the larger distributers of rubber goods on the 

 Paciiic Coast, and preparations are being made for a brisk 

 spring business and probably a lively trade during the re- 

 mainder of the year. The buyers' strike did not perceptibly 

 affect far west makers and dealers in rubber goods. If 

 trade halted, it was rather because dealers were temporarily 

 overstocked than because retail purchasers were delaying 

 orders in the hope of eflfecting a price drop. Generally 

 speaking, prices on rubber goods have not been much above 

 pre-war prices, despite increased costs of production. Goods 

 for which there is reported an especially increased inquiry 

 include hose, belting, cement, matting, packing, tires and 

 tubes. 



The spring trade has been coming alonu' strong and the industry 

 is fast nearing normalcy. Factory extensions temporarily post- 

 poned are now being actively undertaken ; and the numbtfr of un- 

 employed rubber workers is rapidly decreasing. With returning 

 activity in the industry, several new rubber companies have re- 

 cently lieen organized, and projects long dormant are being revived. 



SAN FRANCISCO AND VICINITY 



George S. Towne, vice-president and general manager of 

 the Pioneer Rubber Mills, Pittsburg, Contra Costa County, 

 California, has been in the southern part of the state study- 

 ing conditions, which are said to be uncommonly good, so 



far as the Pioneer Mills are concerned. Full time and much 

 overtime in some departments has been the rule all winter at 

 the Pioneer works. The company has just completed a full- 

 molded hose unit and is plamiing to add other sections in the 

 future. 



J. D. Pasha, who has been in the tire business ten years 

 and was for four years general sales manager of The Portage 

 Rubber Co., Barberton, Ohio, has been appointed general 

 sales manager of the new Coast Tire & Rubber Co., Oakland, 

 California. The factory has established a sales force in all 

 the west coast states, and its first unit is prepared to turn 

 out 1.500 tires and 2,U00 tubes daily. 



Ray Willis, for three years sales manager in the Southern 

 States for the Hood Tire Co., Watertown, Massachusetts, 

 has succeeded L. B. Tichenor as district manager for the 

 Hood concern in San Francisco. He has already begun to 

 increase the sales force. 



The California Rubber Co., a new $5,000,000 corporation, will 

 build the first unit of its plant at Alameda where tires, tubes, and 

 other rubber goods will be manufactured and 700 men employed 

 on an eight-hour shift. 



LOS ANGELES AND VICINITY 



That The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company of California 

 has 7,907 accredited service stations in twelve western states, 

 and that up to the beginning of its present fiscal year it had 

 sold 493,000 tires of all kinds and 495,000 tubes, was some 

 of the information imparted by A. F. Osterloh, vice-presi- 

 dent and general manager, at the second annual meeting of 

 the stockholders, held on March 3. He stated that the com- 

 pany was then producing 700 tires a day, but felt sure that 

 with improving business conditions the output would be increased 

 to 1.000 tires a day in April. Mr. Osterloh stated that the 

 combined business of the Akron and the California companies 

 for January, 1921, was $9,000,000. The company wrote off an 

 inventory loss of $600,000 representing depreciated values of 

 raw materials, paid $400,000 in dividends, and yet showed a 

 deficit of but $28,000 for the year. 



Tlie Goodyear stockholders elected as directors: J. E. 

 Jardinc. H. H. Fair, L. A. Phillips, F. A. Seiberling, A. F. 

 Osterloh, C. C. Slusser, W. A. M. Vaughan, J. R. Reilly and 

 J. S. Willaman. The directors chose these officers: F. A. 

 Seiberling, president; A. F. Osterloh, vice-president and gen- 

 eral manager; W. A. M. Vaughan, secretary and treasurer; 

 D. J. Koonce, assistant treasurer. 



After ten years' connection with The B. F. Goodrich Rub- 

 ber Co. in San Francisco and twenty-seven years' experience 

 in the rubber trade, Robert J. McNcilly, one of the best- 

 known rubber men on the coast, has been promoted to the 

 post of branch manager for the company in Los Angeles 

 with a territory including all of southern California south 

 of Mt. Tehachepi, all of .'\rizona, and the western part of 

 New Mexico. For the same company and territory Frank 

 L. Ryan, formerly manager of the Goodrich Sacramento 

 branch, has been appointed tire sales manager. The com- 

 pany does a large business in pneumatic and solid tires and 

 a wide variety of mechanical rubber goods in the Southwest, 

 and its branches will deal wholly with wholesale buj'ers. 



H. A. Farr, assistant to J. B. Brady, manager of the west- 

 ern division of the Ignited States Rubber Co., and who is 

 head of the company's tire division on the coast, has been 

 visiting J. B. Magee, manager of the company's southern 

 California and Arizona branches, in Los Angeles. Mr. Farr 

 and Mr. Magee have been studying conditions in southern 

 California and Arizona and they declare that the trade pros- 

 pects are very encouraging. Especially notable is a steadily 



