June 1, 1921 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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fices are in the Grosse Building, Sixth and Spring streets, Los 

 Angeles. The officers are : O. A. Lane, president ; H. D. Smith, 

 vice-president; C. F. Evans, treasurer, and C. H. Braden, secre- 

 tary and general manager. 



The Pacific Rubber .■^ce Co., 281 I. W. Hellman building, Los 

 Angeles, California, advises it has not yet started production 

 but is planning to manufacture the inner tube known as "Rubber 

 Ace," under a royalty paid to the Elgin Rubber Ace Co., Elgin, 

 Illinois. The Pacific company's territory under Elgin covers 

 the states of New Mexico, Arizona, California, Nevada, Oregon, 

 Washington, Idaho and Utah. The company's factory and offices 

 will be located in Los Angeles. 



SAN FRANCISCO AND VICINITY. 



J. B. Brady, San Francisco branch manager of the United 

 States Rubber Co., has just covered the leading Coast cities and 

 he is enthusiastic about business prospects for 1921. 



Ralph Boydston, formerly Goodyear Tacoma branch manager, 

 has taken charge of the new San Francisco branch of the Sound 

 Rubber Co., Tacoma, Washington. 



L. G. Lehousse has been appointed special Pacific Coast repre- 

 sentative of the United Rubber Co., a subsidiary of The Portage 

 Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio. In 1918 he was appointed resident 

 Pacific Coast manager for the sales department of The Dread- 

 naught Tire & Rubber Co. of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, and 

 in November, 1919, was made Pacific Coast manager of the Los 

 Angeles and San Francisco branches of the Portage company. 



B. W. Perks, who since Janu:;ry, 1920, has been in charge of 

 the New York branch of The Portage Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio, 

 has been transferred to the Pacific Coast where he will succeed 

 L. G. Lehousse as Pacific Coast manager of the Los Angeles and 

 San Francisco branches, with headquarters in San Francisco. 



The Fresno Tire & Rubber Co. has bought a 754-acre tract at 

 Belmont for a 3-story concrete factory with a capacity of 500 

 cord tires and 1,750 tubes a day. The force will number 400 

 men. Walter S. Munger, president of the Superior Oil Co., heads 

 the concern. 



SOUTHWESTEBN NOTES. 



A somewhat more cheerful tone, due to a reviving demand from 

 tire makers, pervades the cotton market in the Southwest, even 

 though the cotton-planted acreage in the Salt River Valley, Ari- 

 zona, has dropped from 185,000 in 1920 to less than 75,000 in 1921. 

 Encouragement was felt in the announcement of plans for a mil- 

 lion-dollar cotton mill in Los Angeles that will provide large 

 quantities of duck, drills, etc., for rubber and other manufac- 

 turers. Some bankers look upon the slump in the cotton industry 

 in the Southwest as a godsend to that section, as the ranchers 

 have learned the lesson that it does not pay to plunge wholly on 

 cotton, but to diversify their crops. With 91J/2 per cent of the land 

 sown by the Salt River Valley Water Users' Association under 

 cultivation, as compared with S&Va per cent last year, it is esti- 

 mated that, with varied crops and improved roads, the actual 

 cost of producing cotton may be but half that of last year. 



It is stated on good authority that the amount of cotton being 

 held for sale m Salt River and Yuma Valleys, Arizona, and Im- 

 perial and San Joaquin Valleys, California, totals 225,000 bales, 

 valued at $22,000,000. Bankers, who realize the need of finding 

 a foreign market for these holdings, are urging support for the 

 Foreign Trade Financing Corporation. The organizing com- 

 mittee of the corporation in this section is composed of leading 

 business men, one of them being A. F. Osterlob, vice-president 

 and general manager of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company 

 of California. 



The Spreckels "Savage" Tire Co., of San Diego, now at 95 

 per cent capacity, reports business as particularly good. R. M. 

 dtt, formerly with the Howe Rubber Co., has been made coast 

 representative. J. A. Michels is making a trip over the "Kite 

 territory" and finds trade looking up sharply. 



The Ajax Rubber Company of Texas, Inc., 431 Main avenue, 

 San Antonio, Texas, was incorporated under the laws of Texas 

 on December 8, 1920. The officers are: L. D. Ormsby, president 

 and treasurer, San -Antonio; F. C. Burnett, vice-president, Dallas — 

 both in Texas; and W. J. Jackson, secretary. New York, N. Y. 

 This company assumed the interests of the former branch of 

 the Ajax Rubber Co., San Antonio, and covers entire south- 

 western Texas. The company will wholesale Ajax products. 



The Universal Tire & Rubber Association, Houston, Texas, 

 has contracted to lease its plant to the Standard Rubber Co., New 

 Orleans, Louisiana, for the period of one year, with an option 

 to purchase the plant. Friendly receivership proceedings were in- 

 stituted by the officers of the association that its properties might 

 be conserved during the period covered by the contract. 



NOETHWESTEEN NOTES. 



At the annual meeting of the Portland Rubber Workers Club, 

 Portland, Oregon, the following officers were elected: T. R. 

 Conway, president ; Charles Voyle, vice-president ; and W. T. 

 Peters, secretary and treasurer. The directors elected for the 

 year 1921 were: E. R. Morris, E. L. Harper and J. T. Bailey. 

 The club is carrying on several activities dealing with the educa- 

 tion of the public as to the use and care of tires. 



A Federal Reserve report states that Pacific coast retailers of 

 automobile tires lead other business lines in liquidating stocks 

 and ordering new goods. 



Tire dealers state that the reduction in prices of several well- 

 known automobiles has had as much to do with increasing saks as 

 the cuts made by the large tire manufacturers. There is a goo^ 

 demand for "spares," not part of the standard equipment. 



An enterprising and rapidly growing concern is the Sound 

 Rubber Co., Tacoma, Washington, maker of tubes and casings 

 exclusively. 



The Dutho Rubber Co. has opened a general tire and tube re- 

 pair factory at W925 First avenue, Spokane, Washington, with 

 a $16,000 equipment. C. H. Moller is manager and Charles W. 

 Zalm, secretary. 



CALIFORNIA BARS METAL TIRES. 



The bill — Senate 789, introduced by Mr. Rominger — that passed 

 the California Legislature and was signed by Governor Stephens, 

 virtually prohibits the use of metal tires, or wood or rubber 

 tires having any portion of the tread studded or coated with metal, 

 on any highway of the state. 



An exception is made in favor of tire chains. The new law 

 is an amendment to the General Highway Act of 1915. Anotlier 

 provision of the new act is : "No solid rubber tire shall be used 

 on any motor or other vehicle or contrivance for moving loads 

 over any public highway or bridge unless such tire has rubber 

 on its entire traction surface, at least one-incli thick above the 

 edge of the flange." 



RUBBER CEMENT FOR MOUNTING PHOTOGRAPHS 



Paste has long been an unsatisfactory material in mounting 

 photographs and other illustrations, as the edges curl, and un- 

 less the backing is heavy, the pictures do not lie flat, while excess 

 paste smudges the mounting. Pure rubber cement has many 

 good qualities, in fact all that paste has not. Rubber cement 

 does not stretch photographs when mounting, does not buckle 

 them, does not curl up photograph or mounting no matter how 

 thin, and leaves no mark when excess cement is removed. One 

 Df the greatest benefits of the rubber cement over paste is that 

 once a photograph is mounted it can be removed without damage 

 by the simple expedient ot loosening a corner and pulling off 

 the print.— New York Belting & Packing Co., 91 Chambers street. 

 New York, N. Y. 



