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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



July 1, 1921 



NORTHWESTEHN NOTES 



Arrangements are being made to resume work at the plant 

 of The Washington Tire & Rubber Co. in Spokane, Washington, 

 which concern has been inactive for several months. It is said 

 that some financial difficulties that troubled the concern have 

 been practically cleared up, and while operations may not be 

 on as large a scale as formerly, it is expected that they will be 

 proportionately more profitable. John B. White, for one year 

 president of the concern, has resigned, and J. L. Bowling, vice- 

 president, takes his place. J. W. Brett has been elected vice- 

 president. H. S. Burdick is still secretary-treasurer. Roy Hayes, 

 of Waverly, Washington, has been chosen as a trustee to take 

 Mr. White's place on the board. 



The Sound Rubber Co., Tacoma, Washington, mention of 

 which was made in a recent issue, was incorporated April 19, 

 1916. under the laws of the State of Washington. Its authorized 

 capitalization is $5,000,000 common and $1,500,000 preferred stock. 

 The officers are : A. J. Ritchie, president and general manager ; 

 Morton Gregory, vice-president, and A. E. Braden, secretary- 

 treasurer. The directors include the above and J. L. Carman, 

 E. M. Hayden, S. J. Claridge and Marvin Evans. The company 

 has been manufacturing tires since last September. Its factory 

 is 80 by 260 feet, of solid concrete, and contains approximately 

 40.000 square feet of floor space. The site comprises about four 

 acres of land, providing room for two additional units of the 

 same size. 



The Blekre Tire & Rubber Co., St. Paul, Minnesota, has 

 established Pacific Coast headquarters by appointing as its agent 

 Larr>- Sullivan, of the Fashion Garage, Tenth and Taylor streets, 

 Portland. Oregon. He will cover six counties in that state and 

 Clarke County, Washington. 



The Spreckels "Savage" Tire Co., of San Diego, has opened 

 a warehouse branch in Portland, Oregon. It is located close 

 to "auto row." G. T. Cuminings is corporation salesman and 

 Delbert T. Fett handles the dealers. Pacific Coast manager 

 Lester, driving from San Diego, attended the opening of the 

 new depot on Puget Sound for Savage "Aristocrat" cords and 

 fabrics. 



SOUTHWESTEBN NOTES 



The United States Rubber Co. has taken a long lease on a 

 large building at Fifth avenue and West Adams street. Phoenix, 

 Arizona. George W. Miller, the new manager, reports that 

 business is improving despite the reaction in the cotton industry 

 and the long-continued dullness in mining. 



A transaction which excited much interest recently was the 

 transfer of the Southwest Cotton Co.'s 15,280 acres of planted 

 land in the Salt River Valley, Arizona, and the company's gins 

 and oil mills at Phoenix, Mesa. Temple, Glendale, Tolleson, 

 Gilbert, Peoria, and Sarival to the Valley Ranch Co., a new 

 corporation headed by Guy P. Nevitt, attorney for the Southwest 

 company. A controlling interest is to be held by the Southwest 

 company, with a remainder available for sale, the old company 

 accepting the new company's notes for $710,000. 



The transfer means the liquidation of The Goodyear Tire & 

 Rubber Co.'s interests in cotton properties in Arizona, the South- 

 west companv having represented Goodyear. The value of the 

 property afTected is put at $3,250,000, alx.ut $2,(XX),()00 Ix-ing the 

 land value. It is understood that many other crops will be 

 planted as well as cotton. The land is chiefly at Litchfield, a 

 new and model town, twenty miles west of Phoenix in the lower 

 Agua Fria valley. 



Another large cotton ranch belonging to the Southwest com- 

 pany at Goodyear, thirty miles southeast of Phoenix, it is said, 

 will be plotted for farmers in order to still further lighten the 

 load of the Goodyear company. 



It will not be the fault of ranchers in Pcrris Valley, Riverside 

 County, California, if rubber manufacturers and others find next 



season's supply of cotton scanty, lor liny are disregarding the 

 rule adopted by cotton-growers throughout the Southwest to 

 reduce acreage in view of the big slump in prices, and they 

 arc. instead, extending their acreage, so that over 2,000 acres will 

 be planted to cotton this year. Long-staple Durango is favored. 

 One-quarter of the 2,500-acre ranch owned by Secretary of Com- 

 merce Herbert C. Hoover, at Wasco, is to be planted to cotton 

 each year. Pima Egyptian is favored by the cabinet officer. 



CANADIAN NOTES 



JOSEPH STOKES RUBBER CO.. LIMITED. BEGINS OPERATIONS 



THE Joseph Stokes Rubber Co., Limited, has completed its 

 plant at Welland, Ontario, Canada. Representing an invest- 

 ment of $250,000. the plant is the first and only building to be 

 designed, constructed and equipped for the manufacture of hard 

 rubber products in Canada. It is situated on eight acres of land 

 laid out with the future expansion of the plant in mind. The 

 building, constructed of brick, steel and timber, and known as 

 the slow-burning type, is 160 feet long and 60 feet wide with 

 a wing 60 feet wide and 60 feet long, the latter including a 

 vulcanizing room and toilets. 



There is, in addition to the factory shown, a boiler room 

 60 by 60 feet, with a coal pocket and tracks overhead that 



Pl.\nt of the Joseph Stokes Rubber Co., Limited. 

 Well.\nd, Ont.\rio. Can.^da 



connect with a siding of the Grand Trunk & Wabash Railroad. 

 The building is triangular in shape with a tower, three stories 

 high, forming the apex, which will be used for transformers and 

 storage tank. 



Since the com[)letion of the buildings, machinery has been in- 

 stalled with the result that the company now has a thoroughly 

 modern plant of which it may well be proud. 



While the Joseph Stokes Rubber Co., Limited, is the outgrowth 

 of the Joseph Stokes Rubber Co., Trenton, New Jersey, and 

 has the same officers, its affairs are entirely separate and the 

 concern is operating under a charter granted by the Dominion 

 Government. The plant is at the present time running only at 

 a low capacity, but after additional machinery is installed, several 

 hundred skilled workmen will be given emplojTnent. 



The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. of Canada, Limited, with 

 main office at Toronto, Ontario, has materially improved its con- 

 dition recently and increased production by 300 tires daily. The 

 company is being reorganized but with practically no changes 

 in the personnel. It is free from bonds, mortgages, and liens, 

 and has no past-due current accounts. It has materially reduced 

 its bank borrowings and maintained full credit with its banks, 

 while it is consistently taking advantage of all discounts. C. H. 

 Carlisle is treasurer and general manager. 



Replete with inform.\tion for rubber m.\nuf.«iCturers — H. C. 

 Pearson's "Crude Ruliber and Compounding Ingredients." 



