August 1, 1921 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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Another cut in Goodyear tires in the west-coast states has 

 been announced. The 30 by i'6 single cure clincher tire is now 

 selhng at $13.95. 



The Owen Tire Co., Cleveland, Ohio, is reported to be nego- 

 tiating for a site for a Pacific Coast branch factory, at which not 

 only tires and tubes but also tire fabric will be manufactured. 

 W. C. Owen, president of the concern, has been in touch re- 

 cently with Los Angeles interests concerning the project, and it 

 is said that if satisfactory arrangements can be made, a plant 

 investment of $1,000,000 is likely to be made and employment 

 probably given to 2,000 people. 



The Daly Company. Inc., 1027-1029 Santa I*"e avenue, Los An- 

 geles, is about to establish a branch factory in Detroit, Michigan, 

 for the Daly Simplex rim, which is being made a part of standard 

 equipment on many well-known makes of automobiles. The 

 manufacturers claim that tire changing, usually an irksome task, 

 is made very easy with their new rim, a tire being removed and 

 replaced in the rim in liftix'n minutes by pulling a lever; and 

 that old rims can be readily fitted with the new device. 



Rubber manufacturers on the coast are much interested in a 

 report that a very large concern is about to be established, possi- 

 bly at Los Angeles, for the weaving of sheetings, Osnaburgs, and 

 other textiles from southwestern long-staple cotton. A survey 

 of coast trade conditions, with a view toward the setting up of 

 such an industry, has been made recently by William R. Berry- 

 man, of New York, who is said to represent large textile interests. 



The California Wire Co., of which Louis Koth, formerly man- 

 ager of the Illinois Wire & Cable Co., Sycamore, Illinois, and 

 now a resident of Orange, California, is president, has been 

 formed with $200,000 capital to manufacture rubber-covered electric 

 wire and cable. The plant, which will be at Orange, near Los 

 Angeles, will cover 2'A acres and employ a large force. It is 

 said to be the first insulated wire factory of its kind west of the 

 Mississippi. Fred H. Alden, formerly sales manager for the 

 Sycamore concern, will have charge of the new company's sales. 

 Codirectors with Mr. Koth are F. VV. Struck, F. A. Grote, Will- 

 iam King, and W. C. Matthias. 



SAN FRANCISCO NOTES 



The appointment of George L. Hurst as the Pacific Coast 

 representative of the Birmingham Iron Foundry, Derby, Con- 

 necticut, has been recently announced. Mr. Hurst has had a 

 wide experience in the matter of designing, constructing, and 

 selling machinery and will b.andle the well-known products of the 

 Birmingham Iron Foundry at the San Francisco offices, 544 

 Market street. 



The Mason Tire & Rubber Co., Kent, Ohio, is opening a new 

 sales office on Van Ness avenue, San Francisco. R. D. Thomas, 

 a well-known San Francisco man, has been placed in charge of 

 this branch, with Henry Suersted, formerly of the Republic com- 

 pany, as his assistant. A complete stock of tires and tubes will 

 be carried, while the modern equipment now being installed will 

 afford car owners expert service. 



SOUTHWESTERN NOTES 



William McCallum, of the Continental Rubber Co. of Arizona, 

 recently inspected the guayule rubber plantation at University 

 Farm at Davis, California, and found the young plants in a flour- 

 ishing condition. Other gu.nyule demonstrations are being made 

 near Escondido in San Diego county and in the Salinas Valley, 

 and good progress is being made in both places, it is stated. The 

 Continental company has two commercial plantings of guayule 

 transplanted from Mexico, one of 200 acres, near San Jacinto, 

 California, and the other of 600 acres, near Continental, Arizona, 

 and both are developing well, it is said. The latter is expected 

 to be yielding rubber within a couple of years. 



What is giving the tire men considerable concern is the shortage 

 that looms in the supply of cotton. Last year the cotton acreage 

 in .Arizona was 165,000. but tlii.- year it is scarcely 50,000. the 



farmers who produced too much cotton last year having turned 

 to diversified crops as involving less hazard. Local and Los An- 

 geles banking interests have arranged to finance the 1921 crop 

 after getting assurance of greatly reduced acreage. 



Recent estimates give the total amount of cotton stored in the 

 Yuma and Salt River Valleys, .Arizona, and the Imperial and 

 San Joaquin Valleys, California, as 225,000 bales with an ap- 

 proximate value of $22,500,000. 



.\ colloidal clay, said to be similar to, if not identical with, a 

 mineral substance much used as an accelerator by English rubber 

 manufacturers, has been discovered in the Mojave Desert in the 

 eastern part of California. The California Master Products 

 Co., of Slauson avenue and -Alameda street, Los Angeles, has 

 taken title to 500 acres and has set up a plant on the desert to 

 mine the clay, which is also being used in soap making. The 

 president of the concern is L. F. Caswell. 



The India Tire & Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio, has opened a direct 

 factory warehouse in Dallas, Texas, where a supply of all 

 rubber products, including a complete line of giant pneumatic 

 truck tires, will be constantly kept in stock. Harry L. Corbett, 

 formerly with the Norwalk Tire & Rubber Co., will be in charge 

 of this new distributing warehouse. C. V. Moore and J. Y. 

 McKinney, also previously associated with the Norwalk com- 

 pany, and L. G. Trench will act as Mr. Corbett's assistants. 



NORTHWESTERN NOTES 



The Portland Rubber Mills has changed its name to the Hunt- 

 ington Rubber Mills, with address at 1580 Macadam street, Port- 

 land, Oregon. 



The largest tire repair shop in the Pacific Northwest, the only 

 one featuring a drive-in, and the most completely equipped in 

 the territory, are the claims made for the new home of Coffey 

 & Conway, 27 West Park street, Portland, Oregon, by Ray Con- 

 way, head of the concern and president of the Portland Rubber 

 Workers' Club. The two stories of this building are fitted up 

 with the latest improvements, while the equipment is modern in 

 every respect. 



BUS LINES SHOW PROFIT 



The following figures were compiled from accurate cost records 

 of operating the Goodyear Heights bus line by the Goodyear com- 

 pany and cover a period of 37 months ended December 30, 1920. 



During the 37 months under consideration a total of approx- 

 imately 4,500,000 passengers were carried at five cents each. Net 

 profits are figured at $23,991.10 or $.0052 per passenger. Total 

 revenue is given at $237,846 and total operating expenses at 

 $213,865. 



Cost of Operating ,_., 



Totals Per Bus Mile 



Gasoline $28,514.34 $0.0475 



Lubrication 6,678.49 .0115 



Tires '• 3;>,960.O7 .056 



Drivers' w.iges ^^'''ol'nn 'n^i** 



Maintenance, labcr and m.lttrials 27,086.00 .046 



Miscellaneous expenses, incluiiinR administration 17.109.57 .029 



Insurance, public and liability, cost $6,613.26, garage rent, $2,- 

 114.32, and licenses together with interest on investment at 6 per 

 cent amounted to $6,433.96. The total profit per passenger is 

 given in the report at $.0052 and the total cost at $.0448 per pas- 

 senger. 



The company started with an in\estmcnt of $6,075 and the 

 total investment for the three years amounted to $90,838. De- 

 preciation charged to operation atnounted to $32,620 and depre- 

 ciation charged to investment amounted to $49,645. During 1918 

 the bus equipment was in use 91.5 per cent of the available time, 

 in 1919, 65 per cent, and in 1920, 46 per cent of the time. 



"Crude Rubber .\nd CoMPorxni.NX Ingredients" by Henry C. 

 Pearson, should be in the library of every progressive rubber man. 

 "Rubber Machinery," by the same author, is equally authoritative 

 in its line. 



