March 



1921 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



451 



NOHTHWESTERN NOTES 



Seattle tire dealers, who are members of the Seattle Automo- 

 tive Trade Division, have elected C. C. "Cy" Miller chairman of 

 the division; C. W. Sexsmith of the Metropolitan Tire Co., sec- 

 retary ; and A. T. Mapson, of the Tyre Shop, as representative 

 on the trades council. 



RuWier men on the Pacific Coast are much interested in plans 

 being made by Lieutenant Colonel C. A. Sloane, U. S. A., of the 

 Washington-.AIaska Cable System, for a new high-speed duplex 

 cable f n ni Seattle to Sitka, .Alaska, a distance of 1,000 miles, and 

 thence to Dutch Harbor, Aleutian Islands, 1,000 miles more. The 

 distance from this point to Yokohama is another 2,000 miles, and 

 if the long-talked-of cable line from Seattle to Japan were thus 

 hooked up, quick communication could readily be provided with 

 the rubber shipping ixirts of the l'"ar Kast. It is explained by the 

 government expert that a cable could not be extended across the 

 Pacific without some such system of relays. 



The B. I". Goodrich Rubber Co., carrying out its recently 

 adopted policy of selling to the trade only, has closed its uptown 

 branch at 1522 Twelfth avenue, Seattle, where it has been estab- 

 lished twelve years. This branch has been used for wholesale 

 and retail business, and will henceforth, or until it can secure 

 larger headquarters, maintain a general warehouse at King and 

 Occidental streets. 



Henry K. Schmidt, one of the foremost automobile men in 

 Seattle, has taken an agency at 1529 Eleventh avenue for Hewitt 

 tires and tubes. 



L. E. Carpenter has been appointed by the Goodyear Tire & 

 Rubber Company of California as district manager at Portland, 

 Oregon. George Bellis has been made division manager in 

 charge of mechanical goods sales. 



SOUTHWESTERN NOTES 



The Spreckels "Savage" Tire Co., San Diego, California, has 

 announced promotions including Wayne Compton, formerly man- 

 ager of sales to corporations, to assistant sales manager ; George 

 W. Greene from assistant superintendent to superintendent; and 

 Ralph E. Brown from chemist to assistant superintendent. Re- 

 ports from the company state that business is now beginning to 

 feel the influence of the spring demand and that the prospects 

 are bright for a healthy and reasonably rapid return to nf>rmal. 



STATEMENT OF THE GOODYEAR TIRE & RUBBER COMPANY OF 

 CALIFORNIA 



The balance sheet of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company of 

 California for the fiscal year ended October 31, 1920, shows an 

 earned sur]>lns of $568,654 before Eederal taxes and dividends. Of 

 this amount $500,128 w'as allowed by the Akron company out of 

 profits of the territory from July 12 to Novomlier 1. 1919. The 



deduction of $635,000 is made for adjustment of inventories of 

 raw materials and work in progress on a basis of rubber at 26 

 cents a pound and cotton at 60 cents a pound. Dividends paid 

 during the year totaled $597,139, or $28,484 more than the earned 

 surplus. The cjuarterly payment due January 1, 1921, was jiassed. 

 Total assets and liabilities are $21,942,476. 



Tlu 



THE AMES HOLDEN TIRE CO., LIMITED 



])lant of the Ames Holden Tire Co., Limited, Kitchener, 



Ontario, Canada, is located in the heart of the business district of 

 that city, having been built on the estate formerly owned by the 

 late Crown Attorney. This property was one of the city's land- 

 marks and its setting between well-kept lawns and luxuriant 

 shrubs and trees affords a view not often enjoyed by industrial 

 enterprises. 



The factory building proper is two stories high, 90 feet wide by 

 400 feet long, with all footings, framing, etc., arranged for its 

 expansion to six stories. It is a structural steel-frame building 

 with red-facing brick exterior and has a floor space of 87,000 

 square feet. 



The technical building, a one-story structure of construction 

 similar to the factory building, with a floor area of 7,000 square 

 feet, was built for the accommodation of the chemical and techni- 

 cal division where intensive research peculiar to tire manufacture 

 takes place in a completely equipped laboratory. Quartered in 

 this building as well is the engineering staff of the company, 

 which is responsible for the factory construction, equipping and 

 maintaining of the plant. 



The power house at the south end of the factory is the last 

 word in modern construction and efficient steam production. 

 Hydro power is used as a prime mover throughout the factory. 



The plant is well located with regard to railway facilities, the 

 Grand Trunk Railway's main line abutting the property on the 

 northeast, and the Canadian Pacific Railway paralleling the 

 property on the south. 



The ample grounds surrounding the plant will allow for con- 

 siderable expansion. The present buildings when completed to 

 six stories will have a capacity of 3,000 tires a day, and the prop- 

 erty as laid out for future development will provide for at least 

 10,000 tires a day. 



Ground was broken for the construction of the factory on July 

 16, 1919, and the first tire was manufactured on March 10, 1920, 

 eight months and eighteen days from the inception of the work. 



The company's product is sold by the .Ames Holden McCready 

 System, whose head oflices are in Montreal, and which has 

 branch sales warehouses all over Canada from Halifax to Van- 

 couver. The cxerutivp -md factnrv stafl^s of ilie Xmcs Holden 



Pi..\NT (II' .A.viES HoLDKN TiHK Co., Ltmited, Kitchener, (Jxt.ario, C.\n.\d.\ 



company's statement shows a net profit before inventory adjust- 

 ments of $703,525 on a total net business of $16,230,986, which 

 was an increase of approximately $1,242,000 over the business of 

 the previous year for the same territory. From the net profit a 



companies arc largely compo.sed of men who were formerly the 

 leading officials and department heads of the Canadian Consoli- 

 dated Rubber Co., Limited, the Canadian organization of the 

 L'nitcd States Rubber Co. 



