April 1, 1921 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



525 



the mix-room, where fuels and flux are combined with the ore 

 preparatory for smelting. The zinc oxide is drawn from the 

 furnaces through large cooling chambers and flues, and iblown 

 into innumerable long cloth bags. The very light zinc oxide is 

 retained by the bags, while gases and air are permitted to escape. 

 The zinc oxide is mechanically collected from the baghouse, 

 reprocessed and refined into a uniform product of over 99 per 

 cent purity. 



Comprising the additional equipment are a concrete and steel 

 trestle 500 feet long, having a storage capacity for over 25,000 

 tons of ore and fuel unloaded from railroad cars by gravity; 

 several miles of industrial track for conveying raw materials ; 

 machine repair shop ; operating supplies storehouse ; plant for 

 crushing ores and fuels ; cooper shop for making shipping barrels ; 

 storage warehouse for packed oxide ; a 300,000-pound capacity 

 track scale for weighing incoming and outgoing materials and 

 a change house for white and colored labor. 



The 50 iby 75-foot reinforced concrete and brick building at 

 the Windsor avenue entrance, houses on the first floor the 

 administrative and accounting ofiices, and on the second the 

 chemical, research paint and research rubber laboratories, each 

 completely equipped far the small-scale manufacture of various 

 finished products containing zinc oxide, and the determining of 

 the most satisfactory methods of using zinc oxide for the cus- 

 tomer's benefit. 



Malaya Association, while his fraternal orders include the Odd 

 Fellows, Knights of Pythias, Elks and Tribe of Ben Hur. 



THE NEW SECRETARY OF THE MID-WEST RUB- 

 BER ASSOCIATION 



JAMES P. Matthews, who assumed the duties of secretary and 

 general manager of the Mid-West Rubber Manufacturers' 



Association on March 1, brings to that office a remarkably va- 

 ried practical experience in the 



rubber industry and other lines of 



work which will be valuable in his 



new activities. 



Born in 1872 at Onondaga, 



Michigan, he graduated from the 



high school of Cedar Rapids, 



Iowa, attended the normal col- 

 lege at Valparaiso. Indiana, and 



later took an extension course at 



Chicago University, acquiring a 



good knowledge of Spanish. 



French, Bohemian and Malay. 

 His business career was begun 



in the engineers' department of the 



Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific 



Railway. Then came six years as 



a teacher in the public schools of 



Iowa, Michigan and North Dakota, 

 followed by ten years in the office of the Cedar Rapids Pump 

 Co. For three years he was assistant manager and then adver- 

 tising writer of the Des Moines, Iowa, branch of the Crane Co. 

 This latter work led him into the newspaper field in 1911, when 

 he became private secretary to United States Senator R. M. 

 Johnston, editor of the Houston Daily Post, go'ng two years later 

 to the Milwaukee Daily News as an editorial writer. 



In 1916 Mr. Matthews became identified with the rubber in- 

 dustry, joining the forces of The Mason Tire & Rubber Co., 

 Kent, Ohio, as purchasing agent. Since that time he has acted 

 in various capacities for this company, and in 1920 he was made 

 representative of the Mason company at Singapore, Straits Set- 

 tlements. His investigation of the crude rubl)er position included 

 the rubber districts of Sumatra, Ceylon, Java, Malaya and the 

 Straits Settlements. 



Mr. Matthews is a Republican, a member of the National 

 Union Assurance Society, Musicians' Union, and the .\merican 



James P. Matthews 



THIRTY-FIVE YEARS IN THE RUBBER TRADE 



RICHARD H. Geier, secretary of W. H. Salisbury & Co., Inc., 

 Chicago, Illinois, manufacturers and distributors of mechan- 

 ical rubber goods, etc., was born in Hamburg, Germany, 

 March 28, 1870. In 1871 he came 

 to Chicago, with his parents, and 

 was educated in the public schools 

 and a business college of that city. 



In 1886 he entered the employ 

 of W. H. Salisbury & Co., Inc.. 

 as an errand boy, and was succes- 

 sively advanced from the shipping 

 room to bill clerk, order clerk, 

 assistant buyer, buyer, manager of 

 the mechanical rubber goods de- 

 partment, and for the past seven 

 years has filled the position of 

 secretary. He is also a director 

 of the company. 



Mr. Geier's home is in Oak 

 Park, Illinois, and he is a member 

 of the Hardware Club of Chicago, 

 the Chicago Motor Club, and for 

 several years has been on the ways and means committee of the 

 Chicago Association of Commerce. 



Richard H. Geier 



THE RUBBER TRADE ON THE PACIFIC COAST 

 By Our Regular Correspondent 



SAN FRANCISCO 



A DECIDEDLY IMPROVED TONE to business is noted by dealers in 

 automobile tires in both the central and .southern sections of 

 California. Many car owners who had put off getting renewals 

 until Spring are now entering the market, and as a result stocks 

 are being noticeably lessened. Dealers talk in a much more 

 cheerful tone than a month ago, and they look for a real revival 

 soon. 



With R. L. Brown as president and general manager, the Cali- 

 fornia Rubber Co. has been incorporated in San Francisco to 

 manufacture a high-grade cord tire, inner tubes, hose, tubing, and 

 mechanical rubber goods. John R. Jones, an attorney, is secre- 

 tary, and Henry P. .\dams, for many years associated with the 

 San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, is treasurer and assistant 

 to the president. Offices are in the Oceanic Building, and a fac- 

 tory, it is reported, will be either built or bought in the very near 

 future. 



The San Francisco Tire Co., a subsidiary of the Keystone Tire 

 & Rubber Co., has been put in the care of I. Brenner, admin- 

 istrator of the Keystone stores in New York city, and the con- 

 cern has moved into larger quarters on Van Ness avenue near 

 Eddy street. 



The Pacific Rubber Co., distributer of Horseshoe tires, has, 

 in addition to its branches at Los Angeles and Oakland, estab- 

 lished one at Fresno to serve trade in central California. 



R. L. Block has been appointed branch manager of The Spreck- 

 els "Savage" Tire Co., San Diego, at San Francisco, succeeding 

 A. E. Kelley, promoted. 



C. W. Dennison has been appointed Pacific Coast manager of 

 The Mason Tire & Rubber Co., Kent, Ohio, with headquarters in 

 San Francisco. 



The Pioneer Rubber Mills, San Francisco, announces that it has 

 awarded a contract to Cahill & Vensano Co., 110 Sutter street, 

 for a new one-story plant at Pittsburg, California. The new 



