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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[July 1, 1912. 



NEW INCORPORATIONS. 



Canadi.xn C.'VTAR.'iCT RuBBER Co., Limited, May 17, 1912; under 

 the laws of Ontario ; authorized capital, $250,000. Incorporators : 

 Emanuel Julius Miner Block and Jacob Dilcher, both of Buffalo, 

 New York, and Lorenzo Clarke Raymond, Welland, Ontario. 

 To construct atid operate a complete rubber plant for the man- 

 ufacture of automobile tires, horseshoe pads, and all kinds of 

 tires, etc. 



Gotham Sporting Goods Co., May 27. 1912; under the laws of 

 New York; authorized capital, $10,000. Incorporators: Benja- 

 min Goodman, 354 Franklin street, Buffalo, New York; Henry 

 Ephraim, 57 Warren street, New York, and Ben Stacy, 526 West 

 One Hundred and Fifty-eighth street. New York. Location of 

 principal office. New York. To deal in sporting goods, tires, 

 rubber goods, etc. 



Tlie Hadfield Rubber Co., June 8, 1912; under the laws of 

 Ohio; authorized capital, $10,000. Incorporators: John, Hugh 

 R., and Maude M. Hadfield. Location of principal office, 

 Akron, Ohio. To buy, own or sell all articles, merchandise, 

 etc., of which rubber is a component. 



Hubmark Rubber Co., May 16, 1912; under tlie laws of Massa- 

 chusetts; authorized capital, $25,000. Incorporators: George H. 

 Mayo, 174 Congress street; William H. Mayo. 197 Congress 

 street, and Orvil W. Smith, 401 Sears Building— all of Boston. 

 Massachusett.s. To purchase, sell and deal in rubber goods and 

 footwear of all kinds. 



Liberty Rubber Co., May 22. 1912; under the laws of New 

 Jersey; authorized capital, $50,000. Incorporators: B. S. 

 Matnz, L. H. Gunther, and John R. Turner— all of 15 Exchange 

 Place, Jersey City, New Jersey. To manufacture, biy, sell, 

 compound and produce rubber tires, rubber cement and all 

 goods of which rubber is a component part. 



Manchester Rubber Co., May 24, 1912; under the laws of New 

 York; authorized capital, $10,000. Incorporators: Sam Honey- 

 man, 1115 Main street, Lynchburg, Virginia; Alfred Van Wag- 

 ner, Hollywood avenue. Far Rockaway, New York, and Samuel 

 Rosenberg, 225 Dumont avenue, Brooklyn, New York. Loca- 

 tion of principal office. New York. To manufacture rubber 

 clothing, etc. 



Mohawk Tire Co., June 13, 1912; under the laws of New 

 York; authorized capital, $6,000. Incorporators: Henry J. 

 Moses, Winifred G. and Clarence B. Rice— all of Syracuse, New 

 York. Location of principal office, Syracuse, New York. To 

 deal in automobile tires. 



Non-Destructible Tire Protector Co., June 7, 1912; under the 

 laws of New York; authorized capital, $25,000. Incorporators: 

 Martin Pelz, 849 V/illoughby avenue, Brooklyn, New York; 

 William Weiner and Herman Seufert— both of 202 Weirt^eld 

 street, Brooklyn. New York. Location of principal office, Brook- 

 lyn. New York. 



The Peerless Rubber and Tire Co., May 28, 1912; under the 

 laws of Ohio; authorized capital, $10,000. Incorporators: R. G. 

 Nieman, John T. Hickman, and Edward Umbstaettcr. Location 

 of principal office, Toledo, Ohio. To buy, sell, and deal in auto- 

 mobile tires and accessories, rubber goods, etc. 



Resilient Punctureless Tire Co., June 18, 1912; under the laws 

 of New York ; authorized capital, $200,000. Incorporators : Seth 

 H. Sheldon, 106 West Seventy-first street, New York, and 

 Flossie H. and Lerpy McCready— both of 62 West Ninety-third 

 street. New York. Location of principal office. New York. 



Resilio Tire Co., May 25, 1912; under the laws of New York; 

 authorized capital, $100,000. Incorporators: Edgar T. Wallace. 

 T. S. Williamson, and L. H. Starkey— all of 71 Broadway, New 

 York. Location of principal office. New York. To manufacture 

 automobile tires, etc. 



Robert Stock Auto Spring Wheel Co., May 28, 1912 ; under the 

 laws of New York; authorized capital, $300,000. Incorporators: 

 Robert Stock, Tuckahoe, New York ; Joseph F. Bokelmann, 

 Yonkers, New York, and .A.ugusta M. Stock, Tuckahoe, New 

 York. Location of principal office. New York. To manufacture 

 auto spring wheels, etc. 



PRODUCTION OF ASBESTOS IN THE UNIXED STATES. 



Asbestos is unique among minerals, in the fact that it has a 

 distinct fibrous structure with a high degree of flexibility and 

 tensile strength, and furthermore — a very important point — it 

 is non-combustible. The derriand is constantly increasing for 

 asbestos fabrics, insulating tapes, steam packings and friction 

 facing in automobile brakes. Workers in molten metal find as- 

 bestos leggings and shoe coverings exceedingly desirable. 



Only the higher grade of asbestos can properly be used for 

 steam packing ; the lower grades are used for making shingles, 

 slates and boards. 



The little booklet recently sent out by the Department of the 

 Interior, United States Geological Survey, gives an advance 

 chapter from "Mineral Resources of the United States for the 

 Calendar Year of 1910" on the production of asbestos. The 

 United States produced in 1910, 36,093 tons of asbestos, valued 

 at about $70,000, showing an increase of 20 per cent, in quan- 

 tity, and 9 per cent, in value over the preceding year. There 

 are four producing states, Georgia, Idaho, Vermont and 

 Wyoming; Vermont and Georgia leading and showing an in- 

 creased output of 23 per cent, over their production for 1909. 

 The asbestos produced in Vermont and Wyoming is the 

 chrysotile variety and is more valuable than tlie amphibole vari- 

 ety produced in the other two States. The asbestos production 

 of the United States, however, is only about 1/12 of that of 

 Canada. 



WHEN THE DAILIES TALK ON RUBBER. 



Not the most valuable but without doubt the most entertain- 

 ing information that can be secured regarding the rubber in- 

 dustry is to be found in the daily prints. A recent issue of a 

 highly reputable and influential daily, published in Maine, in 

 the course of a half-column article on rubber growing, makes 

 several interesting statements. 



Speaking of the necessity of finding some substitute for rub- 

 ber, it remarks that "the rubber plant of the tropics cannot be 

 tapped profitably before it is 25 years old — 50 years is better." 

 Imagine the speculative public investing its money in rubber 

 plantations with the prospect of getting returns in 50 years. 



Here is another interesting statement. "Millions of dollars 

 have been invested in rubber plantations in Mexico and other 

 tropical countries, but it must be years before any substantial 

 returns are had from these investments." This statement is 

 quite consistent with the first, but not particularly consistent 

 with the fact that English investors have in some cases re- 

 ceived as high as 400 and 500 per cent, from their plantation 

 properties in Ceylon and the Malay peninsula. 



And here is a third : "A French chemist by a secret process 

 has produced an article which has all the desired properties of 

 rubber and something more. The French automobile makers 

 are using tires (made of this secret substance) on their new 

 cars." If they are, they certainly are keeping very quiet about it. 



KATZENBACH tc BULLOCK CO. 



The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Katzenbach & 

 Bullock Co., Trenton, was held early in June, when the retiring 

 directors were re-elected and the directors in turn elected the 

 same officers to serve for the ensuing year as had served pre- 

 viously, namely, William Katzenbach, president ; Edward L. Bul- 

 lock, vice-president ; Frederick F. Katzenbach, secretary and 

 treasurer. The company report an increasing volume of business 

 and note particularly a growth in their trade with the rubber 

 manufacturers. 



