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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



99 



G. Brownell (publisher The Colorado Real Estate News) secre- 

 tary and treasurer. Premises have been leased at No. 1633 

 Blake street, Denver, for a factory for extracting rubber from 

 a plant said to grow wild in profusion over great areas in Colo- 

 rado and adjoining states. The company advise The India 

 Rubber World that they have nothing to say for publication 

 as yet, though local newspapers mention that samples of the 

 new rubber have been on exhibition. 



[A press despatch from Buena Vista, Colorado, of November 

 16. says: "The first carload of rubber weed for the Western 

 Rubber company of Denver was shipped this morning. Frank 

 Newitt, the local representative of the Denver concern, reports 

 that 28,000 pounds of rubber root were gathered here last week. 

 Mr. Newitt says that the supply of the weed immediately sur- 

 rounding Buena Vista could not be gathered by 1000 men in a 

 year's work. Buena Vista is most favorably located as a cen- 

 tral point from which to gather the rubber weed, the valley and 

 hills adjoining being literally covered with it."] 



=Stewart & Houlihan (New York), November 18, 1903, un- 

 der New York laws, to manufacture rubber and metal stamps; 

 capital, $20,000. Directors: G. T. Houlihan, M. A. Stewart, 

 and A. L. Houlihan, all of New York. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



Relative to a report that The B. F. Goodrich Co. would 

 engage in the making of hard rubber goods, President George 

 T. Perkins, of that company, is quoted by an Akron newspaper 

 as saying: " We use some hard rubber in the manufacture of 

 some of our specialties, but as for establishing a hard rubber 

 department, we have not thought of that. The hard and soft 

 rubber business are as separate as iron and rubber business. 

 We shall continue to buy what hard rubber we need." 



= In a letter to Morris & Co. (Yardville, New Jersey), in re- 

 gard to their spring bottom baskets, the Davol Rubber Co. 

 (Providence, R. I.) wrote recently: " We are using your Duck 

 Baskets for the moving of our product in different states of 

 completion, from one department to another, and find them 

 admirably suited to our purpose." 



= Mr. Alexander M. Paull, general manager of the Boston 

 Woven Hose and Rubber Co., lately has made a three weeks' 

 tour of the country, visiting the company's salesmen in all the 

 leading cities. Mr. E. H. Huxley, manager of the Chicago 

 branch, has returned to business after eight weeks' illness. 



= The "Alice" mill of the Woonsocket Rubber Co. (Woon- 

 socket, Rhode Island) is reported to have orders in hand for 

 several months ahead, and is being run full time with a full 

 force. 



=The Brass Department of the Boston Woven Hose and 

 Rubber Co. have put on the market a cast brass garden hose 

 coupling, packed one dozen in a paper box and one dozen 

 boxes in a wooden case. This is in response to a demand from 

 the jobbers who object to receiving couplings in bulky pack- 

 ages which must be counted over several times. The " Bull 

 Dog " coupling so called, is all the name implies forholding 

 and in neat packages it is doubly attractive. 



•cWork is fast nearing completion upon the new power plant 

 of the B. F. Sturtevant Co. at Hyde Park, Massachusetts. This 

 bids fair to be one of the most complete plants of its kind in 

 the country, special care having been taken in connection with 

 every detail to secure the highest efficiency and the most mod- 

 ern equipment. The plant will comprise four water tube boil- 

 ers, with stokers supplied by Sturtevant force draft, an econo- 

 mizer with Sturtevant induced draft, and a complete outfit of 

 Sturtevant generating sets, together with condenser, air com- 

 pressor, etc. The Sturtevant exhaust head is used for separat- 

 ing the water and oil from the exhaust steam. 



=The new rubber shoe factory of Terrence McCarty, at Bris- 

 tol, Rhode Island, began operation on November 16, with a 

 ticket of 500 pairs per day, which number it is hoped to in- 

 crease shortly. 



= The Grand Rapids Felt Boot Co. (Grand Rapids, Mich- 

 igan) have renewed for three years their contract with H. B. 

 Meyers, of E. S. Woodbury & Co. (Boston) to act as their New 

 England representative. 



=The Consolidated Rubber Tires Co.'s 4 per cent, bonds, 

 which had not been traded in for a long time, sold in New 

 York on November 27 at 10 — a gain of 3 points over the pre- 

 vious open sale. Several lots of bonds, amounting to $13,000, 

 are reported to have been quietly purchased on November 23 

 and 24, at 10. The stocks were favorably influenced by the ad- 

 vance in bonds, the bid and asked prices being quoted substan- 

 tially higher, though no trades were reported. 



= Shipments are already being made on fruitjar rings for 

 next season's trade. In one week this month two car loads left 

 the factory of the Boston Woven Hose and Rubber Co. When 

 it is considered that a car holds approximately 5,000,000 rings, 

 the question arises, what do people do with so many of them ? 



= The office of the general secretary- treasuier of the Amal- 

 gamated Rubber Workers' Union of America has been re- 

 moved from Boston to. No. 52 Conant street, Concord Junc- 

 tion, Massachusetts. 



=The State election in Rhode Island on November 3 re- 

 sulted in the reglection of Governor Garvin by a majority of 

 1587 over Colonel Samuel P. Colt, who had accepted the nomi- 

 nation of his party against his wish. Last year Governor Gar- 

 vin's majority over the Republican nominee was 7738. 



= Hammill & Gillespie, Nos. 240-242 Front street, New York, 

 have been appointed selling agents for The Stamford Rubber 

 Supply Co. (Stamford, Connecticut.) 



= Recent reports to the effect that suit had been filed by the 

 G & J Tire Co. (Indianapolis, Indiana) against the American 

 representatives of the manufacturers of the " Continental " and 

 Michelin tires, for infringement of their " Clincher " tire pa- 

 tents, appear to be unfounded. As already intimated in The 

 India Rubber World, there is a possibility that the two for- 

 eign firms, who are undertaking to establish an American trade, 

 may be licensed by the Rubber Goods Manufacturing Co. — who 

 control the G & J Tire Co. — to sell tires in this country in- 

 volving the clincher principle. 



= The common and preferred stocks of the American Bicycle 

 Co. have from the New York Stock Exchange list. The amount 

 of the outstanding shares is now very small, owing to the de- 

 posits made under the reorganization plan which resulted in 

 the transfer of the business to the Pope Manufacturing Co. 

 There has been no trading in these shares for some months. 



=The factory of the Easthampton Rubber Thread Co. (East- 

 hampton, Massachusetts) has been wired for electric lighting, 

 and the steam power will be increased sufficiently to operate a 

 dynamo. 



= The Hon. George W. Crouse, formerly heavily interested in 

 The B. F. Goodrich and Whitman & Barnes rubber companies, 

 has returned from a trip of several months abroad. One of 

 his first acts upon reaching Akron was to apply for a discharge 

 from bankruptcy in the United States district court in Cleve- 

 land. 



= Thesuitof Mattie Vanderhoof against the Diamond Rubber 

 Co. has been transferred to the United States circuit court for 

 the northern district of Ohio, at the request of the defendant. 

 Miss Vanderhoof is suing for damages alleged to have been sus- 

 tained by her in slipping on an icy platform in front of one of 

 the factory buildings. 



