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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



The Samson concern is said to be the pioneer on the 

 Pacific Coast in the making of full-modeled, modern con- 

 structed, supersized cord tires, facilities having been pro- 

 vided for turning out all sizes up to 38 by 5; and all in addi- 

 tion to a wide variety of standard tires. 



SAN FRANCISCO NOTES. 



J. W. Thomas, vice-president of the Firestone Tire & Rubber 

 Co., and three of the factory engineers, J. C. Tuttle, A. A. 

 Warner and L. G. Greenwald, have just completed a prolonged 

 survey of the automobile industry on the Pacific Coast, wiih 

 especial reference to road and traffic conditions affecting tire 

 products, solid and pneumatic. Incidentally Mr. Thomas has 

 been giving inspiring talks to Firestone tire distributers at 

 luncheon-conferences in several coast cities. 



H. P. Lawson has been appointed assistant district manager 

 for the San Francisco branch of the W'illard Storage Battery 

 Company. Mr. Lawson, who has been with the Willard concern 

 four years, is well-known and popular among the trade. 



L. E. Crittenden has bought a half interest in the Tire Sales 

 Company formerly owned solely by Johanna Pulver and D. P. 

 Miles. 



NORTHWESTEKN NOTES. 



With the first cargo of rubber brought to the northwe^f port 

 since the Pacific Steamship Company established its service be- 

 tween Seattle and Singapore a few months ago, the Admiral line 

 freighter M'cst Hartland arrived at Seattle June 10. Since 1918, 

 the record year in Seattle's import and export trade, most of 

 the rubber from Singapore has moved through Gulf and Atlantic 

 ports. 



W. D. Albright, of Seattle, northwestern distributer for The 

 B. F. Goodrich Rubber Co., has broken all records in tire ship- 

 ments to the Pacific Coast. He induced his company to send a 

 trainload of tires on May 29 from the Akron factory to reHeve 

 a pronounced shortage in the Northwest, which is felt by all 

 dealers. 



The Michelin Tire Co. has leased a two-story building at 41 

 Front street, Portland, Oregon, from which C. L. Normyle, 

 branch manager, will supervise Michelin sales all over the North- 

 west through sub-branches at Seattle, Spokane, Butte, Great 

 Falls and Boise. 



The Emery Retread Co. will erect a three-story modern tire 

 service building at 1115 East Pike street, Seattle. 



John A. Leatherman, J. M. Albert, and R. W. Huntoon, of 

 Seattle, have incorporated the Leatherman Tire & Rubber Co. 

 with $2,000,000 as authorized capital. 



The first unit of the new factory of the Occident Rubber Co., 

 Kirkland, Washington, has been completed and $20,000 worth of 

 up-to-date machinery has been installed. Work has also been 

 started on a second building, the two to cost $150,000. While the 

 company will for a while continue to make a general line of rubber 

 goods, it is also planning to turn out automobile tires later in 

 the year. 



SOUTHWESTERN NOTES. 



What is practically an addition to the cotton acreage of Arizona 

 is the new plantation being developed just across the Mexican 

 border, where Harry Mount, president of the El Tigre Oil Co., 

 Tampico, Mexico, and Arturo de la Torre, Mexico City, have 

 taken title to several thousand acres of land in Sonora on the 

 eastern bank of the Colorado river and extending from Arizona 

 to the Gulf of California. The sale was made by the heirs of 

 the Andrade estate who live in Los Angeles. Long-staple cotton 

 will be planted at once and experts say the section is ideally 

 suited for such a crop. 



Owing to scarcity of labor in Imperial Valley, some cotton 

 growers are paying as much as $1 an hour to Hindu cotton- 

 choppers. 



The Spreckels "Savage' Tire Co., San Diego, has for a second 



year been granted the exclusive concession for the sale of tires 

 and tubes in Yosemite National Park. 



Through its purchase from Miller & Lux of the Boltonwillow 

 100,000-acre ranch thirty miles west of Bakersfield, the Goodyear 

 Tire & Rubber Co. will become, it is said, the largest cotton- 

 raising concern in the world. The big California tract, like the 

 others owned by the Goodyear concern in Arizona, will be 

 planted to Pima long-staple cotton needed for tire fabric. 



According to F. W. Grififeth, vice-president of the Garlock 

 Packing Co., Palmyra, New York, his company is considering 

 the building of a western factory in Los Angeles. 



THE TOWN OF LITCHFIELE. 



Military triumphs in the olden days resulted in naming cities 

 after great leaders, as Rome after Romulus, Constantinople in 

 honor of Constantine, and so on. To-day industrial leaders 

 receive a like honor. Thus Paul W. Litchfield, one of the most 



(Vniversal Film Manufacturing Co.) 



The Town of Litchfield, Arizona. 



brilliant and successful of the latter-day rubber superintendents, 

 has his name attached to a thriving town in Arizona where the 

 Southwestern Cotton Co. has its headquarters. It is an honor 

 well deserved and will bring good fortune to the community. 



THE "TRUFLITE" TENNIS BALL. 



One of the new tennis balls is made with a four-piece center 

 with rubber plug, in such a way, it is claimed, that there is no 

 opportunity for leakage or deflation. The special feature of this 

 liall is the felt cover which is applied by a special process so as 

 to be stitchless and seamless. The "Truflite" tennis ball was ap- 

 proved by the United States Na- 

 ^ tional Lawn Tennis Association 

 in February of this year. (The 

 Seamless Rubber Company, Inc., 

 New Haven, Connecticut.) 



(Patent applied for.) 



"Essex" Heel Rest. 



ACCELERATOR HEEL REST. 



\ heel rest for use by automo- 

 bile drivers provides deep curved 

 iccesses of rubber for the heel 

 ,_; to brace against, so that the pres- 

 sure on the heel is not at the 

 extreme end but is flung forward 

 where it naturally would come when walking. The curve pre- 

 vents the heel from slipping sideways and ofifers real support. 

 The "Essex" heel rest comes packed ten in a carton. A patent 

 on this device has been applied for. (Essex Rubber Company, 

 Trenton, New Jersey.) 



PROTECTIVE RUBBER BLANKET FOR ELECTRIC LINEMEN. 



A blanket intended for use by electric linemen in repairing 

 cross-country high-voltage lines is composed of special character 

 duck coated on both sides with a rubber compound to resist high 

 voltage. The edge is beaded on all four sides to strengthen it 

 and prevent tearing, and the material is extremely pliable. The 

 blanket measures 35^ inches square and weighs from Sy2 to 6 

 pounds. (W. H. Sahsbury & Co., Inc., 308-310 West Madison 

 street, Chicago, Illinois.) 



