August 1, 1920.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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recent ship-by-track run of 636 miles between Los Angeles and 

 Imperial Valley, in the demonstration of the value of motor 

 freighting under adverse conditions. 



A direct shipment of 600 tons of crude rubber valued at 

 $750,OtX), from the Goodyear plantation in Sumatra, arrived in 

 Los Angeles last month by the Los Angeles-Pacific Steamship 

 Co.'s freighter, the West Hika, and is the first to come to the 



Plantation Kubbhr C 



Arrives at Los Angeles. 



Icjcal Goodyear plant through the Los Angeles harbor. The il- 

 lustration sliows C. H. Kelly, W. J. Yarnell, Goodyear crude 

 rubber department, C. W. Case, traffic manager, and the first 

 sling of rubber to be unloaded. It is said that the Goodyear 

 plant will use 18.000 tons of rubber annually when running to 

 capacity. 



It is stated at the Goodyear works that, while 2,000 are now 

 employed, the company has applications from 7,000 for positions 

 in the new plant. Eastern rubber workers are accordingly ad- 

 vised to hold their jobs and not to migrate to Southern Cali- 

 fornia for a while at least. 



J. O. Ward, manager of ihe Los Angeles branch of the Miller 

 Rubber Co. of California, at 1233 S. Hope street, Los Angeles, 

 is making a trip through the East and will spend some time at 

 the Miller factory in Akron. ' 



The California ad Arizona sales of >lidco tires, manufac- 

 tured by the Mid-Continent Tire Co., of Wichita, Kansas, will 

 be handled by Bradford-Fuller, Inc., Figueroa and Eighth streets, 

 Los Angeles. 



SAN FRANCISCO NOTES. 



P). M. Schreckengost, general factory representative of the 

 Globe Rubber Co., of New York, who recently made an inspec- 

 tion tour on the Coast, reports that his business shows a healthy 

 increase. 



The Luthy Electric Storage Battery Co. has moved into its 

 new building on Geary street, near Larkin, San Francisco. J. P. 

 Schiller is in charge. 



The Federal Rubber Co. of Illinois, Cudahy, Wisconsin, is 

 erecting a new five-story warehouse and office building at Second 

 South Park and Taber Place, San Francisco, according to E. L. 

 Rettig, Pacific Coast manager for the Federal company. A 

 large stock of tires will be kept here for Coast and export 

 trade. The building, which will be completed this fall, will have 

 approximately 70,000 square feet of floor space, and will cost 

 about $12.1,000. One of its features will be a special track ex- 

 tending through the building which will greatly facilitate the 

 handling of incoming freight. 



Good headway with its new building plans is reported by the 

 Coast Tire & Rubber Co., of Oakland. A building is being 

 erected on East 12th street, between 48th and 50th avenues, and 

 machinery and genera) equipment have just arrived from the 



East. The conip^my has been having its cord and fabric tires 

 made in Akron, but after September 1 it expects to do all its own 

 manufacturing. 



The exclusive agency for Owen cord, fabric, and solid tires 

 for Northern California and Nevada has been acquired by the 

 Owen Pacific Tire & Rubber Co., of 135 Hyde street, San Fran- 

 cisco, for which Harry A. Parker is sales manager. 



George E. Machen and J. Dickson Smith have formed the 

 Machen-Smith Tire Co., 1240 Van Ness avenue, San Francisco, 

 specializing in half-sole tire work. 



L. M. Simpson, for two years manager of the clothing and 

 footwear department of the Los Angeles branch of the United 

 States Rubber Co., has been transferred to Sacramento, where 

 he will have entire charge of the U. S. R. Co.'s branch in that 

 city. Mr. Simpson is a graduate of the University of Illinois, 

 and very popular with his Los Angeles associates. 



The Kelly Tire Service Co. has moved its headquarters from 

 San Francisco to Stockton. 



SOUTHWESTERN NOTES. 



That success has followed the introduction of the bonus and 

 premium plan of compensating workmen is the report of the 

 Spreckels "Savage" Tire Corporation, San Diego. The system 

 provides a premium for workmen making a required number 

 of points contingent upon the work to be done, which must meet 

 a certain standard. On the other hand, a penalty is imposed 

 on workers for manifest carelessness. A decided improvement 

 in the quality and quantity of the output and a better morale 

 are said to be the outstanding results. 



As many as 25,000 toy balloons are being made daily by the 

 Pacific Balloon Co., of Riverside, a branch of the Howe-Bowman 

 Balloon Co., Newark, New Jersey. Chain stores are among 

 the largest buyers of the goods. Harold A. Dodge is the man- 

 ager of the factory. 



The entire town of Marinette, Arizona, fourteen miles north- 

 west of Phoenix, and 7,800 acres of adjacent land have been 

 bought by the Southwest Cotton Co., a subsidiary of the Good- 

 year Tire & Rubber Co. This territory now brings the total 

 amount of land owned by the company and to be used for 

 raising long staple cotton for tire fabrics up to 36,000 acres. 

 This does not include 20,000 acres that have also been leased 

 by the company for the same purpose, but which are held for 

 future needs. The company is planning to erect dwellings on 

 the newly-acquired land similar to those provided for the 2,000 

 employes who work on the company's plantations at Litch- 

 field and Goodyear in the Salt River Valley. 



Of the 30,000 acres planted to cotton in the San Joaquin Valley, 

 California, most of it has been devoted this year to the raising 

 of the Pima long-staple cotton needed for automobile tires. A 

 government crop expert reports the cotton there as further ad- 

 vanced than in any other part of the Southwest. In experimental 

 patches last year the Pima cotton in the valley averaged S20 

 pounds to the acre, but allowing SOO pounds to the acre for 1920 

 and with the cotton selling at $1.50 a pound, a return of $750 

 on each acre can be counted upon. The Mexican boll-weevil 

 has done considerable damage to short-staple cotton in Texas 

 and other Southern states, but so far the long-staple cotton crop 

 in the Southwest lias escaped injury. 



NORTHWESTERN NOTES. 



According to C. H. Boycr, western district manager for the 

 General Tire & Rubber Co.. of Akron, Spokane, Washington, 

 is being considered as a probable site for a Pacific Coast branch 

 factory. 



R. S. Dc Orell, formerly with the Hartford, Knight, and Lee 

 tire concerns, has been appointed superintendent of the Wash- 

 ington Tire & Rubber Co., which started in Spokane two years 

 ago. and is now turning out 75 Western States tires a day. 



