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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[September 1, 1920. 



Dr. Wayland A. Morrison has been chosen as consulting sur- 

 geon for The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., of California, Los 

 Angeles, and will assist Dr. Louis D. Chaney, chief of the stafi o£ 

 the hospital which the company maintains in its factory. 



The Holland-American steamship line will begin regular sail- 

 ings this Fall via the Panama Canal between Los Angeles harbor 

 and Boulogne, Rotterdam, and Plymouth. The trip from Los 

 Angeles to the first port of call in Europe, Plymouth, will take 

 thirty-five days. Ample accommodations, it is said, will be pro- 

 vided for freight and passengers. 



J. Elden Shaw has been appointed Pacific Coast manager for 

 the Standard Four Tire Co., Keokuk, Iowa, with headquarters at 

 the Los Angeles branch, of which he will also have charge. Mr. 

 Shaw was formerly sales manager of The Savage Tire Sales 

 Co., San Diego, California. 



Owing to the demand for Grow tires in the West and the rail- 

 road situation, the George Grow Tire Co. of Boston will erect 

 another factory at Los Angeles, California. Four representatives 

 of the firm are now on the Pacific Coast, prepared to negotiate 

 for a site Tor the new plant. 



SAN FRANCISCO NOTES. 



C. E. Cook, head of the mechanical goods sales department of 

 The B. F. Goodrich Co., .\kron Ohio, has been a guest of W. T. 

 Powell, San Francisco district manager. Mr. Cook opened and 

 conducted the San Francisco branch until he was called to a 

 higher position in Akron. 



The Eastern Manufacturers' Co., 312 Clay street, San Fran- 

 cisco, has been appointed Pacific Coast distributers of the Parco 

 inner tires made by the Pan-American Rubber Co., Milwaukee, 

 Wisconsin. 



The Kern County Cotton Growers' Association, the first to be 

 formed in central California, was organized August 8, at a meet- 

 ing of cotton growers in Bakersfield, in which the office will 

 be located. Picking prices at 2^ cents a pound for the short 

 and 4y2 cents for the long-staple cotton were decided upon. 

 Kern county has 10,000 acres planted to cotton, this being the 

 second season; and about 15,000 acres are planted to cotton in 

 other San Joaquin Valley counties. 



Jesse J. Hawkins has resigned his position as manager of the 

 ■ rubber footwear department of the San Francisco branch of the 

 United States Rubber Co. to take charge of the rubber footwear 

 department of the wholesale house of Cahn, Nickelsburg & Co., 

 San Francisco. He was transferred to San Francisco two years 

 ago to take charge of the C. R. Winslow branch of the United 

 States Rubber Co., which was recently consolidated with the 

 San Francisco branch. 



SOUTHWESTEHN NOTES. 



Fully 15,000 acres of long-staple cotton, largely contracted for 

 long in advance by makers of rubber tires, are under cultivation 

 in Imperial Valley, California, and the crop prospects are excel- 

 lent. The entire valley lies wholly below sea level and is irrigated 

 by a canal from the Colorado river. The valley cities of Calexico, 

 Brawley, and El Centre have experienced a remarkable boom, as 

 evidenced by the census returns showing growths of 681, 512 and 

 239 per cent., respectively, in the past ten years. The prospects 

 are for a greatly increased acreage in cotton next year, with 

 prices well sustained. 



Ground has been broken at Downey, California, by the West 

 Coast Asbestos Co., a subsidiary of the E. M. Smith Co., Los 

 Angeles, for a factory in which will be made a large variety 

 of rubber-asbestos articles. On the tract of nine acres bought 

 by the company a first mill unit will be erected, measuring 100 

 by 400 feet, half of which will be two stories high. This build- 

 ing, with machinery for crushing, spinning and weaving as- 

 bestos for brake linings, clutch facings, packing, etc., will mean 

 an expenditure of $250,000, it is stated. Heavy oil and fire 



hose will be a specialty of the new concern, which will employ 

 150 men at the start. 



A project for developing eighty sections in the Pecos Valley, 

 Texas, for sulphur is being launched by a Los Angeles concern 

 known as the Consolidated Sulphur Co., of which E. Earner, of 

 Pecos, Texas, is the local representative. It is claimed that large 

 deposits of sulphur, rivalling in extent those in Louisiana, exist 

 in the Pecos Valley and that mining can be carried on at a 

 small cost. 



The Coahuila Rubber Co., a Detroit concern, has an experi- 

 ment station, near San Jacinto in Southern California, devoted 

 to raising guayule. The guayule plants are about half matured 

 and, it is said, quite as satisfactorily as any similar growths 

 below the Mexican border. The resident manager is J. G. Evans. 



The United States Rubber Co., New York City, has pro- 

 moted G. W. Manchester, formerly branch manager at Kansas 

 City, to the position of district manager at Dallas, Texas, suc- 

 ceeding W. F. Gordon, resigned. 



NORTHWESTERN NOTES. 

 James E. Haab, formerly factory representative of The Rubber 

 Products Co., Barberton, Ohio, has been promoted, in charge of 

 sales in the northwest district. 



The Puritan Rubber Co., Inc., 16-17 Wilson Building, Yakima, 

 Washington, has begun the construction of a $500,000 tire and 

 rubber factory to manufacture "Pathfinder" tires and tubes, 

 and mechanical rubber goods. The officers are : F. C. Plouf, 

 president and treasurer; L. W. Hobson, vice-president; and 

 O. P. McElmeel, secretary. 



The Occidental Rubber Co., Everett, Washington, has finally 

 started its tire factory, after much delay due to slow deliveries 

 of machinery; and it e.xpects within a few weeks to be running 

 well into quantity production. 



The Western Diatomite Co., Lumber Exchange building, Port- 

 land, Oregon, of which J. W. Ganong is president, is having a 

 warehouse built at its mines at Terrebonne to hold 20,000 sacks 

 or 30 carloads of the white siliceous mineral powder which it 

 sells in large quantities to manufacturers of insulation material. 

 From another large mine at Harper, also in Oregon, a con- 

 siderable and increasing amount qf diatomaceous earth is sup- 

 plied to many rubber mills. 



THE TIRE IN-SOLE. 



The "Mile Multiplier" is the name bestowed upon the new tire 

 in-sole, a heavy, crescent-shaped, endless cushion of tough re- 

 silient rubber, with breaker strip on its outer surface, which is 

 said to neutralize the conflicting forces that work destruction on 

 a tire. It is made thick on the center and graduated down to a 

 feather edge. No special preparation is required for its use — it is 

 inserted between the casing and inner tube. It is covered by a 

 guarantee against punctures, and prevents blow outs. It is 

 claimed to outlast the life of several tires. (Tire In-Sole Manu- 

 facturing Co., Findlay, Ohio.) 



THE "VULPA" TUBE AND PATCH. 



"Vulpa" is the name given to the extra heavy red inner 

 tubes manufactured by a New York firm, and likewise to 

 its self-vulcanizing patch for inner tubes. This patch is 

 applied to the repair in the usual way, and it is claimed that 

 vulcanization takes place through the frictional heat of the 

 running car. It is also claimed that the Vulpa patch will 

 repair a cut of any size in a tube, and can likewise be used 

 as emergency repair for blow-outs and cuts in casings, as 

 well as for other rubber articles. (W. E. Spencer Co., 1 

 Park Place, New York City.) 



