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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[October i, 1907. 



tire trade, has been appointed manager of the New York branch 

 of The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. (Akron, Ohio), to suc- 

 ceed K. B. Harwood, resigned. 



E. H. Broadvvell, for a considerable time manager of the 

 Detroit branch of The Fisk Rubber Co., has been called to 

 Chicopee Falls to become general sales manager of the company. 

 Morgan & Wright (Detroit, Michigan) have established a 

 branch at Los Angeles, at Nos. 1 18-122 East Tenth street, for the 

 accommodation of their tire customers in southern California. 

 Morgan & Wright have established a branch in Philadelphia, at 

 Thirteenth and Cherry streets, with Harvey H. Colbath manager. 

 Robert J. Firestone, sales manager of the Firestone Tire and 

 Rubber Co. (Akron, Ohio), is absent on a business tour of 

 Mexico and the Pacific coast states. The company will establish 

 a branch in Mexico city. 



John D. Hodgkins, for several years manager of the St. Louis 

 branch of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. (Akron, Ohio), 

 will hereafter represent that company at Atlanta, Georgia, being 

 succeeded at St. Louis by O. O. Petty. 



The Diamond Rubber Co. (Akron, Ohio) have opened a branch 

 at Los Angeles, California, at Nos. 1207-1209 Main street, in 

 charge of F. O. Nelson, who has equipped it with a full stock 

 of tires. 



The Todd Rubber Co. (New Haven, Connecticut), of which 

 E. J. Todd is president, are doing an active business in the sale 

 of solid tires. They received, not long since, at one shipment, 

 66 500- foot reels of rubber tire stock from the Consolidated 

 Rubber Tire Co. (New York), whom they represent in New 

 Haven. 



The Michelin Tire Co. have appointed as manager of their 

 Boston branch Mr. Laurence H. Fiske, who for three years past 

 has been local manager of the International Rubber Co. J. Wil- 

 bur Hobbs, lately with The Diamond Rubber Co., has been ap- 

 pointed manager of the Michelin 'New York office. 



E. E. ^IcMaster, an experienced tire salesman, has been ap- 

 pointed western manager of the Continental Caoi'tchouc Co. 

 (New York), with headquarters at Detroit. 



The Gaulois Tire Co., No. 1739 Broadway, New York, are sole 

 American representatives of the "Gaulois" tire, made by Ber- 

 gougnan & Cie.. of Clemont-Ferrand, France. 



The Palmer Cord motor tires are being made in sizes up to 

 six inches. 



The "Continental" tire agency for the Federated Malay States 

 has been placed with the Federated Engineering Co., at Kuala 

 Lumpur. The "Persan" tires, made by the India Rubber, Gutta 

 Percha, and Telegraph Works Co., Limited, are sold there by 

 Zacharias & Co. 



RUBBER PLANTERS OF MEXICO. 



A CALL has been issued for a meeting of rubber planters in 

 Mexico, whether private individuals or representatives of 

 corporations, to be held on October 9-10, in the club room of the 

 Mexican Herald building, in the city of Mexico. The circular 

 of invitation says : 



"Our rubber planting industry is now reaching the stage when 

 the first large results are being obtained, and it will save the 

 individual planters considerable time and expense if results are 

 compared and new and modern methods adopted in the collection 

 of the raw material as well as in preparation of the final prod- 

 uct. - - - The rubber planters of Mexico should learn the best 

 methods of marketing their product, so as to obtain the best 

 possible results. The experimental era of rubber planting is now 

 drawing to its end." 



The invitation committee consists of Dr. Pehr Olsson-Seffer, 

 of La Zacualpa botanical station; Paul Hudson, of the Mexican 

 Herald; W. B. Murray, of the Mexican Investor; and Ignacio 

 Carranza, of El Heraldo Agricola. 



The program of subjects to be discussed includes "The 

 Necessity of Regulating Rubber Collecting by Federal Legisla- 

 tion" and "Mexico at the First International Rubber E.xhibition 

 to be Held in London, Autumn, 1908." Papers are announced on 

 "The Present Condition of Rubber Culture" and "Preparation 

 of Crude Rubber," by Dr. Olsson-Seffer; "Cacao as an Adjunct 

 to Rubber Culture," by Mr. James C. Harvey; and "The Rubber 

 Planter and the Labor Supply," by Senor Carranza. There will 

 be a planters' dinner on the evening of October 9, and an election 

 of officers at the close of the convention, on October 10. 



This will be the second attempt to bring about concerted action 

 among the rubber planters of Mexico. In 1903 the preliminary 

 steps were taken for the organization of the United Planters' 

 Association of Mexico. By-laws were prepared by a committee 

 and printed, and a tentative organization formed, but practically 

 all that was done was to celebrate the Fourth of July and the 

 Mexican Independence Day, which is September 16, by giving 

 banquets. [See The Indi.\ Rubber World. September i, 1907.] 



TO REGULATE COTTON PRICES. 



"Springfield" DET.^CHABLE Tire Toou 



fDcsigncd for use in connection with pry blades furnished by the tire 

 makers to remove clincher tires from rims. Some tools used to loosen tires. 

 which have become attached to the rims, lead to their serious injury. The 

 parts of the "Springfield" tool that come in contact with the tire conform 

 to its shape, and tluis do not injure it. The Shawver Co., Springfield, Ohio.] 



'T~'HERE is a movement on foot among the cotton producers 

 *■ in the United States to form an organization for the pur- 

 pose of fixing a minimum price for cotton. On September 5 the 

 executive committee of the Southern Cotton Association, at their 

 annual fall meeting at Jackson, Mississippi, voted to recommend 

 that the growers demand 15 cents for cotton, middling basis, at 

 interior points. The Farmers' Union, in national convention at 

 Little Rock, Arkansas, on September 3, voted unanimously for a 

 minitnum price of 15 cents per pound for the crop of 1907. This 

 movement seems to have been encouraged by the evident greater 

 willingness of southern bankers to advance money on cotton in 

 storage than ever before. The Cotton Journal says that it is 

 now an easy matter to store a 500 pound bale of cotton in a 

 warehouse and borrow on it $50 from a local bank, at from 6 to 

 8 per cent, per year. Counting storage, insurance, and interest 

 on a bale of cotton, if held on an average of six months, this 

 means an expense of less than i cent a pound. But hy holding 

 and selling slowly a gain is hoped for of 3 or 4 cents a pound 

 over the prices likely to be realized if the crop should be rushed 



on the market in large quantities, during the next three months. 

 * * * 



The semi-annual meeting of the National .Association of Cot- 

 ton Manufacturers will be held at Washington, D. C, on October 

 3-4, on the last of which days the European delegates to the 

 cotton conference at Atlanta, mentioned on another page of this 

 paper, will be present. The program embraces a number of topics 

 of interest to cotton manufacturers, while some will appeal no 

 less to planting interests. 



