July 1, 1919] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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Mayor Higgins, of Brawley, in the Imperial Valley, in addi- 

 tion to his political and municipal duties, has accepted the 

 agency for Globe tires in that district, representing the Hawley 

 King Co., of Los Angeles. 



Manager Bershon, of the Bershon Tire Co., announces that 

 the Victor Rubber Co., of Springfield, Ohio, will shortly make 

 deliveries of their cord tires, and are starting shipments to the 

 coast. 



The Bell Rubber Co., of Los Angeles, has started retreading 

 solid tires with a new process, and reports remarkable success. 

 Charles Fleming, vice-president of the concern, says that at least 

 4S per cent of the cost of a new tire is saved by their method 

 and the guaranty given is the same as that on a new tire, the 

 retreaded product often running as high as 20,000 miles. George 

 T. Bell, president of the concern, has been in Akron, Ohio, 

 looking over the construction of a factory with a capacity for 

 turning out 100 reconstructed tires a day. 



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F. A. Seiberling, president of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber 

 Co., Akron, Ohio, who is also president of the Lincoln Highway 

 Association, will be present at the dedication ceremonies of 

 the completion of the 17-mile strip of highway in the desert 

 regions of Utah, which will take place July 20, 1919. The con- 

 struction was financed by the Goodyear company. 



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R. R. Colby, local manager of the Oldfield Tire Co., has 

 received a letter from Mr. Oldfield, stating that he has already 

 closed enough contracts to give the concern $4,000,000 worth of 

 business this year, and that with contracts yet to come they 

 may run over $10,000,000. 



William T. Brooks, of Mesa, Arizona, dealer in "Horseshoe" 

 tires for that territory, has been in Los Angeles, the guest of 

 Roy R. Meads, president and general manager of the Pacific 

 Rubber Co., distributor for California and Arizona. Mr. Brooks 

 spent thirteen months in oversea service, and participated in 

 the battles of Chateau-Thierry, St. Mihiel and the Argonne, 

 assisting in the operation of observation balloons. 



F. C. Millhofif, general sales manager of The Miller Rubber 

 Co., of Akron, Ohio, was a recent visitor in Los Angeles. He 

 predicted a larger demand for tires this year, due to the 

 increase in automobiling. His company is making heavy duty 

 tire equipment for motor trucks, and most of the testing of 

 these tires is done in California, where many of the stage lines 

 are equipped with them. Among them are the EI Dorado stage 

 line, the delivery trucks of the Bradford Baking Co., the White 

 Bus Line, running from Los Angeles to San Bernardino and 

 intermediate points, and also the Big Bear Mountain stage. 



F. V. Springer, vice-president of the Hewitt Rubber Co., and 

 Charles W. Harris, president of the Hewitt Rubber Co. of 

 California, have been in Los Angeles conferring with J. B. 

 Wood, distributor of Hewitt tires for this territory. 



The Western Wheel Co., on Los Angeles street, has been 

 chosen distributor of Firestone truck tires as well as Firestone 

 rims. This company, which was formerly the Phineas Jones 

 Co., is one of the best-equipped wheel-manufacturing plants in 

 the entire West. 



The B. F. Wade Tire & Rubber Co., which has taken over 

 the distribution of the Knight and the Blackstone fabric tires 

 for Southern California, will henceforth concentrate e.xclusively 

 on the wholesaling of these lines. The Los Angeles retail busi- 

 ness of the company has been purchased by Howard S. Reed, 

 who will continue to conduct it at 512 West Eighth street. Mr. 

 Reed was formerly in the tire business in San Bernardino, giving 

 up his business to enlist in the Navy, where he won a commis- 

 sion as ensign during the war. Fred C. Schweitzer, sales man- 

 ager, has just returned from seventeen months' service overseas. 



William H. Yule. 



Hugo Hofistaedter, general manager of the Polack Tire & 

 Rubber Co., which is distributed in CaUfornia and Arizona by 

 the Pacific Rubber Co., was a recent visitor in Los Angeles, 

 calling on distributors and dealers in the district. 

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 William H. Yule, until recently manager of mechanical sales 

 for The B. F. Goodrich Rubber Co., 

 Akron, Ohio, has resigned and will leave 

 the rubber industry to take charge of 

 an orange and fruit ranch which he 

 has lately purchased near Santa Bar- 

 bara, California. Mr. Yule has been 

 with the Goodrich company since 1908. 

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The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., 

 104 North 14th street, Portland, Oregon, 

 is building a second story addition to 

 its present building, giving 10,000 

 square feet of additional ffoor space, the 

 building being SO by 200 feet. This is 

 a branch of The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio, and 

 has no connection with the Goodyear Rubber Co., 67 Fourth 

 street, Portland, Oregon, with which, through the similarity in 

 names, it is sometimes confused. 



The Western Rubber Co., 521 West 8th street, Los Angeles, 

 California, manufacturer of tires and tubes, has changed its 

 name to the Bradstreet Rubber Co. 



E. H. Trader, sales manager of The American Rubber & Tire 

 Co., Akron, Ohio, has left on a trip through the West, intend- 

 ing to spend the greater part of the summer with the distributers 

 of American-Akron products in Los Angeles, San Francisco, 

 and Seattle. On his way out he will stop in Denver and will 

 return by way of Canada. 



The New Jersey Zinc Co., New York City, has established 

 warehouses in San Francisco and Los Angeles, and will hereafter 

 distribute its zinc oxide, lithopone, and other products to the 

 Pacific Coast trade from these centers. 



THE SOUTHWEST COTTON INDUSTRY 



That Southern California is destined to be the outlet for the 

 rapidly growing cotton industry of Arizona and the Imperial 

 Valley is evident from the significant business developments in 

 that direction. A $100,000 cotton-buying company, with its full 

 capitalization paid up, has been incorporated in Los Angeles, 

 having connections with most of the important cotton buyers 

 in the South and East. K. M. Turner, of New York, is presi- 

 dent ; H. M. Eraser, of New York, and Richard A. Fanto, of 

 San Francisco, are vice-presidents ; J. Robinson, of New York, 

 is treasurer, and G. C. Dennis, a Los Angeles attorney, is sec- 

 retary. The new firm is known as Turner, Kuhn, Frazer, Inc. 

 According to Mr. Dennis, the company has already made 

 market connections with all the big cotton-buying centers of the 

 world, and plans to make Los Angeles the concentration point 

 for all the cotton shipping in the Southwest, its idea being that 

 baled cotton should go to eastern and foreign markets by boat 

 from Los Angeles harbor, after being transported here by rail. 



A new cotton compress is to be erected at Los Angeles harbor 

 and has been authorized by the city council, the Harbor Com- 

 mission being instructed to enter into a contract for the installa- 

 tion of the plant at a cost not to exceed $80,000. It will be 



