Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-02-17
Rubber Factories in Ohio City
Turn Out More Than
10000 Tires Daily.

general run uf people without per
.rou''iN. are Just Jacks OF. any
.tadDF ma stcrn ot none. ppndefunE,
prosperous of good longevity but
that IL about ali that can ho said Of
thrW II thuN were not duins this.
thoy would bee doiug that and dolns
% equally wutf.. equally without dis
uuruon Then there are places
uNe people. hrFottcn by deHuny 10
600 perhaps the most unlikely things
aud embossed win o genius Tor the
doing neyt' t0-ho- explained only
to he wondered at and utilized such
IN city is Akron ohio, says Edwin
IlIalmor. In Culliert Df all Ameri'
cbn cities OF an cities ~ the world
u probably most nearly approx
mates cOutro, OF the manufaoture
and distribution of one great staple
product For of alt the rubber goods
made ~ this country Akron claims
4 the mnnufacture Of more than half
two thirds. some say. and this "
, more than one third of all the rub
her made in the world. No steel
city. no cotton center. no packing
city. no grain or ore or tobacco, or
SUGAR city has tho proportion ~ pre-
dominance IN q particular Industry
posseRsed by the chief rnbber city
OF tho world-n community Of 1907
OOO people on the seven hills about
5s miles south OF LAke Erie On the
old ohio canal.
II Ia more remarkable when one
observes ihat OF the advantages
J known ~ natural" Akron hos none
10 explain its possession of this IN
duptry. Even tho old ohio canal.
which ! had To name ae ths nearest
10 "A natural feature for the locating
of Akron. Is half filled up nov and
entirely dlnsed. No one could have
! prsdicated Akron. IL Ia situated 40
absolutely without regard 10 its
, source of supply of raw material
that anyone who. fifty years ago.
had insisted that here MUS, be the
rubber city OF the world. would have
been locked up. The fAttnesses oi
the upper Amazon. the forests of
Nolivia Nenruuela, Peru ths
. mngles Of the Congo Basin; this
plantations Of Ceylon, Runiatra
: Borneo--sli these. the souruss o'
y caoutchouc. are 40 remote from An
!, roo that, 20 all practical purposes
= they Are equally arcessible TO mos
: other points In America But o.
!, the average one out OF Three OF ths
: rubber gatherers ~ the world
: whether the naked serlnguolro ot
Brazil. the Malay or the Congo
black draws the latex OF the rub
D., bcr trees for the factories or one
=, small city OF ohio.
More than two-thirdH of all the
rubber business In Akron L. IN tires
day IN and day out thru the year m
average Of $4,000 tires = day ar,
made la Akron There are almost
two chances IN three that your tires
: bear the name Of AN Akron factory
:. GO 20 Akron and open the talephon'
!, book 10 find the number OF any ol
= the big tire companies and YOU vii
" see. under the general switohboaTt
number for daytime use. another
. list Of special numbers deslEnatet
! ALSO the following for Surtnys
n nights, and holidays" For they arr
, running three eisht-hOur shifts, ~
e hours u day, turning out tires thea'
. shifts do not run oil thru sundays
they only lay over n little on IN
"a edges Of that day---but they run
about ali the rest of tho time An'
n everyone Just has built. IL building
:. or laying out new additions for mex
4 year.
.eI one company which this yea
n manufactured az the pack of lts out
'r put 81. 900 tires "A day plans To b
% running daily, 10y next June, $1,000
o' - day For the past siN months -
" this writing. the business Of TN
o company has exceeded so 600, Oet
4 monthly that means more that
100000 000 for the year II has In
cfousod sixty times over In ten year
No business In 1917 being slighu