Arizona republican., 1920-07-04
NEW FACTORY OF
 GOODYEAR AT |. A. MAKING HISTORY

l After BPS days in the making, the new S2O00O, ,O0O, factory of the Good | year Tire & Rubber Company of Cali | fornia, which occupies part of the | former Ascot Park tract at Los Ange. | les, has started manufacture of tires and is gradually approaching it's al- 1 Iotted capacity production
 In less than eleven months the larg l est single industrial plant of the west | has been erected, equipped with ma chinery and put into actual production under the direction of master minds skilled in every step connected with | planning, financing. building and equipping a plant of this magnitude. l From a cabbage patch has risen the | largest tire manufacturing plant west of Ohio.
 A group of about thirty Goodyear 1 executives and officials watched vice president and general manager, A. F. Osterloh of the California company and Factory Manager P. w Litchfield of the Akron company. start the first plies of fabric of the initial tire. After i passing through the various construc- 1 tion stages the tire was put into steam vulcanizer and ninety minutes later taken, steaming from the mould.
 Ordinarily the production of but one tire would represent little but the out lay of a few dollars, but this first western Goodyear tire is but the pre- cursor of millions to follow and marks l a new industrial era in the west. It is a mile post in the onward march e one of the young pioneers of western industry.
 All of the Goodyear factories throughout the country joined Los An geles in celebrating the advent of this first tire. The big plants at Akron, Ohio. Goodyear, Conn.,, Toronto, Cam ada, and the cotton plantation at Phoe- ! nix Ar-iz no axx-if h eight stentorian blasts of the whistle. one for the first California tire and seven for each thousand of daily pro duction of tires to follow.
 The Los Angeles plant opens actual production with about 2000 employees which will be increased to 5000 as the factory gets into full swing, with 7500 in the tire plant and 150O in the cot ton fabric mill.
 As announced some time ago. the crude rubber for the western factory comes from the company's extensive crude rubber plantations in Sumatra and the cotton fabric from long staple cotton grown in the Salt River Valley of Arizona and the Imperial Valley oi southern California.
 Due to railroad delays all of the equipment for making cord tires has not yet been installed, but it is ex- pected that Goodyear will turn out th'
 first set of cord tires early in July
 Douglas Fairbanks, famous screen star 1 has purchased the first set of ma
 tive son" cord tires which will be de livered to his home by the Goodyea Pony Blimp upon the actors return
 with his bride from their honeymoon
 in Europe.
 A feature that distinguishes thi
 new western project from others is it
 aviation field. For this purpose S2
 acres have been set aside as the com
 pany proposes to give attention to tn
 subject of aviation. Another featur
 is the 160 acre housing communit
 containing 500 houses to be sold t
 employees on easy payments. Compan
 officials have expressed the belief tha e-owning citizens are good citizen and dependable workers. They assel that even if there were no preser shortage of houses the company woul build home for it's workers anyway, make their possession easy. The new factory will supply tire