Arizona republican., 1921-07-17
GOODYEAR CHIEFS
 LEAVE FOR AKRON

LOS ANGELES. July 16.-(SpeciaD Four officials of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company of California left Los Angeles for Akron, Ohio. to confer with President E. G. Wilmer and other officials of the parent com pany on he matter of further in creases in production schedules that are necessary in order to meet the increased demand for Goodyear tires which the western factory is experi- encing.
 The party consisted of Vice Presi- dent and General Manager A. F. Os- terloh, Sales Manager J. R. Reilly. Treasurer w. A. M. Vaughan and c. Slusser. factory superintendent. On the eve of their departure Vice Pres l ident A. F. Osterloh gave out the fol- | lowing facts concerning present busi- ness of the western company, which has increased steadily since early l spring.
 Indications as early as last March indicated that the barrier which has
 been holding back tire sales was
 about to break. At that time our Los | Angeles factory was producing but | 735 automobile tires per day. "Step by step, however. production was gradually increased until. begin | ming July 1. our schedules call for l $500 tires and 3700 tubes daily.-or
 an increase of AIS per cent since last March.
 i Tn March the rubber and textile
 mills were employing only 4e5 people,
 while today more than 1250 people are required to handle the present schedules of production. In June, 1920. the Goodyear Tire and Rubber
 company of California sold to dealers
 here in this western territory a total of 32,654 castings, while June. 1921. showed sales of 46,266 casings-an in-
 crease of 13,612. And it must be re-
 membered. too, that June 1920 repre-
 scented one of the high peak months
 in Goodyear's career.
 During the fiscal year to July 1. 1920. a total of 291,666 automobile tires were sold in our territory, while 1 definite sales to July l, 1921, includ- ing both dealers and manufacturers' business. totaled 34S.992 tires. Tn dollars and cents the business for June, 1921. in all departments of
 the California company-comprising automobile tires. truck tires. mechan- teal goods. accessories and repair materials amounted to over $1.300. GOO. Keeping pace with the production of the rubber mill, the Goodyear tex tile mills turned out 256,706 prounds | or IdDTlC lEoIn AuSuSL + lJZu tO October 31, 1920 and from October 31. 1920. to June 30, this year. s95.7S3
 pounds were produced. To manufac- | ture this enormous amount of cotton l fabric, BIOS bales of long staple cot- ton, valued at $966000 were required.
 all of which came from the Salt River valley in Arizona and the Imperial valley in California and every pound of which was used in the making of | Goodyear tires at the western fac tory in Los Angeles.
 'Estimated production of the tex tile mills for July is 200, 900 pounds
 for August 250.000 pounds and for
 September 27o,000 pounds.
 "The combined production of both the Akron and the Los Angeles fac-
 tories of the Goodyear Tire and Rub-
 Der company will be over s0.00o tires
 daily in July-whereas in July last year, the combined production amounted to but 19.000 tires. The
 decided increase in production in
 both these factories Is explained by
 the fact that tire stocks are low for this time of year and must be iE1me- diately increased to take care of our l increased sales to our deale.s. And | in addition to this. the sales to car
 manufacturers are showing a marked
 improvement with the increase1 sale of new cars"
 The consensus of opinion of all four
 Goodyear officials as they left for
 their eastern trip was that they be-
 lieved the tire industry was once
 again on a sound and subssantLll
 basis.