Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 15, 1919, Page 8

vh AIM WAKING GREAT INDUSTRY. Firestone Pridliceds: More Than Million Steel Settings for Pneumatics Ground was broken this» month at Akron for an additional $1,000,000 plant! incthe group of Eireston new plant will house the Produc’ The. eel which annually pro- approxima one and 0} quar-; pc million @emountable rims for pneu-, ic automobile tires and 65 per cent { -the-steel bases used in the United) tes for solid truck tires. That the company has.had a phenom: enal growth, equalled by (few ,organi- zations in the utomotive and allied in- dustrial fieids, is evidenced from’a brief sketch of its history issued by J. G.; Swain, its ice president. in announc- ing the beginning of construction of the new plant ect Firestone Steel Produ pan, the announcement says. ent occupies the group which until 1910 housed manufacturing facilities of the Fire- stone company. This group which was n too small to meet the’ demands for | compan: s com- t pres of building: the entire AERA SE I Indiana Iowa 9 Idaho 5319 Kansas 618 Kentuc’ 1a Louisia Montana - ee STATEMENT SHOWS AUTQMOBILE TRAVEL BY STATES DURING PAST SAESON TO YELLOWSTONE PARK| Name of State Pass. plimentary cars, unclass- Alabama 2\ ified by states ~- 40 Arkansas 49¢ Second, entry cars, unckissi- ie Arizona ~ 12 fied by states 591-24. ) ‘Colorado 1166: Motorists in second entry California 1264 cars, unclassified by state ---- 2162} Comeecticut a6 : ——— Delaware ~- Grand total, all cars and Florida motorists, classified and Georgia ~ unclassifi -10737 39886 Iilifois _—~s— ? MAYOR LEEPER HAS OPERATION ON HIS THROAT Maryland Massachusetts Maine —- Michi; Casper friends have received word Missis Fs + ‘that Mayor J. F. Leeper, who under Mii su | Went an operation Tuesday in 2, Chicago Minne 24g) DOSspital for the relief of a throat affec- | 245° tion, rallig2 nicely following the opera- New ®\ tion, Further word as to the success New s 47" of the operation is eagerly awaited as New Hampshire - 8 it was feared that the trouble was of | Nevada --- Nebraska Firestone tires,.is now found to,be too! North Dakota — 6S small to meet the demands for Fire-! Oklahoma - 185794 Mone rims }Onio -- 1100 ahY is of interest to’ note that the} Orego' 243913 stone Type * rim is built today | Peny 48 «Too substantially in accordance with its! Rhode 2 5 oviginal design, and is the only rim) Sout 185," , 6 offered to the motor industry which is| Texas +105 BAR, uilt> toc sizes of tes, from! fénnessee 12 a 3% inc a10 inch. This rim is Utah 804 recognized as the standard rim of the Virgin 4 automotive and has vermont. 3 adopted 1 . y every high class) Washington 496 automobile and truck manufacturer in! Wisconsin 120 the United States. The Firestone com-| Wyoming -~ - 878 puny also builds the well known Type! District Columbuia 4 ‘ split rim, which is used on the) West Virginia — 4 3 se majority of the moderate priced) Canada —~ 78-304 1 enger cars. Canal Zone 1 2 Ir. H. S. Firestone, president of! Denmark - 1 2 Both the the tire steel products company and and rubber company bearing his name, went into the rim manufac- turing business not because he de- sired an additional source of income, ! but because as a tire manufacturer he thought the tire industry needed a more | substantial and practical rim than was being manufactured at that time. Be f going into the manufacture of rims. he made an effort to induce rim manufacturers 10 build a rim such as he thought, the industry -needed,and | being unable to induce the manufac turers to build a more yctiica x rim, he arted to secure these r from other sources, “The Firestone rims were frist man-| ufactured in Cleveland, the rim that Was produced being of the demountable type and bodying the most finished thought in rim construction, it was im- mediately adopted by a large portion of car manufacture “By 1910 the Ja coming into use. for steel bases for demand promised to grow steadily, stone installed a welding plant rt of the Firestone Tire & Rubber any’s plant, where they were fash- Shortly after he decided the should turn its rims for pneumatic tires and en) 1 the weld ing plant for the purpose. “In 1916 the demand for sizes of solid tires ed. Mmputy red ms re over the 1,000,000 mark, and by May. 1#18. the business had grown to such proportions that Mr? I tone decided lu form a separate comp y to produce rims and steel bases. » Firestons Steel Products company was the out- come.” ; In the new plant the company will have facilities the most modern -and efficient obtainal The main build ing will be 860 ¢ long and 250 feet wide. | Advantage will be taken of every upportunity to give the workers light and ventilation, The machinery, from traveling erane to small riveting device, will be of the most improved type. Immediately in front of the main building will be a two-story office build- ing. 170 feet long and 40 feet wic It will be connected with th main bu ings by covered bridges. A cafete fur the entire factory force will be housed in the basement of the same uilding tins manufactured by the company all of whieh have been evolved by Ft stone engine eo: Type "A" a qu deta demountable rim; Type “B it universal rim, used with — cither Clincher or straight side tires, Type c ro ostraight si tires only; and Type “i. a split rim for straight side CASPER MOTORIST Aci CHEYENNE AFTER THREE 1 SMG CHEYENNE, Wyeo., Noy. . Miss Edna Smith and Miss fi u-? ith. all of Casper ached Chey jursday after having been snow hound since Tuesday at the ranch of B.| Jo Harris, 19 miles morth of this city | on the Yellowstone highway. The party | s enroute to Denver automobile n they 2 y a blind » stall } two hours utter} fe cur came to a stop they huddled | v It, unable to see more than a fow | yards aloud because ef the whirling! How. Then the air el and they | vuw the Harris place nearby. Th were hospitably x ived and were en-} tertained at the ranch until Purdy was able to extricate the automobile Thurs day, when they drove tot While J Totals Complimentary ‘ classified by states Motorists entering in com oe instituted. When Purdy and the two} Young ladies arrived’ ip Cheyenne the , sheriff's" office hene ~ Was: engaged in an attempt to locate them. The trio spent Thursday night he and today proceeded to Denver. It is rumored that a wedding is to take place! there-but- the=facts: in-this-respeetor You will ticé the.radiator see on many motor tru And jt is. The Clyé into a brass. header—the coils; springs. no sca: ; fave | | course this ‘construction costs méré—a lot more; vat i for the vibration ty ap en. You Haye to push 8 oO apd th ‘eurk ke pepow ills ue.aue ore: BAe drat aaa lar ot eo R, N. VAN SANT a very serious nature. A notable wedding today will be that of Miss Ruth Rea, daughter of Sariuel) Rai, president of the Pennsylv: Railroad company, ana Lieut. Comman- der George B. kins, which will tak place at the E Mawr, Pa. country home it ?ry | plants in operdtion. called, ' Tested ty Midwest and Adopted| for Use as Most Serviceable © | in Wyoming city of Casper, Wyoming, once | the center of the bloody sheep and cat- tle wars is now developing inté 4 er t facturing center: ' ‘Several years ago oll was struck in} this land, made famous by the “Vir-| | ginian.” and the drilling has been car-) ried on since with increasing energy.! ‘The Midwest refining company, one of} the largest refineries in the mountain | states, is just:completing the work of | enlargément of its Casper plant which we have the new batteries of stills and | New office buitd- ings and laLoratories are alréady céra-} pleted. With the enormous increase in pro-} duction which the peéw factory will | make possible, ..and/ ‘thé threatened | shortage of transportation facllities the! | Midwest officials hive been scouring the country for a motor truck which they could adopt as their standard unit. Ten makes of trucks were picked to maké {he final test’, AN of the field and refinery superintendents were de- signed as the judges. Hach man had the specific requirements of his part of the work which 9 truck would be on to méet, and, when the tests “Will: have one ofthe new Exclusive Agents Looks Fit to Stand Angthies. When you sce a truck with this distinctive looking hood and nape it over if you get the charice. % find it lives up te its, ood looks. It looks different from the cheap articularly. eedata' radiator is m ade from prafalecs co} om tan inym; all supported by solid cast si iP members and carried upon t! fave Siyeaine ner A ioaky tab core being bolted a top and the heavy nickel gu nits. 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