Sumner Simpson to George R. Weber on Raybestos-Manhattan's 1936 Canadian Asbestos Contracts (1935)

A two-page letter of November 6, 1935, from Sumner Simpson, president of Raybestos-Manhattan, to George R. Weber, general manager of the United States Asbestos Division at Manheim, Pennsylvania. Simpson wrote that "we have closed with all the mines in Canada for supply of Asbestos for next year" and listed the tonnage, grade, mine and price for each plant: Passaic, Manheim, Charleston and Stratford. The suppliers were Asbestos Corporation, Bell's Mine and the Johnson Co., at prices from $35 a ton (Bell's C and King's XX) to $200 a ton (Bell's No. 2 crude).

What it shows

The letter shows the scale of the company's raw asbestos buying: about 5,900 tons from Canadian mines for 1936, the largest share (2,525 tons) for the Stratford plant and 725 tons of spinning fiber and crude for the textile plant at Charleston.

In Johns-Manville's index

Johns-Manville's attorneys indexed the Sumner Simpson Papers. Their index describes this document as follows:

Outlines RM's supply of raw asbestos coming from Canadian mines for year 1936.

About this copy

This is document 02756-02757 of the Sumner Simpson Papers, as numbered in the collection's index.