Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-02-04

Cleveland Torn Trade Review fur
establishment Of an American tinplate
industry reported in these columns. 1t
says;
Heretofore the manufacture oftinplate
in America has been hindered by two
great obstacles first the lack Insufficient
protection, and secondly, the fact that
tin had not been known to exist in sutiic-
lent quantities in this country. This
latter objection has of late years been
removed by the fact that Australian tin
which is the variety most largely used
in Wales, can be laid down as chcaply
in this country as in England. But not
only this; within the past year or two the
most active prospecting has been going
forward in different parts ofthis country,
resulting in the discovery Of numerous
tin deposits, one or two Of which bid fair
to furnish supplies sufficient for all our
wants.
Especial interest has been manifested
in the development ofwhat appears to be
a very extensive and valuable deposit in
Dakota and it is not surprising to learn
that a company has recently been formed
in Chicago for the purpose of beginning
the manufacture of tinplate. A gentle
men unusually we~ll-informed as to the
purposes of the new company writes us
as follows; "A gentleman ! saw in Chi
cago, connected with the tin mines and
smelling operation now going on in the
West, informed me a month ago that his
company would have block tin on the
market very early this year, and if
Congress would sufficiently protect to
enable the sheet Of steel black plate to
be profitably made in this country lit
being contended that it cannot be accom-
plished with the present tariff, we may
get to work at tinplate making at once
alb initio; but, in default Of this, we NAV
proceed TO import our steel sheet, or
body substance. and coat them on this
side for making the highest grades of
the article only. 90 We could not touch
the common qualities, the same body
substance IN steel being used for all de-
scrlptions of plate, good, bad and indifer-
ent; the coating and finishing being the
distinctions, and altogether different
from the old body plates in Charcoal
and Coke the former quality costing so
much more to produce than the latter"
Our correspondent submits this query,
which we commend TO the intelligent
contemplation of u readers: The ad-
vocates of Free Trade contend hat an
augment of duty means an enhanced
price of the commodity to The consumer,
and that, therefore all tin covered con-
serves must necessarily be dearer to the
user of such it would, therefore, at this
Juncture, be interesting to note what in
crease of prices for canned goods has re-
Gently taken place, as tinplate has adj
vanced q dollar and a half a box-bear-
ing in mind where advances in fish or
fruit, if any, have occurred, that they
are attributable to diminished catches or
scanty crops-if no such increase has
been found necessary, why may il be
necessary when we ask for less than this
of protective duty to the cent q pound
already levied on tinplate ?" Since the
extra duty thus sought to enable Ameri-
can manufacturers to produce ~tinplate
and pay American rates of wages, work
out under three-tenths of a cent q can
upon one-pound cans. it is difficult to
see where the burden upon the people
of the United States comes in.-Chicago
Journal of Commerce.