Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1889-01-30
STAMPED TIN.WARE.
How tho UnsuspectinE Public Buy Tin
and Get Iron.

ana Get Iron
81 doubt not that it will be surprise
to great majority of purchasers"
said Charles w. Ellsworth, Of the Chi
cago Stamping Company. ''to learn
that the tin of common use is not the
real article, but only sheet-iron or steel,
with an intinitesimal covering of tin on
the surface. 1t is this fact that, in a
measure, makes dupes of the public
and works to the disadvantage Of rep
utable manufacturers. In box OF
good tin-plate which weighs 112 pounds
there are only about five pounds of tin,
30 you can see how delicate the film is.
Yet tin-plate is imported constantly
that weighs hut ninety pounds to the
box. Besides there is difference in
the quality of the filling, or black
sheets, as we call them. Coke-fnished
iron sheets are much inferior to char
coal-fnished, and these, in turn, to
Bessemer STEEL Hence there is wide
field for inferior manufacture, and the
market is glutted with goods that re-
tail at a lower price than serviceable
articles could possibly be manufactured
for. When the public cam get neat
looking stamped ware made of inferior
plates at a mere song the better staple
of goods is run out of the market.
THE cost OF manufacturing poor
stamped ware is approximately the
same as it is for the best. The differ
ence in the retail price of the two lies
in the stock. Poor plate tin requires
more intermediate steps before the
manufactured article is finished, since
the brittleness of The filling will not
bear much of a strain without being
scanned and cracked. After being
stamped into the form required the one
takes more rubbing to get out the tiny
creases than the other. 1t is all ma
chine work, you see. The beaded rim
on the inferior goods is an imitation.
merely, there being no wire inserted to
strengthen the rim as in the case of the
better staple. The masses think that
tin is tin and that it is the process of
stamping that makes tho articles retail
so cheap. They ought rather to think
that most tin is sheet steel, and that
when they want good stamped ware
not to 99-cent counters"
docs the manufacture of stamped
tinware require much skilled laborP"
mo; less, probably, than any other
class of tin-work. A man of ordinary
intelligence can learn to operate q
stamping machine in day or two,
since all he has to do is to put the
CHI IN -
Rubbing out creases, turning rims, and
redipping in molten tin, when this is
done, Can scarcely be called skilled la
Dor. 1t is rather a little higher form of
common labor. Boys do most Of the light
stamping. In fact, in tin manufacture
the workmen require less preliminary
training and get better wages in pro-
portion to the work done than in any
other industry / know of. There is not
detail of the trade that bright man
could not become proficient in in from
eight months to n year, and be compe-
tent to earn from $12 to $40 q week by
piece work. In stamped tin-work the
wages run about 50 or $3.50 day.
Even girl solderers earn from SIS to SIP
u week on comparatively little eXper-
fence.
"a significant fact regarding the
manufacture of stamped tinware is that
the workmen do not advance or grow,
as the phrase goes. The work doesn't
offer facilities for development of per-
sonal skill. It is chiefly feeding ma
chimes, and in Il certain sense the men
become machines. A man of ten years
experience is of little moro value than
recruit of n month or two's standing
A boy fifteen years of age is worth as
much for light stamping as he will be
ten years later, since the machines ne
cessitate or induce u certain degree of
speed or dexterity. Chicago News.