The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-06-12
Shall Wo Encourage n Great Industry:
We have received the following let.

We have received the following let
ter from one OF our friends: -
To The Editor Of he In!cQigcacr.
slE; piea.e answer in the next Issue OF The
lSTELLiG ESCER whether there Is any Tin plate
manufactured In the United States or not II
not, what Ii The reasOnH and has this country
81 Inc material for making '' wha; y tin
Eidgai, Tyler County, u. Ia, June s.
This inquiry is one Of several OF n sim-
liar character We have received, And we
are glad to state that the data is at hand
to aid us in givinga reply.
Z, At present there is very little .in.plate
manufactured in this country, the few
small mills in operation beingo an ex-
detrimental character, and the growth OF
the industry being retarded by the fact
that the duty on the product is not suiti.
( cient to protect.it. 1t was to remedy this
state oil affairs that the tin.plate sched-
ulc was inserted in the Mckinley tariff
bill, but ofthis we shall speak further on.
With regard to the second question of
our correspondent, namely, has this
country the material for making Tin.
plate, We answer that it has. In re.
cent issue OF the Rapid City (Dakota)
Republican we find description Of the
only tin mineD now operated in Ameri-
en-. The article is carefully prepared and
& proves that South Dakota possesses the
richest and most extensive deposit of
tin ore in the world. In one mine there
are 100000 tons Of ore above the ground
and IN English company with SIS Ooo-
600 Of capital is in the field to operateit.
while other companies are forminp
From the paper above alluded to We clip
the following paragraph:
Comparatively few persons have known tina,
from BEGINNING Of this year mill has been Mn In
successful operation, crushing night md div
tin ole from the Black Hills. and making recilsr
shipments oil lin 10 the east. ~ lille eastern na.
pets at home aud abroad were busy denying inc
existence OF lin In DskOin, aud criticsinr ,erorr
one who claimed to know that II was hers In in
exhausiiblc quantity, and OF better Iuality Than
anywhere else. u few gentlemen were busy Ie.
Nelopips The Glendale TIL Mine so rs 10 sunny
mill steadily. Ril Carrying on careful. sysirn;.
niic tests of machinery for Working t6S nrn
Their efforts have been crowned with s,,cccss
nnd the Glendale Tin Mill began work JsSma,r
since. " VIVA WV
So much to prove that VIC have in
this country IN enormous field Of tin ore
Now as to the great industry which the
Mckinley tariff bill proposes to build
up in thia country il tho Senate does
not, as is feared, strike out the protect.
i've feature OF the tin.plate schedule
From IN official report to the Brit;sh
House OF Commons by Sir Michael
Hicks Beach, we extract tho following
relating to tho pig lin industry: .-|
Production for tho supply OF Eu,ope and
N.Y.; Tons OF
Cornwcll Ito produce this over 1900 go" 'u'
n.r GapG rS %re slnploycd 900
it1II,a "uAVse cooiie Ia0or)....."..-..." i,S17
Straits -" o stHe
Ts,sr' 6,l25
1900
......"......-.... ASS7
!. VI this' Gays the paper quoted above,
the consumption in the United States
lpig lin only was about 14,OO0 tons.
This was chiefly Straits tin. The i'm.
porlation into New York alone OF Straits
TIN, produced by Chinese labor, was H..
psi 9'l tons toms during 1889. On this there is
no duty.
I In addition to this consumption Of MO
tin, it requires about 10000 tons more
to coat the SS6,692 tons Of tin plates con.
sumed in The United States, this tin be.
ing also chiefly Straits (the product OF
Chinese coolie labor), in consequence Of j