Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-07-23
California Tin.
From tie Chtcago Tribune

SAN DIEGO, Cal. July Ill find in
The Tribune of July the following
item:
The Boston Herald thinks sthe only genuine
American in will be found in a horn" II It
should prove to be horn OF plenty all will be
forgiven.
About three weeks ago / accompan-
led Mr. w. w. Stewart, of this city,
who is acting as agent of the Temescal
Tin Mines, to San Francisco. He took
with him seven tons of pig-tin--the
product of the Temescal tin mines. 1t
was sold to the Selby Smelling COM
pany. A week later he shipped to the
same firm four tons more. These elev-
en- tons of tin we're the product of
small test mill and experimental furn-
ace which uses crude oil for fuel. The
furnace was in operation only few
days. Several patterns of concentra-
tors are used, and from these expert
ments will be determined the kind of
machinery to be placed in the large re-
duction works now being erected. The
ore as taken from the dump mills 10
per cent. Selected rock assays 40 to so
per cent. tin. and one only needs to
look over the lodges to DO satisfied that
the amount of ore is practically mex
haustibe. and you may rely upon the
fact that hundreds of tons of American
tin will be put on the American market
before the Fifty second congress meets
next December, before which time it is
expected forty or more stamps will be
running. But did not intend to write
a description of the mines, only TO men,
ton a few facts connected with them
and their curious effect on the Demo
cratic party of the whole country. The
simple tact is that every Democrat in
the country from Maine to California,
seems to take it as an atfront that any
one should attempt to produce tin in
this country, that it is menace to the
Democratic party; and so up to date,
the Democratic press here, as in every
other state, denies the facts. Eight
months ago leading Democratic journ-
ais declared that there was not enough
American tin in the United States to
make one tin pail. Not long ago half
a Ton or more of this Temescal tin in
pigs weighing tfty-tiye pounds each
was displayed in the window of The
San Francisco Examiner (the leading
Democratic paper of the Pacific coast)
office, and was there for several days.
1t was understood that The Examiner
was going to devote a large space to an
illustrated write up of the Temescal
mines, but it never materlalized, nor
/ have l ever seen mention of it made in
that paper.
The San Jacinto estate upon which
/ the mines are located is owned by an
English company They have en-
/ ployed from fifty To four hundred men
and teams since last October mostly il
building a large dam to hold the water
of the Temescal creek. which will furn-
ish the power for the large reduction
works, putting in the foundations, anC
for the various buildings.
A few days ago the company sen
over an expert named Harris to TAKE
charge of the mines. The new super
intendent discharged some of the mel
working on the dam-took others-ant
doubled the force on the mines, anC
will for the next six months concentrate
/ all he force on the work of producing
tin, to show the English stakeholder
and the rest of the world what the TIE
| meScal mines can do. As soon as it be
came known that the change was mad
the Democratic journals of this stat,
published the news that the work ha,
been stopped on the mines and the me-
discharged. They rolled this item q
news as q sweet morsel under thei
tongues, and without doubt every Dem
ocratic newspaper in the country woul
/ tsnSAfoE ~ ~ IL II pHxqld d.
shown that there was no tin IN tn
United States, that we should continu
dependent ON foreign countries in tn
future as in the past. The TemeScs
company has distributed half millio
dollars among American workmer
miners and laborers during the last te
months. Yet If we believe Democrat
papers of southern California, in while
this mine is located, they would all re