The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1891-07-11
Four Tin Mills to be Built.

Four Tin Mills to be Built.
The latest item Of local interest rela-
tive to the tin industry is the we'll au-
thentcated report, that Mr.. Joseph l..
Mcdaniel President, and Mr.. Henry
Whiteley Secretary of the Mccullough
Iron Company part of whose extensive
manufacturing plant is located i'll this
county, are in connection with several
prominent Philadelphia and New York
capitalists about to build four complete
mills on the outskirts of Philadelphia
for the manufacture of tiu-plate. The
contracts are given out and the stipula-
tions are such that the mills will be
flushed in time to put on the market by
January /, 1899. The company will be
known as the Welsh American Tinplate
Company, aud it will have nominal
capital of 100000. The four mills
will have capacity of $500 boxes a
week, aad other mills will be added as
the business Increases.
Mr.. Whitley recently wrote as follows
to the New York VI Ill and Express:
OFFICE OF THE MCCULLOUGH IRON
Works, PHILADELPHIA, June 30S
There is one thing upon which | would
lay great stress, aud that is the utter
folly of such newspapers as the Even
ing Post and others of that class BELT
Ting the beginnings of the tinplate i'll
dustry IN this country. They must not
expect to see mill like Carnegie's or
that Of the Cambria or the Pennsylvania
Steel Company making great rolls and
beams.
Tin plates are made in small sizes and
dipped by hand or by machinery, and
there is an opportunity to employ boys
and women, as is done in Wales. 1t
may seem ike a picayune sort of bust
ness TO look at one single timing plant
at work, but the aggregate output is
very large. All we have here or will
have for some time to come will be a
copy of what they are doing in Wales at
the present time.
Our superintendent was recently in
one of the large iron works where a
mau and two boys were turning out tin
plates in small quantities, but the pro-
| prietor showed him large building al
most finished, and in which would be
placed machinery for making tin plate
on large scale, which would cost in the
aggregate more than 500, 900.
There is no reason why the consump-
ton of the country in tin. plate should
| not be supplied from tin-plate manu-
featured right here in this country, and
| there is no better place than in this
eastern end. Labor is cheaper here
than in the West We have steel works
in the East capable of supplying steel
bars sufficiently good in quality to
compare with any plates imported.
Having watched this thing for the
past twenty-oue years l now believe
that the best way to engage i'll the in-
justry is to take it up at the exact point
at wnich the Welsh have brought it at
| the present time, and, in short, to trans
plant the Welsh method to this country.
We will have to pay 100 per cent, more
here for labor than is paid now in Wales.
this xtra duty, but eventually, | be-
| lieve, we will so cheaper the cost in
various directions that the price of
plates will be less to the consumer
without at all depreciating the quality.
This industry seems to me to offer
the best field for investment of capital of
anything that know of in the iron or
steel industry at the present time. With
a mill of proper size, large enough to
turn out plates, with economy in all
branches and built on the best models,
with experienced managers, sufficient
profit seems assured to make it q very
profitable industry, even in spite of the
large increase in wages that must be
paid over that for Welsh labor. How
ever, it is only question of time when
this, too, will be offset by the invention
by Americans of such machinery as will
reduce the manual part of the work to a
minimum Then there is little or nc
danger of Welsh makers being able to
reduce their prices low enough to inter,
fere with us for any length of time.
The English manufacturers will
nevertheless, undoubtedly exhaust every
means in their power to retain theil
business. If the next Congress shoulG
not reduce the duty-and it seems i'm
possible that it should do so in the fact
of the present Senate and Presiden