The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-08-04
SCI rTIE. TUEsDAK AUG. q.
srrr1 RAILS AND TIN PLATE.

fan vas manufactured in the United
Eaates, and as late as 1867 but 2, 700 tons
I'd beer produced but by 1879 We had
produced between 600, 900 and 10000 tons,
ed today we produce more than all the
4est Of the world put together. The argu-
sent for protective duty upon steel rails
#as that we had all the raw materials
Aecessary to the creation and develop
1nent Of q great national industry, which
hnder tie protective tariff could be rapidly
built Up so that by our competition we
could force down the price of rails and
nally xrest the supremacy of the iron
md steel trade from Great Britain.
We have done all this, and
that Is more reasonable than that
8ur success in the matter of steel rails
8hould have prompted Us to try and see
What protection can do toward building up
Ahc tin plate industry in this country? We
have the raw material; we have the CAPT.
sal; we are taking steps to secure the
KILLED labor. The tariff on tin plate did
not take effect until July LIST of this year;
She tariff was not enacted until late in
$50; and to expect to find tin plate in
dustry 10 full blast at this early date is as
Nbsnrd and unreasonable as it would have
been 10 call the tariff on steel rails fall
nre, because as late as 1867 the industry
bad reached the dimensions of an annual
product Of only 200 tons.
i The London Times says distinctly that
She English commission, who personally
visited and examined the American situa-
~s.l. Al
absolutely no obstacle to the manufacture
of tin plate in America save the presence
IF sufficient supply of skilled labor;
which was exactly the situation when we
began to protect steel rails. There re
rich deposits of tin ore in the Black Hills
of South Dakota; the state of Virginia
also contains valuable tin mines; the for
uier are being rapidly developed and dur
Ing the coming year will be placing tin in
4usntities on the American market. In
California the Temescal mines are now
aecognized as an important source of
supply 70 the home market. Two months
Eogc seven tons of tin, the first consign-
Enent ever secured from American mines,
arrived in San Francisco from the mines.
The Ontario, CAL, Record, published
Exithin fifteen miles of the mines, reports
- the result of six days smelling the
Iemescal Company has shipped to the
4merican Tin Plate Company, of st.
kE1ais. 81 .0oo pounds of American pig tin
u Is cents pound. The company is now
generating On two veins of tin ore, and the
result of the six months work shows that
al the ore Is averaging is per cent, while
selected ore is often found over 20 per cent
EInseiected ore in the Cornwall mines sell
dom rms over per cent.
A The Temescal Tin Company has orders
nov on hand from newly formed tin plate
eompanies 81 over the United States for
over ss0o,po worth of block tin, and Is
Ynnning day and night with three shifts
% men. 9ne company now employs over
s 20 men, and has invested s2ls, 600 in de-
vea0ping its mines since last September.
new Ie-stamp mill has been started, and
- third yea of ore has been opened. In
#ntxty days more il is sure that the Temescal
Tin Plate Company will be smelling from
& fur 10 six tons of block tin every day, at
s aiuation of from $2oO0 to 5000 daily.
There are ghty-two veins OF tin ore now
siseovered on the company's property.
s. Trey vary from one foot TO twelve feet in
i thickness.
s The Teuescal Company has had cut 500
e-1ail blocks or bars of tin, stamped with
"a Ale words 7'Temescal mines, San Bernar-
limo county, Cal" These bars are TO be
IS cent ss nIee TO prominent Democrats and
Maugwrrfps throughout the Union, who
have ridseaed and fought the tariff on tin
eists ara Declared there is no tin on this
81 eontiner Every member of congress will
II receive eve Of these blocks of tin, and an
sxtrs b e block and letter on this sub
a. are be sent TO Roger Q. Mills and
Henry aiterson, and we presume the
noubti, Thomas of the Seattle Demo-
- &. 10y Ct get one if he wishes TO write
~ IT,
fhe NJ American tin industry is being
i uniy sablished; American labor and
rtpital re being given increasing en-
1ioyu and by July lst iSa5.
hae Hestie producers will have
ssemons ted their capacity to sup
vly = domestic demand, and the
unitad sses be rendered as completely
sndepel At Of Cornwall and Malscca for
Is SUP of tin as il is today independ-
snt OF land for its supplies of steel
rails = le output of the American mines
does y { ZACH 5000 tons $ year by that
unns I'll aaty Is to be repealed. 1t is an
tndus,r experiment, just as taxing steel
Z rails We &c experiment. and there is every
8 prospN aat il will be crowned with equal
suecess Tit should not prove success.
ssn g ses at present, il will be aban-
eenst IN the same common sense
{ Froni' a We abandoned the protection
sosus
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