New-York tribune., 1891-09-23

WORK IN PROGRESS AT PIrTsBURG-oPENIse
TIN MINES IN MEXICO.

WORK In PROGRESS At PITTsBURG-oPENIsG
TIN MINES IN MEXICO.
plttsburg, Sept % (speciaD-It is now an assured
fact that America will no longer need 10 import TIN
plate or lightweight sheets.
The latter industry, most important one, has been
lost sight of in the mass OF matter published
on the subject OF tinpate There never has been any
dificulty In the mdnufacture In American rolling mls
of this lightweight sheet, except an insufficient
tariff and this has been remedled by the Mckinley
act One Pittsburg firm, which imported all It's light
sheets has agreed 20 buy them hereafter from .
Pttsburg company Just soen a. 1t Is ready TO opcr
ate There are Two plate manufacturing companies Ia
Western Pennsylvania, the United states Company,
whose plant is at Demmler Station, on the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad ten miles from Pttsourg, aod
Mr. Lauimans establishment at Apollo, Armstrong
County.
The orders received by both companies have greatly
exceeded expectations and both are at present engaged
IN greatly enlargng the capacity Of their works The
United States Company will double the Size Of fS
plant, and will complete the work late this fall
Attracted by photographs Of groups OF tn-workers
empoyed by the United States Company, which
displayed in the windows OF Demmler Brothers, this
city, Tribune correspondent entered and was shown
big pile of tin sheets of the heavy grade for roofing
purposes. All day long the sheets are examined
by patriotic Americans. The sheets are without
fiaw and are Just as substantial evidence Of the
existence of an American tnpate industry as are tho
tin buckets hanging outside of many Pitsburg stores
with the inscription "made from American tins
tackled above them. The United States Company Is
erecting two additional stacks and Is hiring Welsh
Americans furnished by the Amalsamated Association
of Iron and steel Workers, whose headquarters
in this city.
The Canonsburg Iron and Steel Company, at CanonL
burg Washington County, is preparing 10 manufactnrs
tin plate, and viii be provided by the Amalgamated
Association with experienced workmen.
Griffith Johns Of No. s7s secondave., this city
will 90 to Irondnle Ind TO take charge OF one OF the
stacks in an extensive tin mill being erected there.
Most of the worsmen will be furnished by the Anal
Qamated Association. Lewis Bros whose two mils at
Joliet ILL.,, will be the largest in America, will DO
ready in short time, and will employ American labor
The Irondale and Joliet plants viii require several
hundred men.
General Manager Joseph Wood, OF the Pennsylvania
Company (the Pennsylvania Railroad Companys leased
lines west Of Pttsbur; Colonel A. L. Conger OF Akron
Ohio; j. F. Muller, Of Richmond, md; and Monroe
selberllng among the ncorporators OF new com
pany organized to manufacture tin plate. The capital
is 81 900 O0O of which 100000 is paid up. The
plant Is to be at ElwoOd Ind. and includes rolling
mill as well as a tinnIngshop.
There is tin ore In America. Colonel Fitzhugh,
general manager Of the Pittsburg and Mexican Tin
Mining Company, says: "Our mines are In Durango,
and we shall send our first shipment TO this tAlle
consumed here, and going to bid for the trade
We are now turning out a ton each day and In few
weeks will double the output, and the capacity Of
our plant will be increased TO 1,500 tons annually
! A shipment of twenty tons will arrive In Pitts
burg. The cents per pound tariff, to come into
force in 1903. does not give rs any anxiety We
expect that this duty will be removed far as Mexico
is concerned. The duty was never intended to Apply
I 10 our southern neghboF."
The idle Welsh mills will not start for long dime,
II ever says Isaac Reese, frebrick manufacturer
| who has Just returned from a visit 10 Wales. Mp
Reese said: "The Welsh mills have been idle since
the latter part OF June. The American tariff is too
large to permit of a resumption, unless wages are re-
duced, and the workmen object. The fact is, wages
were so low before the Mckinley bill was passed that
there remains but little to be taken OIL. Great num-
bers of the tin-pate workers have gone TO work In
the coal mines. AS natural consequence the sheet
steel mills have also been forced 10 stop work"
wilkins Frick, Of Swansea, formerly secretary OF
the Welsh Tin-PIate Makers Association, furnishes the
| following comparison in wages: