Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-04-11

i'ummary of the Present Situa.
tiOn of the New Industry
AS Given by Hardware, a New
York Trade Journal.

To-Day But Little Tin Plate is Being
Made in This Country, But Great Prep
arations Are Being Made at Cleveland,
St. Louis, Brooklyn and several Other
Points-Givc Us Little Time.
NEW YORK, April 11.-Hardware, a
trade 5oJ Jrnal, Prints the following edi-
torial in relation to the tin-plate in
du try of the United tates:
THE new tin-plate industry con-
tinue3 to e the sub ect of widely con
ficting reports in the newspapers,
! though if their editors should devote 10
it half as much care as is given to re-
porting single base all game the
matter might easily be simplihed, A
summary of the authentic information
tanned i'll Hardware's news department
within the past few months shows the
situation to be nothing more nor less
than this
Only in Its Infancy.
mo one in the United States claims
to-day to lie making tin-plate on large
scale. Such thing is not advertised
anywhere, and no one is soliciting Or
ders for large amounts of tin-plate for
early delivery. To this extent 1t is true
that there no American tin-rlate in
dustry. BY the same token there is no
world fair i'll Chicago. But while
nuch systematic work is being done to
| have the world fair a reality by a GER
tain date, several reputable firms and
individuals assert positively that new
works which they are constructing are
designed fl I the making of tin-plate on
a large scale soon after the higher duty
on this pr duct shall have taken effect
this summer Such preparations a. e in
progress at Cleveland, ! t. Louis and
Brooklyn, and at several points in
| Pennsylvania and Illinois. Meanwhile,
some OF the part es have produced. on q
small scale, tin-plate which has met
every test in a manner gratifying to the
makers. IL has Eeen shown that iron
and steel plates Of re .uisite quality
can be ma e in America and there is
here no lack of spec al skill ed labor,
many " Welsh immigrants laying
| broJght with them knowledge of tin
plate making AS for tin, that has to
be imported by the Welsh concerns,
and the same sources of supply are open
to the United States So mu.h for
what has beel done
What win BE Done.
Regarding the future we see no
reason to doubt that the gentlemen
a tiS ely interested i'll the tin-plate in
dustry are working i'll as thorocgh
good faith as the leaders in any other
| industrial enterprise i'll this country
| They have long been connected with the
metal industries, and have met with
success in tler undertakings. Gener-
ally they have preferred to have little
| .oi i,, inf nj la
making tin-piate before they are ready
to supply large amounts to the trade,
and for the greater part they have not
| beal responsible for what has been pub
| lished about them. 7 he editor Of hard
ware has treated the whole subject
| from the standpoint Of a newsgatherer-
! without knowing the tin plate men per
| sonally, W thout knowing the political
| bias Of more than two of them, without
| being asked by any of them to print q
| line on the subject BESIDES the II.
Germs about which the facts have been
printed in these pages, there are others
iii less advance t stages of progress, re-
garding which Hardware has trust
worthy information, which their pro-
| iectors desire withheld until their plans
are more complete.
lit is no secret that more than one
! corporation IN process OF organization
at ittsburg for the making OF tin plate
made no further progress after The cleo
tions Of NOV yemLer last, through the fear
of the capi alists interested that the
policy Of protecting the new industry
might soon be reversed. These concerns
have not been considered, in this article,
as having any connection with the fu-
! ture Of TIN plate making. SO far as the
new prote, tive duty is concerned no
one can derive any die t leneft from it
without making tin-plate. 1t wo Id
seem reasonable to sup ose, therefore,
that any firm engaging in the industry
at a should try to produ e as many
tons per year as possible, in order to
reap the advantages of the duty, espe-
cially since the new tariff law provides
for the repeal of the increased duty
within five years in case it fails to SUI
ply the market to a large extent with
American tin-plate."