San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-07-27
AMERICAN lin PIATE.

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The Chicago Tribune has been al
ways and ever persistent and in
sistent opposer of the protection theo-
ries and policies OF its party. Repub-
lican in all else, on this question of
protection the Tribune has ranged
itself with the democratic party and
given all the aid and comfort practi-
cable to the free trade hosts. 1t is
therefore with considerable pleasure
that change of heart is noted on the
part of the Tribune, and a reasonable
probability afforded for believing that
in the future the Tribune will be more
in accord with the declared principles
of its party. At least in tin plate
matters the Tribune gives no aid and
comfort to those who decry the new
industry, for in its issue of the 18th
inst. it says:
TINPLATE-THE LATEST REPORTS.
San Francisco Chronicle, July s:
Friday the Temescal tin mines
shipped to the American Tinplate
company of st. Louis 3S, 900 pounds of
pigtin, produced, smelted, and refined
at remescal. That company now has
orders on hand from newly formed
tinplate companies in the United
States for over $500 900 worth of block
tin, and is running day and night
with three shifts of men to meet the
demand. G" 8
Pittsburg Dispatch: The additions
to the tinplate plant of P. II. Lauf- |
man & Co. at Apollo have been COM
pleted. The first black sheets were |
rolled yesterday, and the timing
plant will be put in operation by Sat
urday or Monday sure.
There are three pots, each with |
capacity of 1,400 sheets 28x10O in |
size. This means 200 boxes q day
2Ox2S or 400 boxes 14x20. This will
give the mill a capacity of 1000 q |
year. 1t will be the largest mill in |
this country and one of the largest in |
the world, and yet 1t would take fifty
such plants to produce the quantity |
of tin consumed annually in America. |
So there Is plenty of room for the |
many firms contemplating going into
business.
P. H. Laufmsn & Co., have been
making six inch plates for some time,
and their product has been placed on |
the market as q standard article. The |
architects of the United States govern
ment have endorsed it, and the Penn
sylvania railway company has placed
its fourth order for plates.
A box of home product was sent re-
Gently to the professor of chemistry at
the university of Michigan at Ann
Arbor, who made careful test, and
pronounced it equal in all respects to
Gilbertson's old method, which is
about the highest priced tin import
ed. This is sold at $3.50, while the
home product is quoted at SIT.
PHI. Lauffman & company con.
template changing their mill
again later on, so that the
capacity will be doubled. Mr.. Lauff:
man said yesterday, "We intend to
coDfine our trade entirely to terne or
roofing sheets. We cannot half fill
the orders we are receiving. Other
manufacturers are also making the
bright plate, and inside of six
mon tbs there will be several addi-
tional plants on the market. The
magnitude of the business is over
whelming."
Because the American tin-plate
plants are just getting down to bust
ness, and their possibility of supply
ing the trade a matter of the future,
the tin-plate liars insist that no tin
plate is being manufactured in the
Udited States. Let the Ananias of
the tin plate breed read these state.
ments of the free trade Tribune, and
then call for the young men to come
and burv him