Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1891-05-30
Tin Plate Manufactured Here as
thoroughly Domestic as the
Wales Article is Welsh
Pans Made from Southern Stee'
and Tin Mined in the Black
Hills.
Tame Endeavor of a British Jour
nal to Cast Redicule on Our
Industrial Efforts

Some time ago -ampes of American
I'm Mate were sent to certain English
;oprnaIs. asking them TO notice this new
American industry in their columns. 1t
vas thought that it would be matter of
interest TO them and their readers to
know that we were already making tin
DIate. although the new duty would not 90
MO effect for months to come. A recent
mail brings the London Financial Times
with notice" in the shape of a column
n labored carcasm and feigned doubt as
m whether the sample sent was really
American tin plate IL is a significant
fact that the London Financial Times
raises the same question that our New
Times and other journals which echo Brit
isb sentiment have raised, We have al
rsadv fully answered our home papers,
Init for the benefit Of our English contem-
noraries we will repeat The piece of tin
sent to the Financial Times was made at
Demler, Pa, by the United States Iron
and Tin Plate company, and this is what
Dir. w. G. Cronemeyer, the president OF
that company, says OF it:
The material used for those plates
which we sent you has been produced from
American iron ore, was first turned into
MIG metal in American blast furnaces,
American steel works converted the pig
metal into steel billets; the steel billets
were rolled into thin sheets of steel, the
latter were picked, or cleaned Of scale
Attn American acid, and all the work per-
formed was done by American workmen,
that is, workmen either born in this
country or who have, by their own free
will. chosen America as their home).
The onlv ingredient contained IN those
mates which is of foreign origin is the
tin used for coating from 215 to pounds
of foreign tin to every 100 pounds OF
American steel plates
Daring the last ten years the explana-
ton that the so-calIed tin plates are moi
made from tin ore, but from iron ore, and
only washed with light coating of tin,
has been so often made by the American
press generally that any person who yet
talks about the impossibility of making
tin plate for want of tin ore reveals gross
Ignorance. The bulk of the tin used by
English manufactures is imported 10y them
from the Dutch East indies or from Aus
tralia and we can import it from there as
well,
"Yes sir, the tin plates we have sent
YOU, are as genuinely American as the til
plates imported from Wales are Welsh.
This showing is good enough in itself
but We can go still further. In the city o.
Chattanooga a few weeks ago they wer,
celebrating the successful manufacture il
the south OF basic steel from their ores anC
from their coal, and on the banquet tabl,
for one OF the courses every guest had til
plate made out of their basic steel and
coated with the tin ores that came from
the Black Hills, made in American shop
in St. Louis by American workmen, anC
it was as good as can be made anywhere il
the world. Neither The London Financia
Times, the New York Times, nor any
other journal at home or abroad, which de
votes columns in trying to belittle Amer
can industries, can question any Longer
that we are making tin plate, all Of which
is American material and labor, We d.
not claim to be supplying the market, |
is over a month yet before the new duty o.
tin plates will go into effect, and 2
months before our bar tin will be protect
ed We do claim, however, that we will
soon be making so much American til
plate that the 500, 100000 which we hay
been annually sending 10 Great Britain vii
remain at home, ana our workmen will b.
corIespondmgly benefited. We advis
our free-trade contemporaries to drop tn
tn-pate question and try to propounC
some harder problem.