Sharp County record., 1891-01-01

ms is what actua ly happenea. Al.st
tho Harrison Adm stration came in
there was squabble on the part of the
carbonate ring to get silver-lead ores
put on the dutiable list by the Treasury
Department.
A decision was given by Secretary
WINDOW which restricted the importa.
tlon OF the Mexican ores, and the price
oil lead began at once to advance from
the old figure OF 81 cents pound.
Last May the paragraph in the McKtr-
ley bill imposing duty OF IL cents
pound on all the lead in ns,lver-lead flux-
ing ores brought in from Mexico was
passed in the House, after a sharp de-
bate and the ring became confde mt
that if tariff law should be enacted it
would impose such duty. Thereupon
the price again began to advance. Just
before the vote on this paragraph the
price in Chicago and St Louis was 3%
to cents The following week it was
48 cents 1t is now about cents.
Now the question for such high tariff
organs as the Press to answer is tn s.
Where is the profit to the country at
large in paying 24 cents pound h CHER
for its lead in order that few hundred
or thousand miners in Arizona and New
Mexico may get higher wages? Is il
economy? Would any intelligent farm
er or business man conduct h IS affairs
on such principle?
The duty on lead played directly into
the hands of the lead trust BY caus.
ing scarcity of lead it enabled the
trust to put up prices, There was
actually lead famine. On October a
the New York Engineer ng and Mining
Journal said:
The lead fam ne sti'l continues, and that
1t Is owing t. the shortn3ss OF supply In the
United States of suitable smelling material
and fiuxIng or there II no question of
doubt f. on the state Of affairs now existing
In eadvllle, Col. Th 8 district when the
discussion WAS going on as to whether Mex.
lean fl 'xirg ores were admitted or not, WAS
represented by tn so oppns n the admls.
sion as being capable of furnishing not on V
sulnclent for is own sne!tng induSt v but
large surplus for snrlters eStab!ijhed
elsewhere Now Lcadyille Is actually i'm
porting Mexican fluxing ores in spite of t e
long haul and high pi @, to keep her own
smelters going!
In recent years there have been
scarcely any importations of pig lead,
the old duty being prohibitory; but now
that the home market price has gone so
high, importat ons have again set in,
Notwithstanding the duty of two cents
a pound, For the week ended Novem-
Der 10 about45O, 900 pounds were entered
at New York. -.
The lead duty is bearing IT'S :, IT,
mate tariff fru in building up trusts.
A recent number of tie Metal Worker
says:
le lead b' s. e Of tie country Is rapidly
r. ting into tn" control OF few orga III.
m" The evidences tf succ 50 f thel,al
trus, the combination OF the white lead in .
rests, with twD smell lag plants and cnare
tinery led with It, has gv en- ourag u.
ment to tthrls. 1t is truy that II grand
centralzat on h me of the other smqlt "a
ana naers fell thr ugh completely, but
since then tn two Il adng VI ntan sme't
ing rks ct Great Falls vi t Hel ma h va
Combined, and fus tn them is the re
new r. nncry WhIch jus, b ing completed
at Chicago Sore of III gtu3 Of can t /.
ISIS who are in on rel of this comb!n ti~-
own also TIL" CJlora !, Sine til, NSsS IL
PueelS5 nd pos"ss in>"'- H.
,'St o.. ~, . ,.T.."'S p'Npcr;y In III
& o. oth'rs ar1 vniy Ing ly d,rtinet
win mining in erssts in Mon,nnn,n 'bs
eWnr dAlene region, in Idaho.
The white lead trust has also beor
advancing the price of white lead
winch is used in making paint. Aboul
the first OF October the price Of white
lead was 81 cents pound against A
cents in England, Under date of No.
Vemoer IL the trust sent out circulnr
announcing ''an increase in prices" If
gives the rate of white lead purchased
IN Kegs in lots of less than /, 900 pounds
atII cents net Chat is, without anv
trade discoun0, II bought in 25.pound
.'h pals 81 cents per pound; if in
o.pound tin cans lO% cents. The mr. 90
OF white lead in the Unitod States ot
the present time, If in kegs, is, there
lore o3% per cent. in excess of tho for.
e'gh price; II in 9S'pound tin.palls, 1861
per cent, and il in 5-pound tin cans
over lo0 per cent, less fair allowance
ior tho difference in the cost of tho lin
IN TINS country and Europe
ana IN answer to facts like thee the
protectlonist organ points us to tho fac,
mat three hundred extra men hayn
oeen placed at work" at Socorro, N NJ
W ouia IT not be good thing TO turn