Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-09
TIN PLATE AT HOME.
An Analysis Proves That the DENIM
Ter Product Is All Right.
JUST WHAT IT PRETENDS TO BE.
Two More River Mines Started Up Under
the Advance Asked.
MISCELLANEOUS INDUSTRIAL MATTERS

The claim made by Colonel N. A. Taylor
to The DISPATCH correspondent at Ada,
O., that the Demmler and Apollo timed
plate was of the same composition as the
Piqua article turns out to be perfectly de-
void of fact. The Piqua article, accord
ing to the analysis of Prof. Keffer, of the
Ohio State University, is reported to be as
follows: Tin, 9.274; lead, 3.O72; iron with
carbon, 81. .654; zinc, unweighable
The material handed to the chemist for
analysis may not have been 'tin plate, and
it may have been technical error to have
so termed this particular sheet, but the con-
clusions drawn therefrom by Colonel Taylor
that it was not "tin plate" because the
basis of tin plate is steel and not iron, and
that no tin plate was being, or ever could
be. made in this country, were proved to be
fallacious
AN OFFICIAL ANALYSIS MADE.
ANY doubt as to whether ''tinned plate"
is actually being made in this country is
removed by the following official analysis,
made yesterday:
PITTsBURG, Oct. 6.
Analysis Of tin plate made by the United
from Demmler Bros, Smithfield street. city:
The plate consists of soft steel coated with
pure tin, free from lead or zinc. The anal
ysis of a section of the plate gives result as
follows:
Tin. 52I per cent; Manganese. O.Ss per cent;
lead and zinc. none; iron carbon, ETC., by
difference 944l per cent. The manganese is
n constituent part of the steel plate.
PITTsBURe TESTING LABORATORY,
Hunt & Clapp.
In the foregoing is furnished unques-
toned refutation of Colonel Taylor's
charges The Demmler article is ''tinned
plate" made of steel coated with tin. The
PiQua material, if the critic read the analv-
sis Alright was also made of steel, but in
stead OF being coated with tin alone, was
treated with a hux of tin and lead, which
would make il terne plate.
The United States Iron and Timed Plate
Company at Dunbar has recently received
letter from brokers in Paris, France, desir-
ing TO know whether could not obtain
the agency for the sale of the timed plate
made by the firm. The firm replied that it
had all the business it could attend to at
home without going abroad.
SHIPMENTS OF AMERICAN TIN.
The \. G. Taylor Company, of Philadel-
phia, reports a shipment of S5 pigs of Amer
lean tin from the San Jscinto mines in San
Barnadino county, Cal. The Savernake
Tin Plate Company, of Rockbridge, Va, is
the most recently reported company organ
lied to make iron, steel and timed plate
Whatever doubts may exist in the minds
Of free traders regarding the debated point
as to whether timed plate is being made or
ever will be made in America, there is not
any doubt of the feeling in Wales An
American who is engaged in erecting
timed plate plant in the West was in
the city yesterday for a few hours
lie had Just returned from a
two months visit to Wales. He said that
he was aware of five Welsh makers who had
fully made up their minds to engage in the
business over here. He said they would
move in the matter within a few months.
Both this gentlemar's S and the Welshmen's
names are withheld for obvious reasons
but this statement may be accepted as
reliable. Another Welsh maker has been
iH the city for day or two. He is looking
I'D the question of embarking in the trade
here.