Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1891-10-08
FROM AMERICAN MINES.
The Ohio Tin-Plate Liar Checkmated by Cold
Hard Facts.
Futile Attempt to Disqualify the American
Manufactured Article.

Helena journal: The silly attempt
to discredit the genuineness of the
American tin plate manufactured at
Piqua, Ohio, has turned out to be a
veritable boomerang for the Demo.
Gratis. The Cincinnati Enquirer as
serts that the sheet iscorrugated is iron,
while the fact is that it is sheet steel,
OF a thinness about the same as the
standard tin plate, and this sheet
steel was rolled at Piqua, from steel
billets manufactured at Middleport,
o. Here is an affidavit from the man
who made the alloy. He is Demo.
crat:
Personally appeared before me John F
McCabe who, being duly sworn, deposeth
and say that he is the foreman OF the gal
vanizing and thinning departments of the
Cincinnati Corrugating company, and that
on September II, 1891, the first terne
plates made by the Cincinnati Corrugating
company were made under his supervision,
and that the sheets used then and since in
coating under atlantis supervision. were
OF steel rolled by the Piqua Rolling Mill
company; that the pot holding the bath
for coating contained three thousand
pounds, composed of the usual proper.
tions OF pig tin from California and Ameri-
can lead; that on the 18th OF Septemb ber,
1891, Major VIM. Mckinley, in my pres
ence and that of many Others. coated in
the regular way five sheets OF steel plate by
dipping in the aforesaid pot, containing
the aforesaid mixture OF California tin and
American lead and furthermore, that all
coating done under affian6's supervision
ha - h.. y,
eating company has been done at and with
material heretofore described.
JOHN F. McCABE.
Sworn to before me by John F. McCabe
and by him signed in my presence, this 22d
day Of September. 1891.
j. III. HATCH, Notary Public,
Miami County, Ohio.
Your correspondent may say that
he himself personally witnessed Major
Mckinley dipping the plates in the
pot. He has specimen plate in his
possession, with the autograph oi
Major Mckinley scratched on by a
sharp steel point. Any intelligent and
fair-minded man must acknowledge as
soon as he sees one OF these tin plates
that it is not corrugated iron coated
with lead.
With the highest journalistic author
y
and cornice-work, is the Metal Work
er, published at New York and Chicago.
In it's current issue, dated September
10, is the following editorial, headed;
"oHIo TIN PLATES"
'sIt has been known for some time
that the Cincinnati Corrugating com
pany, whose plant is at Piqua, Ohio,
was making practical efforts toward
the establishment of a tin-plate works,
and the earliest result of this effort is
a very handsome lot OF tin plates that
the company has produced within the
past ten days. A sample of the lot
which has been forwarded for our in
spection shows it to be high grade
of roofng-plate, of smooth and even
finish, with no uncoated spots to
prophesy rust.
1.-The surface is more bright. than
with the common run OF imported
plate, showing that a considerable
amount of tin was used in the mix
ture. The sheet is of No. 80 gauge,
corresponding approximately to an
l. c. plate, though, accurately speak
ing, it is little higher, which is a
little to the credit of the Cincinnati
Corrugating company, because it is in
rolling the thinner gauges that the
most difficulty is experienced. A fea'
ture of this plate is that it is Ameri
can product throughout. The black
plate was made from Bessemer stee
billets, manufactured at Middleport
Ohio, and rolled by the Piqua Rollins
Mill company. The pig tin used il
the coating came from the Temesca
mines, San Bernardino county, Cal.
and the lead was from the Missouri
mines. The manufacturers hope t.
turn out still better plates as soon a
the mill Is equipped tor cold rolling
which will enable them to put bette
surface on the black sheet before tin
ming.
''In spite OF the fact, however, tina
the present lot of plates were not col
rolled, the terne coating presents
surface that will compare favorabl
with any of the better grades OF in
ported plates. The Cincinnati Corrr
eating company are to be congrat.
lated on the excellent result of thei
first attempt in making tin plates
and we hope that the trade will 500
be able to put the product to pra'
tical test in the roofing work"