The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-05-21
AMERICAN TIN PLATE,


About to BE Established.
Some time ago samples of American
tin plate were sent to certain English
journals, asking them to notice this new
American industry in their columns. 1t
was thought it would be matter of in
terest to them and their readers to know
that we were already making tin plate,
although the new duty woaL not 10
into effect for months to come. A re-
cent mail brings the London Financial
Times, with notice in the shape Of a
column of labored sarcasm and feigned
doubt as to whether the sample sent was
really American tin plato. 1t 10 a sig
nificant fact that the London Financial
Times raises the same question that our
New York Times and other journals
which echo British sentiment have
raised. We have already fully answered
our home papers, but for the benefit of
our English contemporaries we will re-
peat. The piece Of tin sent to the FL
nancial Times was made at Demler, Pa.
by the United States Iron and Tin Plate
company, and this is what Mr.. w. G.
Cronemeyer, the president of that com
pany, says Of it:
'"rhe material used for those plates has
been produced from American iron ore;
was first turned into pig metal in Ameri-
can blast furnaces; American steel works
converted the pig metal into steel bill
lets; the steel billets were rolled into thin
sheets of steel; the latter were picked, or
cleaned of scale with American acid, and
all the work was done by American work.
men (that is, workmen either born in this
country or who have by their own free
will chosen America as their homel.
''The only ingredient contained in
those plates which is of foreign origin is
the tin used for coating from % to 8
pounds Of foreign tin to every 100 pounds
Of American steel plates).
During the last ten years the explana-
ton that the 30 called tin plates are not
made from tin ore, but from iron ore,
and only washed with a light coating Of
tin, has been so often made by the Amer
ican press generally that any person
who yet talks about the impossibiEty of
making tin plate for want of the tin ore
reveals gross ignorance. The bulk of
tin used by English manufacturers is
imported by them from the Dutch East
Indies or from Australia, and we can i'm
port it from there as we'll.
"Yes, the tin plates are as genuinely
American IS the tin plates imported
from Wales are Welsh"
This showing is good enough in itself,
but we can 60 still further. In the city
Of Chattanooga few weeks ago they
were celebrating the successful manu-
facture in the south Of basic steel from
their ores and from their coal, and on
the banquet table for one of the courses
every guest had tin plate made out of
their basic steel and coated with the tin
ores that came from the Black hills,
made in American shops in st. Louis,
by American workn,sn, and it was a.
good as can he made anywhere in the
world. Neither the London Financial
Times, the New York Times, nor any
other journal at home or abroad. which
devotes columns in trying to belitsls
American industries, can question Any
longer that We are making tin plato, all
Of which is American material and Ia
Dor. We do not claim to be supplying
the market. It is over two months yet
before the nav duty on tin plates viii
go into effect, and twenty months be-
fore our bar tin will be protected. We
do claim, however, that we will soon be
making SO much American tin plate
that the SEQ, ,0O0, 900 which we have been
annually sending to Great Britain will
sremain at home, and our workmen will
be correspondingly benefited. We ad-
wise our Free-trade contemporaries to
drop the tin plate question and try to
PROFOUND sons hardsr problem.