The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1891-10-01
NUMBER Al.
The New Tin Plate.

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their samples, of American tin
plate. Norton Bros, Chicago,
write to Major Mckinley at
Delphos, Ohio, as follows:
We have SHIPPED during the past
ten days more than 100 carloads Of
No. 2 and No. cans, such as are
used in canning factories. The
No. 2 are for corn, the No. 3 for
tomatoes. The prices have in no
case exceeded $2.15 per hundred
for No. 2 and $3.50 for No. 3. In
September, 1890, we sold the same
cans exactl y-or rather exactly the
same size, kind and quality-at
S3.15 to 1926 for No. Q and 81 to
$4.25 for No. 3, and these were
the regular market prices both
here and in the East a year ago.
It thus appears that the Ameri-
can tin plate is put upon the mar
ket by the Chicago firm at about
80 per cent less than the price
paid one year ago for British tin
plate.
10 settle the issue raised by
Democrats as to the manufacture
of tin plate at the Piqua, Ohio,
works, the foreman, who is him
self a Democrat, goes before a
notary and deposes as follows:
Personally appeared before me
John E. McCabe, who being duly
sworn, deposeth and says that he
is the foreman of the galvanizine
and timing department. of the
Cincinnati Corrugating Company,
and that on Sept. Il, 1891, the
first tin plate made by the Cincin-
natl Corrugating Company was
made under his supervision, and
that the sheets used then and since
in coating under atlantis supervis-
ion were of steel rolled by the
Piqua Rolling Mill, that the pot
holding the bath for coating con
tanned 5000 pounds, composed in
usual proportions of only pig tin
from California and American
lead. That on the 18th Of Septem-
Der, 1891, Maj. VIM. Mckinley in
my presence and that of several
others, coated in the regular way
five sheets Of steel plate by Dip
ping in the aforesaid pot, contain
ing the aforesaid mixture of Cali
fornia tin and American lead; and
furthermore, that all coating done
under atlantis supervision since at
the works of the G. c.. Company
has been done at and with mater
ials hereinbefore described.
JOHN McCABE.
Sworn to before me by John
McCabe, and by him signed in nv
presence, this 22nd day of Septem-
Der, 1891.
j. H. HATCH, Notary Public.
The proprietor of three tin
plate mills in Wales has examined
the Ohio article and admitted it to
be first class. The proprietor of a
tin roofing firm, who has used the
Piqua plate, pronounces it better
than that which he has been re-
ceiving from Wales. The Wotoz
Worker, published in New York
and, Chicago, one Of the best
authorities on metal working in
the world, says of the Ohio plate,
editorially:
A sample Of the lot which has
been forwarded for our inspection
shows it to be a high grade of
roofing plate, of smooth and even
finish, with no uncoated spots to
prophesy rust The surface is
more bright than with the common
run of imported plates, showing
that considerable amount of tin
was used in the mixture. The
sheet is of No. 80 gauge, CORES
ponding approximately to an I. G..
plate, though accurately speaking,
it is a little lighter, which is to the
credit of the Cincinnati Corrugat-
ing Company, because it is in roll
ing the thinner gauges that the
most difficulty is experienced.
A Democratic politician who
thought to catch the new firm nap
ping, sent in large order for tin
plate to be made at Piqua from
American steel and American tin.
He had the pleasure Of seeing his
tin plate made at the Piqua works
in short order, and the pleasure
also of pulling on his bank account
for a pile of sheet tin for which he
l.