The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-01-04
IMMENSE TIN.PLATE-WORKS.
Extensive Factory to BE Erected and OpeI
atcd, Too, at Philadelphia.
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Extensive Factory to BE Erected and Oper-
atcd, Too, at Philadelphia.
Philadelphia Ledger.
1t was announced yesterday that the N.
IL u. Taylor Company. manufacturers and
importers of tin-plate, 800 Branch street.
Trust Company, from j. Pemberton Ellis.
tract OF land on the north side of Tasker
street. extending from Swanson to Meadow
street. in the First ward.
The purchasers state that they will at
once take the necessary stops toward the
early erection of q tin-plate mandatory.
The main building Is to contain twenty
four stacks. which will have daily out
put of ZOO boxes of the highest grade roof
ing plates, giving employment to . large
tional buildings will be of ample size to
afford economical and expeditions handling
OF the immense business, and adequate
facilities for receiving materiais and ship
ping the finished product will be afforded
by communication with the Penney lvania
and Baltimore a. Ohio railroads.
10 Ledger reporter. last evening George
Tay Ior. of the firm. showed q tin-plate
which. he said, had, q few days before, been
made of Pennsylvania steel, dipped in tin
from San Diego, CAL. and made In this city
by Philadelphia w0rkmen.
A number of other plates. manufactured
by the firm in this city, were exhibited. and
Mr. Taylor said:
The general ignorance concerning tin
plate and Its manufacture is surprising 2.
Newspaper-writers aud public speakers
have repeatedly stated that tho tin-plate
made In Wales is with the tin mined in
that country. As matter of fact there is
no tin mined in Wales, and that mined in
Cornwall. England is not used in making
tln-plstes.
"All the tin used in the tin plate factories
of Wales is brought from Australia by way
of London. Ocean freight from London to
Philadelphia is about ID cents per loo
pounds. or abo1t the same as the rates by
rail from New York to Philadelphia. As
there Is no duty on pig tin. the manufact-
urer in Philadelphia can purchase his sup
plies at less cost than those makers in
Wales who pay railroad freight of more
than. IL cents per hundred pounds from
London.
There isno mystery or in tricacy about the
making of tin-piate, which is simply sheet
iron or sheet-steel coated with pure tin o.
o mixture OF tin and lead. OF the sheet
steel the Bessemer is the cheaper, and the
which are made in this country. For our
highest quality of roofing plate we uso as
backing the Siemens-M Martin. unham.
mered, soft steel. the larger proportion of
which ia made abroad.
bright tin. or that which is used
chiefly for making household utensils. IL
covered with pure tin. In roofing plate the
covering contains q certain percentage Of
lead. which comes from Missouri and other
Western States. The quality of tin-plates,
of course. depends on the amount and man.
ner of its covering. and to protect people
from imposition We stamp and guarantee
every plate manufactured by us.
1T is our purpose to use materials pro-
duced in this country as ar as possible. and
thus open the way for o larger output of Our
rolling-mills and mines. which will neces-
sasilY result IN the distribution among our
own people OF vast snins of money which
are every year sent abroad. AS for the
wages of our workmen, they will be much
better than are paid in Wales, because all
wOrkmen are given higher wages in this
country than In Europe. Another thing
we are determined upon Is to employ boy 9
to do the work which the women aud girls
perform in the Welsh factories.
As TO the success of tim plste-making in
this country l cannot see any reason fol
doubt. As soon as tho industry is fairly
we'll established the American genins fol
improvement in methods of manufacture
will inevitably follow, and, with the shsrr
competition among the manufacturers. viii
reduce the price of the product and allo "
of lowering the duty on tin-plate."