, 1892-03-04
OUR PROSPERITY.
New Industries and Many Other
Hopeful Things.
Some of the Great Misunderstanding

Some of the Great Manufacturing
establishments That are Conn
Ing to This Country and Open-
ing Business.
Chicago Inter-Ocean: 81 spent an hour
yesterday with Governor Mckinley, in
Columbus, and he was about the happiest
man I'ye seen lately"
HAS he recovered his health p,
Yes, he is perfectly recovered, and his
eyes are as bright as a college freshman's.
When told him [ dropped in to give him
the news about new industries springing
up all over the country, he said:
"'Yes, hear of them. We have cap
tured the mandatory of macaroni, chic
ory, silk plush, silk knitted goods like
jerseys and ladies' silk stockings, plate
glass, and doubling our worsted and carpet
factories.' Then we talked about the great
tin factory just built by Welch capital at
Elwood, Ind"
TELL US about this enterprise" sug-
gested our reporter.
'Well, said Mr.. Perkins, 'Fthis morning
[ visited the great mandatory again.
1T is only 100 miles from Chicago, OF
forty miles beyond Logansport, on the
Panhandle road. Tt is the first great ST.
100000 tin-plate factory built up from the
ground with Welch skill and money since
the Mckinley bill passed. A. I. Conger,
Of tl Y1e:ungstown, Ohio. who IS now visiting
the tin ore mines IN Southern California,
Senator Calvin Brice, w. B. Leeds, and
otherPan-handle magnates, joined with
Welch capitalists. Mr.. d. Stamford, of the
Jersey Tin-Plate Works, Britton Ferry,
Wales is the working manager. They have
covered five acres with this great tin-plate
plant, and drilled a gas we'll to furnish the
fuel. Elwood has endless quantities of
natural gas. Mr.. Stanford says when the
plant is finished it will turn out 2500 boxes
of bright tin plate per week.
Are they perfectly sure of results ?''
asked our reporter.
Perfectly sure. When l asked the
Weleh manager, Mr.. Stanford, why he
moved his plant from Wales, he said: I
am only following the example of Sir Titus
Salt, who moved his 81 100000 plush plant
from Hanley, England, to Bridgeport,
Conn.,, and the Coats thread people who
left their thread plantin Glasgow to put up
their gigantic thread works in Jersey City
The tariff made me come to America with
my Welch-l laborers. 1 can make more
money making bright tin in America than
in Wales
But can you make it p l asked.
"A look of wonder beamed from the
Welchnlan's eyes, as he said: Why, my
great-grandfather made tin iii Britton Fer
ry, Wales, till he died; then my father
made it, and then I made it for twenty
three years. Make TIM I make tin2
Why, I've duplicated our Weleh plant
here in Indiana. I've brought our work
men over, and more are coming-and more
plants, too. I'm only the pioneerl'
y1,fat.a L IL
I asked.
From the Straits of Malacca, where we
have always gotten it, he said. 'Welch
ore beds are full of alloy, and there they
are worked out
Do you expect 10 get American ore y
Certainly, said Mr.. Stanford. 1t is
coming out in California now. Mr.. Conger
is shocking after it now.
The tariff does not go on to Malacca
block tin till 1898, and any president can
take it off in 1897 if America is not produc-
ing 500 tons Of block tin year. The Har-
ney-Peck mines don't have to be in q
hurry. Tin ore is in the finty peaks of the
Black Hills mountains. 1t will take water
and great stamp mills. It took five years
to get out copper in paying quantities from
the Lake Superior rocks. 1t will take two
or three years to get out tin in quantities
large enough to supply the American
market. AS soon as the tariff goes on to
foreign tin, expect to see American ore
come out very fast, and that will not be till
1898. The Mckinley tariff against tin
plate brought US over from Wales, and we
will stay here as long as we are protected,
and, / presume, even after the tariff is
taken off, as it will probably be in five or
six years."
stDo you hear of other tin-plate works,
Mr.. Perkins ~ asked our reporter
Yes; the Demler works in Pennsylva-
MIA are turning out 1000 boxes a week: the