Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-04-01
The First Great Bright-Tin Fac
tory

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Some time ago vouched for the rich
ness of the tin mines near Rapid City,
South Dakota. / said they occupied a
section of HaTney's Peak about twelve
miles square, and that the scientists there
assayed the ore and found it from 2.5 to
9 5 per cent. The article was printed %
to % per cent, and n mngwnmp journal
in New York used up two columns in edi-
torials showing that % and % per cent.
tin ore was ridiculous, a seli-evdent fact
! that any average man cOnld see. The
fact that we had in the United States
large sections of rock hearing ore richer
in TIN than the mines of NJ ,llacca is what
| said. Such fact is not doubted IN Da-
kota.
Yesterday visited tin factory in Ell
wood, Ind, that would bring Joy to any
American. 1t is situated in the gas belt,
at the junction of Senator Calvin Brice's
Lake Erie AMI Western Railroad and
President Roberts Pan Handle. This tin
plate plant is the first mil1on-dollar plant
| bnilt up from the ground in this country
| by Welsh skill and money. Money to
build this great factory is furnished from
Wales and by Colonel A. L. Conger, who
has great plate-glass works here, and W.
| B Leeds, and other PennsS lvauia mag
mates. The Mckinley bill made this fac
tory.
| rode over and inspected the building
the other day with superintendent +.
| Stanford of the Jersey Tin-Plate Com
pany of Britton Ferry, Wales. Mr.. Stan
ford has been making bright tin for TWEEN
| tv-five years in Wales. After showing me
through three mammoth brick buildings
covering several acres / asked him if he
could make the best bright tin in Ameri-
ca as well as in Wales.
"Certainly," he said. 81 have made It
for twenty-five years in Wales. and WE
can make it more pTOftably here, with the
tariff as it is, than in wales. That il
what brought me here. We shall turr
out $500 boxes OF American tin-plate g
day by the first of May"
ais bright tin being made in othei
places in the United Statesi" Inquired
IL don't mean terne plate, but bright tin.
eyes. The Demler Tiu-Plate Co., o
, Demler, Pa, is making 1000 boxes a week
the Britton Tn-Plate Works IN CLEVELAND
are turning out 1000 boxes a week TIN
works at Apollo, Ind, are turning out eO
boxes week; A derson, Ind,
| UdhlUH OOO DOACS a MtCh ANiNA
of st. Louis is turning out 1000 boxes
week, aud Somers, of Brooklyn is turning
out large quantities, l don't know ho'
! much"
NOW, you know this, Nr. Stamford,
l said, cycling the Welshman steadily
"You know that these quantities OF brlgh
tin are being made IN this country. Io
= know the New York Times denies it,"
s Eyes, sir; l know it. And why not
Until American tin ore can be gotten on
of the rocks in sufficient quantities we ca
, do Just what did in Wales use block I'll
e from the Straits of Mallaccs. That come
g free of duty. The Mckinley bill vii
bring many tin factories to this COUNT
in time. With natural gas here as fue
s we expect to make more money than /
Wales"
"How al out your iron ~
ave shall roll that from bar iron i
these Elwood mills"
: Elwood had about 1000 people tw
years ago. To-day, with her plate glas
factories, natural gas, and tin factory
y she has 5000 peop,e.-Eli Perkins.