New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-10-28
AMERICAN TINPLATE.
\ GOVERNMENT REPORT SHOWING THE
RAPID GROWTH OF THE INDUSTRY.
THE MOST SANGUINE EXPECTATIONS OF ITa
FRIENDS JUSTIFIED-EyERY INDICATION .
THAT BY 1894 THE UNITED STATES WILL
PRODUCE ALL 1T TCoNsUMEs-wAGEs


THAT BY 1894 THE UNITED STATES WILL
PRODUCE ALL IT CoNsUMEs-wAGEs
IN AMERICA AND WALES.
Wash ngton, Oct. 27-The report o. the Treas
ury Special Agent Ira Aver on the production Of
tin and terne plates for the quarter ended SepteT-
bor 30. 1892, isued TO night by the Treasury De-
partmcnt seems to justify the most sanguine eX-
pectatons of those who have maintained that
tire tinplate industry created by the Mckin-
ley Tariff Act has come to stay. Mr. Ayers re-
port is most gratifying ore. showing great In.
crease in the home production of tin and terne
plates for the quarter just ended and steady
expansion and sOidfcation of the new industry.
The report is dated October a. II announces
that during the quarter ended September 80
thirty-two firms produced l0,952,725 pounds Of
tin and terne plates proper, against s26,922
pounds produced by five firms during the same
quarter of the last fiscal year. the production Of
the entire year having been l3,646,7l9 pounds.
OF the total production for the quar- er 5.9?0,os2
pounds, or more than "a per cent, were made from
American black plates: 3,6l1,367 pounds, or
about third of the whole bright tin
plates, of which 1887 ,O36 pounds, or more than
90 per cent were Of the lighter class Of plates
mentioned IN the law; 7,34l,35s pounds were
tcrne pla es, Of which more than % per cent
belonged TO the lighter class. Compared with
the first quarter of the las fiscal year, the num-
her of firms engaged in the manufacture was
more than sin times as great; the amount Of tin
and terne plates made was more than thirteen
times az grea' and the amount of American black
plates used in the manufacture WIS about eight
times as great.
The amount OF American sheet iron and steel
made into articles and wares timed or terne-
coated during the past quarter WAS, at a mod
crate estimate based on the sworn return Of
stamp ng companies and Others during the last
fiscal year, and such returns received 10 date for
the present quarter, 1,250,000 pounds. This
makes the total production during the quarter
of tin and terne plates within the meaning OF
the law l2,202,725 pounds
On the basis OF this output, the production for
the present fiscal year would be about 50,Ooo.0O0
pounds hut when il is considered that the growth
of the industry during the last fiscal year was ID
rapid to make the total production for the year
more than sixteen times much as that of the
first quarter, il is rot regarded as presumptuous
to assume that the estimated production of l00,-
900 pounds for the present fiscal year, here
tOfore made, is now practically assured
In the report Of August Is, 1892 it was shown
that l4,l24,7s1 pounds Of American plates were
used in the production OF tin and terne plates dur
ing the last fiscal year, 9,296, ,553 pounds Of which
entered into the manufacture of tin and terne
plates proper. The total production OF this ac-
count during the year about twelve times as
great that Of the first quarter With the same
rate of increase continued, the production Of the
present fiscal year would be more than 7G,000.000
pounds, and Of the fiscal year ending June 80,
1884. more than 50O0O0,0G0 pounds.
1t would seem entirely within the range Of prob
oh; hat rip tha GSna Tn
80, 1894, which will he the third year that the
law will have been in force, the United States will
produce amount of tin and terne plate equal to
its own consumption, nearly all of which will be
made from American black plates.
On September 80, 1892. there were in all forty
six manufacturing companies. of which thirty.
two were producing, fourteen were building eight
were enargng and twenty making pre-
pairing to make black plates. During the latter
part Of the quarter the works of Wallace Ban.
field & Company, limited. of Ironlale Ohio, were
destroyed by fire. The firm Immediately began
the work of rebuilding. The name of the Key
stone Tinplate Company. of Philadelphia. which
did not produce during the last quarter, has been
dropped from the list. The names of five firms.
viz: Tile Atlanta 1inplate Company. of Atlanta.
Ind the Baltimore Steel, Iron and Tinplate
Company. of Baltimore; the International Tin
plate and Refining Company. of Chicago; the
Joliet Tinplate Company. of Joliet. ILL.,, and the
Phillips Tinplate Company, of Philadelphia have
been acd,.l TO the list of manufacturing companies
The Anderson Tinplate Company. of Anderson.
Ind. which had temporarily suspended. resumed
operation during the quarter and appears again
in the list of producers. The Somerton Tinplate
Works OF Brooklyn, began producing the
end Of the quarter, and will have six hot
mills in operation. Some twenty other firms
mentioned by name being in active and sue
cessful operation. most of them at the same time
largely improving existing plants.
In regard to prices the report says that on
September 3O according to figures given by II. r.
DeMilt & Co., of New-York the price in New
York Of English tnplates. wholesale. from store. T.
O., IA by 90, regular l12 sheets, weighing l03
pounds was s. 81 l-2 per box, against IS 4S for
the corresponding date in 1891, and S5 so for the
corresponding date in 1890, which was nine
months before the present law went into effect.
American tin plates of the same grade as the
above were quoted to the firm about Septem.
her 30. 1892, by several American manufactur-
ers, whose names are given IN the letter. az
from So 25 to S. 35, I. o. b. at works.
Wages in the new industry here and In wales
are compared as follows:
''N England United States.
(per box). (per box).
x,.usn.r Cents. Cents
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