Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-30

manufacture of tin plate will follow the
production OF the raw article. Already
there are mills in active operation. Then
instead of importing the 1886. .602 tons Of tin
plate we will make that amount within our
own nation. Gyt15th's Guide, standard
statistical work. shows that 500, 900 persons
are directly and indirectly employed in the
$50 mills in England, producing annually
600. 600 tons Of tin plate. FUm these sta
tistics it appears that the labor of one per-
son is required each year in the produc-
tion of ton of tin plate. Thus the manu-
facture of tin plate in this country tor
home consumption alone would furnish en-
ployment for 336,692 people, and at the
moderate salary Of 81 per day this would
increase the pay roll Of wage earners by
the handsome sum- of 1922, S92, $50. But
there is no doubt that the average wages
received would be at least 50 q day.
It has been estimated by q competent
authority that the home manufacture of tin
plate will furnish in round numbers an
American market for the annual consump-
tion OF $50, 900 tons of iron ore, 300, 900 tons
Of limestone, 1,500, 900 tons of coal, 25,000,-
600 bushels of charcoal, 5000, 900 pounds of
lead, 10, 600, 900 pounds OF tallow, 5000, 900
pounds of sulphuric acid and about 10, 600,
900 feet of lumber. in addition to the iron
and tin contained in the articles manufac-
tured.
The Harney Peak Company's Enterprise.
The Eta Company soon interested En-
glish capital, including Lord Thurlow and
the Barring Gould brothers in the enter
prise The Harvey Peak Tin Mining and
Milling Company was organized, and ab-
sorbed the Eta Mining Company and all
its properties The new company owns
over LOO claims, covering over 1000
acres
The energies of the company are concen-
trated upon the development of five of the
most promising claims, the Addie, the
Coats, the Gertie, the Cowboy and the
Tenderfoot or Japanzy. These are produc-
ing mines. It is from these mines that the
newly erected concentrating mill at Hill
City is to be first supplied with ore.
Miners are at work in all Of these mines
and great deal of money has been invested
In machinery at each. On rough estimate
it may safely be said that there are over
100, 600 tons Of ore in the Coats and Cowboy
mines ready for stopping at the present
new tin mill there is here sufficient ore to
keep it running for 400 days; and in the
opinion of Superintendent j. s. Childs,
mining has just begun in these mines-and
he Is an experienced miner and knows what
he is talking about In the upper levels of
the Addie mine, the most promising of the
lot, are 1000 tons of ore.
Other Companies in the Field.
Since the discovery of tin in the Black
Hills in 1877 quite quantity of stream
tin" has been taken from Bear Gulch, Po-
tato Gulch and Beaver Creek Gulch. Many
tin claims have been taken up in this dis
trict. Besides there are several large COM
panies with properties In there also. There
is the Cleveland Tin Mining and Milling
Company, Of which Ex-Governor Cornell is
President, with . paid-up non-assessable
capital Of $1,000,000 The company has
done considerable development work, has a
large shatthouse, 20-horse-power boiler,
and large ore vein. Then there is the
Niger Hill Tin Mining and Milling Com
pany, Of which G. j. Finch is President,
with capital of 81 250, 900 and 20 or more
claims that prospect we'll A third COM
pany Is the American Tin Mining and Mill
ing Company, of which Lewis F. Payne is
President, with q capital stock of 81, 500, 900.
While the stream tin or cassiterite is of
an excellent quality and produces white tin
equal to that found in any other locality,
yet it is thought not to be equal to the
"albite" (the true mattrix of tin) found in
the lode veins in this region. In some of
these veins the rock is sprinkled with fine
specklike points of tin, and scattered
through here and there are large cubes of
the pure ore. These mines are mostly held
by placer miners and other men without
means to enable them to do moro than per-