Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-30
AMERICAN TIN PLATE.
Tho First Great Bright-Tin Factory-lt Is
Also Made Near Pittsburg.


Eli Perkins in New York SUM-
ELwooD, IND, Jan. 29-Some time ago I
vouched for the richness OF the tin mines
near Rapid City, South Dakota. 1 said they
occupied a section of Harney's Peak, about
Il miles square, and that the scientists there
assayed the ore and found it from 2.5 to 95
per cent. The article was printed 25 to 95 per
cent, and Mugwump journal in New York
used up two columns in editorials showing
that % and 95 per cent tin ore was ridicu-
lous a selfevident fact that any average
man could see. The fact that we had in the
United States large sections of rock-bearing
ore richer in tin than the mines OF Malacca
is what said. Such fact is not doubted in
Dakota.
Yesterday I visited a tin factory in
Elwood, 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 and Western Rail-
road and President Roberts Panhandle.
This tin plate plant is the first million dollar
plant built up from the ground in this coun-
try by WEIGH 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. H..
Leeds. and other Pennsylvania magnates.
The Mckinley Dill made this factory.
l rode over and inspected the building
yesterday with superintendent Z. Stanford,
of the Jersey Tin Plate Company OF Britton
Ferry, Wales. Mr.. Stanford has been max
ing bright tin for 25 years in Wales; After
showing me through three mammoth brick
buildings covering several acres, l asked
him II he could make the best bright tin III
America as well as in Wales.
Certainly he said. 81 have made it for
25 years in Wales, and we can make it more
proftably here, with the tariff as it is, than
in Wales. That Is what brought me here.
We shall turn out $50 boxes of American
tin plate day by the first of May.
as bright tin being made in other places
in the United States?" 1 asked 81 don't
mean terne plate. but bright tin"
"Yes. The Demler Tin Plate Company, of
Demler, Pa, is making 1000 boxes a week;
the Britton Tin Plate Works in Cleveland
are turning out J, l,000boxes week: the works
at Apollo, Ind are turning out 500 boxes Il
week; Anderson, Ind, is making $50 boxes q
week: Neidringhaus, of st. Louis, is turning
lyn, n. Y, is turning out large quantities, L
don't know how much"
"Now. you know this, Mr.Stanford," :" said,
eyeing the Welshman steadily. you know
that these quantities OF bright tin are being
made in this country You know the New
York Times denies it.'
Eyes, sir: know it. And why not? Until
American tin ore can be gotten out of the
rocks in sufficient quantities we can do just
what did in WaleS-use block tin from the
Straits of Malacca. That comes free OF duty.
The Mckinley bill will bring many tin fac
tories to this country in time. With natural
gas here as fuel, we expect to make more
money than in Wales"
"How about your iron?"
"We shall roll that from bar iron in these
Elwood mills"
EIwood had about 1000 people two years
ago. To-day, with her plate glass factories,
natural gas and tin factory, she has 5000
people.