Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-05-26
Remarkable Expansion OF the In
dustry Under the Influence
Of Protection.
Gratifying Facts Reposted by a
Special Agent Of the
Treasury.
American Factories Fast Produc-
ing Supplies Enough for the
H me Dem ocrats.

New York Tribune The official re
port of Special Agent Aver, who has
been selected to receive and collate the
records OF tin plate manufacture under
the new tariff, gives information which
djsposes of a large army of tin-plate
faisehoods 1t is but a few days since
newspapers that profess to be we'll in
formed we're asserting that no bright tin
plate had been or could be made in this
country. Only about 4 week ago the
majority Of tho house committee on
ways and means, which nobody expects
to be we'll informed, made itself ridicu
lous by repeating the same assertion
Yet the sworn reports of the manufac-
turers, which Mr.. Aver complies, we're
on file at that time, and open to the in
spection of everybody. These returns
show that the production in nine months
ending With March had been of bright
tiH plate lighter than 63 pounds per 100
square feet l 1886, 06S pounds. and of tern
plates of the same limit as to weight s.
1872 l62 pounds, making 4, 527, $50 POUNDS
within the provisions OF the law
requiring a production equal 10 a
third of the consumption within six
years.
will be met by American manufacturers
not five or six years hence, but next
year. He shows remark bly, rapid in
crease in the out put, five manufactur
ers reporting SIT 431 pounds the first
quarter, eleven manufa cturers report
], 22S $50 pounds the second quarter, and
nineteen manufacturers reporting 2,721,
425 pounds the third quarter after the
intn otfan+ oil y,,i%I,,,
limits of the law as to weight He finds
that twenty-six factories are now in
actual operation, and sixteen more are
already preparing to begin operations in
the next fiscal year The estimated
100000 pounds weekl,. or in forty five
weeks for the year no less than 343,-
100000 pounds for the next fiscal ye II
No such production is required to meet
the demands of the law and to the con
ditional feature Of the new duties.
The quantity imported and entered
for consumption during any fiscal year
is the first full year Included The i'm
portations in eight months of this year
is the first full year included The i'm
portatio in eight months Of this year
have been only 1T, LA, S74 pounds, but
have recently increased, reaching A.
339, 245 pounds in February, so that the
quantity in the remaining four months
! might % large as in the previous
eight mo- til Even then the imports
| would be only 354,0OO,O0O pounds for the
entire tisc year, and Agent Aver est
mates that it will not exceed 300,00O,OO0
pounds. From this quantity is to be
deducted, under the second proviso
| n Huo rnotnI tho IF Tin ,>Io 10
exported with the benefit Of drawback,
years. according to Mr. Ayers report, 1t
has averaged about 100000 pounds,
| and if it should be no greater for the
| for consumption in this country on the
estimate of Mr. Aver would be about
| $50 100000 pounds
production of ooly $4,000, 600 pounds
other year prior to 1897, will secure the
berefit of the continued duty He
| thinks there is no doubt that this
quantity will be produced in the next
| fiscal year, and if the estimated capacity
/ of the works is not ny far in error, it
will be exceeded. But there has yet to
be added to the figures Of production
the quantity covered by the third pro
vison above quoted, which bias not been
included in the returns thus far, This
| business is large, and covers the ent re
| capacity OF some Of the works in opera
ton. But if the returned production
within the requirements of the law
should. as Mr.. Aver expects exceed
within the second year OF the acts
operation the quantity required to make
the duty permanent, the triumph OF this
new American industry would be com
plete.