The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-01-12
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How Philadelphia VIII Profit Under III
Nielslnioy Biil-Somothing About II

How Philadelphia VIII Profit Under tho
Meitinloy Bill-somothins About Tin
Plato.
Philadelphia Lsdacr,
IT was announced yesterday that the
\. y G. Taylor Company, manufacture
ers and Importers Of tin plate. 300
Branch street, had purchased through
the Land Title and Trust company, from
j. Pemberton Ellis. tract OF land on
tho north side Of Tasker street, extend.
ing from Swanson to Meadow streets,
In tho First Ward. Es
Tho purchasers state that they will at
once take tho necessary steps toward
tho carly erection OF tin plate manu-.
factory. The main building Is to con-
tain twenty.four stacks, which will have
a daily output OF 100 boxes OF the
highest grade roofing plates, giving
employment to q large force Of men and
boys. Necessary additional buildings
will be Of ample size TO afford economi-
cal and expeditions handling OF the i'm
mcnse business, and adequate facilities
for RECEIVING materials and shipping
the finished product vii! be afforded by
communication with the Pennsylvania
and Baltimore & Ohio railroads.
10 II Ledger reporter, last evening,
George Taylor, OF the firm, showed tin
plate which, lie said had, few days
before, been made OF Pennsylvania
steel, dipped in tin from San Diego,
California, and made in this city by
Phiiadeiphia workmen.
a number OF other plates, mcnuiac-
turcd by the firm in this city, were ex-
hibited, ard Mr.. Taylor said:
THE general ignorance concerning
tin plate and its manufacture is sur
prisiug. Newspaper writer's and public
speakers have repeatedly stated that
the tin plate made in Wales is with tho
tin mined i'll tha. country. AS matter
oil fact there is no Tin mined in Wales.
and that mined in Cornwall, England, is
not used in making tin plates.
"All tho tin used i'll the tin plate
factories Of Wales is brought from Aus.
tralia by way OF London. Ocean freight
from London to Philadelphia is about
- cents per 100 pounds. or about the
some as the rate by rail from New
York to Philadelphia. As there is no
duty on pig tin, the manufacturer in
Philadelphia can purchase his supplies
Mt less cost than those makers in Wales
who pay railroad freight of more than
Is cents per hundred pounds from Lon
don.
There is no mystery or intricacy
about the making OF tin plate, which is
simply sheet iron or sheet steel coated
with pure tin or mixture OF tin and
lead. OF the sheetstin the Dessemer is
the cheaper, and the best is the Sic
mens-Martin plate, both OF which are
made i'll this country. For our highest
quality OF roofing plate we use as a
backins the Siemcns-Nartin, unham-
mered, soft steel, the larger proportion
OF which is made abroad.
Bright tin, or that which is used
chiefly for making household utensils,
is covered with pure tin. In roofing
plate the covering contains certain
percentage OF lead, which comes from
Missouri and other Western states.
The quality OF tin plates, OF course, de-
ponds on the amount and manner OF its
covering, and to protect people from i'm
position We stamp and guarantee every
plate manufactured by us.
Tits our purpose to use materials
produced in this country rs far as pos
sble, and thus open the way for larg-
or output OF our rolling mills and mines,
which will necessarily result in the dis
tribution among our own people OF vast
sums OF money, which are every year
sent abroad. AS for the wages oil our
worlimcn, they will DO much better
than are paid in Wales, because all
workmcn are given higher wages in this
country than in Europe. Another
thing we are determined upon is to en-
ploy boys to do the work which the
women and girls perform in the Welsh
factories.
"As to the success OF tin plate making
in this country l cannot see any reason
Tor doubt. As soon MS the industry is
fairly well established the American
genius for improvement in methods OF
manufacture will inevitably follow, and,
with the sharp competition among the
manufacturers, will reduce the price of
the product and allow OF lowering the
duty on tin plate"