Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-07-01

A dispatch from Washington SAYS
that w. A: Aver. a special agent of the
treasury department, has submitted to-
Secretary Foster an exhaustive report
on the tin plate business ofthe country.
the manufacture of tin plate and the
growth ofthe industry. Mr.. Ayers re-.
port makes the following showing:
Quarter ended September 81. 1891, five
manufacturers reported: Tin plates. 15o,.
4s9 pounds; terne plates, 674, 1875 pounds;
total, S26,922 pounds.
utlcturcrs reported: Tin plates. 2l5. gl1
pounds; terne plates, 1888, $40 pounds;
total, l, 400, S21 pounds.
Quarter ended March 81, 1892. nineteen
manufacturers reported: TIN plates. 1922
656 pounds; terne plates, 1,9Oi,43l pounds;
total, 3.0O4,057 pounds,
These figures do not include the pro.
duction of sheet iron or sheet steel used
in the manufacture of articles timed OK
terne-plated, estimated at 1000, 900
pounds.
Mr.. Ayer'sreport shows that the aver
age annual imports of ito and terne
plates for the three years ended June
so, 1890, was 67S, OOO,6 900 pounds. Inthe
year ended June 80, 1891, the imports
amounted to loss, 600. 600 pounds. This
increase of 3SO,00O,0O0 pounds he says
was due to larger importations to avoid
the new duty of = 2-1O cents a pound
imposed by the Mckinley law. Mr..
Aver says that if the importations for
the current year are made to meet only
the actual wants of the country, they
will not exceed 800, 0O0, 600 pounds. Up
to February %, 1892, they amounted
only to III ,OOO,0 OO pounds. The guam
tity of tin plates imported in the
year ended June 81. 1891, which
ported articles, and upon which a
dra xback wa paid, was $50. oOO.o 600
pounds. The year before it was $780,.
10000 pounds, and the year before
that was l66, 100000 pounds. Upon this
basis Mr.. Aver figures that the Ameri.
can manufacturer, in order to maintain
the duty on tin plates after October /,
1897, must produce in one of the six
years ending at that date, 5O,OOO,O5O
pounds of tin and terne plates weighing
lighter than 3 pounds to the square
foot. Mr.. Aver says the Indications
are that under existing conditions the
production of the country before the
close of the second fiscal year will be
iu excess of an annual rate Of 2OO.lOO..
0OO pounds.
Accompanying the reports are many
letters from manufacturers giving de.
scriptions of their plants and prospects
and generally expressing a hope that
the law will be permitted to remain UNI.
changed.
In connection with the foregoing re.
port of Mr.. Aver it will be interesting
to note the fact that one of the largest
Welsh tin plate manufacturers, w. H.
Edwards, has decided to close his tim
house, or finishing department, at Car
diff, and to begin at once the erection
of ten mills in this country. These
mills will be followed by others as fast
as the business may require. MIR. Ed
wards will import his black steel plates
from his factory at Swansea for the
present. Eventually he intends to re-.
move his entire interests here.
The location of the mills has not yet
been decided upon. Mr.. Edwards will
arrive here by the Teutonic about Sat.
urday, and. after consulting with his
manager. will choose a site for the
works. Mr.. Edwards is connected with
senting an invested capital of $l,225O,OOO,
which will undoubtedly soon be divert.
ed toward this country in whole or in
part. His fathers firm, that of ID. f..
Edwards q Co., was selected by the
British Association at the time of their
last visit to Wales as the representative
house in the trade. Daniel Edwards
was the first man to employ steel in the
manufacture of plates. Before that time
iron vas used. He has always been n
OF the chief exporters in the trade.
After Forty Y..ra.
How many of the thousands of men
who hold lands in the West under q
certain beneticent law know who was
the father of the homestead bill? Ben.
etits enjoyed are rarely eloquent of the
ones who conferred them, the mass Of
mankind being content to know that
they have athing, bothering themselves
very little with the how and wherefore.
If the name of Galusua A. Grow were
mentioned admirably in the hearing Of
nine-tenths of the homesteaders who
owe their present good fortune to his
indefatigable zeal and convincing clio.
auence, it is very likely there would be
occasion to answer the interrozatory.
"Who 10 he
For many years this earnest, edu.
Gated, philanthropic man labored to 90.
cure free homes for free mon" under
. just national measure, and finally