Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-02-27
Tin PLATE FIGURES
Special Agent Ayers Report on
the Industry.
PROGRESS MADE IN THREE MONTHS


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WASHINGTON. Feb. Especial Agent
Aver has submitted another report to the
treasury department on the development
of the tin plate industry. The period COW
cred by this report is the quarter ended
Dec. 81, 1892, The report shows that dur
ing the period thirty-two firms produced
10, 756, ,49l pounds of tin and terne plates
proper The same number of firms pro-
duced during the previous quarter 1882
725 pounds. OF the production of the past
quarters, 1SS, 739 pounds. or little less than
one-third of the whole, were bright tin
plates, of which 5,274 ,434 pounds. or about
Sc per cent, consisted OF the class of plates
weighing lighter than siXty-three pounds
per 100 square feet; 13,6lT,752 pounds were
terne plates, of which 12,6S4, ,64G pounds, or
more than % per cent, belonged to the
lighter class of plates
Great Increase in Production.
The amount of American sheet iron and
steel made into articles and wares timed
or terne coated during the quarter, as
shown by the sworn statements OF manu-
facturers receceived to date, was :, ,245, 500
pounds The total production of tin and
| terne plates for the six months ended Dec
81, 1892, including the products from
| SO, $50, ,955 pounds The production of tin
| and terne plates proper during the first
| six months of the present fiscal year was
| 20, 709, ,2l6 pounds, against 1926, 143 pounds
produced during the corresponding period
| of the previous year. the ratio of increase
| having been nearly as ! TO IA. The pro
! duction of the last fiscal year was 1885,
| 719 pounds, which is considerably less than
half the production during the first six
months of the present year.
Prefer the American Plates.
The consumption of American black
plates in the production OF tin and terne
plates proper during the first six months
of the present fiscal year was 1858. .5al
pounds, or 3l6,e12 pounds more thar the
total product of tin and terne plates proper
during the first year that the law became
| operative. The total consumption of
American plates, including articles from
| sheet iron or steel timed during the first
| six months of the last fiscal year was l.
| 475, I55 pounds, and for the first six months
of tAe present fiscal year IL, l01,210 pounds.
| OF the thiIty-two firms who submitted
| their sworn returns for the quarter, nine
| firms made and used their own black plates
exclusively; five others used only American
| plates, eight used both American and
| foreign plates, and ten used only foreign
platesi The American platss are generally
preferred by the manufacturers to the
| foreign.
VIII Meet the Laws Provision.
Full returns from the importing and ex-
| porting ports of the country show that Of
the class Of plates weighing lighter than
| sixty three pounds per 100 square feet there
We're imported during the fiscal year ended
June 80, 1892, 314 ,G97 COG, and of the same
| class of plates there were exported 1876, 7T3 =
1870 pounds, making the net importation
| for the year 2S7, 923, SIC, one third of which
| is 79, ,30i 939 pounds. Under existing pro-
visions of law American manufacturers
must produce during one of the six fiscal
years ending June 80, 1897, one-third OF the
net imporJations of one of the said years.
| If it be assumed that the importations Will
not be less during any one of the remain
ing years specified, the amount of the
| lighter class OF plates which must be pro-
duced by American manufacturers during
one of the six years in question, may be
positively stated at 1885, 939 pounds.
Agent Aver thinks it probable that thi
amount will be equalled during the pres
ent fiscal year.
The Duty on Block Tin.
! The report states that the Temeseal tin
mine in southern California and the Har.
ney PEAK mine in South Dakota have sus-
| pended operations, and suggests that mas
much as it now seems probable that the