The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1911-07-20

protection foreign products could
come in at so low a price that
American miners and workmen could
not afford to develop the industry
here The tariff stuck and the pro-
duction of tin commenced on large
scale 1t is interesting to one who
| remembers the Tin Plate" campaign
to read the following bulletin Just
/ issued by the Department OF Com
merce and Labor:
"Tin plate makes a new record IN
| two or three important particulars III
the commerce of the United States for
the fiscal year just ended. The i'm
ports are lower than in any year since
the record of it's importation was BE-
gun. the outward movement of Amer
lean tin plate was larger than ever
before. and the shipment of domestic
tin plate out of continental Unltea
States for the first time exceeded the
| imports of foreign tin plate.
For the first time since the records
of tin plate were kept the imports
of tin plate will probably fall under
the 100 million pound line. In the
year 1869, the first year for winch
figures of imports of this article ere
available, the imports amounted 10
1872 million pounds; increasing until
the high water mark OF over l bill
lion pounds was reached in 1891, the
| last year in which the low tarlf rate
of l cent per pound was in force. in
! 1892, in which year the duty was two
and two-tenths cents per pound, the
| importation fell to 422 million pounds,
increased to 62S millioL pounds IN
1898; fell below the 200 million mark
in 1898 OH million pounds; declined
to III million pounds in 1909, and
according to present indications Will
fall below 100 million pounds in 1911.
The first record of production OF
domestic tin plate shows production
"a million pounds for the last six
months of 1891. During 1892, the first
full year for which figures were avail
able, the production amounted to AZ
million pounds, and from that time
on the production increased rapidly,
passing the 500 million mark in 1897
and the l billion mark in 1908, the
actual figures being SIS and 1915
million pounds respectively. In 1906
the production amounted to 1924
million pounds, and in 1909, the last
year for which figures are available,
the production amounted to 1871 mil
lion pounds. The figures of produc-
ton are in all cases for calendar
years.
Exports of tin plate, the figu OF
which were first published in 1898,
amounted for that year to 2O,S27
pounds; in 1899, 100000 pounds and
increased to 2,4OO thousand pounds i'll
1902. In 1903 the exports to foreign
countries were IL million pounds,
and in this year the shipments to non
contiguous territory became an i'm
pOrtant factor, amounting to 1872 mil
lion pounds In 1904 exports to for
eign countries increased to million
pounds and shipments to nOncontig-
uous territory declined to 15A million
pounds. In 1908 exports climbed 10
SO % million pounds and shipments
to nOncOntiguous territory to over
% million. In 1910 exports to foreign
countries were slightly over 20 mil.
lion pounds and shipments to non
contiguous territory 34a4 million
pounds.
For the II months ending with May,
1911, the latest period for which tigur
es are available, the exports 10 for
eign countries amounted to 60,SS7,-
040 pounds, valued at $216l,472, and
shipments to noncontiguous territory
IS, 34S,S30 pounds, valued at $1,673,-
934, making total shipments from the
United States for the II months per-
iod of 80 1-3 million pounds, valued
at 1883 ,4O6, while for the same peri
cd the imports amounted to 81 ,557 ,586
pounds valued at S2,892, l49, thus
showing an excess of shipments of do
nestle tin plate over imports for the
II months period Of 7,67S,284 pounds.
The large shipment of tin plate to
nOnCOntiguous territory are chiefly on
account of the fish canning industry
in Alaska and fruit canning in Hawaii
The receipts of canned salmon from
Alaska amounted to 107,639,S0l
pounds in the II months ended in
May, 1911 and receipts of canned
fruits from Hawaii amounted to 1888
900 dollars for the same period, prac-
tically all of which was packed in
cans manufactured from American
tin plate.
The average price of tin plate i'll
ported during the IL months ended
May, 1911, was 80 cents per pound;
of exports to foreign countries SO
cents per pound, and to noncontigu-
Gus territory "A cents per pound,
this high price being presumably due
to the fact that shipments to Alaska
and Hawaii are made from San Fran
cisco and Puget sound districts on
the Pacific Coast, where higher prices
prevail.
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