Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1915-04-20
START WORK ON NEW
INDUSTRY FOR CITY
Excavation Work Starts at A.
S. & R. for new 100000
Tin Smelter Building Soon.

The excavation work for the new
100000 tin smelter to be construct
cd by the American Smelling & Re-
lining Company at Maurer is well un-
der way, amt Jesse Seaman, of the
corporation, stated this morning that
1t should be in operation by the lat
ter part ct the year. Actual work on
the building will likely be started in
June. The smelter, 1t is declared,
will be the only tin smelter in the
United States, and inaugurates new
industry here in competition with
European producers. Practically all
of the pig tin is produced in Europe.
The plant here will produce pig tin
from concentrates from ore ON a mod
est scale at first, but, it is believed
that it will later have to enlarge to
take care of increased business from
the new venture of capitalists in ex-
plotting new field of industry. A
general revival Is being felt in the
metals trades and one representative
of a large manufacturing concern
here stated this morning that all the
metals have jumped upward in mar
ket value during the past few weeks
Copper, lea1, silver and tin, he said,
have shot upward.
Dung the last few years the price
of pig tin, it is declared, has jumped
from around thirty-eight cents a
pound to about fifty cents and there
are bright prospects for the new ven
ture of business in producing pig tin.
The main building of the new
works will be long, steel structure
with corrugated iron sides, one story
in height, and will be equipped with
several reverbatory furnaces for
Esmelting the~eoneentrates of tiH,-ese
txti a u ctl- ~ assc5 s@~noliVtd
The ore Is first reduced to the concen-
trates that contain IS high as fifty
per cent of tin metal. This is done
at the mines, after which the concen-
trates are shipped to producers of pig
iron, where the pure tin is extracted
and produced in large pigs. The pigs
are then sold to sheet-tin makers and
other manufacturers of tin products.
The smelter will be separate enter
prise from the production of refined
gold silver, copper and lead at the A.
s. & R. plant, as the ore producing
these metals does not contain 2 by
product of tin ore. and tin ore does
not contain any lead, copper, silver or
gold.
The smelter will employ between
thirty-five and forty-fve men at the
start, but Will, it is believed, be only
the beginning of large Industry.
Unable to Secure Enough Metal.
A. c. Clark, superintendent of the
Raritan Copper Works, stated this
morning that the company had plen-
ty of orders. but that the works were
filling all the orders that they re-
ceive. However, he stated that the
inability to get sufficient copper ore
from the mines had necessarily caus-
ed the company to operate it's plant
below its capacity. He stated that
as the mines open to business and
the smelters are normally supplied
with ore, that the works Will be
able to secure more metal, and its
production will be proportionately
increased He said the local plant
is working about sixty-five per cent
capacity.
The Europeaen war has disturbed
the normal shipping of copper ore,
and in some instances actually caus-
ed the shutting down of different
mines. Copper is booming at be-
tween seventeen ind eighteen cents
per pound, and copper refiners find
their order books almost ovrladen.