Show WHERE TIN IS I OBTAiNED I An exchange wants to know If the tin plate tariff has not developed a great mining industry In this country from which the raw material used by the trust is drawn and ventures the assertion that the tariff has made this country a leading tin producer If this be true it is to be regarded in t the light of news The tin consumed by the trust mllls is not found in this country but comes from several sources sour-ces The moot desirable tin comes from I the Straits Settlements on the Malay I peninsula and is known as Danca tin i It is by far the purest and has been t sought after by manufacturers for over a hundred years Australia is probably t the largest producer of block tin It is r also found in paying quantities in Tag mania But the United States is not t t regarded as a tin producing country at 10 all in spite of the costly and numerous i attempts to develop prospects which showed the presence of the metals metal-s early as 1840 tin was dJscovere1 in Clllfornia but there was no tin mining done until 18GS Over a million dollars r were spent on these mines but one company after another gave up discouraged dis-couraged and the total product of the J state for all the outlay was 269000 pounds of tin valued at 56000 The Harne Peak mine situated near Cus te City in the Black lulls region recalls re-calls the stOry of another enormous j outlay and futile attempt to obtain tin in commerrJaJ Quantities It is said J I i2 A e if that over 2000000 has been expended while the total yIeld has been less than ten tons of are In Alabama North Carolina Car-olina Virginia and in Utah tin bearing rock has been found but the United States is not in any sense a tin producing pro-ducing country For twelve centuries the mines of Cornwall constituted the only source of this metal In 1240 it was found in Bohemia But the tin used in the plate mills of this country cqmes from the South Pacific mines |