Show COLUMBIA STEEL corporation WILL manufacture TIN PLATE ON THE COAST according to recent advices advises from the coast it is evident that the columbia steel corporation in its campaign of broad industrial expansion is getting ready to reach out for foi the business and vie with eastern competitors in the tin plate manufacturing game columbia steel it is reported IL now building a huge tin plate mill at pittsburg on san francisco bay where the great and growing concerns largest rolling mills are located this new addition to the plant it is said is designed to supply the enormous coast demand for tin cans and other forms of containers from the big packing concerns on the coast at honolulu and elsewhere this new feature of the columbia steels rolling mill plant at pittsburg suggests b the thought that the often told stories about str stream earn tin placer discoveries and lode deposits as well in alaska in montana nevada and elsewhere in the western mining regions may be given a boost practically all of the tin used in this country has to be imported but only recently reports from alaska and from manitoba indicate that commercially valuable deposits may yet be made available to the pacific coast works from close to home bome districts at any rate there now will be an incentive to speed up prospecting for and development of tin deposits wherever they may be found throughout the west north and northwest mining regions columbia steels move inove would insure a home market for every pound of tin that might be produced because of this assurance that tin plate and tern template plate are to be manufactured on the west coast as indicated it will be of interest to many readers of the mining review to know that the government through the bureau of mines has bas just recently issued a bulletin prepared by J B of the bureau staff showing the consumption of primary or virgin tin in the united states during 1927 from that bulletin the following data is taken in the united states the consumption of tin requires annual imports amounting to about half of the world production of that metal the results of this inquiry wherein effort was made to eliminate figures relating to secondary tin account for long tons of primary tin a quantity equivalent to per cent of the imports in the same year in the manufacture of tin plate and the principal tin consumers long tons of primary tin were used accounting for per cent of the total consumption of primary tin th 1 in the united state in 1927 next in order of magnitude as a consumer is solder which required long tons or 1996 per cent of the total the manufacture of babbitt required long tons or 1265 p per c r cen cent t of the total consumption and foil and collapsible tubes consumed long tons or 10 per cent of the total consumption of primary tin in U S during 1927 uses long tons per cent tin plate and tern clate solder 1996 babbitt 1266 foil bronze and brasses castings collapsible tubes tinning brass copper tubes sheets or shells nails etc 3 gg chemicals 3 81 white metal tin oxide IQS type metal other alloys 1763 miscellaneous total |