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Show ginator, and the motive is not far to seek uor hard to tiud. V a take pleasure in advising yon that we are uioro than pleased witu tiiB results re-sults of our work, and as we have sue-eeedou sue-eeedou 111 puttiug on a greater quantity ot coaling than we have ever seen or h"aid ot i.eing on any plato, we now oiler, in addition to the regular guarantee, guaran-tee, to ship the Geuuine i'ayior OLD STYLE brand of roofing tin mado here in l'ndadelphia, to any part of the United Stales, and if it is not found superior to every other rooling Uu luadu wo will remove it at our expense. H e do not manufacture steel; that is an industry established in this country many years a: and we '0' Quite sure that the reputation of the American steel manulactureisstauds equal to any in thu world. Tho process we usj is exactly the hixm as used liity years ago; wc take the black sheets, passing tliuui through each proceis to the liuinhed article in tho most careful manner, each sheet receiving four distinct immersions in the nieta.. lhe above are tho Bimplo facts of what we are doing, and wo sincerely hope that if there are any uuioug your readers who doubt our ability to produce pro-duce American rooting tin, that they will favor t;s with orders, as it is by business wo niako our living, and in receiving orders havo business and live. Very respectfully, (.. Tayi.ou Co. Wo lay the letter before our readers as it presents some points of particular interest in connection wilh the tin-plp.te suhiuct. It will be observed that the company claims (and it is a house whose assertions are trustworthy) that it makes a snn rinr rooling plate. This pla'o has been mado on his own formulas. for-mulas. Y'ears ago t' e plate was made in Philadelphia, but has sinco been made in Wales, though now it is boing manufactured in Philadelphia. This proves that the genius of American manufacturers is equal to the task of improving fha procosses of making mak-ing tin-plate, and we may expect to see those processes greatly great-ly improved when the industry is firmly established here. This lirru succeeded in msking an improvement when clTorts were previously put forth to found tho business of making tin-plate tin-plate in the United States. Protection was not then adequate aud it was necessary nec-essary to turn the work over to foreigners. foreign-ers. Now the work is being done here and the firm is offering to fill orders from all quarters for this superior roofing roof-ing tin. The Timks would be glad to see some of Salt Lake's buildings roofed with his home-made tin; but its primary object in publishing this letter is to call attention to the proof which it furnishes that American manufacture will improve im-prove the quality of tin-plate. The ingenuity in-genuity which shall lead to this result will also cheapen the processes of manufacture, man-ufacture, while the home competition will lead to tho conducting of the business busi-ness upon narrower margins of profit than those which have been enjoyed upon the liritish manufacturers, upon whom we have heon dependent. We will not only get better tin-plate under the Mi KiM.KY law, but we will secure an improved article at lower rates than the American consumer has ever regularly reg-ularly enjoyed. HOVIF. MAIIK TIN PLATE. The Times is in receiptof the following follow-ing letter from ouo of the oldest lirms of tin-plate dealurs in tho country: Piiii.Mii i riii v, Aug. '-H.', l'.M. Editor of Thk Timi.s, Salt Lake City, I'tah Dear hir: Wo have just been handed a cutting said to have been taken from your issue of the Mb. headed "The Spirit of the Press," "Home Made Tin Plate." We beg to thank you for the kind remarks contained therein, and feeling that some informaiiou in regard to our position would be of interest to you, wo beg to say lirst of all, that politics pol-itics do not enter into our business iu any way, shape or form; we hate no bill or party to bolster. Our business has been for many years the importation importa-tion aud jobbing of tin plates of all kinds. Our house was established in 1MU). We therefore feel that we have had considerable exper.enco. and should have a fair knowledge of our business. Our position is somewhat ditierent from most importers; in place of selling only makers brands, wo own a number of brands which we have had made according to our own formulas. These formulas wero gotten up by us in Philadelphia many years ago, the plates were made here at that time, and the test of their wearin,,' q;;:ililics was made here. Some ol these plates are instated and their reputation traded upon to such an extent by inferior p.atcs that wo decided 10 stamp every sheot of the genuine Taylor old stylo brand of roofing roof-ing tin with tins braud, tliiekncss.regis-tered tliiekncss.regis-tered trade mark ami our full na.ne and address. Tlio guarantee, a copy of which is on tho enclosed card, is given with every sheet of this brand. We are therefore in a position of guaranteeing guar-anteeing to give double tho value for every sheet that could bo found showing show-ing the slightest imperfection. As this plato was made over three thousand miles away, aud shipments made direct from England to the different points in the United States, we, of course, wero unable to personally superintend tha manufacture of every sheet, and just as soou as w e felt that iho goods could be made iu America, we at once arranged to do so, as we naturally preferred, and which, we think you will agree with us, is good business judgment, to have tha article made here tinder our own personal supervision in place of three thousand miles away according to our instructions, especially when wo hold ourselves responsible. This action on our part mado us at once the object of the wrath of quite a number, whether they be jealous competitors com-petitors or newspaper writers, we of course have nothing to say. We paid no attention to these articles, as we did not propose to wasto our timo in idle newspaper controversy, and as it is purely onsiuess with us, we felt that we would be better off in' attending to our own business and using our whole timo in endeavoring to improve the goods that we are making. As far as tho article which stated that we were redipping low grade imported plates is concerned, we would say, it is false which was well known to tha on-, |
