Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1920 — Tin. [ARTICLE]

Tin.

Tin Is a mineral the same as iron and lead. It Is not made in the sense that brass is of other metals. The principal countries that supply tin are the East Indies, the Islands of Banca, Billiton and Sumatra, the Malay peninsula, Australia, Bolivia and Cornwall, England. , Most of the ore from the East Indies and the Malay peninsula is obtained by washing alluvial gravels. There are also mines in Saxony, Bohemia, Russia, Spain,' Portugal and Japan, but the total output of these countries is insignificant. The presence of tin depositsin California, Texas, South Dakota, pud North Carolina has been known for a long time, but un to this time there has been no mining on a commercial scale. A