Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-02-05
l. JUNK.
New Uses to Which Discarded iron and
Tin Arc Put.

Tin Arc Put.
Small boys with their arms heaped
full of scraps of old tin, bits of iron and
similar pieces of riff raft, gathered in
the streets amid men and women, lug
ging big baskets piled full of the same
kind of freight, kept traversing Goerck
Street all day yesterday, bearing their
strange burdens to the door of the I'M
couth two-story brick building at No.
81 Goerck Street. At the doorway
stood . shaggy-haired man in working
clothes, who took in all the miscellane-
Gus stuff that came, and paid cash for
it on the spot.
What are you buying all this old
stuff fore" a reporter asked of the old
man, who was steadily depicting his
old-fashioned pocket-book.
Dunno, can't say. Couldn't give it
to you straight" the old man said,
pulling his old felt hat over his left eye.
you'll have ter go down ter the Wan
derbilt building if yer want ter find out
exactly what fur I'm doin' it."
An affable young a on the third
story of the big building on Nassau
Street. said that he knew the secret of
the old mans purchase.
''Great idea," he CRIED" and lots of
cash in it. 1t is q new scheme to utilize
all the waste metal of Gotham that
formerly used to go to the dogs be-
cause nobody was smart enough to find
out that they could a v the United
States $4,000 900 a year outlay. That's
what it has cost to import Taggard
iron and tin from England and Ger
many. We have discovered that we
can make this sort of iron and tin out
of old al and other things just as
well and very much cheaper than it can
be made out of the original ore"
"And how do you do it?" was asked.
Nothing easier" the affable young
man said. Eve put the waste material
in an oven or CRATE heated by a fur
mace, and beat it with rollers until all
the extraneous material is removed. 1t
is allowed to cool after that, and the
scraps are sorted out according to the
uses to which they are to be put. The
metal sheet remnants are passed under
arubber-coated roller and hattened out.
Then they are piled in packs and slid
between chilled iron rollers to reduce
their thickness. After that they are
annealed, shot through the rollers
again, and then trimmed and finished
off and packed ready for shipment any
where. The sheets can be japanned,
or timed or galvanized or treated in
any way that the material made from
the original ore is treated"
''What is it used for after it is fin
ished?"
"Lots of things. Out of the iron we
make buttons, I've cans, umbrella tips,
shoe lace ends, Show cards, telephones,
electric lights, and letter boxes. You
can't get the English or German iron
for this use for less than 81. so for a box
of 112 pounds. We can make it for 50
a box, and sell it for So. OF the tin we
make butter dishes, tops of paint and
milk cans, and similar small ware. It
costs $40 a box to import the tin, which
is just double what we a make it for.
The tin can also be made up for ferro.
types at a selling price of S15 a box OF
112 pounds. The kind that comes from
England costs from $35 to $50 a box.
and before this photographers had tc
go to England for it because there was
not any body here that would make it
We weren't able to compete with En-.
gland and Germany and the original
ore, because it cost us more than double
to manufacture than it did on the other
side of the water. There is bonanza
in it, and the proof is the profit, after
paying the expense of manufacture, is
1927, 900 on $4,000 boxes of the iron
when made from the waste material,
and sold at an average of S. a box
NJ " sam