St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-03-06
OLD JUNK.
New Uses to Which Discarded Iron anA
Tin Are Put.

| lin are Fut.
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 un-
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 for?" 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 man 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 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
hat toA
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 cans 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. 1--WE put the waste material
in au oven or CRATE heated by a fur
| mace. and beat it with rollers until all
the extraneous material is removed. II
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
rubber-coated roller and f1attened out.
Then they are piled in packs and slid
their thickness. After that they are
annealed. shot through tho 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, lye 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 $3.50 for box
of ll2 poundss We can make it for 80
box. and sell it for S.. Of the tin we
make butter dishes, tops of paint and
milk cans, and similar small ware. 1t
costs $40 4 box to import the tin, which
is just double what we can make it for.
The tin can also be made up for ferro-
types at selling price of 215 Il box of
l12 pounds. The kind that comes from
England costs from S35 to $50 q box.
and before this photographers had to
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
paving 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 IS box
" Y Sun.