Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-02-05
OLD Junk.
Now 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 a shaggy-haired nan in working
clothes, who took in all the miscellane-
Gus stuff that came, and paid cash for
it OF the spot.
"What are you buying all this old
stuff for?" 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'1l have ter 60 down ter the Wan
derbilt building if yer want ter find out
exactly what fur I'm dom 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 a 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 save the United
States 50, 600, 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 afable young
man said. awe put the waste material
in an oven OF CRATE heated by q 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
arubber-coated roller and lattened 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 OF 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 $3.50 for a box
OF l12 POUNDS. We can make it for So
a box, and sell it for SIS. OF the tin we
make butter dishes, tops of paint and
milk cans, and similar small ware. 1t
costs $40 a 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 a selling price of SIS a box of
1l2 pounds. The kind that comes from
England costs from $50 to $50 a 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 a bonanza |
in it, and the proof is the profit, after
paying the expense of manufacture, is
1927, 900 on 10000 boxes of the iron
when made from the waste material,
and sold at an average of SIS a box
~. Y. Sun.