Richland beacon., 1888-02-11
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Using Up the Scraps.

The utilizing of materials formerly
wasted has been frequently referred to
in theese columns, and long list OF the
articles made from such waste was spec
flied. The Baltimore Sun, referring to
this subject, mentions three waste mater
ials now utilized in that city:
"Every resident" the writer says,
"can reeollect the immense piles of waste
tin from the can shops that used to gilt
ter in the hollows Of East Baltimore, and
upon every dump in that section doz-
en- years ago. The first use Of this
waste was by poor man from the north,
who obtained permission to set up il ma
chine in Smith and Wick's can shop in
this city. Here he bought scraps for al
most nothing, and cut out tin button
stock to send East. Afterwards the
stamps for shaping the buttons We're
introduced, and the individual reapcd n
large fortune for his enterprise. The
next use of tin scrap was for smelling.
The tin Mt first refused to flow when
subjected to the heat of the furnace. 1t
was discovered that it would pay to cut
the tin coating chemically, and that the
sheet iron would then smelt and flow.
Out of this grew the manufacture of sash
weights, and few of them are now found
that are not made from tin scrap. Sew
eral foundries use all that lis made.
The scrap was pounded into wads by
stamping it in large buckets.
"a most interesting feature of oil
businesses using leather Is that not one
particle of the leather is wasted. Oul
shoe factories alone sell annually fifty
tons of waste. This goes mainly to q
firm in Philadelphia, who pay 81 a ton
for it. A large amount is sent to Lynn
Mass, and other points, where the
leather is ground up, mixed with q me
dunn, and pressed into buttons. The
remainder that is not so used is treatet
chemically, turned into q Gela'inoui
mass, dried, and ground into fertile
ing dust. The sole leather pieces tina
fall from the block of the heel stampe
are sorted into two heaps. The yer!
fine pieces ore put with the waste. Thu
scraps, presenting surface of q couple
of square inches, are barreled up an,
sold to parties in New York. or Boston
at one cent a pound, where they are pu
through a peculiar machine. This in
strument splits the pieces nearl.
through. Then it opens the piece thu
cut like book. Thence it is delivered
from between rollers, and is large en-
ough to be again sent to the factory b
be cut up into heel lifts.
"There is another small but impor
tant industry which goes to prove how
ordinary wastes of business may o.
turned to account. This is work o
long standing. ahough not general.
known. In every photograph CALLER.
there is annually q large amount of vast
silvered paper. This is all thrown int
o box and is bought or exchanged TO
nitrate of silver. The comparativel
small amount collected in one CALLER
aggregates a great mass when oil th
galleries are considered. This paper
burned, and the silver that is extracte
from the residue pays sufiiciently0s
east for good living. The time wa'
not very remote, too, when the ccal ia
from gus houses was a nuisance In ever
harbor. Now every bit of the tar
utilized, and some Of the finest dye
ever known are made from it."