Wallowa chieftain. [volume] (Joseph, Union County, Or.) 1884-1909, 1902-09-04
NOTHING Is WASTED.
VALUE OF CAST-OFF THINGS IN
INDUSTRIAL WORLD.
The Means of Utilizing Articles 'ha'
Formerly Went to Waste, ProV'ueI
by science, Result in Great Proht-
Some Things Worked over.

Some Things Worked Over.
/ Little is wasted in the industrlal
world. Men OF science are ever DIT
work tearing by-products ana waste
material to pieces, TO reSroup the ele-
ments into new material which has
commercial or industrial value.
Old iron is worked over into new
iron. Linen rags are reincinerateu anu
live as paper Woolen rags are Shreu-
ded and made into shoddy. Bones are
made into bone black, 20 clarity sugar
syrup. Old rubbers, bits of Sardeh
hose. exploded bicycle tires and any
castoffs in which rubber is part are
made over into new rubber. Worn
steel rails are rerolled into lighter soc-
tions. Old rusty pipe is drawn down
in,o bright new pipe. The tin cans
which are gathered up in alleys ana
from garbage boxes are melted down
and cast into window sash weights anu
counter weights for bridges.
Rags ana old carpets are cut into
sirips and woven into handsome rugs,
The list Of old castoff things that are
rescued from ash piles ana garbage
dumps to be born again can he eX-
tended for columns, and the list would
never cease growing, for every day
some new use for some wasted product
is discovered.
. tsY,,A hln0n
fresh from slaughtered cattle, flowed
unheeded through the sewers under
the stockyards in Chicago. To-day this
blood is saved, put through several
processes and comes out as Il fertilizer
or in the form of cakes, which are sent
to sugar retineries to assist in clarity
ing the sweet liquor Some of the
handsome buttons worn on new dresses
once ran as warm blood through the
veins of fat steers.
Heat and hydraulic pressure are the
agents which separate the water from
the albumen in the red fluid, and pre-
pare the dried blood for the pulverizing
process which fits it for use as a fertll-
izer. After being boiled down, pressed,
crushed and ground to a powder, the
dried blood is mixed with potash and
, .phosphOric acid and sent out as a com
plete fertilizer.
Shoddy is a useful product of waste
material 1t is never used alone, but in
combination with new woods. The wool
, en- rags from which shoddy is made
are first thoroughly busted by machin-
cry before they are sorted. Any cot
ton which may be in the rags is got rid
} of by dipping the rags in a boiling
= mixture of sulphuric acid.
Long experience has demonstrated
the exact proportion of the acid re-
! quired to eat out the cotton tibers with.
l out destroying the wool, The effect of
dipping the rags into the water and
; acid is to rot the cotton so that the
2 woOlen part of the fabric falls to pieces
easily. After being dried the rags are
, run through machine that removes
every bit of dust, leaving the pure
. clean wool. The woolen rags and cloth
= are dyed, and then run through ma.
chine whose thousands of steel pins
not only shred the rags. but split the
. threads so that the rags which enter
I the machine leave 1t in the form OF
wool fibers.
The wool is put through a carding
machine, which ...oroughly combs Out
the wOolen particles, mixes them and
turns them out in the form of long
, fluffy rolls, which are packed in bales
ready to be shipped to the wooden mills
! where the shoddy Is mixed with new
wool.
4 While woolen rags are sent to the
shoddy mills, linen rags naturally
9 start from the ragman's storeroom tC
g the paper mill, whence they issue al
g fine linen paper
r The "old IRON which forms half tn,
= burden of the ragman's song is tn,
basis of a business whose output /!
valued annually in millions of dollars
Every piece of old iron, wrought OF
s cast, rusty or clean, can be utilized
The old cast iron is sent to foundrie,
ana pudding furnaces, the old wrough
l. iron, bars, sheets and plates. is sen
to the rolling mills. Cast iron sent t,
foundrieS is remelted with pig iron, an,
Q begins new life of usefulness unde
g new forms and shapes. The wrough
d iron goes to the scrap piles in rollin.
mill yards
!, a A'protitable business has been foun,
in the redrawing of old iron pine an,
boiler tubes. Most of this waste ma
terial is thickly covered with rust wba,
u 1t arrives at the factory, and the rus
is removed by the simple process o
heating the old pipe to a cherry re,
- and plunging it into water. The sudde,
contraction loosens the rust scales an,
the pipe is sent to the heating furnac
clean and bright. A good welding bea
prepares the pipe for the redra
= process. This consists in pulling th
~ white hot pipe through a die, which no
only reduces its diameter but mako
: it solid. 1t is heated again and draw
}, through a smaller die and the process