The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1902-09-25
NOTHING is WASTED.
VALUE or cAST-oFF THINGS IN
INDUSTRIAL WORLD.
The Means of Utilizing Articles that
Formerly Went TO Waste, Provided
by science, Result in Great Profit
some Things Worked over.

Little is wasted IN the industrial
world. Men of science are ever a
wors tearing by-produets aud waste
material to pieces. 10 regroup lbs ele
ncnts into new material which has
commercial OF Industrial value.
Oh iron i worked over into new
iren. Linen rags are reincmcrated and
i've Is pepper. Wooden rags are shred
dru and made INTO shad.iy Bones are
made into bone black. TO clarity sugar
syrup. Old fuhbers. bits Of garden
hose. exploded bicycle Tres and any
castaHs in which rubber is part are
made, over into new rubber. Worn
steel rails arr reroiied INTO lighter sec
lions. old rnSfg pipe : drawn down
INTO bright new pipe. The TN eahs
which are gathered UP IN alleys ana
from garbage boxes are melted down
and cast into wiadow sash weights ana
counter wel-hf~ for bridges.
Rags and eld carpets are cut INTO
strips AMI woven into handsome rugs.
The list u oil easton things thar are
rescued from ash piles and garbage
dumps 10 be born again can be eN-
tended for columns and the list would
never cease growing. for every day
some new use for some wasted product
Is discovered
There was a time when tons OF blood
fresh from slaughtered cattle. flowed
unhesded through the sewers under
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blood i saved. put through several
processes aud comes out as fertilizer
OF IN Tie form Of cakes. which are sent
10 sugar refneries TO assist Ia clarity
ing The sweet liquor. some of the
handsome buttons worn on new dresses
once ran rs warm blood through the
veins Of fat steers.
Hear and hydraulic pressure are the
agents which separate the water from
the albuinen in rhe red fluid, and pre-
pare The dried blood for the pulyerizing
process which his it for use as a fertil-
izer. After being boiled down. pressed.
crushed and ssarnd % powder. the
dried blood is mixed Wi,l. potash and
phosphoric acid and sent out as a TN.
plete fertilizer.
Sheddy IS a useful product Of waste
II Is never used alone. but in
with new woods. The wool
IN rags from which shoddy Is made
are first thoroughly busted 10y maehin
cry before they are sorted. Any cot
ton which may be in the rags is got rid
of by dipping the rags in boiling
mixture Of sulphuric acid
Long experience has demonstrated
the exact proportion of the acid re-
CURED to eat out the cotton fibers with
ont destroying the wool The effect of
dipping the rags into the water and
acid Is to rot the cotton 50 that the
wooden 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. Tie wooden rags and cloth
are dyed. and then run through a ma
chine whose thousands of steel pins
DOT only shred the rags. but split the
threads so that the rags which enter
the machine leave II in the form Of
wool fibers.
The wool Is put through a earding
which .Aorougfly combs out
the wooden particles, mixes them and
turns them ont in the form Of long
fluffy rolls. which are packed In bales
ready 10 be shipped to the wooden mills.
where the shoddy is mixed with new
wool.
While wooden rags are sent to the
shoddy mills, linen rags naturally
start from the ragman's storeroom 10
the paper mill. whence they issue as
fine linen paper.
The old iron" which forms bali the
burden of the ragmans song Is the
basis of a business whose output is
valued annually in millions OF dollars
Every piece of old iron. wrought or
cast. rusty or clean can be utilized
The old east iron Is sent to foundries
aud puddling furnaces. the old wrought
Iron, bars, sheets and plates, Is sent
to the rolling mills. Cast iron sent TO
foundries is remelted with pig iron. and
begins n new life of usefulness under
new forms and shapes The wrought
iron goes 10 the scrap piles in rolling
mill yards.
A profitable business las been found
In the redrawing of old iron pipe and
boiler tubes Most Of this waste ma.
terial Is thickly covered with rust when
1t arrives at the factory. and the rust
is removed by the simple process Of
heating the old pipe 10 a cherry red
and plunging II into water The sudden
contrac tion loosens the rust scales. and
the pipe is sent TO the heating furnace
clean and bright \ good welding heat
prepares the pipe for the redrawlng
process. This consists in pulling the
white hot pipe through die. which not
only reduces its diameter but makey
1t solid. II is heated again and drarh
through a smaller die, and the Press
is continued until the pipe is d9<n 70
the required diameter. Then e ne"
pipe is Strengthened and IS "us lot
the market
II was not so many w. 49, =. 'n"'
the coal tar which Is R'ueeu ~ NE
manufacture of gas wgth 1sa'peu a. a
waste product. and leihihg OF null |
sance at that By hol, - 'H .i anu
experfiientalisisat1on has moi o.. sun ,
and their maniyvoIuahia nlaie oi II
an exceeding marvo,o,o paVuue,'
rms coai We beautiful dyes. sleep. |
IRON = Sowders. headache subduers.