The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-08

when the firm did a business of 81 900
were looked upon as good months.
Now the business runs in the neigh
borhood of $4,000 a week or better
than 100000 a year. And it is grow
ing all the time"
The Dyals have made a fortune out
of junk in the last quarter of CEN
fury. They have fortune invested in
junk down on the river bank now. The
junk business, to the average person,
is one of the most prosaic of enter
prises. w. A. Dyal is actually enthusi-
astic over it. To him a pile of scrap
iron or sack of rags or a case of
bottles is not junk. It's money. He
doesn't gather it up and he doesn't
load it into cars. He knows how al
those things are done but his chief
interests are at desk with a tele-
phone and typewriter handy where he
deals in carloads of junk the same as
a grain dealer buys and sells carloads
of grain.
Taking an Invoice.
Mr.. Dyal mentioned that his broth
er came to Topeka couple of years
ago and that they had been trying to
make an invoice ever since
IAN invoicei" the astonished que5-
TONER exclaimed. How would you go
at it to invoice stock like this?''
And let it be known that Mr.. Dyai
never did explain just how it was pos
sible to invoice that stock although ne
years experience dealing in just such
stocks.
one singular thing about the bust
ness of the Dyal Brothers is tEat
great deal of the metals purchased are
resold in Topeka. For instance all or
the white way poles along Kansas ave
nue. and around the state house
grounds were cast from scrap from
Dyals yard. Practically all OF the
brass and copper goes to the Magnus
company at the Santa Fe shops and IS
melted and used in equipment not only
for the Santa Fe but various OtheI
western railroads. Block TIN ana TN
foil is used in Topeka in great guam
titios in plating work and Dyals are
able to dispose of all they collect with :
out going outside :, -
town. They are baled and shipped by
the carload to st. Louis and chicago
where they are used in the manufac-
tire of paper and roofing. Mr.. Dyai
explained that in all kinds OF roofing
where asphalt and other such sub
stances are used ground rags play an
important part. The firm ships out
carload of rags week-tWenty Tons
of baled rags.
Rubber Goes East.
The rubber goes to Chicago and st.
I,ouis also. 1t comes in in the form of
rubber boots, shoes. automobile cas-
ings and inner tubes. In recent years
the bulk of rubber has been coming
from auto tires and the quantity IS IN
creasing each year. In one room at
the DyaI plant discarded auto tires
and bicycle tires are piled almost to
the ceiling, in spite of the fact tha1
a carload a month is shipped out.
The price of rubber ranges from three
to twelve and one-half cents pound
Due to the European war, proba bly,,
the price of some metals is higher
than the Dyals have ever known it
to be before. This is particularly true
of zinc and aluminium. There was a
time only recently when the firm could
have sold all the zinc it could obtain
at twenty-five cents pound. The
price is somewhat lower now and in
ordinary times is not more than five
I cents a pound. Aluminium brings four
times what it did two or three years
! ago.
Dyal Brothers get all the metal dis
carded by the Topeka Edison company
and the Street Railway company
copper, brass and iron. Not long ago
the firm bought a carload of copper