The Nenana daily news., 1918-09-28
GREAT SALVAGE
 PLANT OPERATES
 NEAR WAR ZONE

hair brushes abandoned by Ameri- can soldiers in camps were among the wreckage of battle brought re- gently to the great salvage depot of the American army here. This was only one little, item in the grist of debris and litter from the fighting zone which has been care fully gathered up and sent here for restoration.
 Five thousand persons are em- ployed in renovating and repairing this wreckage. The material thus saved and restored to use or sold amounted in value last month to $2,5OO,OOO.
 In the big battle around Chateau . Thierry, as our fighting men went over the top they were followed closely by detachments of non combatant troops to grope amid the wreckage and debris and save it from complete abandonment and loss. Each detachment comprised 29 enlisted men and an officer. They had trucks and derricks and all the paraphernalia for gathering broken-down cannon, rifles, cart ridge belts, helmets, clothing and the vast stores of abandoned arms and material left in the track of contest, and to send it back to the salvage depot here.
 Strange things have come out , of this war, but none stranger than | this gigantic salvage plant where everything from crippled guns and cannon to old army shoes and caps is saved from total loss and turned back to some useful end at the front. At first people looked at 1t as freak. There was nothing , like it in the Civil War or the more recent modern wars It started on a small scale with 200 hands.
 But now, after few months, it IS monster industry, with huge build ings and towering stacks. It will save the government $35,OOO,OOO
 the first year, and it may reach 1 $50,000,000. This is no freak; it Is cold, hard saving of millions of dollars, at time when material
 is scarce and shipping difficult. It
 is the anti-waste campaign brought
 to its highest developments by a huge government undertaking.
 Going over the plant recently
 says correspondent for the Asso- clated Press, there was an oppor- tunity to see the remarkable details
 of this salvage. The wreckage of
 the battlefield is only one of the sources of this salvage, explained
 our escort, but it is the greatest source. As men spring into action, they throw aside everything not ab- solutely essential There is besides the litter of the actual fighting,
 broken and abandoned goods of every conceivable nature. .:-.. ....
 It is not only what is left by our own troops, but what is left by the enemy, often great stocks of arms, ammunition, bayohets and every kind of fighting material.
 l Even when there is no battle. the mere shift of a division of troops leaves an enormous stock of aband- Oned goods. Moved on short orders. the men pick up few fighting essentials-guns, blankets, emer- gency rations-and leave the rest behind, books, extra clothes, shoes, etc. The men arrive from America with an undue amount of clothing it is trimmed down at the first training camp; again it is trimmed down as they go to the front, and 1 each new trimming of thousands of men means another huge stock for salvage.
 In the main building, a quarter of mile long, there was the roar of a vast and diversified industry, with over 4,OOO women workers and thousand men, with long batteries of sewing machines, shoe machines, rubber and harness machines .such