MONEY IN WASTE MATERIAL.
The American People Waste More Fortunes than Other Nations
Make--The Shoreditch Experiment in England--The Tonner System of
Germany--Millions in Ashes--Coal Fortunes Waiting to be Picked
Up--Astonishing Possibilities in Irrigation--Tons of Tin Thrown
Away Every Day--$5,000,000 Lost in Sulphur Every Year--A Fortune
Waiting a Stovepipe Inventor--Enormous Waste of Gold and Silver.
The American nation is a wasteful one. Every year by neglect, poor
economy and extravagance, material is lost which if saved would be
enough to make many people rich. There are fortunes in ashes, garbage,
sewage, and cinder piles. Why explore new fields when the old is yet
unworked? Here are a few ways in which capital can be expended with a
certainty of quick and large profits: