Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1881 — The Value of Sawdust. [ARTICLE]

The Value of Sawdust.

There are 500 venders of sawdust in New York, with a capital of $200,000 invested and an annual business of over $2,000,000. Four decades ago the mills were glad to have the sawdust carted away; twenty-five years ago it was worth only 50 cents a load ; it is now worth $8.50 a load at the mills. It is used principally at hotels, eating-houses, groceries and other business places. When wet and spread over floors, it makes the sweeping cleaner work and prevents the rasing of dust. Packers of glass, soda water and many other small articles use it It is used by plumbers about pipes and buildings, to deaden walls, floors

and ceilings. Dolls and some living bipeds are more or less stuffed with it. Yellow pine makes the least dost and best sawdust, and has a pungent, agreeable odor. Any white wood dust will answer for the above purposes. Black walnut sawdust, which has generally been burned because it would not sell in the market, has lately proved to be very valuable for the tumbling processes of pin manufacture.