Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1894 — Old Shoes. [ARTICLE]

Old Shoes.

What becomes of old shoes? The Shoe and Leather Reporter tells us that vast quantities are taken to mills, where they are ground into fine dust. To this is added about forty per cent, of india-rubber, and the whole Is then subjected to a pressure of 6,000 to 10,000 pounds per square foot. The substance Is then colored, and sold at prices soma fifty per ceot. below that, of natural leather. It is manifestly a poor substance, and it is wholly wanting ia fiber.