Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1895 — Fortunes in Old Bottles. [ARTICLE]

Fortunes in Old Bottles.

Out of the bottles that you and your neighbors throw away there are four or five dealers in Pittsburg that divide up a matter of $63,000 in profits every year. Then the old-bottle business is not thoroughly worked in this city, but In other large cities of the country the profits are many times greater. In this city the collectors gather up somethin;; over 3,000,000 bottles a year. The profits range from half a cent to throe cents on each bottle. According to the figures given by a dealer yesterday, the average profit on each bottle is three-fourths of a cent There Is considerable money Invested In the business bare, and It gives employment to a large number of men. Dealers here collect over three hundred classes of bottles and have a fixed price for each grade. Half of them are sold here, and the remainder are sent fr> New York and Brooklyn, Hugh Quinn, In the lathaa fifty warehouses there, where he re-