Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1897 — Fortunes in Old Bottles. [ARTICLE]

Fortunes in Old Bottles.

Out of the bottlee that you and y«nr neighbors throw away there are four of five dealers In Pittsburg that divide up a matter of $58,000 in profits every year. Then the old-bottle business la lot thoroughly worked in this eity, but Lt other large cities of the country the profits are many times greater. In this city the collectors gather up something over 3,000,000 bottles a year. The profits range from half a eent 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 eent There is considerable money Invested In the business here, and It gives employment to a large number of men. Dealers hem 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 to New York and Brooklyn, Hugh Quinn, In the Jat ter city, being the largest dealer, He has fifty warehouses there, where ho re oeivee and stems bottles,—Plttsburp P**. .. . .......