Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 294, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1913 — ECONOMY IN EVERY LINE [ARTICLE]

ECONOMY IN EVERY LINE

*Rallroada Utilize Everything That la of the Slightest Possible Value. ' All the sawdust that accumlulates in the various shows of a railroad system is carefully saved. What is needed is used for packing ice for shipment and the rest is burned in the furnaces in the shops, thus cutting down the Coal bills. In one large shop alone the sawdust and shavings exceed a carload each day, so it makes no small item in the fuel bill of the shops. Waste paper is one of the big items of savings for every company. In the general office the waste paper gathered up by the porters and baled amounts to about a ton each day or. a carload a month, from this one station. There are other stations where the waste amounts -to two or three tons a week. All the paper is saved and baled and then sold. Cars are sent over the system periodically to pick up these accumulations of waste paper. This Includes the ordinary waste paper that everyone throws into the waste baskets and also the tons of old records that have become obsolete and are destroyed. A few months ago a western railroad sent out a notice to all its employes asking them to use one additional inch of each lead pencil before it was thrown away and the company said that this Would make a saving of |4,000 a year to the company.