Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 209, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1916 — Good Trade. [ARTICLE]

Good Trade.

The Anthony . & Northern railroad recently bought four old passenger coaches from the Pennsylvania railroad. While overhauling the cars in the shops at Pratt it was discovered that the ballasting used under the floor of the car was of chunks and bars of babbitt metal instead of the customary short lengths of old railway steel. Before the war the metal was worth a half a cent a pound. Now it is quoted at 15 cents a pound and there are 30,000 pounds in the four cars, valued at about $5,000. or more than the cars cost the Anthony & Northern. The babbitt metal will be sold and steel used in the cars in its stead.—Kansas City Star.