Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1901 — A Mountain of Iron. [ARTICLE]

A Mountain of Iron.

B. S. Fendig, the great North American junk dealer, has just sold and shipped two car loads of iron from his stock, in. the rear of his place of business, bdt the taking away of two car loads, however, hardly makes an appreciable dimunition in bis pile. He thinks he still has the biggest pile of old iron in the state, and not unlikely he is right. He estimates he had about one million pounds in the pile before he shipped the two carloadsThis old iron was all once part of costly machines, vehicles, stoves etc., and it would probably be a low estimate to figure the cost of the iron, when new, at 10 cents a pound, or SIOO,OOO. Benny will sell it for very much less than that figure now, however.