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Show .DEFECTIVE SCALES SARE SOLD AS JUNK Several Hundred Dollars Realized by City From Disposal of Faulty Weights. Several hundred dollars are said to have been realized for the city yesterday through the sale of a wagon load of brass . and Iron junk, all that remained of scores of scales and measures which had been confiscated during the last three months by the office of the sealer of weights and measures, when they were found to be defective. 'We have been making a clean-up of scales and measures which were found to be short," said T. I Irvine, chief inspector in-spector of weights and measures, last night. "The law provides that all scales and measures which yive short weights or measure shall be seized and destroyed. Within the past few months wo have discovered dis-covered many such and after demolishing them with sledse hammers we sold them to a junk man. There were more than a hundred pounds of brass and a lot of iron in the junk pile, and, while 1 did not make the sale myself, and consequently do not know the exact amount realized, I know It was a tidy sum." |