Show RAILROAD 5 1 it ic saved aborted and ail y alio nothing isacs to v asto on a big rail arcail anil of iron and much secondhand material is valued at a fixed price and carried on the books as so much stock on hand tho system followed by the storekeepers department of one railroad 4 a sample of many tho secondhand metals are gathered and placed in piles regularly assorted then they are classified by tho foreman and auken into stock by the detoro ke aper or assistant aro regular schedules ono of material which can be used again which is denominated secondhand ond hand and another of material which has to be melted before it can be used which is known as scrap the classes are arranged something after tho following order steel scrap nos 1 2 8 4 5 and 6 at prices ranging from 8 u ton down wrought iron 1 2 3 and 4 cast iron nos 1 2 3 and 4 even borings arc taken into account brass borings being credited at eight cents per pound and brass scrap and copper at twelve this material is shipped to division headquarters when a carload hag accumulated mu here it is disposed of by the storekeeper on order of bis chief being chipped in carloads to big dealers in old metals in large cities much of it goes to pittsburg cincinnati and euch points orders for as high as pounds of one kind of material aro occasionally received from single firms most of the secondhand material is used over again in tho shops but it is previously on alie books at a fixed price by the storekeeper and 13 charged up to the account of the art for which it is used all usably no 1 wrought iron is received and charged up at li cents a pound and cast iron at ono cent philadelphia call |