WAR SALVAGE

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 169, 11 April 1919, Page 8

WAR SALVAGE

| ' . . ; * i ■ VALUES IN UNCONSIDERED ; TEIFLES. | ■ Since, the end of 1915 the War Office i has lia<l a Department specially devoted ! to the salvage of old war material—a | matter quite distinct from the disposal of surplus stores. Munition sorap is ; normally handled by the Ministry of j Munitions, but, nevertheless, a great deal : of old metal is dealt with by the AVar ; Office Salvage Department, wnich works j it up into a bewildering number of useful i articles. One curious .oxamplo of it« i work as a picker-up of unconsidered : trifles is to bo found in connection with 1 the soil from rifle butts. Most people i would not regard this as of any particu- ; lar. value, yet it is found worth while ; to collect it for the sake of the lead, ; antimony, cupro-nickel, and other metals j that are recovered from it. Old Army ; boots and Army garments again yield a I rich harvest to the Department. Prom | the former it gets a variety of. chemicals, j..from the latter such diverse articles as electrical insulating materials, gramo- | phone records, and laboratory filter ! papers.