The Wheel and cycling trade review . ndation for TIRES IN THE JUNK TRADE. What do you pay for tire-scrap? wasasked of a junk-dealer in Ann street, in frontof whose extensive shop was seen a bicycletire on top of a heap of rubbish just received. At the rate of $100 a ton for bicycle-tires,and $75 for old rubbers. (That would make5 cents and 3% cents per pound respectively—lower than published quotations for scrap,but this dealer sells in turn for higher fig-ures.) Do you handle tires by the ton? wasthen asked. By the ton, or the single tire. I buy allthat come in. Then he continued, in an-swer
The Wheel and cycling trade review . ndation for TIRES IN THE JUNK TRADE. What do you pay for tire-scrap? wasasked of a junk-dealer in Ann street, in frontof whose extensive shop was seen a bicycletire on top of a heap of rubbish just received. At the rate of $100 a ton for bicycle-tires,and $75 for old rubbers. (That would make5 cents and 3% cents per pound respectively—lower than published quotations for scrap,but this dealer sells in turn for higher fig-ures.) Do you handle tires by the ton? wasthen asked. By the ton, or the single tire. I buy allthat come in. Then he continued, in an-swer to more questions: Theres a good de-mand for them. Theyre worth more thanrubber shoes, because theres better gum inthem. It was about August last year that Ifirst began to get old tires along with otherrubber scrap that came to me in lots of looked around and found out what theywere worth, and since then Ive taken allthat I could get of them. There are severalbig rag-dealers in the city that handle tire- THE OLD, OLD
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