The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1810-05-15

ing and consolidating the seal leather aftcr II is
tanned and supercedes the necessity Of the shoe
makers hammering the leather; saves entirely
the labor and waste attending that part of the
shoe makers business, and gives the ieathersa
closeness oftexture far beyond hammering or any
other plan now practised; also have found
much advantage by applying heat, by means of
copper cylinder, adapted to the purpose, pass
ing through watts, we call leeches, in which we
make the last effort to extract the Tsnnin from
the bark, after the bark with decoction. has
been for from thirty to ninety days applied 60 the
hide. Most of the above methods have origi.
| mated, and from long experience find the success
| attending them has abundanuy equalled my ex.
pectations
Much saving of labor and bark is gained by
| these improvements, as must be obvious to any
person who has slight knowledge either prac.
teal or theorical of the business. Our forests
abound with bark Our beeves afford MANY
| hides, and large quantities imported from
the Spanish Dominions, part of which are ma
nuiactured end part are re-eXported. Slaughter
| hides are sometimes exported, which ought to
| be prohibited, it practicable. have known, &
| l believe II not uncommon, that quantities of
hides and bark have heen exported TO England
and the leather made from these hides imported
| and used in this country. The manufacture of
leather IN the middle states is far in advance be-
| yond either the northern southern states A
! heavy duty On green or slaughter hides, il con-
| stituticnal, and small duty, say one cent p-r
| ID. OH the expectation of foreign hides-a heavy
impost duty on leather of every kind and in every
shape, with an aid of capital, and perhaps boun-
| ~ on improvements, made public, would have q
tendency to encourage the manufacture OF lea.
4 ther. Also law appointing inspectors of slauch-
ter hides, To guard against the great injury tbev
now in many places sustain, by the cafelessness
or wantopness OF the butchers, in hacking and
cutting them. In the city OF New.York, there
IS loss from this source of twenty per cent at
least without particle of gain. Also law ap.
int al INCA 90 .zA
from using an improper quantity of lime in the
process, and Offering their leather in market.
when only partially tanned, would be very useful
The tanners in Boston & its neigaborhood prac-
tee this method, much to the injury of the srti-
cie, and IN that way to the public The same
hide well manufactured, will assuredly be worth
oouoie to the consumer, THANH poorly manufac.
tured. Yet mankind are SO much the creatures
OF habit, and such the nature of the business the
difference will not be readily discovered by a su.
peifical observer. One third Of the hides tanned
r III the United States are imported hides These
coi1e from the Spanish colonies almost wholly.
Hides IN England are uniformly higher than in
inns country-4s 6d per stone is the least pIlcc
nave seen stated that is something more than Sc
ven cents per pound. Their bark in England.
costs more than their hides; that is bark sufci.
| ent TO tan hide costs more than the hide. NV
slaughter hides costs me five and half cents n.
pound, and my bark costs Inc one thirteenth ss
much as the hide. Leather would be an iunor.
tAnt article OF expectation to England. If il
could be Admitted there by paying no more duty
than their manufactured articles pay in this coun.
: try. The manufacture ofle.tl,er is by no means
completed when it goes from the hands of the
: tanners. The currier, the shoemaker, saddier.
tiarnessmaser, and several other tradesmen ft +
FOR various uses after the tannerha Performed his
q operations"
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Sfaff"en' 81 1ff3' for spinning cstto- Of which
an account has been ,eeeipcd.