The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-09-01

of any size and city in the state there are
planning mills and carriage and wagon pam
ulactoricS, while there are innumcrahlc
smaller establishments here and there
throughout the state, doing various
! kinds of wood work, such ms maxine
cistcrns barrels, buckets, etc, brooms and
handles, saddle trees, furniture, show eases,
desks and things of such nature generally.
AT Houston there are three foundricS. two
very extensive ones, that make boilers. on
gneS, pumps and castings generally, a bone
and lampblaCk works, soap factories arti-
clal stone works, and two extensive carriage
ana wagon manufactures. Galveston has
about the same line of industries as Hous-
ton, and about as extensive. The largest
is ut Kellyyillc near Jefferson,
1t does not do SO great a diversity of work
and has not so SO much cash capital in
volvcd as other iOundriCS in New Orleans or
81. Louis, but it turns out more plowS, more
hollow ware and cooking and heating stoves
than any other establishment throughout
the south, and counting the hands at work
mining its own iron and smelling its own
ore and employed in the foundry propcr if
has more hands employed than any other
establishment of the kind. And putting n
fair valuation upon the acres of iron ore
land owned by this foundry it has more
capital invested than any two iOundries
anywhere i'll the south, not executing st.
Louis or New Orleans At Marshall there
IS ear factory employing two hundred
hands, all skilled wOrkmen, that makes its
own cars complete in every respect omiting
nothing, all of Texas material that is doing
| all the work it possibly can supplying or
dcrs from the railroads. This is as much
as we can say for manufactures already in
operation in Texas, but we might write n
small volume filled with reasons and argu-
ments to show why manufacturing of every
description and kind will pay in this state.
II we have no watcr-power for manuiacto-
RES, we must rely on steam-powcr and
then the question of fuel becomes the lead
ing one. On the subject of water-power
we VIII have something to say further on
we VIII suppose the fuel question settled.
for it certainly is, practically. The coal has
been found, and i'll a little while it can be
delivered at from So to IS per ton, and
IN addition to this, in all east Texas there
IS an abundance of wood for fuel WHY,
then, when we consider that in every sec
on OF the state the cotton grows so that
tie cotton mill can have the staple
III IT'S. very doors, saving Transportation.
why should not our million or million and
half bales of cotton be spun and woven Mt
home, giving employment to thousands of
men and women, saving us the cost of trans
portation two ways for the goods we require
ourselves, and bringing millions of money
to us Tor distribution in our midst? We
grow millions of pounds of wool annually.
increasing as the years come and 20 in quail
NY by the improvement of our tlocks, as il
Is IN quantity too, and if one wooden mill At
New Braunfels finds sale for its wares at
| paying prices, why cannot we consume our
ehtlre ci'p at home i'll manufactures of our
own, increasing the worth of this wool to
leXas and making us the richer thereby ?
why should we not utilize our iron fields
| by establishing furnaces foundries, rolling
mills and establishments for the manufac-
ture of everything made of iron and steel,
rather than buy them from elsewhere? We
have shown in this issue of the paper what
the cattle interests of Texas are and the
discerning man must see at u glance that
our millions of cattle means millions of
hides, tons OF bones, hOofs and horns, and
we can pack beef for the world, as il were,
make glue and combs and fertilizers and
| lampblack for the markets of the universe,
| and tan leather for one continent, at least.
But has Texas
TANNING
material the tanner will ask? Go through
the forests of east Texas and take view of
the red oak, the black jack, the white, pin
oak, watcr-oak, overcup and sumach that is
there to be found; 90 through our cross
timbcrs, that span the state, and see the
millions upon top of multiplied millions of
post-oak, to furnish its banks, and then take
a look ut the mesquite timber filling the
prairie lands Of every section of the state,
and the answer is plain. But what are the
tannin principles of this mesquit that is
spoken Of asks the tanner? We believe
that tannin extracted from the acacia trees
of Arabia and of other Asiatic and African,
and perhaps European countries, is
imported for use in the tannercs
of the east, The mesquite is Il species of
this acacia, almost Identical in appearance &c,
and wholly SO in its attributes. 1t is a
leguminous tree, has thorns and pinnate
leaves of graceful and elegant appearance,
and eXudes gum identical with the gum
Arabic of commerce. IL is full of tannin,
every part of it-lcaves, twigs, bark, sap
and heart containing the fannie principle to
an extraordinary per cent. We have seen
it used for tanning and it is so active and
perfect in its work that expert tanners, IA
miliar with it, say il surpasses anything
they ever tried--rcd oak or hcmlock, bark
or nutgalls. We know that n tannery was
started in Guadalupe county and carried on
during the war, by DR.. John Park and Mr.
X. J. Coorpender, of Scguin, and the mes
quite was used, and with the most eminent
success in every sense of the word, Some
extracts from n letter from Mr.. X. j. Coor.
ponder, who still lives Mt Scguin, and is q
gentleman not only of rare good sense and
practical Judgment, but of integrity and
the utmost reliability, written in 1890 will
convey fuller and completer idea of the
value of the mesquite for tanning purposes
than we can possibly give in fewer words
therefore, we reproduce them, with the
announcement that the letter was written
to Mr.. Willard Richardson, the proprietor
of the Galveston News, and published in
that paper. Mr.. Coorpender says:
at will remark that | was connected as q
pardner with DR., Park for two years in the
tanncry. When he left, | carried il on fo1
a year myself and only abandoned II from
the difficulty of procuring skilled labor to
carry IL ON. / will give, under different
heads, my views of the mesquite, derived
from experience and observation.
LIST. As to its richness in tanic acid, &C.
cording to actual test, it is richer than the
best of bark. When properly comminuted
and the tan well extracted,' its amount is
enormous. The whole body Of the tree
limbs, twigs and all, are used.
End The tanning is different in its quail
tiles and its energy as n tanning and adti'
septic agent from other tanning materials
Its mode of operating is different from most
other Instead of being. confined to the
surfaces, II strikes through and through the
hide very promptly. In less than five
minutes, u thick hide will show that It has
been prevailed by its influence. A simple
fact will illustrate Its popularity in this re-
spcct. A negro man who was u practical
tanner was asked by DR. Park, while al
work with his material in tanning, how hl
liked It. "Why," says he, "massa, Il diff