The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1894-10-11
Leather Betting


We take pleasure in inserting the fol
lowing. clipped from the "Fiuaneiil and
Commercial New" of Boston. Ma.
which has much to say Of the Leland
Betting Company. that manufacture il
leather Tor it, principal supply Of bolt
ing here in Skowhrgan. Silas Leland.
Esq. who is thu head of the company.
and Mr.. Noye-, superintendent Of The
tannery there, are Wen known aud r.
spected citizens of our town and We are
gratified at the success they have aehiey-
ed.
The development of the country. the
rapid establishment of manufacturing
enterprises, aud the march of invention
constantly augment the demands for a
connecting link in the transmission of
power that shall be more advantageous
by decreasing the loss of energy be
tween the generator and the machine
whether such energy is created by
steam, heat, electricity or other modern
appliances) increasing the wear and say
ing in the first expense. All sorts of
devices have been tried in the way of
applied power, lut not with great sue
cess, and to-day there is scarcely a
manufacturing plant in the country
where direct connection is freely used.
Betting of some kind is a necessary feat
ure of almost every manufacturing
plant, and 1t is simply question ot
what betting will best fill the demands
made upon it. Inventors have kept pace
in the number of devices for filling this
want, with their work in other direc-
| tions, but have not met with marked
success in finding a product that would
accomplish the same results as leather,
and leather used as it has been for years
as a power transmitter. is to-day the
best material at hand, and rivals all its
Younger competitors both in amount
now in use and in general utility. 1t
| then becomes a question as to how in
| the preparation of leather the best re
suits can be reached. Old fashioned
methods of tsnuing leather for this pur-
pose are gradually being discarded for
new fannie devices that increase the
strength of the fibre and thus its wear.
Old fashioned methods of currying and
preparing leather for betting are being
superseded by improved processes that
increase its adhesVeness to the pulley,
therefore the driving power.
Perhaps no one Of the Younger houses,
manufacturing leather hcting has ac-
compliShcd more for the Improvement OF
this article SO important To the manu-
featuring interests of New England, has
met with greater success or grown more
rapidly during this past period Of de
preston than the Leland Betting Com
pany now of - and II Pearl street,
Boston,
Their stock has been dcscrVcdlv popu-
lar among large consumers by reason oi
the fact which has been more fully APP
preciated of late than ever before where
each was figuring in every possible NAY
to decrease the cost of manufactured
goods, that any betting that on account
of its excessive strength, its adhesive
qualities and elasticity without stretch,
| should thus increase the amount of
power conveyed and cause a material
saving not only in the immediate cost of
said betting, but decrease the wear oi
the machine md reduce the amount OF
fuel necessary to deliver unit OF energy
at the machine was to be desired, and III
| this respect We believe the stock fur
nished by the Leland Betting Company
meets the fullest requirements.
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thni, increasing business have lately
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