The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-08-27
CANAIGRE ROOT.
Report Which Shows That Boun-
ty Was Not Needed.

" was NOT Needed.
Washington, Aug. 26.-tSpecial There
has lately been filed in WASHINGTON a re-
port by Dean B. Mason, vice-consuI-gen-
eral at Vienna, regarding canaigre root,
that valuable product to which the last
legislature wanted to give a bounty that
is not needed The report says:
professor Either. director of the ex-
perlmental station of the leather indus
try in Vienna, has made numerous exper-
lments with the newly introduced Ameri-
can tanning material canaigre. and the
ties contained in this report is derived
from his writings. Canaigre has the
property of tanning leather in a short
time, and of giving it a brighter, clearer,
orange color than has been obtained by
any other tanning material. The leather
is soft, neither shrinks nor swells and
although rapidly dyed, is strong and not
at all brittle
"Canaigre is especially adapted for the
tanning of upper, saddlery, and fancy
leather, but it has also been used with
good results at the Levinische Fabrik,
Trieste, in the tanning of sole leather,
particularly sole leather for the finer
kinds of ladies' shoes. In the treatment
of leather for ladies' shoes, the canaigre
leather first. and causes the pine to act
more quickly and evenly than it would
otherwise do.
I'm the process of the manufacture of
extent
I'm the Levinische Fabrik, in the final
tanning process of skins which are to
be used for sole leather, the skins are
treated with powerful mixture of eX-
tracts.
I'm the first bath to which the skins
are subjected for sixteen days, seven Ger
man pounds German pound IL American
pounds) of oak bark and two pounds of
canaigre or valonia are used. In the
second bath, which lasts twenty-four
days, there are six pounds of. oak bark
and three pounds of canaigre; and in
pounds of oak bark and three pounds
of canaigre or valonia. Very strong
skins sometimes receive a fourth bath.
I'm tanning with extracts. canaigre
giving color and strength. Even. when
used in small quantities with other pow
erful extracts, there is a. noticeable diff
ference if canaigre is used instead of
valonia, the leather having brighter
yellow color.
"Canaigre is better than any other ma
terial for retaining leather which has
been perfectly tanned.
"Canaigre is very similar to gambler in
| its tanning properties and if it is ever to
be exported in large quantities to Europe
! it will have, for the same amount of tan
ming power, to be as cheap or cheaper
than the last named article. 1t is for
this reason that gambler has particular
Importance for anyone interested in the
sale of canaigre.
'The firm of Blau &, SCHNEIDER, of Ham
burg, has imported more canaigre than
any other continental firm, but according
| to his own statement, has only imported
| it in small quantities, and tits not cheap
enough at present to compete with gam
bier. Practically the entire crop of gam
bier is shipped from India to England
and thence exported to the other Euro
pean countries and to the United
States. According to the board of trade
returns, the imports of clutch and gam
bier into Great Britain during the first
| 1894 amounted to &, 9i2 49S, f1.17S,275, and
Fl, SIS, OOs, respectively. Gambler. proper
sells in Vienna or Hamburg at S. per 10t
Kilograms (220.46) pounds, while Clutch, OF
wood gambler, is cheaper.
''Mr Collingwood of the agriculture
experiment station in Arizona, has car
ried on numerous experiments in the cul
, tivation of canaigre, and the best ano
most authentic information on the sub
iect is to be had from his reports.