The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-04-08
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CANAIGRE ROOT.
Views of Arthur Stayner as to Its
Value to the Territory.
IT. 49, U,7;+o,. Of Tho Herald.

Views of Arthur Stayner as to It's
Value to the Territory.
To the Editor of The Herald:
I have the honor and qualification of
announcing to the people of Utah the
presence of a new and powerful re-
source. one, the lack of which has been
costing us from one or two million dol
lars a year for many years. REFER
to the "canaigre" root. After | haa
demonstrated by actual experiment
here, and learned of the experience of
others abroad, the efficacy and power
of the root as tanning agent, It's
use from commercial point OF view
was next to be considered. The root
grows wild in the southern part OF the
territory, but no investors are willing
to risk money on wild crop, as It's
supply, like the bark which we have
used up in early days, is limited, con-
sequently it must needs be cultivated,
and if cultivated in the southern coun-
ties, the cost of transportation would
be prohibitory to its use. The only
utility, therefore, it would have to the
territory at large would be its suscep-
tibility to cultivation where its use
could be made profitable. This 1 en-
deavored to demonstrate by planting
out some roots in this neighborhood to
test their capability Of withstanding
the frosts of our winters. 1 am pleased
to announce that this effort has been
entirely successful. 1 obtained last
August from New Mexico few year
ling roots which I planted in this city
last fall, and on the 23rd of February
they had sprouted and commenced to
leaf out, just as soon as the frost was
out of the ground. Some roots which
obtained last spring from the southern
part of this territory. and which were
nearly dried up when I received them,
were planted, some of them in the Big
Field near this city, and some of them
by Mr.. z. T. Ellison at Layton, in
Davis county, but because they were
dried up, very few of them lived; those
that lived through the summer have
lived through the winter and are now
growing. So that so far as the rigor
of our winters is concerned the plant
shows its capability of resisting it,
The other powers Of the plant in gener-
ating tannic acid and propogating it
self may reasonably be expected.
According to my views of the sources
of financial prosperity to the territory,
deem this a subject of warm con-
graduation.
It's value to the territory must GER
tainly be apparent to persons inter-
ested in our prosperity and the de-
velopment of our resources. Because
we Hdu no tanning material at COM
mand we have exported our hides.
selling them for 70 cents and buying
them back for S. to SIS; we have en-
ployed two to three thousand people
two thousand miles away to make our
leather, footwear and harness at an
annual outlay of one to one and a half
million dollars a year, to pay which we
have been raising wheat at ruinous
prices and we have had to scratch hard
to get the money. Now with this root.
which the farmers can raise. our tan
neries can be set agoing, our boot and
shoe shops can be established and
hundreds of our unemployed can find
profitable work. Thus a new crop is
given to the farmers, as profitable at
least as sugar beets, and it need NOT
be circumscribed in it's limits like the
sugar beets, centralized around
costly factory, but 1t can Certainly he
raised in every locality whose winters
are no more severe than in this neigh
borhood, and 1t may be reasonably Az
we have here
Would it not be regarded as an i'm
portant factor in financial prosperitv
II we can save million a wear fron,
going out of the territory. and If NE
can employ 1000 Of our own peonIa N
stead OF that number 1000 miles awavo
ARTHUR STAYNER.