Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1895-09-13
The Production of Leather.

Editor Dearet AeigE
Tho question Of producing Leather,
In quantity aud quality nj least to sup.
ply our home do Maud, has often be- n
Drought before your Teauers, aud yet
much can be- iaiI ON II, and 10 hdvRn-
tago o. tue grult reading public. In
early days tannerles were run more or
tBisuCce,siully In our Territory, using
ted pine bark; but for many years
comparatively little has been attempts
I'd la that line, the reason usually
assigned being tnst tho tannic matter
was too scarce. Yet We are informed
tnat fairly good leather was produced.
Now for some years q desire has been
manifested to produce leather at least
for our own consumption. Expert
ments have been made with different
materials containing fannie substance,
nud oauaigIe root came 20 the know
ledge VI our people. Great efforts were
made TO ursw It to the attention Of the
people end ils qualities have been
partially discussed.
liz practical results have been ascer-
tained by tho Parowan Cooperative
fanuefy that IL being operated by
VIM. Pfilchafd rs tanner. He hnus
that to tan perfectly cali skins with
cauaigts root takes about fifteen days,
while with the bark 1t took ninety
days; 10 tan kip II takes about twenty
days, sole leather ABOUT forty days;
while with bark It took four months
for Kip and Tor HOle lostnsr twelve to
fifteen monthP. The relative strength
u the different substances used for
tanning IL given as follows: Canaigre
30 per cent; red pine bark, 3 10 7; OAK
Dafk, 10; hemlock, IL per cent. We
enclose sample OF sole leather. IL
| was tanned In thifty-nye days
and II Ia uosirtd that II be tested by
the same pAItiea who passed juds ment
| on the samples sent from FL PasO by
| Mr.. brown, and the results stated In
the columne OF the NEWS for tho uene-
| 1T Of It's numerous readers VINO ars
| interested In this question. Tho sam
| pie enclosed will wear smooth and
| glossy. These who have used the
| leather claim lor II good wearing quail
ties. Heavy boois from the cana gre
tanned leather are used by the lsrmer
In lrrigstlng 10 wade IN tue water,
| they PIE etfing them TO rubber boot.
| The cauaigre roots cost the tannery IN
PafoWan $40 to s2J ton In the
green state, sliceu anu dried $50 "A
| ton. They ate obtained from
| Washington county where II Is n
native anu grows In Its native state.
| Doubts have been expressed Ia relation
TO ita cultivation In the more northern
| olimes, yet the roots were planted by
| Mr.. PTitchRTd last October, and though
/ Il was an unusually cold winter the
tubers lived anu we're tbs first thing 10
send up green shoots in tho spring;
aud It grew prollticly until the extfsme
hot dry weather came, when the tops
dried down. This was grown on dry
| land with no water. The roots We
dug up were sproutlng,. ready
to grow again this fall. We
ENCLOSE to you samples OF tho tu'
befs grown In PArowan valley, whete
the climate In more severe than In Salt
Lake valley, aud would request that
| parties DO induced 10 plant aud test the
matter In SEWER, Juab, Utah and Salt
LAKE counties, " here II ia more than
| probable II could be cultivated TO ad.
Vintage and with profitable results.
and rsvolutionils the leather trade In
our State, mating us exporters instead
OF importers OF this necessary article,
| giving an impetus to boot and shoe
factories and creating employment for
a vast DumDeT b,Hiuts euriOhing our
| people. RICHARD u LAMBERT
PARowAN, Iron o., Utan, sept.
| 10Th, 1870.