Arizona republican., 1896-03-26
TANNING VI7H CAulIGRH The Extract Is Used in
 Kansas. Is Declared to Be Entirely a
 Success. Fully Equal to Oak Bark as 6 Tan ming Aaenr-A Leather Mans
 Com n1 endation.

Kansas City Star: The first tannery to use canaigre, the new and much dis cussed tannin, in the vicinity of Kan sas City, is situated in the town of Po mona, Kan, ten miles west of Ottowa Pomona is not very large; just on the map. It has a dozen or so dwellings, one or two general stores, black smith shop and the other necessary business houses of a village of its size Its only notability is its tannery-the only tannery in this part of the coun- try using canaigre.
 A reporter for The Star journeyed to Pomona last week to see canaigre in the process of tanning. Twenty years ago A. Hensley went to Pomona and opened general store. Pomona looked like any other spot on the boundless prairie at that ime, but farmers took up claims and broke the sod and a community soon grew up. The farmers in the vicinity, as in oth- CTS, slaughtered beeves and traded the hides thereof at the store. For many years MT. Hensley dealt in hides as in any other produce. One day man came along and asked him why he didn't tan the hides he took in instead of allowing them to lie around until
 he got enough to ship, risking his profits in those that spoiled. The up- shot was that Mir. Hensley sent fer 2 tanner and in a shed next his store began to tan hides with gambler and hemlock extracts.
 About six months ago Mir. Hensley began to hear about canaigra and sent for some. He get 20 pounds of New Mexico canaigre extract from Boston, paying 51a cents pound for it; freight added. The cana;gre extract is a black gum, about the color and con- and melted with asear}. and the IiQuor diluted as it is put inGo the vats. Tn the basement of MT. Hensley's oannery are six vats, each holding about fifty hides To these he led the reporter and explained the process. ''In the vats into which the hides are first put we make a mixture of hem lock and canaigre itannin liquor of a density of 10 to 13 per cent by the barkameter. This is weak. The hides are left there about ten days, when they are moved to tank No. and So through the six vats, ten days in each, until at the end of two months they come out perfectly, tanned and well filled sides of leather. The tannin mixture increases in strength from vat No. 1 to vat No. 6, and at 9 blood warm temperature, which we keep cYtaa T,1ta nj of craze weight are we'll tanned in sixty days"
 How does canaigre compare with oak and hemlock as a tannin?"
 Compared with oak it is 25 per cent cheaper and makes just as good a tan. One of the requisites of good tanning is that the hide shall be we'll filled and take on weight, and in this respect consider canaigre just as good as oak bark. Then canaigre tans much more quickly than oak. It takes a year to tan hide with oak bark in the old fashioned way, and during that time the tanner has his capital tied up in hides and room. As for hemlock, ca naigre costs one-eighth less than hem lock, and makes better leather-pure hemIock tanned leather is hard and cracks easily As for gambler. the ex- trac. of which I used in conjunction with hemlock before I got canaigre, I find that is costs one-eighth more than canaigre, and that canaigre goes one eighth farther than the same weight in gambler. Gambler extract is made from the tops of an East India weed"
 'Is canaigre as cheap as oak and hemlock extracts?'
 'tYes, sir. Canaigre is as cheap here as bark is in a bark country. I couldn't ship bark here and tan with it as cheaply as I can use canaigre, and I do not consider it any better ito tan with. figure that a cent a pound saved on hides will pay for the ma terial to tan it. I cannot ship hides for the difference in the cost of tan ming them. I would tan with oak if it were any better or cheaper, for I can make money tanning the hides I take in. Before I got canaigre I used gam bier as the best tannin I could get. Gambler averages 36 per cent tannin, making pound of it cost nearly 14 cents. Canaigre represents 4S per cent ltannin. A pound of leather tanned WIl1 cdllddSlt CUSlS less unan that The trouble with gambler is that it strikes through the leather very fast, tanning without filling; canaigre, in my experience, both tans and fills. As I understand it, leaf and wood ex- tracts color the leather without filling while bark and root extracts fill and tan, and consequently give weight
 How about canaigre leather gaining in the tanning?"
 My experience is that canaigre makes a plumper, better filled leather