Show it ie estimated that chii cluts sluts seeds out annually over two million dollars lor leather while within ita boarders raam cattle on a thousand thoua and hillsides hill sides from which enough hides are every jear taken to supply the market with leather had we but canneries tanneries tann eries at present it is the practice t the state to abend abroad hides to bo tanne dand the people hero pay dearly or it for instance we arc reliably informed that at bayaoa abot long ago in one of the hops there a side of leather had just been received from which when unpacked contained tho peculiar brand ef a prominent payson stock he waa called in and positively identified the brand as being made by his iron here object lesson which illustrates lu strates the evils of our commercial system A hide had boon sent from utah acroca the entire continent the butcher at payson got probably five cents or a dollar for ilbo foro it was sent away the saddler when it back a leather paid five or six dollars lor it the people ef utah had to pay for transportation to pennsylvania and back again flad besides they had to pay for tanning that hide in the far away state can such a system profit a people in utah we had a great many small canneries tanneries tann eries that did a thriving bus incas but soon the tannic properties obtained solely from pins bark became scarce and expensive our pine formats were not extensive abush to support the drain that canneries tanneries tann eries made upon them the result was that our leather industry declined and today there are but few canneries tanneries tann eries in the state in two or three southern counties we understand canneries tanneries tann eries ar detill running but the homemade home made leather does abot amount to mr ethan four or five thousand dollars worth it has been demonstrated iu tanner ies in ironald washington counties that root a native plant in the latter county can be used effect bally for obtaining tannic acid good leather can be produced from it the plant is not cultivated but is gathered in its wild state and cannot be ob gaind in sufficient quantity to supply the market there haa been introduced in the legislature a bill to encourage the cultivation of and th manufacture of leather it offers a bonns of 1 per ton on the first tong of root produced in the state and used in the manufacture of leather it also gives bonus of to the first person or firm selling worth of leather tanned by root raised ia utah it is practically the same bill that was two year sago passed by the territorial rit orial legislature and vetoed by west perhaps it will this year shakeia better fate it is to pro mot a needed industry and ought to become a law |