| Show TANNERY IN TEXAS in the following notice of an line in industry in which utah people peonia ought by this time lime to be interested ed fahs tb notice being sent ent by a friend who pre nr clipped it from an el paso texas texa paper will he prominently found the name dame of a former salt bait laiter airl mr J W brown who will be rethen bared as aa manager of the rowe tannery tann aery in this city A valuable manufacturing industry has hae been successfully started 0 on the tha east side bide in the last baat twelve VZ viz the tanning ment of the el paso tanning comm com pany the company have found that the root la is no ao far superior lu to the oak bark process anat the latter la 18 likely to become obsolete as aa an agent when ahou and where the root can by any possible poa aible means be obtained thi root grows grow extensively in tb thia section n of the country and can be culli bated so eo as to very largely in crease its productiveness Comp compera sra tive live tek tei ts to prove that the root in ia four times as ae strong as the oak bark the gotual test teat being that the same re cults were obtained from pounds of the root that were obtained from i pounds of oak bark the claim as an to the superiority of at the root to la further borne out toy by reports from the harness and shoe ahoe a men on who have had bad ample am pie opportunities to judge hiir vs a to relative merits the harning men particularly tell the abe tanning tanking that the tanned goo ars are much better in the way of tensile strength and wear and tear lear than kooda goods otherwise tanned and in the way ot of leather the reports shoe hoe received are ar encouraging enough the company have a plant covering feel economically divided up UD and with a oana CRO olty of eighty sides aldea per ner week so BO that they are proving a scott rood customer oua tomer for the slaughtering laught ering men green bides are taken from the tow store room into what la Is called the beam room containing four large vata one 18 a lime water vat where the chemical eats eata the hair off the bides bide and then they are placed on beam ee am here bore the odd bite of hair and flesh are carefully scraped off by men with scraping irons irone after the bides have been carefully washed in the me adjacent vats they are immersed in a solution of the cs ca malgre root in another room containing contain inic thirteen vats vata lost feet the dose bein bebok K one and a half tons tona of manaigre to eaon vat the of the to i graduated the he fresh hides being first ant immersed in the weakest solution this is done to prevent the leather from disintegration and cracking ora oking afterwards on exposure the liquors liquor are kept agitated agitate cl by a mechanism the device of manager J W brown so 0 that the be solutions are maintained of uniform strength in each vat after the process Is completed tho the bides are taken out dried in a ury room when whelk the Is to be used for harness barns purposes or la in the air when intended Ing ended for sole leather then it to IB dressed saed the company have facilities ifor co grinding thirty tons of the root per day and dry it in ID the open air rather abao aban in a kiln as the jaber 0 would weaken it three tons of abe be green root make one ton of the dry the waste stock Is in mixed with two dollar slack coal and wet bide scrap logo tuf and the abe mixture is in burned under the she boiler for fuel SO bo all it costs the company for fuel is four dollars per week and the coal people are willing to go take that out in trade the root gatherers are paid five dollars per ton and twenty men are ar digging most of agbe time there to is a fine drive well yielding the purest water which Is i a great advantage in this bis business jevery Zv iery product from this thin tannery is 18 salvable saleable sa a leable the off officers leers oi of the company are president L W barber vice president B P F darbyshire secretary and treasurer grea surer W D hughes manager J W brown |
