Show POSTAL 1 POSTAL GAR CARDS OS OF OF LEATHER lor lut HUM SOll Ila- Ila Ilan II n Decided Effect Uon he lilt Market ct Leather postal l cards carda arc a ft eon con LIllIy III increasing fad fad and the demand for foi- them ha bali produced p an appreciable D effect on the tho leather heather market taid Frank Franl V. W. Lord d representing a n. l Ia Mas- Mas shoo shoe firm lIm at al the Planking Planking- ton cm ID very where I go gu I notice that the dealers s are arc laying In larger stocks stocka of ot tho the cards Cals than ever evel The Tho fact that the women arc are now nov making pillow coverings out of the car cards s Is mainly responsible for tor the great demand forthe for COl forthe I the leather oblongs Hundreds Hundred of nr thu thousands thousand an N of or square foci feet oct of or leather Is utilized In the produCtion production pro pro- of ol 1 postal car cards n. n and when pro pro-I one one con t what a n multiplicity of or U use K leather ha has anti and the man many tides articles that tiia arc c manufactured from om It there thop is lit lit- tie the to be bl wondered ed at when the price rn of or If hide soars soai-e l. l As a matter n r of facet only ulily a portion of ot orthe j the entire number of at taken from orn aum too no animals d' d In Chicago I and other Western packing houses I Ji Is i tanned at all Probably Th 25 pet per cen cent of the tho hl hides es are held back In or orto order to Uren the market markel To the packer Jhc arc ruc valuable for tor making soap so p tat fat and he has nothing to lose hose whIm whilo I b by 13 J keeping the supply low he lates prices to his lila own n advantage I Several Japanese JD some time ag ago bought nearly worth of ot hide and placed them In MO age rage In tn southern Indiana where tho they al' al are aie now Since the Taps Japs bought the thc market price has hiatt risen steadily and were wei-e they to sell to today ay the tho eyed aimoni-eyed financiers would net full fully 40 per pel cent profit The rhe country's country consumption ol ot shoe Is greater than ever evet before e. ane and the ee development nt of ot new parts of the United d States tates has kept the harness Racket Kroner Ulong so that th the causes for forthe forthe forthe the high prices liners of or leather goods Broods 30 19 arc really normal I |