Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1896 — Tanning Leather in England. [ARTICLE]

Tanning Leather in England.

At the opening of the shoe and leather fair In London a few days ago the principal speaker said that when he entered the business it took three years for the hide of a bullock to be converted into leather fit for shoemaking, but now it was possible for a bullock to be walking about on Saturday and for Its hide to be good, serviceable leather on the following Tuesday. Because of our primitive methods, trade had slipped away into other hands; but all that was past now, and the English tanner was able to procure cheap and fancy leather and good leather as jvell. Still, Ainerica was ahead of us in' r the matter of the cheaper production of the manufactured article, the reason being that'the newest labor-saving machinery was used. American bullocks were brought to this country to be killed, and’their hides were shipped back to America to be made Into boots for the English market.