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Title: Industrial history of the United States, from the earliest settlements to the present time: being a complete survey of American industries, embracing agriculture and horticulture; including the cultivation of cotton, tobacco, wheat; the raising of horses, neat-cattle, etc.; all the important manufactures, shipping and fisheries, railroads, mines and mining, and oil; also a history of the coal-miners and the Molly Maguires; banks, insurance, and commerce; trade-unions, strikes, and eight-hour movement; together with a description of Canadian industries
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Bolles, Albert Sidney, 1846-1939
Subjects: Industries Industries
Publisher: Norwich, Conn. : The Henry Bill pub. Company
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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tter, he appreciates more fully than before thethe industry, importance of this class of industries. The census-returns of 1870set down the number of persons engaged in tanning, dressing skins, and mak-ing boots and shoes, saddles andharnesses, trunks, valises, satchels,pocket-books, gloves, belting, andhose, at over 202,000. To theseshould be added at least 50,000cobblers and small shoemakers, whoare excluded from the above figures ;and an allowance should be madealso for those who use leather inbook-binding, carriage-building, andmaking cards for textile fibres.The total value of the direct leather-products above enumerated was.^386,000,000 ; and $64,000,000would not be an extravagant esti-mate of the value of the leatherelement in the goods of which itforms but a part. The same census-returns put down the number ofoperatives engaged in cotton, linen,silk, and woollen manufacture, atabout 250,000, and their productsat $390,000,000. Since that timegained the advantage over those with
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BEATING-OUT MACH1N the leather-industry has, if any tiling OF THE UNITED STATES. 445 which we here make comparison. It is safe to say, that, in point of value,it constitutes over one-tenth of the whole manufacturing-industry of thecountry, and, in employment, surpasses the combined manufacture of textilefabrics. Unless we except the primitive fig-leaf, the skins of wild and domesticanimals may be said to have constituted the earliest clothing of mankind.The spinning and weaving of flax and wool was of later date than Skins thethe first use of skins. Egyptian pictorial inscriptions of an age earliest kindanterior to the Jewish captivity show the familiarity of the denizens of clothin£-of the Nile country with tanning and the uses of leather. The art of makingrams skins dyed red, with which the mosaic tabernacle was covered, wasdoubtless learned in Egypt. It is an interesting fact, that bronze leather-slicers, similar to those of the ancient Egyptians, have been found in oldMexican sep

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