. Railroad record, and journal of commerce, banking, manufactures and statistics . amounts to the sum of $42,-634 32, The whole country along the line of theRoad, from Fort Wayne to the Straits of Mac-kinaw, thoroughly reconnoitered andsurveyed by the Companys engineers. We presume the Company will be ready torecommence active operations in this Spring;and that they will need a Company of contractors who have some means and integrity,as well as enterprise. The road can affordgood terms to such men, and it opens a fairfield of productive enterprise. $§ The anthracite coal trade is good
. Railroad record, and journal of commerce, banking, manufactures and statistics . amounts to the sum of $42,-634 32, The whole country along the line of theRoad, from Fort Wayne to the Straits of Mac-kinaw, thoroughly reconnoitered andsurveyed by the Companys engineers. We presume the Company will be ready torecommence active operations in this Spring;and that they will need a Company of contractors who have some means and integrity,as well as enterprise. The road can affordgood terms to such men, and it opens a fairfield of productive enterprise. $§ The anthracite coal trade is good for theseason. The Reading Railroad brought downfor the week ending on Thursday last 26,512tons, and for the season, 349,419 tons, against269,349 tuns to the same time last year, beingan increase of 80,070 tons. sU* The Sussex Register says: It is un-derstood that the Morris and Essex Railroadwill be immediately extended from its pres-ent terminus at Ilacketstown to Fhillipsburg,opposite Easton. THE EAILEOAD RECORD. 89 KENNEDYS PATENT TANNERY—hide mill and washing The art of tanning, is that by which animalskins are converted into leather, a productdiffering entirely from that of the raw material,and adapting it to the useful purpose for whichit is employed. The properties imparted areof a physical nature, and vary with the kindof skin employed, and the modifications ofthe process which it undergoes. Chemicallyconsidered, however, leather is a definite com-pound of tannin and gelatine. Tanning, asan art, dates as far back as nine hundredyears before the Christian Era. The methodsresorted to in early times, consisted of littlemore than merely cleansing and drying theskins, and thus prepared, the latter were usedfor clothing. Leather was largely in useamong the ancient Egyptians, and the workersof that material were so numerous, that theMemnonian quarter of Thebes was character-ized as their especial locality. Their skill infashioning it was so great that ornaments
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