| From the New Orleans True Delta |
| |
| August 11, 1861 |
| |
| The Leather Trade |
| A correspondent of the Charleston Mercury,
in a letter dated Chattanooga, 15th ult., says: |
| Your readers will be gratified, doubtless,
to learn that there is in the vicinity of this town, one of the largest
tanneries in the south. It is now in active operation, and turning out
from eight to ten thousand sides of well-tanned leather every four
months, giving an aggregate of eighty thousand side of leather per
annum. A New Orleans firm purchased here, a few days since, twenty
thousand dollars worth of leather for their shoemaking establishment,
and we are informed that more than $30,000 of stock was then in the
yard, ready for market. The tannery is now owned by Col. G. C. Torbitt,
of Nashville, and Sam. Tate, president of the M. & O. railroad
{should be M&C RR, Memphis & Charleston RR}.
It is the design of the new firm to go largely into the manufacture of
shoes, at this point, at an early period. |
|