600 sole leather hides $2, 100 



200 upper 500 



600 calfskins 600 



Amount of hides and skins in a raw state 3,200 



90 cords Spanish oak bark at ?1 1 J990 



10 cords black oak, at $6 60 



Labor of two men and two boys, one year 650 



Expense of keeping one horse for grinding bark 100 



Rent of tanyard 75 



Incidental expenses 75 



1,950 

 5,150 



One year's interest on $5,000 capital 300 



5,450 



The proceeds of the above stock when manufactured may be estimated at 

 the present market prices, as follows: 



16,000 lbs. sole leather at 25 cents 4,000 



200 upper leather hides, at ?4.50 900 



600 calf skins, at $20 per dozen 1 , 000 



Sale of ofFal, viz horns, tails, hair, glue pieces 150 



6,050 



Amount of raw materials and expenses brought down 5,450 



Net proceeds $600 



Of greater interest, however, are Jackson's remarks concerning 

 the region's leather industry, since they serve as an excellent 

 summary in concluding the survey of Wilmington's leather trade: 



The amount of tanning business done in this place has been much diminished 

 within fifteen or twenty years past; at the same time that it has been increas- 

 ing in the adjacent country. This change it is believed, is principally owing 

 to the high price of Spanish oak bark in the former which has generally been 

 at eleven dollars a cord, for that brought in wagons, (which is very limited 

 in quantity,) and from thirteen to fifteen dollars for that shipped from the 

 lower parts of this peninsula. At the distances of twenty and thirty miles 

 from this place, in the country bordering on the Susquehanna River, good 

 Spanish oak bark is procured at five, six and seven dollars a cord; hence it 

 will readily be seen that tanners located in that district, have an advantage 

 of six or seven dollars a cord above those in this place, making a stock of 200 

 cords, annual saving of $1,200 at least. It may be observed that they are 

 subject to considerable expense in the transportation of hides to their estab- 

 lishments, and of the leather to market, which, for a stock of 1,000 heavy 



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