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In order to show the amount of business done, I have carefully col- 

 lected and tabularized from my books, the following statistics of the 

 " Prattsville Tannery," for twenty years, in tanning about 1,000,000 

 sidfs of sole leather: 



Statistics of the Prattsville Tannery for twenty years; various ma- 

 terials used, and labor employed. 



6,666 acres bark land=10 square miles=18 cords to 



the acre= 120,000; at $3 per cord, $360,000 



No. of days' work peeling and piling do, days, 118,555 



4 trees to the cord, trees, 475,200 



120,000 loads or cords=264,000,000 lbs, cords, 132,000 



444 acres of wood-land^32,000 loads, or cords, worth $32,000 



135,380 bushels of oats, at 2s 6d per bushel, 41,967 



1,200 tons of hay, at $8 per ton, 9,600 



313,000 days' work in tannery= 1,000 years' 



labor, at $14 per month, $162,000 



Board, at $ 1 .50 per week, 78,000 



$240,000 



500,000 hides, weighing 1 5,000,000 lbs., 1,750,000 



Cartage, 5,700 loads, of 2,600 lbs. each, (one pair 



horses,) 



1,000,000 sides sole leather at 18 lbs. per side,- --lbs., 18,000,000 



Hides and sole leather, together, 33,000,000 



Cost of carting, - $52,800 



3,000 lbs. per load of leather, one pair of 



horses, $6,000 



2,600 lbs. per load of hides, one pair of horses, 5,700 



11,700 



Freight of hides and leather between New-York and 



Catskill, $30,000 



Equal to 18,000,000 lbs of leather, at 17 cents per lb., 3,060,000 



Lost and worn out about 100 horses, at $75 each, 7,500 



Cost of w^agons, at $250 per year, 5,000 



Insurance on stock, 12,000 



Yearly expenses, 300,000 



Total expenses, about 6,000,000 



And, in justice to my workmen, I ought to say, without the use of 

 ardent spirits, or ever having a side of leather stolen. 



A glance at this table will at once convince any one that the ad- 

 vantages of such an establishment are not confined to the amount of 



