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value produced. The labor employed directly or indirectly may be 

 set down at two hundred men daily. The ramified branches of busi- 

 ness and trade that it fosters; the comfort, refinement and intelli- 

 gence of which it becomes the centre, and its final influence upon 

 the growth and populousness of the surrounding district, cannot, I 

 think, be too highly estimated. The following table shows but one 

 single item, the amount of labor employed within the walls, or that 

 which is directly and immediately employed in the process of tanning; 

 but, from a comparative inspection of it, and the table above, some 

 idea may be formed of the amount of labor indirectly engaged. 



Average number of men employed at the Prattsville tannery through- 

 out the year, with their respective wages per month. 



BEAM HOUSE. 



No. of Pay per 

 hands. month. 



Foreman, 1 $32 00 |32 00 



Choresraen, 2 12 00 & $6 board, 36 00 



Bearasmen, 12 14 00 " ISO 00 



IN THE YARD. 



Foreman, 1 50 00 50 00 



Handling and laying away, 8 12 00 " 144 00 



Brushing leather, 6 12 00 " 72 00 



Nightman to leaches, 1 14 00 " 20 00 



Grinding bark by day, 1 12 00 " 18 00 



night, 1 14 00 " 20 00 



Wheeling bark, 4 12 00 " 72 00 



Filling and pitching leaches, 3 24 00 " 60 00 



DRYING LOFT. 



Foreman, 1 20 00 " 26 00 



Spunger, 1 12 00 " 18 00 



Rollers, 2 15 00 " 42-00 



Hanging up and taking down leather, 2 12 00 " 36 00 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Foreman out doors, 1 4100 " 47 00 



Carpenter, 1 39 00 " 45 00 



Teamsters, 12 1100 ," 218 00 



Total, --- 58 $1,120 00 



