| Show HONORABLE MENTION HISTORICAL LEATHER Talula settled in his leader Nelson 61 West 200 North Pleasant Utah 84647 Mt When the ESSAY settlement of Mt Pleasant Utah was 1859 James Porter responded to the call of to build and operatetannery andshoe shop for that community three-room rock house and two room log house for his family to live in were all completed on the corner where the Presbyterian Church novw stands on First West and Second South was built on the east side of the log house shop Here he made leather for harnesses long room forshoe shoes and which roof boots The tannery consisted of six vats over was builte In front of it wasbark ofhuge hopper which held bark that from trees tongue bark which the mountain pulled the horse hopper was around hitched and to ground the fine The ground time vats were about four feet square dug filled with water Lime was added at in the After vats in mill consisting had been stripped the procedure hair was of water ground fine remove removed The was to bark added the of to hair pelts certain the from the were trees solution to in the the right pelts placed in which had soften the been leather The hides rabbits etc from were beef calves stretched out lime sprinkled between they were for pulled out left of form where the handled knife with the and four vat or and water five sheep in the deer first and vat poured over them days stretched then over with Here they were sort of plat hair was scraped off withlong two Next they were placed in another vat clear water over them and left for four or five Then they were put into another vat of clear days water in order to clean off all the lime Next they were stretched out straight in two vats until the vats 22 |
