Industry And Trade Historical And Descriptive Account of Their Development in T
Industry And Trade Historical And Descriptive Account of Their Development in T
Avard Longley Bishop
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We have raised our cattle chiefly for meat, not hides ; and the two purposes are not so easily combined, for the best leather comes from tough, rangy steers whose beef is inferior. The preparation and manufacture of leather from both our own domestic product and from these importations have been developed by the United States until we lead the world in BEFORE THE IXVEXTION OF SHOE MACHINERY LEATHER AND RUBBER 263 this line. And although there are many distinct varieties — not to mention qualiti...es — of leather goods, the most important branch of this business is the one we have started out to survey, namely, the boot and shoe manufacture. Prominence of Massachusetts. Massachusetts easily leads the country' in this industry ; her leadership dates very far back and has already been referred to as an illustration of the advantage of an early start. As early as 1635 a skillful shoemaker settled in Lynn, and fifteen years later the town was making more shoes than were made in any other town in the colony or e\'en in the countr)' — especially women's shoes, which were largely of cloth.
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