, 1841-08-14
From the APPEAL.
TOBACCO STATISTICS-TENNES-
SEE AND KENTUCKY.

SIAIlSIlCS-IENN
SEE AND KENTUCKY.
Several Of the newspapers of these States
have been occupied with the comparative
production of the article of Tobacco, each
and each more or less in error. The precise
quantity produced cannot be ascertained, of
course; but data sufficiently reliable may be
obtained to show that Tennessee is not very
far behind kentucy in the quantity, while
she is fully her equal in The quality of this
article annually produced. A writer in a
late Louisville Journal complains of an er-
ror which he alleges has crept into the pub
lie prints, which does an injury TO Kentucky,
bygIving to Tennessee, rs a part of her own
produce, all the Tobacco exported from Ken
lucky through the ports Of Tennessee. The
writer remarks:
.'Seven-eightS of the Tobacco raised in
the west passes through New Orleanso, on
lis way 10 4 final market. For the year end
Ing 81 September, 1870, there were ~receiv-
ed in New Orleans. of leaf tobacco, l3.253
hhds; of which it was supposed $4,000 hhds
were raised in Kentucky, and the residue in
Tennessee, Missouri and Illinois, but the lar
cest portion in Tennessee. A glance at the
map will convince any one that Kentucky
must lead any western state in the culture of
tobacco; for eight counties on the Kentucky
river are deeply engaged in its cultivation.
and rase annually $4,000 to 5000 hhds. most
Of which is shipped to Philadelphia by the
Pennsylvania canal. Every county on the
OhiO. from Louisville. Ia Mills Point, produ-
ces tobacco, and in most of them il Is the
staple. Every county on the Cumberland
river. from the head of navigation to its
mouth, produces it Ia like extent. The
same may be said Of the counties on Green
river; the whole comprising fifty counties,
among the largest and most fertile in the
State
1t is not possible to give the exact quantity
raised in each Of these counties, but we he
licvc the average will be near $50 hhds. as
many of them produce no; less than 1000.
hhds. This would give $1,000 hhds as the
average produce of the State. or this, a.
bout 5000 hhds. are shipped up the Ohio;
from $4,000 to 10000 hhds to New Orleans,
and the residue is consumed in the State or
exported after being manufactured in chew
Ing tobacco.
In Tennessee, tobacco is not, we believe,
cultivated 10 any extent, except in 4 few
counties bordering on the Cumberland river;
and in but three or four Of them can it he
considered the staple production. /, is true
that 4 few counties on the Tennessee river
give tobacco 4 feeble and sickly attention,
but do not produce enough TO entitle them to
any notice. 1t is true that GAINESVILLE, in
ships more tobacco than any
in kentucky, or in The west; bu, much
the larger part Of it is produced in the coun-
of Simpson, Logan, Todd and Christian,
amongst the heaviest tobacco counties in this
State. 1t may be safely affirmed that Ken
raises and exports twice as much to-
bacco as all other portions OF the west put
together"
The editor Of the Commercial Herald, pub
Iished at Mills Point, Kentucky, in noticing
the above article, says:
"However thoroughly he the Journal cor
respondent may be acquainted with the
statistics OF the tobacco trade in the West,
he labors under Il g%rievous mistake, when he
gives it as his opinion, that Sin Tennessee,
tobacco is not cultivated to any extent, ex-
cept in a few counties bording on the Cum
berland river
"He undoubtedly is not aware, that tobac-
20 is nearly the staple product Of the north
I'm part Of the Western District of rennes-
zee. And admitting that some injustice may
rave been done 10 our State by giving to
Tennessee, as a part Of her own produce, all
he tobacco exported from Kentucky through
he ports of Tennessee, yet, on the other
,and, are the expectations Of tobacco, from
NiTs Points, the Iron Banks, Padueah, and
Smithland, which are not inconsiderable.
claimed as the product of our W soil, up.
wards IF three four,hs Of the tobacco ship.