The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-08-10
MONETARY & COMMERCIAL.



We are indebted to intelligent gentlemen
engaged in the Tobacco trade, for the fol-
lowing statement of the growing crop of
Tobacco, which may be considered reliable.
The facts are gathered from visitation OF
the whole region, personal examination
and conversation with planters and coun-
try traders.
The report includes the Tobacco regions
of the lower Ohio, in Indiana, Kentucky
and Illinois, and the Green and CumDer-
land River country. ,-rV7r,-a
8 There has been, in the whole region, an
averge breadth of land planted; somewhat
less in the section formerly cultivated by
slave labor, but made up by the increase
in Indiana.
The planting season was from two to four
weeks earlier this year than usual, and the
plant now is consequently much more adj
yanced, and is doing finely. 1t Is of supe-
rior quality, as the season has been very
favorable, and has not been much affected
by dry weather, and is less Jrenched than
usual In some localities the crop has
been injured by wet weather, but not seri-
ously. The general crop is as fine as grown
for years, and If not injured by dry or hot
weather, or early frost, will be of a very
superior quality. The next thirty days
are full of anxiety to the cultivator of this
region. The plant is well advanced by be-
ing early in the ground, and having very
favorable weather thus far, and If we do
not have an excess of either wet or dry
weather, or cutting frost before the 10th
of September, we will have larger yield
of better quality than any year since
1853
In Indiana, in the river counties, where
the cultivation of Tobacco has, within the
last few years, grown rapidly into one OF
the chief products, the crop will be Consid-
erably above the average, both in quantity
and quality. In Kentucky there will be
an average crop, estimating the whole re-
gion, though short in some sections. In
Illinois, the crop will not be SO large in
amount, as there has been less breadth
planted than formerly, Cotton, Castor
Beans, and Sorghum superseding the Gull
tivation of Tobacco in some degree. In
Northern Tennessee, Cotton has received
much more attention than formerly, tC
the neglect of Tobacco, and the yield will
not be large. Last years crop is 7 OF all of
yet, but the stemmeiies are about closing
out. Considerable Tobacco is ready fol
shipment on Green, Cumberland, AND
| Tennessee Rivers, most of which will pas:
| through this city. OF the crop of 1865, fol
4 the sections mentioned in these four States
on the Lower Ohio and its tributaries
about one-third, or near Is, 600 hogsheads
have been or win be shipped through thii
place. VAN oster rxf roaz
The yield for the four years for this re
gion mentioned, is estimated from reliable
data, as follows:
1853 .......................... l155, 900 hhds.
1854 ~ ...... " 100000 hhds.
n r1VOUU mas.
1866 .........1l5 to l20,O0O hhdS.
A much larger proportion than usual o
strips go forward this year-estimated a
1900 hhds. ,r.
Evansville is growing into one of thu
chief Tobacco marts and points of tran:
shipment in the West. Withits daily ana
tri-weekly lines of regular first-class Pack
cts on the Ohio, Green, Cumberland, AM
Tennessee Rivers, and our easy and direc
Railroad facilities it is drawing to it al
the large trade of these extensive Tabacc
growing regions. NF&Hg