Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1869-09-04

! TOBACCO TRADE.-The Hopkins
vile people have erected large
tobacco warehouse, and will be In the
market next season to compete for
the GAINESVILLE district tobacco. We
wish them no bad luck, but common
sense suggests that they have mista-
ken their calling, and the proprletors
of the aforesaid warehouse will doubt
less find out to their sorrow, before
many years roll over their heads, that
they have taken their ducks to q poor
market by investing their money in
such property at such place. We
repeat, we do not desire to disparage
any place, but facts are facts, and
stubborn things to overcome, and our
reasons for predicting a failure on the
part of the HoplSinsville warehouse
men to realize their expectations are
these In the first place we have n
more central locality, with warehouse
capacity enough for all the tobacco
raised In the GAINESVILLE district; and
in the second place, we have expe-
rienced tobacco warehousemen who,
from long experience, know how to
serve the interests of the planter, and
are prepared to sell at as small cost
to the producer as can be afforded
elsewhere. We have q large board
of both resident and foreign buyers
who have known our market too
well and too favorably to quit 1t, and
this important fact is patent to the
planter as well as the buyer, and, as
consequence, veto is at once put
upon tobacco seeking another market
for sale in any considerable quantity
for platers account. Last, but not
least, it took many years of constant
labor to build up our market to what
it is, and tobacco sold at this point
has won for itself name throughout
the tobacco markets of the world
Besides all this, we can furnish
the buyer choice of rail or river
transportation direct from our ware
houses, and as cheap freight as can be
had elsewhere. We understand that
the shrewd business men of Hopkins
vile have dohe all in their power to
put up the price of real estate in that
place, since tho completion of the
railroad to that point, and under the
excitement incident thereto, have
sold out their property, knowing
ing from the experience of other
places, that their former trade would
decline as the road progressed. Eve
ry station having its own store
house, would divert it from them
GAINESVILLE would doubtless have suf-
fered the same fate with her tobacco
market, but for the fact that we had
Cumberland river to operate in favor
of low rates of freight from this
point.
When the Nashville and Hender-
son railroad. is completed you oan
sayl farewell to Hopkinsville, I'M
less her citizens bestir themselves
and erect manufacturing establish
ments; this is her only hope. Her
heavy courthouse and railroad tax,
together with the high price at which
good lands are held in Christian
county, will keep out immigrants;
besides all that we have said concern
ing the prospect for Hopkinsville be-
coming n great tobacco market, we
beg leave to add one word concerning
her public highways $50 called, more
properly speaking, lo,o trays, such at
least would be the opinion of the
wagon, team and driver, conveying
tobacco over them during the unheat-
ed term, commonly called winter,
the time when most farmers must of
necessity convey their tobacco to
market.