The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-02-16
EYansrIIIe a TObaeeo Market.

1t is assumed and susceptible of
proof that Evansville is nearer to,
and more accessible, with less expense
as a great tobacco center to a greater
numbers of tobacco growers, than
any other tobacco market. Then
how is it TO be diverted from other
points and concentrated here.
First. ample provisions Of ware
houses; secondly. reliable factors to
receive and control it to the interest
Of the producer when shipped to
them; and thirdly. plenty of buyers.
In the department of Tobacco
Sheds Jacks bean is growing tire;
mendOusly. Weldon Bros. & Go. and
brick fabrics, ample IN extent, and
we'll ordered to preserve the goods
committed to their care. But the
accession to the Tobacco attractions
of the Evansville market of Mr.. VIM.
| 5. Ford's mammoth aud philosoph
| ically adjusted and substantial new
/ Brick Tobacco rooms will tavorably
compare with the very best upon this
continent. Its length and width,
/ with ample side sheds, is a call for
| thousand hogsheads day, aud as de
partment of safety, renders Insurance
| almost useless, and SO cheap as to
amount to mere fractions It's edge
| brick floor, hammered down to almost
marble smoothness and solldlty, with
its fire and waterproof roof, and re
moteness from other buildings, make
it the safest place farmers can deposit
their tobacco - their own barns,
though In a field not excepted. It's
responding sky-l lights extending its
entire length, so deep and sclentlhoal
ly related as to make the light all over
the vast space enclosed equal to out
doors as a sales room. Its sample
boxes, reception Office, with its ad
Joining business departments, make a
tobacco man think he is certainly In
New York, if not in Liverpool.
But as the hogshead is no evidencC
of the quality of the tobacco it con
tains, so the superior arrangements o
the tobacco houses IN Evansville arr
!. but first rate circumstance IN aldlnt
more potent facts in controlling th'
tobacco to this market. For almos
!, a quarter Of q century the now grea
city of Louisville had but one Tobacco
house, and that little low dark dun
geon looking structure on the corne
of Sixth and Main, With the now his
: toric tobacco name of Bridges" i
I coarse irregular dingy black letters O
bridges Tobacco Warehouse" draw
across the end of it.
This little half story copcern, s.
low that fea having quarters at
first class boarding house, could hav
hoped from the pavement along II
: side to the top of the roof, and s
y narrow as we'll as low that vel
Il trained grasshopper could have stoo
Ia fat footed in the middle of the stree
"a and leaped clear over it, has directl
w and Indirectly been a continued silve
We sluice to the financial growth of Lou
>. isville But Louisville now has
large number of first class warehouse
r. exclusively devoted to the tobacC
trade
Secondly, Evansville tobacco IA
tors will command premium distin
ton in all the tobacco> districts of Il
Z. country where known, and some
re- them having been long end to the
.rpe credit known as tobacco operatives
. other points, will go very far IN d
- termining the tobacco to this centt
= This is true of Dir. VIM. s. Ford 6
a pecially; but another great and ind
81 pensable element in making this
81 bacco market huge success is plen
II of buyers. These she has, OF who
&c, we will speak hereafter.
IT, Respectfully,
NY T. NJ. ENGLISH.