The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1871-05-26

support and ability employed and
thorough work accomplished will chal-
lenge comparison with the best in the
land. The Public School Buildings, two
in number, were built at q cost OF over
$4,000, and are tasteful and convenient
structures. Six hundred pupils are en-.
rolled, and thirteen teachers employed, OF
whom Prof II. 8. English, is the able and
popular Superintendent. We could fully
appreciate the genuine pride which Cairo
feels in her public schools after looking
through their various departments, as we
did the other day. For orderly quiet de-
pertinent, the earnest but cheerful atten-
lion Of the boys aud girls to the work in
hand, and prompt and accurate recitation,
we have seldom seen these schools equalled
! All honor is due TO Prof. English and his
corps of teachers for the good work they
number, distributed among the leading
| denominations and are we'll sustained.
! CAIRO A. A TOBACCO EARKET.
The facilities which locality possess for
handling any Of the great staple produc-
tions Of tho country constitute one OF the
! most important factors in its growth and
development. More than three hundred
million pounds Of tobacco are annually
raised in the United States, aud, as for
well known reasons, New York and New
Orleans are fast loosing the importance
they once had as tobacco markets, il is not
strange that wide awake towns all through
the Interior are eagerly grasping for priv
ilage Of handling, at least, share Of this
tremendous production. Individual enter
prise aside, plainly those places will best
succeed in the race of competition, that
are most eligibly situated with reference
to shipments, in the tobacco growing reg
ions. In this regard Cairo simply claims
a first place-and this from no spirit of
arrogance, but only because Nature COM
pels her to that pre-eminence. The waters
Of the Ohio, Missouri, upper Mississippi
and their tributaries-or more than
twenty thousand miles of navigable rivers
flow past he wharfs. While these rivers
penetrate large number of the thirty-one
States in which tobacco is being, at pres
ent, raised, making it possible for them
all, to be, in one sense tributary to her
maket, those regions in which tobacco is
a leading staple of production, are immed-
lately adjacent to Cairo.
Stitistics from the Bureau Of Agricul-
ture, show that the States of Kentucky,
and Tennessee, Indiana and Illinois, Mis-
souri, and Arkansas, grow annually
over l30,000,0 900 pounds Of tobacco, or
nearly one-half the product of the entire
country. A market which is SO nearly
geographical center Of this region, and
which offers 20 the planter such cheap fa-
cilities for transportation, possesses natu-
raj advantages too obvious, to need more
than a mere mention. Another fact i'm
portant to buyers is this. Being a sort of
halfway house, for both tho Ohio and
Mississippi River Packets, where they all
stop, there is such competition for the car
rying trade, that freights, both to New
Orleans and New York, are now, and will
continue to be cheaper from this than
from any other point on the rivers.
Such much for the natural advantages
Of Cairo for building up large distribu-
ting market. But these without Individu-
al enterprise are nothing. To this fact
she is beginning to wake up. ID. Hurd Il
Son, the energetic proprietors of the Bal
lard Warehouse are rapidly demonstra-
ting that this place ought to have and can
have its proper position among the great
tobacco markets Of the country. Besides
sending the right kind Of men among the
planters, to represent their mutual inter-
ests, they issue a weekly circular, which
gives q full and intelligent resume of the
NuOIutiOHs VI sules Tue
week, together with such informa-
tion and advice as the grower may
need. They also have in contemplation a
fair, to be held sometime in June, ut which
at least $1,000 in gold will be distributed
US premiums. We are glad to be able to
report that unexpected success is attending
their entcrprising efforts. The opening
sale of this warehouse was on the 7th of
February last, and up to the present time,
May 9th, the receipts have been 4256 hhds,
and the actual sales for this year will not
fall short of seven thousand hhds. There
10 a regular board Of buyers from st. Louis,
New Orleans, Cleveland, Detroit and other
cities, while the local buyers, are numer-
Gus, and among the most liberal in the
country. AS an evidence Of the satsfac-
tory character Of the sales, we would state
that there have been only eighteen rejec-
tions during the season. The following
quotations taken from the Tobacco Circu-
lar of ID. Hurd & Son issued May 9th, will
show the qualities of tobacco offered and
prices got on the brakes of Cairo.
Sales to-day were IS hhds and 3 boxes
as follows
10