Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1879-04-12

" ter of tobacco. There is no Other
market SO well located for the hand
! ling of this GAINESVILLE growth, hav,
Il ing cheap and quick freight facili.
n ties and central location, good
; capital, etc.
: The News desires to know who
). are our friends in Louisville who
: advise ''air cured tobacco" in pre-
; ference to the heavy fire cured, which
: latter kind l urged planters to ship
f to this market.
: Mr.. b. F. Fuqua, near Russell
vile, sent two samples to Louisville
! to tobacco man of good standing,
! for valuations, etc. One of said
: samples was No. rich GAINESVILLE
style, the other No. 3 light air
cured. Here is the letter in answer
) to his inquiries:
''The home trade demand seems
| to run now entirely on light air
; filters, and Virginia tobacco
III MIdpDGlSs OOCS IlOI
seem to be much demand for
black wrappers with the manu-
facturers as heretofore. We exam
ined the samples you sent up and
showed them to Meguiar, Helm &
Co., and many of the buyers. The
universal decision was in favor of
No. g..
| No. is light air cured, while
No. 2 was heavy fire cured Clarks-
vile type.-T. H..
The extract as quoted above was
from J. p. Vaughan's letter to b.
F. Fuqua, and seems to afford pretty
good evidence that if the witnesses
are intelligent Gas we suppose the
News will admit that heavy fire
cured tobacco is out Of fashion in
Louisville.
The following certificate from Mr.. |
Fuqua shows that Mr.. Thompson
of the Picket House, admitted the !
correctness of my circular. Hear
what Mr.. Fuqua says:
"Early in April, ON the. 18th day,
| had a conversation with Mr.. /
Thompson of the Picket House, in |
the presence of Doe Hildebrand, in
reference to the circular statement |
| alluding to my circular of March /
7th-T. H.. He admitted their
correctness, but added there would
be demand for GAINESVILLE tobacco
by summer. He decidedly adj
mitted that there was no demand
for them now"
Wonder if the above will be ruled
out of order by the News. As fur
ther evidence that light styles are !
the fashion imLouisville, we quote
from circular of Meguiar, Helm &
Co., of January 1st, 1879:
"Prices have been unsteady since
the middle of July, with downward
tendency for all grades except bright
and colory sorts.
This shows that bright colory
sorts (air cured) were the only
fashion, and that GAINESVILLE and
other types were not in fashion.
And again:
"At this point it is worthy of re-
mark that present demands for to-
bacco for home use is almost exclus-
lively for these light air cured
sorts-T. H. And fit should CONT
nue. so during the year las is possible,
then we may expect prices for them
to be maintained. But what
will be done with the dark and
greenish tobacco in the crop is the
question, and very important one
it is"
1t will be seen that the above,
taken from the circular of one of the
leading houses in the city where the
News is published, states emphati-
cally that there is no demand in
Louisville for the dark tobacco, and
considers it a very serious question
as to what disposition will be made
of it. Now, if the Tobacco News is
really friend of planters it will
urge them to ship their dark, heavy,
fire cured tobacco (for which there
is no demand in its city, to this
market, to its home and friends,
where it will meet with most cor
dial welcome from large board of
foreign and home buyers" eagerly
buying every hOgshead of such at
very full prices. To show that our
Louisville friends advise planters to
change the production of the dark,
heavy sorts to bright (air cured) we
quote from same circular:
SIN some of the Green river coun-
ties, and other localities where the
soil is suited to it, we advise special
attention TO be given to the growing |
of tobacco that will cure bright, and .
the brighter the better and the more
money they are worth"
Thus it will be clearly seen that
the most prominent tobacco men
in Louisville mot merchants) adj
wise planters to leave off the heavy,
dark types and return to the light
air cured article, and we take it for
granted that these gentlemen quoted ,
know what suits the Louisville
market little better than the editor
of the News, and they say the de-
mand is only for light or bright
goods, not for heavy, rich, dark
style. So, as our market prefers
the dark, rich kinds, we do most
earnestly urge those having our sort
to ship to this market. They will
bring more money on the average
than any other market can get for
them. But as further proof that
light air cured tobaccos are the fash
ion in Louisville, I will quote from
J. S. Phelps & Co., of Louisville.
In their circular, Jan. /, 1879, they
say:
at is plain that radical change
has taken place in the kind of tobac-
co wanted by manufacturers for
filters. They no longer use the
dark, rich, waxy sorts, but are TAX
ing instead highly colored leaf
with less BODY and substance. We