The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-06-30
I. Tie Culture OF Tobacco.
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TOBACCO growing, wherever it has been
properly followed. has never failed b
yield large profit to the farmer and tc
produce general wealth aud DEVELOPMENT
In an article sorietime back we showed
liopi statistics complied by the United
states department. of Agriculture thai
the average yield per acre in those State
"here tobacco was grown varied from S9f
20 $l00 In value, and further chat from
the Character of our soil and climate. as
we'll as from experiments on a smnll
scale, we could in this county count with
certainty on an average return from To.
bacco culture of $40 tc $50 per acre
Heatdes, its growth does not conflict ma.
terialiy with other staples planted here,
and its best yield can generally he real.
lied from fresh lands, which planted in
corn or cotton do not prC 70 remunoratiye
We DO not say that any one crop shonld
be grown to tho exclusion OF Others. bni
surely staple which commands cash al
all times, yields more profitable return
than cotton and Is we'll adapted to our
soil and climate, should not be neglected
i9o Ehe want of o good mandatory hero
and the fear Of getting into trouble with
the revenue laws have contributed large.
iy to divert the attention and labor OF
our people from tobacco This difioulty
need no longer be apprehended. Mr.. K,
A. Pendley. has opened and put into full
operation the tobacco factory of Col. J,
y. Norton, which had been suspended
sometime, and is now buying leaf tobacco
at the highest cash prices. He has en-.
gagged in the business Capt. France. an
experienced tobacconist, and one who for
years has made the curing end manufac.
ture of tobacco a specially. In fact he
is said TO have been the moving spirit In
establishing the tobacco industry in Bun.
combe county, North Carolina, some
years ago, having managed successfully
the earliest factories put UP at Asheyille.
Under his supervision here Mr.. Pendley
10 sending out some frat quality of chew
ing tobacco, end If our people will GROW,
tobacco for market they cannot only find
ready sale for ii at good prices, but thev
will derive profit TO themselves aud i'm.
prove the value Of landsan the wealth
of our county.
The subjoined article shows what its
culture has done for Buncombe county
In Q short time, not enly in annual in
come IN money, but in the increased
value OF lands and the comfort and pro-
gress of the people of that county. We
have equal if not superior facilities to
market, as good lands and o climate as
suitable for the profitable growth of this
staple. All that has been accomplished
IN Buncombe county can be here and
even more, for the beneficial results OF
tobacco culture there are yet In their in
fancy. --. "a
We commend to our readers O careful
perusal. of the following article taken
from the Greenville, East Tennessee.
Democrat, and hope they will give the
culture of tobacco fair triel, feeling as.
sured 1t will rebound to their interests !:
"Buncombe, North Carolina, is coun-
ty of mountains piled on mountains.
Fifteen years ago oil agricultural efforts,
rude at the very best, was confined to the
rich coves and narrow, fertile valleys,
walled ia between them. Generally, the
people lived in log huts and subsisted on
beat hominy, razor backed hogs and pine
top, whiskey. There was little education,
little enterprise and general thriftless.
ness. 1t is true that there were cultured
and wealthy citizens in Buncombe, and
Asheyille, though an isolated and monot-
onous town, was the center of good
deal of refinement and elegant taste and
opulence. Nevertheless, in the main.
our atiictures on old Buncombe are true.
"Bnt what change is now presented 2
1t is no longer 'old' Buncombe, bus pro.
gressive, stirring, wide awake new Bun.
combe, In the last ten years she has
leaped forward q half century in civili.
cation, refinement, prosperity and wealth.
The farmers are more enlightened and
read more newspapers. elegant resi-
dences have taken the place ofbarbarian
novels. The varied, romantic. rnpged
Landscapes have been besutified by the
magic hand Of educated taste and cul-
ture. Asheville Is growing into beau.
tiful, attractive city, pulsating with O.
strong, healthy tide of buoyant life and
ceaaelesS activity. The teieerapb and md
the railroad have brought her into cor.
tact with the outside world. She has
large stores, fine hotels, good newspapers,
excellent schools, splendid churches,
paiatial residences and enterprising,
moral, Christian population, and business
of al kinds is conducted on a grand and
remunerative scale. Every summer
Asheville is entertaining from 600 to 800
visitors. The circulating medium is per-
haps 500 now where it was only 81 ten
years ago. What magic has wrought
this marvellous transformation A word
of three syllables will answer this query:
Tobacco. If our inelegancy of express
sion is excusable, the whole population
OF Buncombe has gone rayin distracted
on the tobacco question, and the area,
increasing every year, planted in the
weed, approaches the wonderful. The
barren mountain sides produce per acre
twenty, thirty and Forty dollars worth Of
tobacco. Ten years ago these steep, rug
ged declivities, could be purchased at
from twenty cents to one dollar; now
they sell readily ct from thirty to fifty
dollarS. There are four thoroughly
edninned tobacco factoriea In Ashavilie..
each doing business en large scale and
O large capital. It's tobacco market is
visited by buyers from ell over the couu-
try. The tobacco raised In Buncombe Is
of excellent quality Hundreds Of thou.
esnds Of dollars are invested in its pro-
dpction and manufacture. There is an
abundance of money In the community,
and cash down is che motto and rule Of
every trade. Men of very limited means
. few years ago are amassing ample for
tunes, and for everybody who will work
there is bright future.
{ Right hers is lesson that Greene
county can learn, an example that she
cen follow with profit. She has hum
dgeds, yes, thousands ofsacres in every
respect similar to the valuable tobacco
lands OF Bnncombe. Her wild, rugged
mountains and hillsides, if cultivated on
the Buncombe plan, would yield her 6
revenue at least ten times larger than she
der,res from her present staple crops.
There Is not an acre Of her broad domain,
unless 1t DO too eteep or rocky for onlti.