Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-02-22


jefferson Davis had SO fondly dreamed
had waNcd and wancd. and fate, de-
creed that the Southern ConfcttcIScy
should 20 O1t in darkness, the curtain
tel upon tho last act OF the bloody
drama in North Carolina, Lee having
capitulated ut APPROXIMATION. Sherman,
on his march to the sea, had demon
strated 10 Johnston that further rcsis-
tancc was useless. 81 ApIi.. ls05, found
Sherman with his army Mt Raleigh, y.
T., while Johnston, with the remnant
of his troops, was resting at Greens
borO, y. c. From Raleigh to Green's
boro. Il distance OF a. miles, both armies
roanled indiscriminaiclY. Gen. John
stOn slgnllcd 10 Gen. SHERMAN his de-
sire Tor conference, and an armistice
of ten days was declared, and the two
great cliieltGins met III consultation at
a little house four miles west OF Dur
ham, n. Z. Durham, an insignificant
railway station, having population of
two hundred. was declared neutral
ground. Here the gray and blue met
in friendly intercourse-swappe
horses, ran foot races, shot at targets,
and around the same camp fire told of
hair breadth escapes. Not more than
one bundled yards from the railway
station stood twO-story frame tobacco
factory, owned by John Il. Green.
During the war Green had manuacf-
tured smoking tobacco for the boys Z,
in the army" but now his occupation 9
was gone. Stored in the factory were /,
large quantities of smoking tobacco
ready for shipment, and during the ,
arnisticc the building was sacked !
and around the camp-fires in Durham
the blue and the gray literally smoked
the pipe of peace. When the terms of
surrender were arranged, the soldiers
of each army provided themselves with
a "a al fnhaaRn
homeward. In this way the tobacco
was scattered from Maine 10 Texas.
What Green had regarded as a great
calamity soon proved to be a great
blessing. When the soldiers, on reach
ing home, had exhausted their poke
orders directed to the railroad agent,
postmaster, etc, at Durham, N. C.,
began to pour in for that smoking to-
baceO. Green. quick to perceive his
advantage, christened his tobacco
Durham and selected the Durham
bull "a his trade mark. Nowhere on
the globe is tobacco of such fine quality
or 50 peculiarly adapted TO smoking
purposes raised as is grown in the
vicinity of Durham. Almost entirely
free from nitrates and nicotine, the
Durham tobacco has become SO cele-
brated that to-day, all over the United
States, the Canadas, South America,
Japan, Australia, China, etc, it is the
acknowledged standard of excellence
and purity. In 1869 Green died, and
w. L. Blackwell s. Co. purchased the
business, and, putting into 1t fresh
capital and enterprise, soon made it a
wonderful success, until to-day they
are one of the largest and Eoet flour
ishing firms in the country. At the
time of the purchase from Green, the
total force employed in the factory
numbered less than twelve, and the
la al L.. ., M
Today, w. L. Blackwell & Co. pay
annually to the government a revenue
tax of more than 500, OOO. 90 and employ
over 800 hands. The embryo village
of 1865 has population in 1881 of over
5000. and contains the largest smoking
tobacco factory in the world. The fac
tory of w. T. Blackwell & CO.,
the famous manufacturers of tho
celebrated Bull Durham smoking to-
baceo and cigarettes. is the feature of
attraction at Durham. lmmediat siy
fronting the railroad, it looks more like
one of our mammoth metropolitan
hotels than tobacco factory. On the
first floor are fine offices, and here ~
Centlemanly usher shows visitors al
the items Of interest. Everything IN
dicat 9 industry aud enterprise, and
perfec, system prevails. All the best
improved machinery Is provided for
granulating, shreddIng, cOmblng. dry
ing and packing tobacco. The amount
OF leaf tobacco (ln the raw statel car
ried by the firm is amazing to the visitor.
Six immense storage warehouses. in
addition to the mammoth four story
brick factory, are required t. hold the
stock of raw leaf constantly Oh hand.
w. Il. Blackwell 81 Co. operate
planning mills, printing Offices, paper
and wood box shops, etc. They also
have direct telegraphie and telephone
communication with the outside world,
employing their own telegraph oper-
atOr. Dun ham is twenty miles west
of Raleigh, the capital OF the State, and
is the outlet to what il known as the
Golden Tobacco belt OF North Caro-
lima. Facts show that the tobacco
grown in this sectI, Il Is not equaled
elsewhere IN the world. As all the to-
bacco raised in this Golden belt finds
its market at Durham, W. 4. Black
well q Co, are 50 situated that they
control the pick of al the offerings.
and this. in cCnnectIs II with their enOr-
nous storage facilities. enable them to
carry tine choicest stock until it is as
sweet and fragrant as a rose Success
always DrlnGs inItators anti several
unprincipled manufacturers who have
attempted to pirate their goods have
been brought TO justice. The smoking
public ar , however, fast learning that
the Durham bull must he on the pack
age to insure purity. and they will not
take any other. ". L. blackwell 81
Co., have only lat5ly add d the manu-
facture of long cut smoking tobacco
and cigarettes TO their business, but the
purity and quality OF these goods have
already secured then an enormous
trade. Little did the gallent '-bOys in
blue and gray" around their camp
fires in Durham in 1863. dream that
they were sowing the seeds which have
grown till Durham is one Of the
thri test and most widely known towns
u the South if not in the Union