Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1884-03-27
Special Correspondence Of the Senti,4el.

The Largest Manufactured Tobacco EX-
port Trade in the United States
The Largest Dealers.
Special Correspondence Of the Senti,lel.
PETERSBURG, Va, March 25th, '84
-"Stormy March is conceded to
be the ugliset month in the year:
"With winds, and clouds and chang
ing Skies" and it has proven this year,
worthy of all the poets have sung of
its unattractiveness, having brought
in its train,
"The wall and the shrek ofthe bitter North
east,
Raw and chill as if winnowed through ice
and snow.'
Drizzling, glooming days, snowfall
sleet, and all that makes the ugliest of
months, with only occasionally few
sweet sunny days mocking as with
wistful longing for spring time:
Gas if the pine tree called me
From ceiled room and silent books
To see the dance of woodland shadows
And hear the song of April brooks.
The SENTINEL is winning its way
here and making friends among its
readers. The journals of the Old
North State, like its people are sure to
find friends among the Petersburgers,
ties Of traffic and social life drawing
them together.
Little Petersburg" as this fair
city was once called has grown grace
fully out of its petite sobriquet into
the fair fourshing city, of to-day,
$4,000 inhabitants {" The Cockade
City," with its crowded railroads, busy
cotton and tobacco factories, forges,
mills, for which its river falls furnish
| extensive facilities, and other numer-
Gus and varied business enterprises,
with continued developing posibili-
| ties.
Probably the most interesting feat
ures here to the SENTINEL and its
readers will be the tobacco interest.
Tobacco is the chief export. Pc
tersburg exports more manufactured
tobacco than any other city in the
United States This is the best mar
ket for all dark manufacturing tobac
cos in the State. The largest manufactur-
ers in this city for export trade are ::
d. B. Tenant & Co, VIM. Cameron
& Bro, Watson & McGill.
For the domestic trade: S. w.
| Venerble q Co., G.. A. Jackson & Co.
There are also many other manufac-
turers here all having spacious well
fitted brick factories and doing good
business. Some of the largest facto-
ries use steam power, and have capac-
ity for 600 or more hands. During the
past year some of the tobacconists
made addition and improvements to
their already large factories to meet
the increased business. The export man
ufacturers here have orders for many
months to come. The favorite brands
of the domestic manufacturers here
are found all over the State. At every
little hamlet wayside station, and vii
lage stores may be seen jackson s
Best" "Old Hickory" "Spring" and
other well known brands from the
firms of this city.
Besides the many manufacturers here
there are also rehandlers and jobbers
who assort and prize leaf tobacco.
There are also here few large ex-
porters ofleaf tobacco.
There are four tobacco warehouses
Owing to the wet weather farm.
ers are behind hand with their work
consequently receipts Of tobacco have
so far been heigher than last season
The market is active and prices well
sustained. Lower grades advanced.
The Petersburg Tobacco Associa
ton, organized in 1866, meets every
day, Saturday excepted, at the Tobac
co Exchange, corner of Sycamore ano
Washington Streets.
Some of the commission merchant.
here make tobacco speciality; among
those the house of E. B. Balm is one
of the most popular. Capt. J. C
Birdsong, who with that house, blend
the experienced judgement of farmers
and tobacco dealers, with the turbant
courtesy of the gentleman making
him alike popular with the planter
and merchant.
] The large cotton factories on the su
burbs and the trunk, butter dish, frui
basket, small cigar factories, smut
manufacturers, and other enterprise
Of this flourishing city are worthy O
mention, but perhaps more of thes,
anon, but like Sam Weller's yalentin,
to leave the readers to "risk there wa.
more, and that's the great art OF let
ter writing" Erica.