Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-08-20
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"What becomes of the tobacco grown
IN Maryland?" asked the reporter
who never remembered having seer
the name of Maryland leaf advertised
IN connection with any brand of cigars.
The dealer smiled. GA very natura
question:" he said "Many others have
wondered what becoms OF the large cror
that is yearly grown in this State. 1t is
sent to Europe-mostly to France-where
1t is manufactured into cigars that bring
good prices. The leaf is much liked
there because of its peculiar flavor. A
great many smokers say they like
Sumatra tobacco. The Sumatra leaf is
prettysin appearance, but devoid of flavor,
brittle and becomes full of cracks
when used for wrappers. There is not a
more unsatisfactory tobacco in the mar
| ket."
"Does there promise to be revival of
snuff taking?"
81 think not no signs have appeared.
The use of snuff has now almost alto
gether been dropped except in the
country. 1t is still extensively used in
the south by the colored people. Nearly
all the snuff sold in the United States is
manufactured by one firm in this city.
They sell annually over l ZOO, 900 pounds,
of which over one-half is consumed in
Louisiana, Georgia, Tennessee and South
Carolina. The natives smear it on a
stick and rub the stick around in the
mouth. They derive thereby a mild
stimulation. | do not believe the use of
snuff will ever become again general
among the better classes. 1t is a dirty
habit, even more repulsive than tobacco
chewing. Nowadays, you do not see any
except old persons carrying snuff box.
No, most assuredly do not think the
habit will ever be revived"
''Is the sale OF cigarettes increasing
very largely?' was asked.
eyes, notwithstanding the great
hullaballoo made about them from time
to time by physicians and clergymen,
their popularity is immensely on the in
crease, and they have superseded cheap
cigars to a very considerable extent.
They have one immense advantage over
a cigar which all the preaching in the
world can never knock out of the head of
lovers of the weed-they are just the
thing when one is hungering for Whit
or two, and has only moment or per-
haps less to spare. 1t is not particularly
the flavor of the cigaretts that has made
it what it is, but its marvellous hardness.
The business has grown to immense pro-
portions. Every year more care is taken
In the preparation of the tobacco, and
each season witnesses some new brand |
more expensive than its predecessors. |
The highest priced cigarettes are made J
out of straight cut Virginia, Perique,
Turkish, Havana leaf, Mexican and East /.
Indian tobaccoes, either straight or mixed
in varing proportions. The East Indian
tobacco cigarettes very seldom reach this
market, but tgether with the Turkish
cigarettes are the fashion in Paris and
other French cities. The best cigarette
tobacco in this country is grown in Vir-
ginia. Cigarettes vary in price from four
for penny to ten cents apiece. The
habitual smoker does not save money by
cigarettes, because where he
would give one cigar away he will give
away 20 cigarettes, and if he smokes
eight ten-cent cigars day and uses up
four packs of cigarettes, worth 40 cents a
pack, or two boxes of dozen each, cost
ing 81 per box, it will not take him very
long to find this out. The profit to the