The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1885-05-06

;. Capt. Parrish's operations as a lea
buyer, ''that the house continues t,
enlarge its operations, and claims ant
with reason, to transact
/ LARGER AMOUNT OF BUSINESS
than any similar house in NORTH
Carolina, and has established nation
al reputation among the leaf:tobacce
markets of the country for the uni
formity of its classification and the
honesty of its prizlng and other es
sentials to good repute."
i. This prediction has been verified
In 1881, the year in Which the above
1 publication was issued, the Parrish
Warehouse sold about eight million
pounds of tobacco, representing an
aggregate Of
/ ONE MILLION DOLLARS,
and the esteem won by the house du-
ring its transactions of that memorable
year has by no means been lost on
the contrary, it has been strengthened.
During his connection with the to-
bacco trade of Durham as e ware
houseman Capt. Parrish has had but
two partners, and since January,
1884, he has been alone. He is not
wholly a warehousenan-on the con-
trary he is a leaf buyer as we'll. And
here we may state this to the farmers:
Though Capt. Parrish is leaf buyer
he has no interest to subserye thatsball
in any manner conflict with the in.
terests of a maker of crop, be he
white or black, rich Or poor. Every
pile of leaf that is upon the floor when
break occurs is there subject to bids,
and Capt. Parrish enters into compe-
tition with every other buyer. AS
warehouseman he does all he can to
advance the interests of his patrons
as buyer he, like sensible man,
tries to advance his own interests, as
all other buyers do, and the simple
fact that he is buyer is in itself an
inducement to farmers to sell their
leaf through his warehouse. He buys
largely, too. His
FACILITIES FOR PRIZING
and :re-handling tobacco represent
about three million pounds per year;
for this purpose two buildings are
occupied, one brick and one frame,
each 50x120 feet, four floors, beside
which in the basement of the ware.
house is storage room 56x225 feet fort
re-prized tobacco.
As buyer, Capt. Parrish makes al
specially of 'fbright wrappers" and of
mahogany wrappers" and "cutters,"
while at the sarie time he deals in
smokers" of all grades. I'm these
grades he has constantly increasing
trade, and his name has long since
become synonymous with reliable leaf
tobacco.
While we were at the warehouse
the other day one of Capt. Parrish's
clerks allowed us a glimpse at the
daily correspondence. One letter from
a prominent dealer referred to the
goo'ls as being Honestly priced )"
another said: "The goods are honestly
packed, and we prefer them" and still
others were of the same tenor. and
these letters were but the
EXPRESSIONS OF BUSINESS MEN
who are not given to fattery-they
pay for what they get and insist upon
getting what the pay for. We noticed,
too, that there were some orders for
direct export to Europe, but how
much this export trade amounts to
we cannot say.
Capt. Parrish thinks that the sales
of tobacco on this market for the cur
rent year will be not far from
FIFTEEN MILLION POUNDS.
Like sensible business man and an
energetic warehouseman, he hopes
and expects that a very large per
cent of all this leaf will be sold
through the Parrish Warehouse. To
this end he uses every honorable
means he advertises very literally,
as the columns of the RECoRDHR
show, and he advertises facts. He
has very pleasant fashion or habit
fgetting big prices for the leaf he sells
because the warehouse is known the
countryover and representative buyers
from all sections attend every break.
The tobacco from this Golden Belt is
in great demand and Durham, Gran
vile, Orange, Alamance. Caswell,
Person, Wake and Chatham counties
contend for the supremacy in point of
product, but they all meet upon a
level at the Parrish Warehouse; IA
voritism is thing unknown. Ofthis
fifteen million pounds which will
doubtless be marketed in Durham
Capt. Parrish, as a leaf dealer, ex-
poets to buy about two and a half
million pounds this year-perhaps
more.
1t is scarcely necessary to tell our
farmer friends what the Parrish Ware
house will or can do for them. 1t
doesn't offer an inducement that is
not
BACKED UP By FACTS,
and among those facts may be reckon
ed the long column of wagons daily
and nightly to be seen vending its way
toward Durham. 1t is not altogether
an unpicturesque sight to view this
column, and when the time for a sale
at the Parrish Warehouse occurs, the
picturesque is merged entirely in the
practical. 1t then becomes a matter
of dollars and cents, and "may the
devil take the hindmost" bidder.
To our out of- town readers we may
in all fairness to similar interests in
North Carolina or Virginia pronounce
the Parrish Warehouse as type of
its class. a representative establish
ment-a warehouse that presents eys
cry phase of tobacco buying and SELL
ing to the on-locker. If we were to
draw pencil pictures of the scenes pre-
sented from day to day-of the stem