Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-10-10

trade is better now than it has been for
years. The interests of farmers and of Hop
kinsyille are one and inseparable. Let them
unite and work together, to increase the
facilities of a trade which is safe, solid and
substantial 1t is . great gain for the farmer
10 attend o market where he can watch his
sales cheapiy, and Hopixinsville is such
market.
We would have passed it by without no.
tIce but for the fact that our doing so might
be construed as acqssesing In the statements
therein. When one contrasts the two mar
kets of GAINESVILLE and Hopkinsville, and
will give true figures, the comparison Is not
much to the credit OF Hopkinsville. The
official figures OF each market to Oct. l, 1885,
are as follows:
GAINESVILLE Receipts ............ 20 ,l58
Hopkinsvflle Receipts. ys7bs
Excess in favor of GAINESVILLE, 10, $50
or nearly three to one In favor of Clarhs-
Vile. The sales of the two markets to Oct.
l, 1885, compare as follows:
Clarksy1ile Sales. 2lS
Hopkinsville Sales. .llS
Excess in favor of ,I55
or again nearly three to one for GAINESVILLE
over HopkinsviiIe.
Now If Hoplkinsville is so much better q
market than GAINESVILLE, why is this great
disproportion in her receipts and sales. If
there has not been. Is hogsheads shipped
from Hopkinsville TO GAINESVILLE for every
one shipped from CIarksville to Hopkins
vile, we win present the editor of the New
Era bran new suit OF clothes, and we feel
that we would be safe in putting it at one
hundred to one. Vino are these numbers of
planters who, after testing both markets,
express decided preference for Hopkins
o -.
exist only In the fertile Imagination OF the
said editor. Whose tobacco is that which
sold in GAINESVILLE for Sc and then in Hop
kinsviile for IS? Don't you think you are
little off about your factsP But now if You
wish to engage in comparisons we will fully
accommodate you, and give names and
numbers of the tobacco bought in Hopkins
vile and sold in GAINESVILLE at profits all
the way from so cents to 81 per hundred
! pounds. And not one shipment, but many f;
and not one hogshead, but hundreds of
them. We surely don't envy our sister city
her prosperity, but these editors must not
boast at the expense of GAINESVILLE unless
| they wish to have their bubble exploded.
That her mercantile trade is insignificant
| compared with GAINESVILLE, will be apparent
| to any one who will observe the shipments
| in and out of the largest houses of the two
| cities. Still Hopkinsville is a town of clever
| people, and does very well considering her
| facilities, but she must not expect to conn.,
pare iavorably with such a city as Clarks-
Vile, with her principle railroad and the
great Cumberland River crossing at right
angles, and both penetrating as fine country
| as the world affords. And then our new
railroad, catering and passing through the
garden spot of Kentucky, uniting and
strengthening the already strong ties be-
tween the people along its line and the bust
ness of GAINESVILLE. The New Era correctly
styles Hopkinsvills a country" market.
GAINESVILLE is a metropolis. The market of
not one county or State, but of the finest
portions of both Kentucky and Tennessee.
| Many of her merchants and warehousemen
and buyers are Kentuckians, and it looks
now as if the entire trade would move oven
to GAINESVILLE. Let them come; hearty
welcome to all. And you also, neighbor,
come along too, and enjoy the trade and
prosperity of our great market.
e. c. FRANKIE & Co., of Louisville, furnish
/ the following statistics of the Western to-
bacco markets. The figures are computed
1 up to Oct. l, 1855