The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1888-08-23

Winston has % plug factories, all
Of them working up to the fullest ca
pacity, and there are now in course of
erection two large brick factories and
two more just completed. Winston
is making more plug work this year
than it ever did before, and we take
this occasion to say that they are
working better stock than ever be-
fore, as the goods sold on our wares
house floors this year possess remark
able excellency as 20 flavor, ripeness,
&c. And the Danyille Register must
remember that our manufacturers
consume three-fourths of the tobacco
sold on the Winston market, while
the Danville manufacturers do not
take probably more than one-seventh
of Their annual sales.
Now as TO the manufacturers here
having agents on the Danville market.
It is true to certain extent, and why?
It is owing to the fact that some of
our manufacturers make common
grade of goods, and as our market
sells very little dog-tail, they went to
Danville to buy such goods, and they
succeeded in getting the dogtaii, TOO.
Now this stock land we know where
of we speak) does not enter into the
manufacture of our medium and bet
ter grades of goods. Winston has q
reputation for plug goods, and a rep
utation that is rapidly growing, and
we obtained that reputation by pla~
cling honest goods on the market,
made from the best stock that was
ever put into plug tobacco-not ex-
cepting the famous Henry county
filters.
People who chew our tobacco one
time will always ask for more Win
ston tobacco. We have the advan-
tage and expect to keep it. Neigh
boring and adjoining counties grow
the stock and they sell it here, and
our manufacturers buy the most of it.
We are here to stay, and did not
establish our market and build our
factories and warehouses for the pur-
pose of breaking down the big q
Danville tobacco market. In fact our
manufacturers, and tobacco men gen
orally, have too mnch work TO do to
give such things a thought, When
our warehouses and factories become
deserted then possibly we will begin
to growl and snarl at some other
market that is going ahead of US
The fact is, while we are in opposi-
| ton to none, our market and every
department of our tobacco interest is
growing. and has been from the very
beginning. We do not sell as many
pounds of tobacco as mammoth Dan
vile but we expect to in the course
Of time. IN the meantime we VIII be
| glad to welcome any who would Ike
to come TO place where living is
cheap, labor plentiful, and business
growing. We are the mountain and
Mohammed must come 10 us We
are not, however, the mountain that
'qabored hard sand brought forth 8
mouse"
We have briefly and plainly stated
facts, and we can prove every asser
ton that we have made.
| In addition to the above, the follow
| ing letter from q well-known and
thoroughly reliable tobacconist of thi
city will explain itself IF the Regis
ter is not now convinced, let it com,
and examine the facts with its owl
eyes. IF it will do this, we feel SUR
/, that it will be more careful in tn,
future about its statements The fol
lovrincr X the iattar.
EDITOR SENT1NEL:-The editoria
in the laoi,s- City Daily Of Wednesday
N reply to the careless words of tht
Danville Register, is both forcible ane
timely but you viii kindly permi
me to add one or two facts which
| that article did not contain. In adj
dition to the healthy and prosperou:
condition of the tobacco trade gener
ally, it is a noteworthy fact that in oul
town there is not a single ware house
prize room, or factory vacant. This
can not be said ofmany tobacco towns
too often commodious houses are ly-
ing idle and useless. Another thing
we will sell more pounds Of leaf to
bacco this Notwithstanding the
| acknowledged short crop-than we
| have ever said, with the possible ex-
ception of the crop of 1886.