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

ham, brakes Branch, Scottsburg, Nil
ton, High Point and other villages are
monuments Of the truth of the above
assertion, while Winston, Reidsville,
and South Boston, with greatly dimin-
ished trade, are the only neighboring
markets left of the large number
which few years ago boosted that
they would soon cut Danville off en-
tirely and dry it up as a tobacco mar
ket.
AS matter Of course other facto
ries for the manufacture of plug and
twist sprung up in and ground these
little markets, but they soon found that
they must needs come to Danvllle to
buy their raw material, and to-day
every manufacturer of any promi-
nence in Winston, Reidsville, South
Boston, Chatham and other points too
numerous to mention, has an agent on
the Danville market to buy his raw
material. The reason is plain and
easily understood-he does not find
the leaf il his own deserted arehou
ses. Figures bear out this assertion,
for while for the past few years the
receipts of leaf tobacco in the mar
kets named have been gradually de-
creasing, Danville's market has been
rapidly growing and even this year,
when a short crop is being sold and
the warehouses in the smaller towns
are closed for the lack of business, the
old reliable market finds her ten ware
house floors filed every day and up to
date something near 30,000,0O0 pounds
have been sold.
What is the lesson to be learned
from these facts?
Can any manufacturer at brakes
Branch, Scottsburg or Chatham or
even Winston and Reidsville pay an
agent to buy his leaf in Danville,
pay the freight on that leaf, manufac-
ture it into plug and then compete in
the Southern and Western markets
with the Danville, Lynchburg or
Richmond manufacturer who buys
his raw material at his factory door
Manifestly he cannot. When he
erected his factory at these smaller
towns, he expected to build up leaf
market to Danville's hurt, ut the leaf
would not leave Danville, and the
smaller markets have dwindled away
until buta few are left, and do not
supply the demand.
What does the suburban manufac-
turer propose to do about it !?
The mountain would not go to Mo-
HAMMED and MoHAAIMED like SEN
sible man went to the mountain
Now in all fairness We wish to sub
NIT the following facts about the or
igin, growth, and present success of
our tobacco trade.
Winston established tobacco
market in 1872, holding its first sale
in an old dilapidated stable Since
that time our market has steadily
grown to its present size and impor-
lance.
We have four large warehouses
that do an extensive trade, selling to
bacco the year round and drawing
their trade from % or 80 counties.
In fact, our leaf market is at all
times on the increase in trade and
Importance. For instance, we will
have sold up to the close of this
tobacco year, more pounds of tobac-
co than we did-last year, notwithstan-
ding the short crop. Does this look
like Winston's trade is diminishing,
Mr.. Register? We contend further
that we can show a better record as
to the proprass and stability of our
market than Danville can. Accor-
ding to printed statistics, Danville
does not sell as many pounds of to-
bacco now as it did eight years ago,
and as to its manufacturing interest,
that amounts to a very small thing in
comparison to ours manufacturing
as we do oyer ten million each YEAR,
and while the Register was speak
ing of deserted warehouses and di-
minished trade, it neglected to say
something about the deserted facto>
riessef Danyille.