The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1890-08-14
AND INJURIOUS TO
THE FARMERS AND BUYERS
INTEREST.
INTEREST.

MISLEADING AND INJURIOUS TO
THE FARMERS AND BUYERS
INTEREST.
The following paragraph is taken
from the Oxford Public Le4ger of the
I2th:
Oxford will have strong teams in
the warehouse business the coming
season and we intend to sell 20, ooo,-
600 pounds of the new crop. We are
bound to do it, and will do our duty
towards the achievement of this grand
result, and know we shall have the
hearty cooperation Of the tobacco
trade.
Without gainsaying what the Public
LeAger says about having strong teams
in the warehouse business the coming
season, we wish to remind it OF the
fact that the figures at which it puts
the quantity of tobacco it claims its
market will sell, are entirely too large
and out of the question. More than
that, they are misleading and damag-
ing to the interest of the farmers,
whose welfare we are sure our friend
desires to protect and promote. While
there is large crop of tobacco made
this year, and all our markets will no
doubt largely increase their sales, it is
not reasonable to suppose that any OF
them will sell more than three times as
much as they have ever done before.
While it is all right and proper to
claim all that the facts and figures
will warrant, to 60 beyond reasonable
limits will be calculated to produce
wrong impressions upon manufacturers
at distance with regard to the state
of the crop. We do not apprehend
that so much tobacco will be made
this year that any market will be too
heavily taxed to handle it.
Let US deal in facts and mslead or
deceive no one.
NASH WELCOMES HENDERSON.
The last issue of the Nashville 4rgo-
naut has the following editorial article
about the Henderson and Nash county
railroad-or as it is named in the
charter, the Atlantic, Henderson &
Virginia:
The people of Henderson have voted
almost unanimously, to issue bonds for
the building of railroad from the
city of Henderson to Nash county.
We were satisfied that this would be SO,
as the people of Henderson are far too
wide awake to allow the products of
this wonderful tobacco region to 60 to
other points without making an effort
to secure it. But the people of Nash
county want 10 remember that although
this road is really necessary one for
Henderson, will also be Of the great
est benefit to our people, especially to
those living in proximity to the line of
the proposed road. Lands that are
now almost unstable, on. account of
their distance from transportation ia
cilities, will command ready sale at
three or four times as much as can be
obtained for them now, beside the
great reduction of the expense in mar
keting the produce of the farm, forest
and mine, and the extra cost of all
needed supplies from the outside world
1t is then the duty OF the people thus
to be benefited, to render all possible
aid in the construction of this road.
And one thing more wants to be re-
membered, and that is, that when they
subscribe stock to this road, they will
not be giving away their money, but
will be making an investment that will
be first class one in every respect, for
this road is bound to be paying one,
as it will open up one OF the finest
countries in the world.
Nash and the adjoining counties are
rapidly stepping forward into the fore
most ranks and have vast resources
which will supply ample work for more
than one new road. We are entering
upon an era of prosperity. Let our
motto be "upward and onward"