The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1892-08-04

thousand in 1889. But the creates
decrease in tobacco growing betweel
those dates occurs in our sister State
the Old Dominion. In 1859 sh'
grew one hundred and twenty -on'
million pounds, but in 1850 onl,
forty eight million, a decrease Of owe
seventy-three million pounds. Th'
total increase in the tobacco crop o
the nation between 1859 and 1885
was twenty-one million pounds; O
this increase North Carolina contri
buted about one-fifth. According to
the census reports North Carolina. i:
exceeded in the production of tobacco
only by Kentucky, Virginia and Ohio
She uses more leaf tobacco in hel
factories than any other State except
Missouri and Virginia.
1t is interesting to note that oul
friends in Missouri, who, in 1896
manufactured 41,5oo,ooo pounds o1
chewing tobacco, used 19,5oo, ,ooc
pounds of licorice and sugar; and that
Kentucky in her 17,5oo,ooo pounds.
used 100000 of sugar and licorice,
whereas North Carolina in her 22,-
500, 900 pounds used only two million
pounds of sugar and licorice. So it
would seem that when one buys any
plug tobacco manufactured by our
Missouri friends he buys nearly as
much suger and licorice as he does
tobacco; and when he buys the Ken
lucky product, he pays for one pound
Of sugar and licorice for every three
and one-half pounds of tobacco,
whereas the man who buys of North
Carolina manufacturer gets his article
purer than from any other quarter, he
only buys one pound of sugar and
licorice in ten pounds OF tobacco.
HIGH GRADE QUALITY OF NORTH CARO-
. LIMA TOBACCO.
In view of the very large quality of
material not tobacco such as sugar and
licorice that our friends in other States
mix with the raw material to make
their chewing tobacco palatable and
salable, may we not infer that their
soil and climate are not so favorable
as our own to the production of the
finer qualities of tobacco; and it will
not be amiss to repeat what has been
said here before, that "North Carolina
is to-day without peer, pre-eminently
the tobacco State of the world, for
high grade goods, yet, however, we'll
known is this fact to those present, it
is far less widely known than many
suppose. North Carolina soil is every
where generous to the tobacco plant"
One or two other States grow
greater quantity in lbs., but the money
value of the crop, according to the
of lbs. produced, exceed that
Of any State. Within her borders is
produced such a variety of high grade
leaf and in such quantities as is no
where else to be found the world over.
Upon her high type of cutting leaf,
the great cigarette business of the
world was built up. Her unsurpassed
smokers produced in the Golden Belt
placed her granulated tobacco at
premium over all others. Her ma
hogany types OF filters and wrappers,
are, by chewers of tobaccos, every
where preferred. Thus all the higher
types oftobacco are indigenous to North
Carolina soil. Here is their native
home"
TOBACCO MANUFACTURE IN NORTH
CAROLINA.
Let US now consider for moment
to what use we North Chrolina people
have put this raw material, which
soil and favoring climate
has so generously given us. The sale
If its leaf and its manufacture has
ouilded and maintains our most
prosperous cities. There are certain
IF our cities so distinctively tobacco
owns, as they are called, that we may
say Tobacco has been the
;ole cause of their prosperity. TAX
ng them alphabetically there is Dur
lam, Henderson, Kernersville, Mt.
Airy, Reidsville, Rocky Mt, Winston.
Whereas tobacco has materially aided
n the prosperity of Asheville, Burl-
ngton, Greensboro, Germanron, High
Point, Hillsboro, Leaksville, Louis
ourg, Madison, Milton, Oxford, Raj
Ugh, Roxboro, Salisbury, Statesville,
Walnut Cove, Tarboro, Warrenton
md Wilson.
If we turn to the census reports, we
ind that in 1880, 1871 million
pounds of leaf Tobacco were used in
making 1850 pounds
If snuff, ~ million cigars, II million
pounds of chewing tobacco and "a
million cigarettes.
In 1890, 50 million pounds of leaf
we're used and $500 pounds of snuff,
, million cigars, 22H million pounds
If chewing tobacco and 619 million
cigarettes were manufactured.
If one may wish for particular cases
If success in this tobacco industry we
would instance among many others,
possibly not SO conspicuous, the
ollowing:
In 1870 a one-third interest in a
tobacco business was bought
or $4,000.
In 1878, s1oo,ooo was paid for that
interest. In 1882 half
interest was bought for Ss25,ooo and
n 1899 said half interest was paying
per cent, on two million dollars, and
he firm has an exclusive contract to
urnish foreign government with a
upply of its product sufficient for the
inhabitants of the Kingdom.
Another, in ten years from 1881 to
1891 increased its smoking tobacco
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