The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1892-09-21
WILL BE KING.
ox YIELDS THE sCEPTER TO
GU TOBACCO.

Lave Increased in Value Fifty
LAM Per Cent Within the Past Year.
From the Dalton Argus.
Nv uvos sir! I'm with The Argus in ev-
tino YOU have printed with regard
e. .ha tobacco industry in this county
~ Mr. c. NJ. Phelps, taking down a
s', aIo Of fine specimens and showing
Y W., % an Argus reporter. "You can't
ESTIMATE the good it is doing the
'un+v Bob Heron will make from
.moIve to fourteen hundred dollars on
lie fen acre crop this year. Now show me
NV ron acres of cotton that will bring
ano.ff+b as much as that. You can't do
II Why, Bob offered to sell his farm
,.,+ year for three dollars an acre, but
ba would stare ten dollar bill in
+be face before he will sell an acre at
that price, own a farm adjoining
pob's and propose to plant it in tobac-
"a The Trotter brothers own one next
20 ours and they propose to do like
r;so Bob Heron has demonstrated
copclusively that its the coming crop
for this section, and has gotten beyond
+bo governmental line, and deserves I'M
told and unstinted praise for his enter
terprise, and before two years you are
Going to see the old lands of Whitfield
6oom and blossom as rose with tobac
"a fields and will rank second to no
county IN Georgia.
81 have talked to a number of farmers
who will begin this year, and am still
talking. They tell me that when Her
ron nut his first fiIu i'll his Snow process
bar that so many farmers were around
There that it looked like camp-meeting.
They came from all over the county.
There is a quiet but determined resolu-
/ ton on the part of the farmersto begin
raising it, which will revolutionize crops
around here and bring them out of debt
and place them on plane of prosperity.
Cotton at five cents pound must go,
and tobacco will be kingn'
"Do any of these farmers you have
talked with offer any objections to the
raising of tobacco?' asked the scribe.
Eyes, sir; but they are easily met. The
principal one is that they fear they will
Shave no market for it, but tobacco
buyer will come two hundred miles to
sbuy so small quantity as 5000 pounds"
Glow about Overproduction?'
"Can't be done Statistics show that
the supply has always been short of the
demand, and the United States Commits
SiOner of Agriculture shows that the for
seign demand increases every year, and
i've have never been able to meet this de-
smand."
How about these tobacco trusts con-
ltrolling the crOp?'
at can't be done, either. Take
Greene county, Tennessee, as an illustra-
tOn. That has not an acre more than
Whitfield. To buy their tobacco crop
they have from fifty to seventy-fve buy
Sers all during the season that represent
Factories all over the United States.
pow we raise as many pounds of cotton
Hlere as they raise tobacco there, Why
IS 1t there are only one or two cotton
buyers in Dalton during the cotton sea-
Bon? Isn't that an answer to that objec-
&ton?"
The reporter thanked Mr.. Phelps and
Pnd withdrew. We next went to Mr.. r.
~ Heron and he substantiated all tue
POove, adding that in the matter of fer
Ehzlng II will not take one-fourth the
amount cotton does.
Inc Argus again urges it's readers to
kafefuliy investigate this matter for
kqemSelyeS, and we feel assured that
kney will take hold and pull old Whit.
RleId out of the cotton growing rut.