The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-05-07
BAINBR1DaE's BUDGET.
Wagon Loads of Tobacco-The New
Jail Nearing Completion.

Wagon Loads of Tobacoo-The New
Jail Nearing Completion.
cambridge, Ga, May Cur streets
have been thronged for the past several
days with farm wagons from the country
loaded with leaf tobacco raised in De
catur county, Ca, and Gadsden county,
Fla. Yesterday L. Nussbaum, merchant
here, paid L. w. Wood berry, of Gadsden
county, Fla, 81 ,245.57 for his crop of to-
bacco, and to-day others delivered their
crops, for which Mr.. Nussbaum paid
from $3.50 TO $400 a crop. Nussbaum Is
buying for the large and extensive cigar
manufacturers, Roth, Bruner & Tiest,
of Cincinnati, O. Mr.. Roth, of this
firm spent two weeks in Bainbridge
and Decatur and Gadsden counties buy
ing tobacco, and says for texture and
flavor the tobacco raised in Decatur
county is hard to excel, and that in
favorable seasons as good tobacco can be
raised in this county as can be raised any
where. In fact, the only suggestion that
he would make to the farmers is that
more care be taken in the handling of
the crop and the curing of the same when
placed in the barns. He contends that the
reason that this tobacco has not met
with more favor in the past few years is
that it has been bought up by leaf deal
ers and packed in carrots and regular Cuba
style, and shipped to the northern and
western markets, and from there sold to
the cigar manufacturers as Cuba tobacco
for a very high price, and, of course, it
not coming up to the standard of the best
Cuba tobacco, was, in a good many in
stances, rejected and received a bad name,
but now when il Is plac q on the market
and sold as Georgia and Florida
tobacco, and sold ON its merits
at fair and reasonable price, manu-
facturers all over the country are making
inquiries for 1t and purchases of it. So
favorably is Mr.. Roth impressed with our
tobacco interest that he Is contemplating
the establishing of a leaf tobacco packing
house in Bainbridge the coming season,
and to buy and handle the entire crop
MIR. Roth left here last Saturday for his
homo in Cincinnati, and yesterday his
agent here, MIR. Nussbaum, received a
letter instructing him to buy all of the
remaining crops of tobacco of 1892 and
1898 yet uusold. Many of the farmers
who had become discouraged with plant
ing tobacco, on account of the low prices
paid for the last two years, had decided
not to plant largely this season If at all
After having met Mr.. Roth, and learned
| Of the very satisfactory prices he had
been paying, and of the very
! high terms of which he spoke of this to-
| bacco, decided to increase their acreage
This encouragement came so late, how
ever, that not more than half crop will
be planted this season.
The new jail is rapidly nearing compile
ton; Sheriff Patterson says that the CON
tractors inform him that it will be ready
! for occupancy by the latter part of the
present month. 1t is certainly a splendid
Jail building with all of the modern i'm
provements In the way of cells and
| cages and is strictly fire-proof, 2-stories,
with bath rooms and all modern conven-
/ tEaF Il
credit upon the contractors as well as upon
our board of county commissioners