The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1895-12-04
Another Tobacco Warehous :.

Another Tobacco Warehouse ill be built
during the spring and will be ready and
equipped in :ine for the opening sales of next
season. This has been an open secret for
some time, but we have not felt at liberty to
publish the facts that were in our possession
until this time.
Messrs. R. P. Monaghan and Marion Noise
are at the head of the movement TO build
developed their plans aud engaged manager
for next season. TIE warehouse will be
large, well lighted and supplied with every
facility and convenience for handling, selling
and shipping tobacco The location Of the
warehouse has not been definitely decided
upon, but ii will be built adjacent to the
railroad track 30 that shipment may be made
without expense for drayage. full corps
of buyers will be in attendance at the ware
house during the entire season, and with an
experienced tobacco man as manager, the
promoters of the new warehouse hope to
assist in making Sumter tie largest and best
tobacco market in tie State.
The prospective acreage that will oe
plaated 10 tobacco il San ter and adjoining
counties makes !. necessary that Sumter
shall have larger facilities for handling the
tobacco that will be brought here for sale
next season, and the business men are taking
tiue by the forelock b. beginning to get
ready for the next season at this early day.
In addition to toe new warehouse, the Direct
ors of the Samter Tobacco Warehouse Com
pary have planned to greatly enlarge their
warehouse so that there will be ample floor
and storage room to handle all the tobacco
that viii! be brought to the warehouse for
sale. % several occasions this season
the warehouse was too snail to re-
ceiye ali that was brough: for sale
by the farmers of this and neighboring couo-
ties. As soon as the tobacco season closes
the work of re-modelling and enlarging the
warehouse will be commenced, and when The
next season opens Sumter will have, practi-
cally, two new and commodious tobacco
warehouses.
The establishment of tobacco warehouse
in Sumter was undertaken as an experiment
and with considerable misgiving, for with
scarcely an exception. the wiseacres predicted
an ienominious failure and financial disaster.
Notwithstanding the predictions the ware
house has been success from the opening
day, and the volume Of business passed the
high water mark set by the most sapguine of
those who believed that Sumter should be and
could be made tobacco market. The
amount of tobacco brought here for sale has
surprised every body as greatly as the quality
of the tobacco produced in this section has
the tobacco men of other and older States.
The average price paid for tobacco at the
Sumter Warehouse up to date is fraction
more than ten cents per pound. The aver
age includes every pound of tobacco of every
sort that has been sold-eyen trash and
scraps that sold for les: thao a cent pound
was included when the average was taken.
Excluding scraps aud trash the average is
thirteen cents per pound straight through |!
That is a record that any tobacco market
may stand on and not fear competing mar
kets. And it is also record Of fine tobacco
that recommends the market to buyers who
seek foe quality of tobacco.
The tobacco business is DO inconsiderable
factor in the trade of Sumter at this time,
but we firmly believe that within few years
more the tobacco business will be almost as
extensive and valuable as the COTTON busi-
ness. Sumter IS already reaching out for
business in the outlying territory, as the
lease of the Lamar Warehouse by the Sumter
Warehouse Co., shows, and if this policy is
pursued the town and the tobacco business is
certain to grow together.
NEW VERTISEMENTS.