The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-11-01
TOBACCO WILL BE SHORT.
Manufacturers Looking for Lands in
E!Orida.

Florida.
From the jacksonville Fla) Times
Union.
There is not cigar manufac-
turer in the United States who does not
know that Havana tobacco next year,
Is going to he short-vcry Shorthand
proportionately high Smokers of the
weed viii be compelled TO trim their
tastes to suit the market which viii
not coatain the best or late the tobacco
manufacturing industry has been charac-
terized by unusual industry especially
in Florida, which state shows
the heaviest percentage of in
crease for the quarter ending
Sept. 30 Of any district in the United
states. This Increase in the Florida dis
trict was 46905l9 cigars, or at the rate
OF iSfbz,O6 cigars year. Forty millions
was the number manufactured in the
quarter OF 1895.
sI In Cuba the he growers fearing az
iards or insurgents, have cleaned out
their warehouses and forced their cured
tobacco upon the market. This fact has
prevented that great advance in prices
warranted by the absolute certainty or
a short crop next year. This tobacco
has been bought in largely by the manu-
facturers OF Florida, who have been eN-
ceedingly active In converting the raw
material into cigars Their demand has
been good, because the wholesalers and
retailers are both anxious to buy Wnlle
prices are, as they rule now, reasonable.
This accounts for the activity In manu-
featuring.
opinion of a well-posted tobacco man, is
going to prove the very worst calamity
that will have befallen the insurgents. 1t
is a well-known fact that the insurgent
armies are largely maintained by a sys-
TEN of assessment upon Cuban cigarmak-
ers in the United States. From these as.
sessments come the steady revenues OF
their armies. OF course, this revenue is
augmented considerably by the contribu-
tions of patriotic Americans, but his char
ity does not produce that strong, steady
current OF gold that must necessarily now
into. the Golfers OF The reyolutionists.
We'll. If the Cuban cigarmaRers have
no tobacco to make into cigars, or not as
much tobacco as they had before, the re-
suit will be a curtailment of their rev
enues, as well as of their ability to give
as literally as before" says this gentle
man.
How is the problem to be solved?"
1T is already being solved. There are
now in this state many expert growers of
tobacco, from cuba, IN the employ OF
manufacturers, who are looking for lands
adapted to the growth of high-grade to-
bacco. There are quantities or land in
Florida whose conditions are adapted to
growing tobacco, which, while not quite
so good as the highest grade of Havana,
will require an expert to detect the differ
ence. Gadsden county, particularly, is
adapted to tobacco culture, and the al
ready large tobacco-growing industry OF
Gadsden is likely to grow into surprising
proportions within the next two years.
They can grow such tobacco in Gadsden
county as Will readily pass as Havana
among ordinary smokers of good cigars.
In fact, Florida tobacco is now largely
mixed with goods that are branded ana
sold as pure Havana.
you mark the prophecy, inside of two
years the value of the tobacco crop of
Florida will exceed that of any other
crop raised in the state"