Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1896-05-12
ON A BOOM.
TOBACCO ROLLING INTO HOPKINS
VILE AS NEVER BEFORE.
The WsrehOusemen Kept On The Hustle
And New Storage Houses Going Up
Every Week.


riding on the topmost wave ola gen.
uine old-fashioned boom. Tobacco is
pouring into the city at the rate of
200 hogsheads day and the ware
houses are kept busy day and night
devising "ways and means" for stor-
ing the thousands of hogsheads in
excess of the usual receipts.
For several years the Hopkinsville
market has been gradually regaining
the position it occupied before the I.
A. q T. Railroad invaded its best ter
ritory. The fight has been a long
and often a uiscouraging one, but
the tide has turned and the tobacco
of the dark district is once more seek
ing its natural market. tits coming
from all over Western Kentucky and
from many counties in Tennessee
This result is due to. several causes
The high standing of the tobacco men
of Hopkinsville and their reliability
in all their dealings have done much
to secure the confidence of the public
in the honesty and stability of the
market. There have been no scandals,
wrangles and failures to arouse the
suspicious of the farmers, but through
panics, dull seasons and periods Of
prosperity there has been the same
upright dealing with all, and the pro-
ducers have at all times been fairly
treated and their interests have been
carefully guarded. All of this goes
to prove the truth of the adage,
Honesty is the best policy" There
is no market anywhere that has the
confidence of the people to greater
extent than Hopkinsville. No breath
of suspicion has attached to the in
spection and buyers as well as sellers
appreciate this fact. The result is
that the best prices are realized, and
some good tobaccos have sold as high
as SIS since the middle of April. The
sales of the principal houses appear
regularly in the KENTUCKIAN and the
special reports given every Friday
show the highly prosperous condition
of the market. There are six ware
houses in HopkinsVille and all of them
are profiting by the increased bust
ness this season. Up to the first week
in May last season the total receipts
were 1866, this year the receipts were
7715 and in the week ending May 9TH
1926 hogsheads were received, OF
more than 200 hogsheads a day for
the six days. The three warehouses
doing the largest business made az
they thought ample preparations for
the expected increase, but all calcula-
tons have been sweep aside and ad-
ditional storage rooms have been
found necessary. Messrs Ragsdale,
Cooper & Co. erected large annex on
the Hopson property and remodeled
their main building enlarging it con-
siderably, but the influx of tobacco
from new territory has made more
room imperatively necessary and they
have bought a lot in the Withers
property, on Elm street, and have
let the contract for an iron warehouse
139x219 feet, to be put up in double
quick time. 1t will be ready in few
days.
Messrs Gather & West last fall
doubled their storage capacity by
putting up a large brick building,
but they are already getting crowded;
they are SO far leading the market
in receipts this season, a position
heretofore held by the first named
firm, which still confidently claims
that it will lead the market in receipts
at the close of the season, a position
it has occupied for n any years.
Messrs. Alternately d Co. who are
not far behind these firms, enlarged
the Ninth street building in the early
spring, but they soon found it neces-
sary to have more room and last week
Forbes q Bro. put up for them on a
weeks notice large storage house
S0x96 feet on Twenty-frst street.
The other warehousemen are also
threatened with overfows and broad
smile adorns the face of every tobacco
man in town.
In the meantime the KENTUcKIAN is
giving complete, accurate and reliable
reports of the market, and those want
ing this information should take the
only paper in Hopkinsville that Of
fers such inducements to the reading
public as the KENTUCKIAN. For
special proposition see advertising
columns on first-page.
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