The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-15

ing day and night until the tobacco
above them is dry, yelloW-broWn, rat
Ting mass. Two days and nights should
suffice for that-anXlouS days and
nights they are for all on the planta-
ton The most trusted of the hands
attend to the firing-but such very lit
tie things-a spark, a flaw of wind,
may send a whole years income up in
smoke Small wonder there is joy and
long relieved breath when the fires are
drawn from under the last harmful
Next comes the stripping. Moist,
warmiSh weather is required for it.
The stalks go first to the sorter, who
removes the two ground leaves, as we'll
as any worm eaten or house-burHt ones,
then fling them to another man who
breaks off the good leaves and lies
them into bundles. The bundles are
laid straight and fair in big bulks.
keeping each length and quality sep
arate. The bulks are covered and
weighted and left undlsturbed until
pricing begins.
Pressing, a purist would say
Some persons would Doubtless be
shocked at mention of screw prizes
and prize-screws. In the tobacco
country he terms need neither excuse
nor explanation. To question their use,
in fact, would be to draw upon your
learned than wise. The screws are of
iron, running in a nut, which has been
fitted into a frame of Inassy timbers.
The hogshead is set underneath and
packed as full as it will hold. Then a
heavy heading is laid upon the packing
and run down by means of screw and
blocks until the first filling is reduced
to about one-fifth of its original bulk.
The filling up and pricing are repeated
until the whole cask is full, when it is
headed, thrown out and rolled aside to
await transit to the warehouse.
Each of the great interior markets
Louisville, Richmond, Cincinnati, ST.
Louis, Henderson, GAINESVILLE = has
from a dozen TO so of them. They are
big buildings, full of broad, long
spaces, into and out of which tobacco
rolls in steady stream through some
eight months of the year. The men
controlling them must have behind
them capital running up into the mil
lions. They make advances to dealers,
who, in turn, help the planters-dealer
and factor alike depending on the crop
for reimbursement. Looking at and
into the present complex commercial
machinery, one harks back with salts
faction to the earlier day when Rich
mond and Petersburg were setting the
standard for all things tobaccoy, ware
housing included
In the good earlier time, buyers gath
cred each morning, and went from
warehouse to warehouse, guided by the
blowing Of a horn, which told them
when and where their presence was re-
quired. And when ii came to buying,
those good gentlemen Disseminated
full half cent in the pound against to-
bacco that had been rolled in from
the back country, instead of coming
by wagon. For in rolling, the hogs
head was laid upon the side, big iron
pin set in a hole in each head, then
shafts and cross-bar made fast to the
pins, and two horses hi'tched tandem
in front. When they pulled, the hogs
head rolled, huge, solid wheel. BY
the time it had gone mile it was so
coated with. mud and clay no water
could get through the seams of it. Not
withstanding, somewhat of foreign
substance crept in around the end-pins
besides. the clayey cask wds i'll to
handle on shipboard or anywhere else.