The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-02-13
CRIMINAL COURT AT rAReoao
Preparations for a Large Trade in To-
bacco This Year.

bacco This Year.
l'arboro, ~ G., Feb. ~ (speciaI.)
Who lives here; whose house is that;
who is building over yonder? are some
of the questions that were asked by
some one OF uswalking down from the
depot TO the centre Of this live little
city thought / knew nearly every.
ones house on this street, but since
my last visit here some very fine resi-
dences have been built, and many
other improvements have been made.
a one week term Of court for crimi-
nal causes only, is now in session here.
Judge .. r. Meares, OF Wilmington
presiding. There Us no case of impor-
lance to be tried
I'm conversation with some of those
interested in the tobacco business [
learn that about one and a half mill
lion pounds Of the weed were sold on
his market this season. I am told
that in close proximity TO Tarboro,
very little tobacco was grown last
year, and that within four or five miles
around here several hundred acres
that this market expects to handle not
less than from three and half to four
million pounds next season. The ware
house men and some OF the buyers here
have gone at it themselves. and will
make crops of the weed.
Tarboro now, owing to water trans
portatiou. claims 20 have decided adj
vantage rs a cotton market The cotton
buyers here are now paying within
few points of the Norfolk market.
Cotton is shipped from here to Norfolk
by boats on Tar river via Washington.
n. g., for 50 cents per bale, whereas be
fore it cost by rail SIPS per bale. There
is q transportation fight going on be
tween the railroad and an organized
company Of citizens here who own the
steamboats,. This company ships cot
ton to Washington from Tarboro for
- cents per bale and the railroad
brings it. back here and carries ii to
Norfolk FOR 2j cents. If they did not do
this It would be shipped all the way
from Washington IN. c. to Norfolk
and other northern markets by water.
This also forces the railroads to bring
freight to Tarboro at a much lower
rate than heretofore.
The question Of electric lights is now
being agitated to that extent that It
is generally believed that dynamo
viii be put TN here within thu next
feW months.
The town now has a complete and
satisfactory telephone system, and it
is thus connected with Rocky
Mount and other towns from ten to
twenty miles away and it is said that
connection will soon be established
with Wilson.
Work is going on in a quiet way TO
organize another cotton mill company
here for the purpose of erecting an
other min larger than the one now i'm
operation.
The river is higher than it has been
known to be for some years. Boats
can. 90 with ease fifteen miles above
here.
A new Presbyterian church is being
talked Of
One of the tobacco warehouses will
be enlarged and eight or ten new prize
houses wiz be built this spring and
summer,
a new iron draw is being put in the
county bridge across the river
The Board of Trade are endeayoring
through the county commissioners To
arrange to build new iron bridge
across the river.
The through train on the Southern,
from Greensboro, is very much appre-
ciated by the travelling public.
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