The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-09-12
NEWBERN AND THE
GOLDEN WEED
Eastern Metropolis Estab-
fishes a Tobacco Market.
PUSHING TO THE FRONT
THE CRAVEN LANDS GROW RICH
AND BRIGHT LEAF.
NewBeRN's NEW TOBACCO WAREHOUSE
And It's Competent and Hustling Manager
Whose Name is a Synonym Of
Aggressive Tobacco
Industry
Industry.

Newbern, n. c., Sept. 11.-(Staff Cor
respondence)-Why the culture OF the
bright golden weed has not heretofore
made its advent into this favored section,
[ don't know. Speaking with New
bern gentleman a few days ago he said
that long years ago tobacco was success
fully grown throughout this section.
But there has been period of some
thirty years that its cultivation mas been
neglected by the Craven, Jones and Car
teret county farmers.
These farmers have been so engrossed
in the building up here of great truck
ing section that they have not had time
to consider the cultivation of this great
staple crop, and they doubtless would
have deferred the venture some years
longer, but for the fact that during the
past few years, the cultivation OF the
bright golden leaf has been raging all
over Eastern North Carolina. Like an
avalanche of agricultural progress it has
swept on down through Nash. Wilson.
Green, Pitt, Edgecombe, Martin, Lenoir
and other eastern counties gathering
strength as it went until it has now
crossed the borders Of Jones. Craven
and ON into Carteret and to-day the fact
that these lands are peculiarly adapted
to it's successful culture is established IN
the minds of the people all over this
section. The rich loamy soil and the
mild salubrions climate imparts to the
growing weed that delicious natural
sweetness that is so characteristic OF
the tobacco grown in this eastern se"-
ton, the farmers themselves after years
of painstaking patient and careful cuitl-
vation OF model truck and fruit farms
are just the men to give proper attention
to the cultivation and proper handling
of tobacco They have not gone into
the business, those who planted tobacco
the past season-merely as an expert
ment. Indeed it seems that in this ia
vored, rich, tropical section farm ex-
periments are unnecessary .All the farmer
has to do is to make up his mind what
crops he desires to grow and then go
and plant them with the assurance that
his harvest will be a profitable one.
SO this section is growing tobacco the
best quality of the world famous Caro-
lima gold leaf and Newbern is selling it.
selling it every day in good breaks at its
large and commodious new warehouse,
one of the best in Eastern Carolina.
The market is established DIR. n. IL.
it. selling it every day in good breaks
at its large and commodous new ware
house. one of the best in Eastern Caro-
lima. the market is established DIR. \. Fl.
Street ought to be called the pioneer.
He is one of Newbern's popular prac-
ticing physicians. He first encouraged
the farmers to begin the cultivation and
it was he who first started the movement
to make Newbern tobacco market. His
suggestion and efforts were enthusiast
tically seconded by such well known
business men as X. X. Jones. II. u.
Harper V. b. Neal, B. S. Guion, III. b.
Duffy, ]. III. blackburn, u. X. Bishop
J. r. Parker. Jr., c. r. Watson and
others,a and these gentlemen with twenty
five or fifty other citizens organized the
first warehouse company, during Feb
ruary last. They didn't organize for
fun, but for business. Some dropped out