Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1898-08-25
THE FARMERS WAREHOUSE.
WHY IT WA ESTABLISHED AND THE
REASONS OF ITS SUCCESS.
The Public Spirit that Prompted Its
Young Projectors Is Being Appreciat-
ed and Rewarded by the Farmers.
III STANDS FOR THE FARMER,

When the Goldsboro tobacco mar
ket was first inaugurated it was
purely an experiment., and SO wary
were the promoters of the enterprise
that it required the combined sub
scriptions of many before stock suf-
fcient for the construction of the
first sales warehouse could be secur-
ed; and with this accomplished and
the warehouse thrown open to the
public, it soon became evident that
one warehouse could never make
Goldsboro a tobacco market, and,
that the essential requisite to her
success in this regard was more
warehouses. Business men convers-
ed with one another and all talked
together, yet their conclusions were
always the same-another ware
house is vitality essential, more
warehouses must be built or success
cannot be achieved.
At this critical stage in the expert
ence of our community in regard to
the needs of it's new venture, two of
Goldsboro's young men, impelled by
pubIic-spirit and buoyed by faith
in the future of the city, and trust
ing in the appreciation Of the farm
ers who would be benefited by their
Observation-Disclosures. w. b. Borden
and Chas. N. Edgerton associated
themselves together and out of the
fruits of their individual industry
determined to give to G~oldsboro and
the farmers another warehouse, COM
mensurate with the needs Of the
market and equipped with every
| convenience for handling tobacco to
| the best advantage.
Having arrived at this determin-
alton, the next thing was a conven-
lent location, familiar to every farm
Ell, easy of approach and with ample
| stable room convenient.
The unused portion of the Court
House square offered all these adj
vantages, and the Board of County
| Commissioners being interviewed
and recognizing this as a golden op-
portunity for converting an insight
ly waste of Improbable land into a
mecca of unfailing wealth for the
farmers who might seek it's spacious
floor with the ripened fruits of their
toll, as the years come and go, read
lily granted these young men a long
term lease, and the result is the
FARMERS WAREHOUSE" imposing In
it's magnificent proportions, inviting
in it's shapely beauty, it's broad and
FURNISHED floor beaming from myr-
lads of skylights and side windows,
thus affording to the farmer the best
possible opportunity of displaying
his tobacco to full advantage, and
the farmer who consigns his tobacco
to it's floor can always be sure ofreal-
iz1ng satisfactory returns.
For three years, now, the Farm
ers' Warehouse has invited the pa
tronage of tobacco growers, and its
experience has been that of increasing
business each year, while it's IN
fuence upon the market has been of
incalculable value, in widening the
territory of our trade, in increasing
the acreage, and in educating and
inspiring the farmers in the cultiva-
ton of tobacco to best advantage;
and it's energetic and public spirited
young proprietors, who have done so
much in this regard, are now realizing
in the golden stream of patronage
that daily flows in upon them that
the farmers know how to appreciate
and reward their friends.
This year the Farmers Ware
house is better equipped than ever
before. Its management always ca
ters to the best inter est of the farm
er in every sale, because buyers may
come and buyers may go, but the
farmer is here to stay-and so is the
Farmers Warehouse and it's pro
prietors.
Goldsboro this season has the
largest and best corps of buyers in
the State, and these attend every
sale on the floor of the Farmers
Warehouse, and while the bidding is
spirited, the auctioneer, Mr.. J. J.
Meador, is an expert in the grades
and value of tobacco, and he never
lets a sale go till the best market
price is realized.
The Best Remedy For FIux.