The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1898-02-03
OUR CHIEF INDUSTRY.
THE FUTURE OF WINSTON'S
TOBACCO BUSINESS.

Manufacturers Express Encouraging
Views Upon the Probabilities and
Possibilities of this Interest.
Prefer to Buy Leaf Here.
Realizing the important fact that
Winston prosperity and growthiS due
more to our tobacco industry than to
any other one thing and desiring that
this important interest shall continue
10 groW in he future, as if has stead
/ lily done in the past. we have inter
viewed several Of our tobacco men
Gng the lire OF our tobacco pu,sib.li-
ties, why Winston should be the great
| loose tobacco market Of the world. and
/ why farmers should cultivate tobacco
! as their money crop, ard why they
| should patrOniZe the Winston market.
| Tie follow questions were pro
| ppuuded some OF our manufacturers
| 1st. What DO you think is Winston 5
| future as tobacco market?
81 l. the trade in manufactured
! goods growing, and il so to what ex
tent?
Sd How much leaf is now wanted
annually by our manufacturers, besides
the several million wanted by leaf
met?
4th. Do you prefer to buy your leaf
on this markeF? Ii so, why?
9TH. Will you pay more for tobacco
here than you will on other markets?
II so,please give your reasons:
9Th. Do you think farmers should
raise tobacco as their money crop?
7th. How do you think tobacco is
selling. compared with other farm
products?
Stb. Do you think farmers should
patrOniZe this market? Ii so, why?
WHAT p H. HANEs & co SAY
1st. The manufactured product of
this place has increased fully % per
cent in the last 4 years: that too at
time Of the greatest depression that
ihe country has known since the war.
And the manufacturers were not
travelling, a greater part nf the btme.
half the number Of men they now have
in the field. It therefore seems to Us
that we ought to increase cur product
at least 80 per cent in the next four
years
24d. While we are not n~g!ectiay
our old. great many Of our fact ories
are going into new territory with very
promising results and we very natural
)y expect big increase from this
source.
3rd. To produce the amount of man
ufactured goods that was worked in
'97 will require 10000 900 pounds for
the manufacturers alone during 1898.
Even at the same ratio Of increase as
has prevailed during the past years.
the manufacturers will need about
% 900, 900 pounds while fully 1900, 600
will be taken by leaf dealers. 1t will
Observation-Disclosures % 900, 900 tO27,-
600 600 pounds to satisfy our legIti-
mate demand.
45h. We greatly prefer buying our
leaf here. First. Because all the ter
ritory contiguous TO this point pro
duces the best working tobacco that
can be bought anywhere Second.
Because we can make our own selec-
tiOns. Third. Because the expense of
buying leaf at other points and bring
ing 1t here is fully l cent per pound.
5th For reasons above cited, we
had rather have leaf bought by our
own men on this market at even II
cents higher price than the same leaf
will cost US away from home.
9Th. While under no circumstances
would wesadvlse farmer TO neglect the
raising Of home supplies, for monied
crop there is nothing that will ap-
proXlmate tobacco.
7th. In 1895 96 when cotton was
bringing from TO 9 cents, the prices
OF leaf tobacco as shown by the ware
house books, was less than II cents
per pound more than it Is now bring
ing. So that while cotton has de-
preciated fully 40 per cent. in price
tobacco dropped less than 10 per cent.
Sth. 1nasmuch as fully -four fifths of
the leaf given in sthe Piedmont Sec
tion ultimately comes to Winston, it
seems to US the most natural thing at
all that farmers would bring it here
themselves, thereby saving the cost Of
packing, rehandling. etc.
AS BROWN BROS. co. SEE IT
1st. Good 1.-The prospects are
brighter than at any time in the his
tory Of the market.
2nd. The trade in manufactured
tobacco here has grown more rapidly
in the past two years than ever before
since the market was established.
Sd Not less than 25 million pounds.
4th. Yes-For the superiority of
our tobaccos and because we are
enabled to make our own selections in
purchasing and further, we believe in
standing by home people.
5th. Yes-As stated above, on &C.
count of the superiority OF tobacco,
and, besides, we can afford to pay
better prices as we save commission
and freight from other points.
eth. Unquestionably.
7th. We think it Is the best pay
ing crop In the South and in proof Of
this will simply ask comparison of
prices with cotton, grain, etc.
Sth. We do-Simply because they
undoubtedly get better average for
their crop here than they do anywhere
else in the world, and further, our
| manufacturers here send to other
markets annually about $3.50, 900 for
| leaf tobacco, which the farmers in
this section should receive, by supply
ing the wants OF our manufacturers
| at home.
!: t.. VAUGHN s cos VIEWS.
| 1st In our Judgment it is IN lues-
| tionably good.
2nd. The trade in manufactured
| goods has been increasing for several
/ years and the prospects are good for a
| continued increase.
| 3rd In our Judgment the manu-
facturers of Winston will consume
/ over twenty millions of pounds of leaf
/ tobacco the present year.
4th. Yes, we prefer buying leaf on
/ our home market. First. Because our
soil is more thoroughly adapted 60
| fine chewing tobacco than any other
section, and it enables US to make
selections under our own personal
supervision.
5th. We can afford TO pay more on
our own market than any other. as we
save the expense OF brokerage, com,
| missions, hogsheads, freight, &C..
which 10 the aggregate amounts to q
considerable saving TO the farmer.
9Th. We certainly think that the
farmer should raise tobacco as sur
plus or money crop, and it does moi
I.