The evening bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1887-1905, 1900-01-18
AT0BACCO FACTORY.
MaySville Possesses Peculiar Ad.
vantageS For Such an
Enterprise.
In the Heart of the White Burley District
Transportation Facilities Unsur-
passed-A Splendid LO-.
cation.

| Inc TOBACCO falr conceived by
Maysville's Board of Trade and adver
tised to come off on the Goth inst, il
matter of no little importance to hel
i items and the farmers of Mason and
adjoining counties.
The fair will not only serve to bring
Maysville into notice as being the me
tropolis of rich agricultural com
munity, but, also, bring the city into no
tice as the mart through which the large
quantities of tobacco, wheat, corn, hay
rye, cattle, horses, sheep, hogs and othel
products of the farm and soil find theil
way into the consumptive and manu-
featuring markets of the United States
and the world.
The fair will not only do this, but ought
to suggest to the intelligent and enter
prising business man and capitalist the
peculiar advantages held by Maysville foI
converting into plug and chewing to.
bacco the millions of pounds of white
hurley grown in Mason and adjoining
counties annually, but shipped to other
points for sale and manufacture.
Mason County is one of the pioneer,
as well as one of the leading counties in
the State of Kentucky in the production
OF fine grades of manufacturing tobacco.
Many years ago, long before tobacco
was grown in many districts now produc-
ing the weed, the Mason County farmer
was raising and putting it upon the mar
ket as a means of revenue and support.
In those early days, after being cut, the
tobacco was housed, usually, in rude
chinked and daubed log buildings and
by slow process cured by fire for strip
ping. The sites of some of these old
buildings are still known to the resident
of the county, but reared upon them is
the present convenient, well framed and
well ventilated barn arranged for curing
the leaf by process OF nature.
Thus, with soil especially adapted to
its production and a husbandry long
experienced in the art of cultivation and
curing, it is no wonder that Mason
County tobacco holds leading position
in the markets of the land.
When sold upon the "breaks" in
Louisville and Cincinnati, or elsewhere, it
is promptly bought by the manufacturer,
who is quick to recognize and concede its
superiority for his purpose.
Why this product, SO we'll and so
abundantly grown here, has always been
shipped away to Louisville, Cincinnati,
New York, st. Louis and other cities for
and not worked into plug at
has long been the question
asked by intelligent and observant men
he country over. With an output from
he county of Mason of about 100000
pounds annually, and large quantities
produced in adjoining territory in this
State and neighboring counties just across
he river in Ohio, Maysville as the center
If this producing district has superior ad- |
yantages for the manufacture of the en-
ire product. The city has railroad ia
;ilities for shipment East, West and
south, and the Ohio river in competition.
These are sufficient to put it in easy and |
eady touch with cities of other States
md the marts and markets of the ma
ion.
The farmers of Mason and adjoining
ounties should be quick to see the ad-
antage of market for their tobacco
light at home and be eager to cooperate
With the Board of Trade of Maysville in
Is movement to bring the tobacco pro-
uct of our district into further notice.
{, perchance, the result should be to in
uce capitalists to come here to manu-
,cture this tobacco, IL aCould bring 10 the
eOple Of the county and district millions of
OUarS, naturally theirs, aUhich for mann
EARS hare found their aCay into strangers cof-
RS. If the 100000 pounds of tobacco
nnually grown in Mason was manu-
lctured at Maysville, this alone, at net
rofit of q cents per pound, would add
$4,000 annually to the wealth of the
,unty; not to mention the benefit ac-
'uing to labor employed and the direct
nd incidental aid and nutrition result
g to the business of Maysville and eur
,unding country.
Capitalists, why not invest your money
tobacco factory at Maysville? The
lpense of shipping the tobacco from
ason County and adjoining territory to
3 manufactured in other and various
arts of the country costs thousands of
,llars annually. If worked into plug
Id twist right here where grown this
Ipense would be saved and would enter
he profits OF the manufacturer.
Every farmer of Mason County and adj
cent territory should have sample of
IS tobacco at Maysville on the Goth
ISL, and business men with capital
ould do we'll to come here on that day,
ot only to inspect the samples exhibited.l