The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1900-01-12
Tobacco Notes.


merits of the case will be gone into.
Tobacco Notes.
T. A. Ellingson began warehouse sort
ing of the new crop Monday.
A correspondent informs us there is
quite little of tobacco left unsold about
Mt. Horeb.
Ed McNair, Brodhead leaf dealer, was
in this market Tuesday.
Mr.. L. Sachel, Chicago leaf dealer, was
in this market for short time early in
the week.
Chas Tallard left early this week for
Hartford, Con-, to superintend the re-
ceiving and packing of Connecticut seed
leaf purchased in that state for the Ha-
vana-American Go.
Outside towns would confer favor by
not directing any more help towards
this town. The warehouses are now
filed and the town is overrun by people
looking for tobacco work.
Hugh McInnes received 81 crops
100000 lbs. at GAINESVILLE, Wednesday,
for T. B. Earle. The tobacco was for
warded to the American Tobacco Co. at
Cincinnati in bundles.
Chas l.. Culton opened a warehouse
at Ft. Atkinson this week for handling
the 99 crop. Will Sullivan, the base
ball player, will have charge Of the
working force. Mr.. Culton also began
work at Whitewater this week
Westby is fast taking the lead as one
of the lively trade centers in the tobacco
industry. On Monday there will be in
opera ton 5 large warehouses, employing
270 hands. Out of this number there
are 24O people who size and the remain
der are called day hands. The tobacco
industry is putting large sums of money
into the pockets of not only the growers
but help to fill the till of the merchant
and the pocketbook Of the laborer. 1t
gives employment to many during a
season of the year when work is scarce
in other lines and when large numbers
! would either have to 60 to the woods or
remain idle. The tobacco business in
Vernon county is increasing yearly and
before many years, at the present rate,
until the railroad tracks in this village
and in Viroqua will be lined upon both
sides for long distance with warehouses
in which to handle the Vernon county
crop.-Viroqua Republican.
Mr.. Edw A. Herbs, the head of the
large New York cigar manufacturing
firm of Herbs, Wertheim & Schiller,
passed a couple days of the week in this
market. This is about the first time any
of the firm have been in the state long
enough to look over their splendid ware
house at this point or to examine any OF
the purchases made by Messrs. Brill and
Maltpress. Mr.. Herbs became satisfied
that their storage facilities here, ample
as they are, are still much too small for
the Wisconsin holdings of the firm and
gave instructions to add a very large
addition to their storage building, so
that capacity for not less than $4,000
was provided for. In speaking of the
recent collapse of the deal of his firm
with the American Tobacco Co., Mr..
Herbs said it took good deal of self de-
NAL to turn down proposal that offered
all the price asked for their business and
good villa sum up in the millions, but
he thought his firm acted wisely in turn
ing down trade that would not provide
for the future for their distributing
agents and heads of departments, men
who had assisted so much in building up
the largest cigar manufacturing business
in the world. The stand taken by the
X. w. & S. firm is certainly commend
able and their act strongly approved by
the trade. They simply stood by their
friends, an unselfsh and noble act it was,