The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-07-21
WILSON'S GREAT
TOBACCO MARKET
Seventeen Million Pounds of
Leaf Sold Last Year.
PROSPECTS THIS YEAR
New Warehouses and New Firms For
the Opening Season.
SIX NEW BUYERS ARE ON THE M,RKET
For The B,nd d Warehouse Stock Company
Has Been Formed and Building Has
Been Erected at Cost OF Twelve
thousand Dollars.
Especial to News and observer.)


Wilson, N. c., July 2O-As the time
draws near throughout Eastern North
Carolina for the opening of the tobacco
markets, the advantages to be offered by
each individual market comes prominently
into notice. What improvements have
been made in the way of better facilities
for handling the new crop. are of vital
interest to all who are in any way con-
nected with the tobacco interests of the
State.
Wilson for the past five years has been
making rapid strides as market for loose
lleaf tobacco. The increase from total
of ten million pounds six years ago to
seventeen last year shows the rate at
which the market has been progressing.
The Wilson market will open on August
first with better facilities for handling,
with ease and profit, large crop of to-
bacco than al any time during it's history.
The four mammouth warehouses have
been thoroughly renovated during the
summer, and everything is being put in
readiness for the opening of the market in
August. The consolidation of the Woodland
Warehouse with the Planters will tend to.
strengthen the market. The warehouse
which will be opened by them will be far
superior to anything which has been in
operation by either of the old firms. The
other three houses will be operated as
formerly.
To the warehouse facilities are due in q
great measure the success of a market,
but even to a much greater degree is this
sccess due to the corps of buyers who fol-
low the sales at these warehouses. 1t is
to them. and the houses which they repre-
sent that the farmer must look fer a
successful ventura in tobacco farming.
During the summer since the first open
ing of this market there has been much
done to improve and increase the num-
Der of firms doing business on this mar
ket. Messrs Schoolfield and Boatright, an
old and established firm of Danville, have
opened q branch house here for the
summer They will do a large export
business during the coming season. They
have rented the new brick prize house
built recently by Mr. S. Lucas on Tarboro
street. This building has been leased by
them for number of years and is being
rapidly fitted up with the latest appli-
ances fer handling leaf tobacco. This
firm adds two new buyers to the market
besides bringing to Wilson the demands Of
an established foreign trade.
Messrs Hick and Williamson. also of
Danviile are putting in plant here now
for the handling of leaf tobacco. They
have leased for three years the stemmer
built by the warehouse men here on
(soldsborO street. Their manager, Mr..
Carter, IS here now fitting up the plant
with the Proctor system for handling to-
baccO. They intend to handle on this
market during the coming season over
two million pounds of tobacco. They will
also have two new buyers on the market
TO look after their interests.
Messrs w. r. Anderson and Campbell
Dance, two Wilson tobacconists of note,
lave formed partnership for the pur-
chase of export tobacco. They will occupy
the prize house on Barnes street, which
has been used for the past three years
by Messrs Carter and Whitehead. The
two buyers added by them will make
total of six new men added to the buyer
list during the summer.
In addition to the new firms which
have fitted UP factories here during the
summer, there have been many improve
ments in the plants of the old firms doing
business here. Messrs. Carter and White
head have put in new plant and are
row better fixed for managing their trade
than ever before. The Maxwell Tobacco
Company is having built large brick
storage house to be used for their
business. The building is 255x72, built
entirely Of brick
The bonded warehouse will also add
great deal TO the facilities of this mar
ket. The tobacco warehousemen and the
firms doing business here have formed a
stock company. and have erected the
house at a cost of about twelve thousand
dollars. 1t will be thoroughly fitted up
with the latest appliances for storing and
sampling tobacco, and will compare favor