The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-11-08
NO TOBACCO MARKET
AND CITY LOSES
THOUSANDS
Farmers Bring Tobacco Here
and Are Forced to go
Elsewhere.
WAREHOUSES; ARE CLOSED
Raleigh Buyers Gone to Other Mar.
kets Because They did not Re-
ceive Encouragement.
WAREHOUSES; ARE CLOSED
BIG PRICES FOR THE WEED THIS YEAR
Mr.. EIsin Fleming One Of Those Who Left Raj
eigh snd is in Louisburg, Where There
isa Strong Market. Big 0pportun-
ity That Raleigh Misses.

In contrast with the cotton farmers the
growers of tobacco have made fairly
good crop and are realizing stiff prices
for the weed
For the first time in many years Raj
egh has no tobacco market and both OF
the large warehouses here are idle.
But the worst feature of this condition
is that farmers have brought tobacco to
the city this fall, and failing to- find a
market had To go elsewhere. Some OF
those who come here travelled lone
way and were much disappointed when
they learned that Raleigh had been wiped
off the map as a tobacco market.
Mr.. Elvin Fleming, who has been active
in his efforts to make Raleigh a tobacco
centre was forced to leave Raleigh after
last season and this year he is located in
Louisburg. Mr.. Fleming failed to receive
sufficient encouragement in Raleigh and
that accounts for his departure A SINH
lar condition is responsible for the close
OF the market here, which has been Sc
riously felt among merchants and bust
ness men.
business said yesterday: THE failure
of the business interests to support and
aid the tobacco market resulted in the
abandonment of this city as a market.
Raleigh should be one of the biggest to-
bacco markets in the State. Not only
is the leaf grown in Wake, but the adj
joining counties of Durham, Granville
Vance and Franklin are among the best
producing Tobacco areas in the State. Raj
eigh has great opportunity and the
business people should make up to it.
The city is losing thousands of dllars
this year as the result of the close of
the local warehouses. The trade of the
city has been affected, as merchants are
already aware. The present condition
should stir the business interests of Raj
eigh to action before another year."
Mr. E. l.. Fleming, who has been Wis
iting in the city, says the Louisburg
market is an active growing one. In two
days, Mr.. Fleming says, $4,000 worth OF
tobacco was sold on the market there.
Already the sales for the season amounts
to several million pounds
Hon. j. Bryan Grimes, Secretary of
State, who has been visiting at his chem
in Pitt county, says the tobacco crop in
the east is fairly good. 1.-The prices for
tobacco this year are unusually good,
Mr.. Crimes declared, lin fact they are so
much higher than farmers expected that
they are very much delighted. The to-
bacco crop in some localities is very fine
and unusually large, while in others it is
very poor. The tobacco farmers have
made money this year and they are in
very good circumstances. Crops gener-
ally, especially cotton, are very sorry"
The American Tobacco Company is re-
ported to. have lately made heavy pur-
chases of leaf from dealers at Richmond
and other Southern points. 1t is unusual
for the trust to buy even pound of
tobacco from the dealers, so the Tobacco
Journal says.
The Kfns.on. N c.. Free Press says:
"a pile of tobacco sold on the Kinston
market Thursday at So cents per pound.
This is the highest price recorded on the
local market where tobacco was sold for
what was considered its real worth
that is, not. for charitable purposes or
something similar The prices o nall
STdutS VI IOUdcCO COulilut uIgHcI SHuh
before IN the history of opr market"
The Southern Tobacco Journal says;
ITO be sure, the tobacco growers of the
South will not go in for big crop the
next year. The absence of adequate
farm labor will deter them if nothing
else. The folly of 1t, too. ought to be
apparent to them with the experience OF
the past two years. A good, average
crop is all that is demanded. and that
will bring renumerative prices
-
The Greenville Reflector says: Mr..
NJ A. Aller Secretary of the Greenville
Tobacco Beard of Trade, gives us the
following figures on sales on the market
this reason. In August there We're sold
1,653,694 pounds DIT an average price of
$50; in September o,665,169 pounds at
an average Of $3.50; in October 2,OS7; S97
pounds at an average of 40. For the
three months the sales aggregate $780,
7e0 pounds at an averaged 1881. There
may be some markets that sell little
more tobacco than Greenville, but we do
net believe any con show so good an av-
erage."s
So -
Murder of Giles Emfnger.