Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-07-13
are shown by threads Of golden leaf
running through the dark brown.

hull of dark brown tobacco nesting In
the yellow bed, and the sails and
ropes OF other shades. This ship rep
reesnts the return ( England of ST
Walter Raleigh with the first cargo
of tobacco from the new world.
Surrounding the pagoda are foul
large exhibit spaces. In one Of these
all the machinery used In the mann
f~aeture OF plug tobacco is 10 be shown
some Of te machinery will be In oper
alton, and the finished product Is to be
made in full view Of the visitor from
the leaf tobacco taken from warehous
es elsewhere In the great exhibit. Di,
agonalIy across the pagoda space Is to
be another machinery exhibit, and here
Is to be manufactured the granular and
pingscut smoking tobaceos, fine cuts
and snuffs. Two spaces are given ov-
er to the manufacture OF cigarettes,
both BY hand and machinery.
Entering the great paralellogram by
the main aisle from tine east, the visit
or will find large exhibit spaces on
either side devoted to the display OF
machinery, tools and appliances used
in the cultivation OF tobacco.
The next section will be one Of alb.
sorbing interest. -Four large plots are
given over to the actual cultivation oil
tobacco. Soil adapted to the various
tobaccos has been spread and real
fields OF real tobacco will be seer
growing. In one section Is TO be
shown the 'burley" types, the kind
grown In Kentucky, which produces
more than $4,000, 900 pounds Of leaf
tobacco annually. This Is the dark
brown leaf that Is so extensively used
In the body Of plug shelving tobaecos.
Another plot Will form a field for the
growing Of the bright types Of tobac-
cos. the kind produced with great sue
cess mainly In Virginia and the Caro-
1inas. Here the leaf shades down and
produces tobacco ranging In color from
yellow to gold and from orange to
lemon. Another plot will grow nothing
but Sumatra tobacco, used exclusively
for wrappers for cigars. The color Of
Sumatra embraces many shades Of
brown and so thin do tho leaves grow
that II often requires as many as $50
OF them to weigh q pound. The final
plot is to be given over to Havana to-
bacco from which the filters are made
for the best cigars on the market. The
young plants will be transplanted from
Cuba and will be SO handled that they
will retain all Of their native charac-
tweristics.
In the central space created by
these four growing fields Of tobacco
will be erected a curing barn. This
barn. like all the other structures with
in the universal tobacco exhibit. will
be constructed. or Will appear to be
cavations will be made In the ground
beneath the barn and furnaces install.
ed. Fires will burn In them and the
heat In all parts OF the barn will be
regulated. This Is q most important
part OF the tobacco production. While
the hurley types, or Kentucky tobac.
cos, are cured In the open air. tho val
ne Of the bright types grown In Virgin
Ia and the Carolinas depend largely on
the success In curing. The color is
the thing desired. II the tobacco is
perfectly cured II takes on the golden
lemon or orange color, SO greatly
after and commands a price
on the market sometimes ranging as
high as a dollar a pound. Should the
not be successfully done the
same tobacco would sell for as low as
seven cents a pound.
In this curing barn the tobacco
leaves fashioned into hands" will be
suspended on sticks and placed In
The section where the temperature Is
regulated for the proper curing. Elk
perts will watch the process and re-
move 1t at the proper time ami place
more In the barn to undergo the cur
Ing process.
The next section to be entered will
% long and narrow, The main thing
iere sought IL to show how the prod
let ia handled in warehouses. A large
warehouse will be built: on the fioors
ire to be shown hogsheads OF tobacco
IND great piles Of the leaf spread out
n tempting array. On these floors the
will be made, the auctioneers AMI
buyers going from one pile to another
md inspecting the various grades. So
llso will be shown truck wagons. and
he most approved apparatus for quick.
y handling the raw material. All
lround the sides Of the warehouse in
,lass enclosures will be the finished
PRODUCTS Of the tobacco graded leaf
Exhibit from every tobacco growing ,
tate.
At either end OF the warehouse Will
10 constructed two largo seed beds I
moving how the plant must be start. ,