The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-02-28
Thirty Car Load Shipment
of Tobacco.
ROLLS OUT OF DURHAM
This $4,000 Shipment of Manufac-
tured Tobacco All Goes to One
Iobber in Chicago. Acreage
to be Reduced Through
out State.
Especial to News and Observer

Especial to News and Observer)
durham, N c., Feb. 27.-Probably the
largest shipment of manufactured tobacco
ever shipped from a factory to jobber
ir the history of the trade left Durham
to1ay. 1t was a solid train load OF
Dukes Mixture smoking tobacco shipped
to Sprague, Warner & Company, Chicago.
Some idea of the immensity of this
order for smoking tobacco can be learned
from the fact that the train consisted
OF thirty cars-over a quarter of a mile
in length-and in these cars were two
million eight hundred and eighty thou
sand packages of tobacco. When sold to
the consumer this tobacco will bring
$14,0OO
By calculating for a few moments it
will be seen that in this lot there is
enough tobacco to give three smokes
to every adult perSon in the United
States.
The Tobacco Train" left here over
the Norfolk and Western road and the
contract between the w. Duke Sons and
Company factory and the railroad people
calls tor the train to be carried the
entire distance in daylight. When night
comes on the train will take a siding
| aIG there wait for day light when the
journey viii be resumed. There is a
representative OF the factory on the
train. Mr.. c. c. White, one of the as
sistant superintendents, went with the
t1alp and will deliver the tobacco in per-
TO H.
the largest jobbers of tobacco in the
West, If not in the world.
Before leaving here the train was ban
Eered from end to end and then photo
graphed. Some of the banners read: "One
solid car load OF Dukes Mixture"
Largest selling brand OF smoking to-
bacco in the world" and like sentences.
This shows the great demand for North
Carolina tobacco goods in all parts of
the country. The Dukes Mixture brand
was started but few years ago and the
fact that it now claims, and the claim
goes without contradiction, that it is the
largest selling brand in the word proves
what pluck, brains, ana good tobacco
can do. The Duke company, of which
Mr. c. w. Toms is general manager, has
made an effort to give to the public
the best smoking tobacco possible. The
brands of the Durham manufacturers are
appreciated by those who smoke.
The Sprague Warner company, to whom
the train load leaving here today was
consigned, have been large buyers of
Dukes Mixture for a number of years,
but the shipment today is not only the
largest ever made to this firm but the
largest ever made to any one firm in the
history of the tobacco industry
#&*
1t is estimated by tobacconists here
that seventy per cent of the present crop
has been sold During the next sixty
days it is expected that practically the
entire crop will be marketed During
this week there has been sold in Dur
>harl between four and five hundred
Thousand pounds of the leaf and the
average price paid has been about ten
cents This information was given me
By tobacconists and warehousemen.
One tobacconist told me yesterday that
the manufacturers and handlers of to-
bacco generally were greatly fooled in
the crop this year. At the beginning of
the season it was estimated that the
crop would be forty per cent larger
than it was last year and the results have
Shown it to be forty per cent smaller
There was acreage for larger crop than
the one a year ago but the yield was not
so great Again: The tobacco this year
has not the weight of last year.
The same gentleman, VINO has Travelled
amcng the farmers throughout the State,
told me that the crop next year would
rot be as large as this. When asked for
his reasons for saying this he replied
that a great many of the tobacco planters
were going to put in crops of cotton and
let tobacco go. The farmers believe he
said, that the cotton reserve has been
eaten away by the short crop of last year
and that regardless of what sized crop
is raised the price will remain up.
mark my words" said the speaker, 'to-
bacco next year will be in the boat now
occupied by cotton"
rnnnd. from, 4hn IrritnA SAntnr an, Mo,inn