The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1906-08-03
After Tobacco Trade.

The following is from the wv ashington
I POST
viii the hoom for a great industrial
city result in making Washin gton tobac-
GO market!
| Franklin Weems, secretary Of the Mary
| land Tobacco Growers Association,
thinks it will In discussing the question
recently, Mr.. Weems said
THE Maryland Tobacco Growers Asso.
citation has about LOO members in the
| five counties of Southern Maryland
Anne Arundel, Prince George, Calvert,
Charles and ST. Mary's-in addition to 80
per cent of the growers Of tobacco in
Carroll, Frederick, Howard and Mont
gOmery counties.
The city of Washington is the center
of this great tobacco growing section
which produces now about $1,5o0O 600
worth of tobacco. Most of this tobacco
is exported to France, Italy, Holland,
Austria, and Germany, which countries
use it principally in cigarette and pipe
SlllbhlllS iii Aoul ouo w " IA
tent for cigars. Within the last two years
Pennsylvania has been sending agents
through these counties buying whole
crops of tobacco which is shipped t"
Lancaster, the great cigar making town
of that State There it is made up into
cheap cigars, of which millions are used
in every section of the United States.
Thousands of cases Of these cigars are
brought by Washin gton j"bbers for dis
tribution to their trade.
THAT being the case, it would seem
that Washington has Il mine of wealth
which if properly worked, would add
greatly to her mercantile development.
she could easily become the cen.er Of a
manufacturing Industry, the raw material
for which liz right at her doors. Pitts
burg and v hceling use the tobacco OF
Western PcnEsS Ivania and Eastern Oni':
for mukir the stosies that advertise
those cities in every corner of this c'un
try. Lancaster, Pa, is a hive OF industry
and owes her wealth and mercantile i'm
purtance to her cigar factories. Il Gu
mond and Danvlle. Va Durham N c.;
Cincinnati, Ohio; Louisville, KY, all
know the great VALUE, TO them of beng
tobacco cen1cls and cf working up Their
raw material AT nome into a manu- 'actur
ed product that gives their statesmen a
commercial weapon of great value on tie
| road.
In Southern Maryland all roads poinr
to Washington naturally, and with a 1T
tie effort on the part of this city sh,
could absolutely control the trade of the
whole section f,om Annapolis down to
the month of the Potomac. AS it is, South
ern Maryland ships $1,5e0,0O0 worth of
tobacco to Baltimore and takes it out in
merchandise With tobacco factories in
Washington the Maryland tobacco
grow ers would sell their crops in Wash
ID gton and take in return merchandise of
double the value, as the marketing of
their staple crop would open the way for
other minor ones.
The great diversity of soil in South
ern Maryland has led the United States
Department of Agriculture into study
of its possibilities as a section in which
great results might be expected in the
line of tobacco production of wide
range Of color, texture, flavor, elasticity,
and burning qualities, while the facts that
field exper iments can be carried on under
the immediate eye of the heads Of its d.
visions of plant breeding, soils, chemis-
try, seeds, &c, make it reasonably sure
that almost any kind of tobacco that may
be required can be produced for the home
manufacture.
Let the press agitate the subject and
advertise the possible value to this city
of "A naturally rich and productive coun-
Try which practically belongs to Washing
ton aud it will not be very long before
t.eming population Of great purchasing
power will be an ample reward for all
eff, RS expended.