The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-11-03
GOOD PRICES
FOR TOBACCO
WEST VIRGINIA GAINING NPR0MN-
NCE producer.

LAAIL M AUpOILA.
A dispatch from Huntington says:
Gradually coming into the lime light
during the past FIVE years as tobac=
GO producing region, Southern West
Virginia has at last assumed sufSci-
ent importance in this respect to IN
vite battle between. the trust and the
independent tobacco industries ofthe
country. Five years ago the tobae-
co growing industry in this section
was SO light that it attracted no at
tention from the great tobacco CEN
tiers. The few hogsheads that were
produced at that time were usually
shipped to Louisville, by steamboat,
where the product commanded fair
price, but such thing as soliciting
the crop had not been heard of.
This year. however, it is different.
Then the tobacco territory was con-
fined to a slight acreage in Lincoln
county. Now there are great barns
of tobacco in Cabell, Putnam, Lin
coin, Mason and Wayne counties.
On one farm in Mason county, near
Gallipolis Ferry, field of fifty acres
was grown. The tobacco cut in the
counties named will, this year, bring
an immense quantity of money into
this territory, and the quantity and
quality of the crop are such as to ex-
cite the keenest interest among buy
ers for the big manufactories.
Henry Blumen, representing a
Lynchburg mandatory, arrived in
Huntington last night, and will spend
the next ten days in southern West
Virginia, engaging tobacco for his
firm. Letters received by local grow
ers indicate that two representatives
of the American Tobacco Company
will be here Wednesday, and then
will be started the race between the
trust and the Independents for the
capture of the West Virginia crop.
The Lynchburg man, having two
days advantage of the trust men,
will probably succeed in making a
number of heavy purchases before
his rivals come on the scene, but
when they do come it will be two to
one for the trust men, and they viii
be able to cover twice as much ter
ritory as their rival.
Many farmers seem to be disposed
to hold their crops, believing that
prices will advance before the first of
the year. The West Virginia pro-
duct this year, compares fayorably
with the crops of the long-tried to-
bacco growing sections of the coun-
try, and the prices offered are al
ready considered fair.
Present conditions are such as to
demand the construction of ware
house, somewhere in the West vir-
ginia district, and various parties now
have this project under considera-
ton. 1t is looked upon as an abso-
lutte certainty that warehouse of lib
eral dimensions will be erected either
at Point Pleasant or Huntington.
Huntington, all concede, is the logi-
cal location for the warehouse, but
there seems to be a prospect that
Point Pleasant will also erect one,
and viii act independent ofany ac-
ton that Huntington may take.
Last week three barn burnings oc-
CURED in West Virginia, one of the
barns burned, and the biggest of the
three, was in Mason county, another
in Putnam, and a small barn in Lin
coin county. There has been some
speculation as to the origin of these
fires. Incendiarism is strongly sus-
pected in two of the cases, but per-
sonal grievances are believed to have
been the motive, and not any feel
ing with reference to the troubles
which have agitated the Kentucky
and Tennessee tobacco regions.