The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-04-24

and all of North Carolina and all of
the South. that is. that part of the
South which grows tobacco. ready for
great tobacco exhibit, one that will
be a credit to the whole country? II
so. Richmond is right with them
A show Within Itself.
Richmond with its big loose leaf
warehouses. its immense storage
houses, its mammoth cigar and cigar
cite factories. It's immense plug chew
ing and smoking tobacco factories,
IS big tobacco show OF itself,
| Get all of these establishments in
| miniature in building and there Is
your show. but Richmond is not
| the whole push in the tobacco
world. and 1t would not like to see
| here tobacco exposition that shows
| only what Richmond Is. 1t wants to
see all the tobacco world on eXhibl-
| ton. It wants to see cigar factories
and cigarette factories and plug chew
| ing factories and smoking tobacco rae.
tories and loose leaf warehouses ana
| package warehouses and tobacco farms
and everything that pertains to the
| business in active operation In one
great exposition. If the tobacco grow
| ing and the tobacco making world Is
ready for big show the like of this.
place in which to hold it, and Editor
Webb need not look any farther for
| the seat of his big show. Richmond
| is ready. willing and waiting.
(, Richmond the Logical Place.
| If a great tobacco exposition is to
be held. and surely 1t should be and
| can be, 1t ought by all means to be
held in Virginia, the greatest of to-
| bacco- growing States, and In Rich
| mond. the greatest of the leaf tobacco
| markets, and the greatest general
| manufacturing centre.
Last year Virginia lands raised very
close to 100000 worth Of tobacco,
and her dealers and manufacturers
| handled quite as much more that was
] grown in other States In Virginia
| every class and every grade of to-
bacco known to the patron OF the
| weed is grown to perfection, except
! strictly cigar tobaccos. and there are
| lots of people who have an idea that
| the lands bordering on the Dismal
| swamp can be made to grow the
| Sumatra leaf and other kinds of the
| weed that enter into the manufacture
| of cigars.
| Virginia tobacco is shipped to every
part of the world, and for the last
half century the bulk of the weed
that is manufactured and consumed
In the countries whose governments
monopolize the tobacco business, has
been bought on the Rich1lond market
and shipped from here. These orders
take in the dark and bNown tobacco:
and the Virginia brights.
i hurley Grows in Virginia.
! In late years the "Ragie" buyers
have been taking quite quantity o,
the White and dark Burley tobaccos
and. OF course, they have been in The
habit of going to Kentucky and Ohio
for these goods. Likewise the Nir
ginia factories have been sending t
those States ior their supplies of TIL,
Burley, but a change is going on. Yea
before last Jack Taylor commenced
the raising of White Burley in Orang
county. of this state. and since thei
1t has been clearly demonstrated tina
the limestone lands of Virginia cal
and do bring quite as good Whit,
Burley as do the limestone and blue
grass lands that overlook the Ohit
River, Therefore make no eXagger
alton when claim that Virginia pro
duces all the types of tobacco known
to the world except the cigar leaf
Then, again, Virginia has the larges
markets in the world. 1t is true tina
| Kentucky sells more pounds than Vir
ginia or has been Going so for severa
| years past, but on the whole the Vir
ginia grown tobaccos make a bette
average in prices than do the Ken
| lucky goods, and 1t is likely that TIL
| Virginia footlnSS counted IN dollar
and cents exceed those of Kentucky
| Other Markets VIII Come In.
Il Danvlle, which is known tho fwid
world over as the largest bright lea
market in the world, South Boston
which runs second as bright mar
ket; Lynchburg and Petersburg, verl
important dark leaf markets.; Farm
willie, Bedford City, Chase City. Drake
Branch, Chatham, Altavista. Kenbridge
Brookneal Martinsville, Clarksvillt
Il South Hill and Yeysville, are all goo
H local. markets Of greater or less i'm
portance All Of these would take
X flively interest in big tobacco eS
Il position If 1T should be pulled off a
II some point that Is easily accessible
II and that point is certainly Rlchmont
II And then there are the Carolina.
II especially North Carolina with Its hi
/ bright markets extending from tn
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