The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-06
OUTLOOK BRIGHT
FOR THIS Season
Danville, Tobacco City Of tn
World, Expects to Increase 81
Her Receipts.
CITY BRISTLING
WITH ACTIVITY
II
Industrial Progress Seen on ALI
Sides ON Border Line Much
Building in Progress. Banks
Invite Borrowers.
BY Louis A. MacMah0n.
(StaH Correspondent-l

DANyILI4E, VA. August 6.--Drtv4%
ing a gum pole through their nrte@
heyshead of a pungent weed they hAds
grown on their little plantations hAI3
a dozen early settlers along the UaN
river hitched hors e to Il and rollo4E
IL to Danviile to sell almost two hun.s
dred years ago. Thus was stAxte0
the worlds greatest tobacco marksky|
The output of the tobacco fexm1#
for the first year was one hogsheAd h
The tobacco sales in Danviile DURING
the last season were 6S.91k.5@GN
pounds, 36,02s.a49 pounds being 1ot1
on the warehouse floors. and 12sSeo,<
800 pounds shipped TO thu -fActcE1es-s
and other tobacco Institutions here
by rail- ~
Nesting down in the extreme south
ern portion OF Pittsyfvania countya
SO close to the border line that if2
would blow it into the Old N0rtAkI
State. yet. by her tremendous indu4
tries and wealth, constituting y3x
tually the core OF virginia's comn1er
cial heart, Danvile To-day known mS
rival as q tobacco market and pr09
ably never will. Grouped about h
In Virginia and North CarClfnAs ax
probably score Of counties IN
"OId Bright Tobacco Belt wA&x4
are to-day waving and fiowereds WITH
tobacco OF the finest quality E0
smoking and chewing and for whlc
the world comes to Danvflle to buzz
Brings Millions Each Year
Last seasons tobacco crop sold A8
Danviiie brought the planters c30N3
on to 100000, an increase Of MoMMs
than s2oA 600 over the receipts c3
previous year. notwithstanding
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weed, was sold. This wan dua N n
the fact that during the asAson
ig0s-1o tobacco sold for an ANeAa&
of S1l07 a hundredweight And XII
but 1919 tho preceding season
Among tobacconists hare II II px(
dicted that the season which will 6a
gin the latter part Of this month +
be even better than last. there 6414
more tobacco In the neld and the
naents and insects having been
to It. Within the next two weekM
bacco planters will be focktMG
Danviile with "primings. the
tom leaves Of the tobacco plant
have become dry and dropped r.
ground Time was when theaa o
leaves were thrown away ~ tAN
lion. but they are now sold for a
TO 6 cents q pound Az sagatnS<
minimum price, stands the
maximum OF $lsIu ZOE MMfNA ~
per cent. OF the best quality a
leaves Is sold in the waree
here. sg. III Sass MI
One OF the most interesting al@
| In Virginia Is TO see thu t66aecp
ers trooping into Danvilie In cak14
with. their prairie. NchO0psT4
ing urder the weight OF the ht4h uF
tobacco. Danville II the rasc<
almost all OF them, although ~
tahlirhment Of markets IN Ch4
Milton, Alta Vista. ana sevsrA
| places have encouraged the fartn
! sell there instead of making tR4
/ Journey to this city. From t4
| which the memory Of man run111
| to the contrary. however. t0oA6&Q%
| or tn North cRroifnH ara
have driven al high a. gtxtx
1 DanviiIe with their produced, IT,
4 they would receive the best ~
\ II here and could sell readily
ellinE Hike gypsiea. the fArmNt ~
sons take turns In driviHk A6
/ ana feeding them. while NM
| sleep on top of the toeAtA
i the ham ana egua A1A 66
\ roadside. NotNithutANd54&
4 inE Of railroad9s wh1eh xzkA al -
hacco fAxmx sfne fnx41eSM
drive thelr nr6du<t7 ~ xlep
| II part ~ NJ nom alaoe M a.
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