The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1905-1910, 1910-10-18
BURLEY POOL DECLARED
OFF FOR This YEAR
LACK or SUPPORT FROM GROW
ERS the cAusE-LE8US
SAYS CUT OUT 1911
CROP.

The campaign to pool the crop OF
hurley tobacco this year has Deen de.
clared off by the Burnley Tobacco So
ctsty on account OF the refusaIs OF the
many grow ers TO come into the pool.
Ire society was determinated not to
let ITS members suffer By the non
poolers dumping their crops on the
market this year so has called IL all
off and everyone now will gee the
lest price he can.
Bradley Wilson, who has been work
ing tor the pool in this and adjoining
counties, was called In Saturday
night. He attended a meeting at
Paint Lick Saturday when il was
learned that Woods Walker and sever
al other big growers who have been
iavoring the pool, had sold their crops
TO w. p. kncaid OF this city nc from
l to 10 cents. This Knocked the BOT.
tom out OF the movement there, and
left a number OF the smaller growers
with the bias TO hold" and it is said
that they are now demanding that
they be paid as high a price for their
crops
There is now talk OF the Burnley So
ciety starting a campaign TO cut out
the tobacco crop in 1911, in order to
Keep the price up, for there are few
but believe that now that the pool
has failed, the prices paid WILDE ma
terially reduced.
\ dispatch from Louisville TO the
city papers OF Sunday morning had
this TO say of the collapse Of the
pool
Lexington, Oct. Is.
The Burley Tobacco Society's pool
OF 1910 collapsed like a punctured bal.
loon and was officially declared Of
tonight at special meeting of tie
district board, held at the court house
with the Burley pool, the pool launch
ed last week by the Scott county to-
hac'o growers, led by Congressman
]. Campbell Cantrill, was also aban.
doned, and the vast bulk OF tobacco
grown in the Burley belt this year
Will all be thrown on the open mar.
Set. President Clarence LeBus stated
tonight that while the 1910 pool had
gone to smash. the pooled tobacco OF
1909 would be held by the sciety UNI
til the situation had been improved
and better prices would be realized.
For the past week il has been evf.
dent that the 1910 poo! WIS lettering
nut President LeBus and the other
leaders of the society chung to the one
hope that the step taken BY the dis
trict board last week inviting outsid-
ers to sign pledges to be placed in
disinteresTed hands, and for which
meetings were to be held to-day,
would vet save the day. For several
days however. reports had been CON-
ing in that buyers were securing the
country, buking up tobacco at an av
erage OF ~ to II cents, and that even
many of the growers who were mem
lers of the pool had secretly sold
their cropJ. .
Yesterday the price at which the
1909 pool was being anctioned became
SO low that the society had to reject
them, and with prospect OF not soon
getting the money for their crops in
the 1909 pool. members OF the 1909
pool became desperate.
Realizing that the crisis had come,
President LeBus last night night sent
out kilograms to all the members OF
the district board, calling them to a
meeting here tonight. From early in
the evening reports had been coming
in telling of the utter failure of the
meetings held IN the different coun-
ties, and when the district board as
sembled at 3 O'Clock every member
who had read these reports agreed
that the pool was dead. Hence, when
the situation was reviewed by Presi-
dent LeBus in an address to the board
there was practically nothing left but