The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-06-28
OLD BRUNSWICK:
LAWRENCEV|LLE
A New Bright Tobacco Growing
Region That Has Sprung
Up Magically.
bright BELT" EXTENDED
Piney Woods Region Becomes a
Great Tobacco Grow
ing Section.
bright BELT" EXTENDED
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y goods to show for 1t. Lawrenceville
has been good town all the time
that Ia. ever since II became a rail
road town. something IKE a quarter of
century ago. When the railroad shops
we're located here Lawrenceville got a
great boom. and am inclined TO think
II banked little too heavy on that
particular boom, that 1t became too
we'll satisfied with being simply "a
railroad shop town. Railroad shops
are good enough In their way, and IL
they are large enough they keep many
weli-paid people busy. and these we'll
paid people have good deal of money
10 turn loos, on ana imm cdately at
ter the monthly pay day. and to that
extent they help town nightly. but
IL iakcs some other things TO make a
great town. and Lawrencevillc has
found this out. II delights in its rail
waY shops and its terminal facilities
and all the like Of that and would not
get rid of them under any considera
tion. but IL has found out that all
things DO not icvolvn around rail
way shop. and IL has been reaching out
for some other things and is getting
them. The getting OF Them has result
ed in greater prosperity for the town,
and this greater prosperity is reflect
ed very largely in the public improve
ments that have followed.
GOOD WATER. MORE LIGHT
AND GREATER ENERGY
These improvements consist Of bet
ter streets, electric lights. water works.
sewerage, sanitary improvements and
other thingr under the public control
Private and business enterprise have
kept pace with public improvements
and to-day noticed where five years
ago saw woodene sllanties handsome
brick embellishments both in the bust
ness and residential sections OF the
town. also saw many new structures
going up, among them 4 half block
building OF modern build that is to
bc half a block of stores mostly de-
voted TO the hardware business: a
whole b$oc6 10 I've devoted in one way
aud another to the tobacco business
something u l:ttlc new for Lawrence
vile, but great proposition all the
same. This block has going UP on il
Il htst-clnss brick warehouse. to be de-
voted, when completed. TO the sale OF
bright tobacco. and this brings me to
the real news point Of this letter and
at THU point. ] Will have TO drop Law
rencevfllc town proper, reserving it
for future letter. because this bright
tobacco subject is Just now more in
tercstinE.
BRIGHT TOBACCO
IN NEW LAND
Indeed. 1t viii be news to great
many of the readers OF the Industrial
Section that tho bright tobacco sub
Ject can he discussed under Law
an idea that hen man has anything
TO say about bright tobacco, its
growth, It's uses and it's sale. etc, he
must necessarily lie talking about Il
small tier Of counties. about four, in
the southern part OF Virginia and
about an equal number i'm the north
ern part OF North Carolina. That idea
has been exploded for the farmers OF
several counties that have heretofore
been classcd in the dark tobacco belt
and nue-cure the brights just as we'll
as they can the darks. and just as well
as can the good fellows up in Pittsyl-
vania and Halifax or anywhere else
In the heretofore so-called bright
belt. The fact is il has been discov-
cred that tho bright belt" is an
elastic band. and has stretched out not
little TO include some heretofore
strictly dark territory. Brunswick
County, as a whole. is some of the ter
ritory over which the rubber belt has
extended, and especially the southern
half of II. For the past few years
numerous farmers in South Brunswick
have been making a good thing Guilt
waiting the briEhts. and now the whole
county has walked up to the great pos
sibilties. The fact has dawned upon
the people that home market is the
thing to best encourage this new and
growing industry. and I.awrcnceville
town, backed right up by its live and
n
ton. has decided to make Lawrence
Vile one of Nirginia's twentieth CEN
fury bright tobacco markets. To this
end the splendid brick warehouse that
has already been described In this
paper Is bein. built by the Co Opcrn-
tive Tobacco Company. and will he
ready for business ms soon as the crop
OF this year is ready to he sold Al
ready two Of tho large tobacco con-
Germs have ordered buyers to this new
-t.rt,t
independent buyers are seeking privil-
cgcs on the same. j. A. Kcrscy one
OF the best known among the ware
house managers OF Danvillc, will have
charge as general manager of this
new Lawrcnccviile Warehouse The
two small warehouses already here
will also be in operation. and the in
dications arc that next fall there will
he lively business here along tobacco
lines.
where will the Lawrcncevillc market
get its supply Of bright tobacco from?
is n question that A.s:icd a twenty
mile automobile ride out in the county
under II good guide answered the uucs-
ton. Unless all Of the signs OF the
times fail there will be grown in tho
southern part OF brunswick County.
especially in what is called the "pincy
Woods Section thi" year more than
enough OF the bright tobacco OF the
very finest quality to make the Law
rencevillc market q success.
THINGS HARD no
BELIEVE, nut TRUE
know there are Halifax and Pitt
Bylvania County peori 10 and other pco-
pie in the so-called bright belt who
will laugh at this proposition. 1t Is
true that up to about fifteen years
ago very few brunswick County people
knew they could grow ana fIue-cure
the bright tobacco. What is known as
the Piney Woods section OF Brunswick
County, all OF which is within short
riding distance to Lawrosiceville. was
found some years ago to DO peculiarly
adapted to tho growth of bright to-
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