The farmer and mechanic., 1915-10-26

And 1T is an interesting exposition. On
one of the days [ was hanging around
the market they tell me about 100000 /
pounds of tobacco was handled, bring /
ing about $4,000. Now that is big /
lot of money to pour into a commun
ity in a day, and it means lot more |
beside this, for the buyers pay other |
expenses than the price of tobacco. /
They pay an army of men who are
taking the tobacco from the floor and !
putting it into trays and hauling it I
away to the store houses that have
been built in town for the purpose.
When the sale starts the black cloud |
sweeps over the floor, and the min |
ute the first pile is sold a bunch Of |
negroes is there to gather it up, and |
get it to the drays that range along |
side the warehouse and haul it away, |
and all through the day that wagon
train is going back and forth between
the warehouse and the storage houses. |
The tobacco that is sold comes from
all around the country, and with it
comes an army of farmers who have
! hauled the leaf into town. They fill
the streets, the warehouses, the stores,
the restaurants, and every place. They
make business for the blacksmiths,
for the harness dealers. for the lunch
counters, for the merchants, for the
| banks, and the appearance of the
| streets Of Wilson in a busy market day
| is that of a town with a street carni-
| val or a fair. Fakirs on the vacant
| lots, side show artists, street artists
| and all the unique money hunters that
flock wherever crowds are, are in Will
son these days, for money is floating at
| this time. If you can not pick up a
little you are remarkably Indifferent,
or remarkably indolent or remarkably
honest. Wilson is creased these days
with the oil of long green, and wears
No 10 of ~
| town is saturated with sandlugs body,
primings, wrappers, cutters, Liggett &
| Myers, Imperial, and as the price goes
up people talk less about the war,
while they talk more about it as the
price goes down. The war in this
county is Of Importance to just the
extent that it affects the price of to-
| baccO. It's influence on cotton is no
longer considered.
With a habitant Of this enthusiastic
town I took a run down the road to-
ward Greene county the other day. It
was afternoon, and the wagons were
beginning to arrive for the next days
sales. We met them on Main street
heading for the warehouses, and we
met them out in the edge Of town. We
met them on the Stantonsburg road,
| and all along the road. They came
one at a time, and two in a bunch,
and three following closely together,
and one horse wagons, and two horse
wagons and three horse wagons. Little
jags were followed by huge loads,
: country roads as here around Wilson
while the tobacco season is on.
and huge loads by more little iags
Some came from points not far away,
and some came from farms miles dis
tant. / have not seen elsewhere in
$ North Carolina such travel on the
:; Railroads Haul 1t In Too.
a The railroads are also hauling in
. tobacco Most of that comes from
I distant points in big hogsheads. which
are rolled on the floor and opened and
y the tobacco piled up the same as tha,
/ | which comes from the wagons. Occa-
4 Sionally a car comes in with the to-
O bacco loose on the sticks, enough OF
= it to make a car load. and save the
4 trouble Of packing it in hogsheads
q Some of it comes from as far South
q as South Carolina, for Wilson has WoT
" a reputation as market that bring:
q good prices. Most likely that reputa
d ton will continue, for the tobacco
j. companies, which afford the only out
n let for tobacco, have established bis
: houses here for grading and dryin:
and seasoning tobacco, and they will
le make this point their headquarter
IL for the leaf
IL IODdcCO WOTkS us way INTO tnro
III different channels to the consumin,
n market. The bright leaf Of Nort1
,r Carolina is principally a smoking to
w bacco, and it is used in large quaint
It, ties in Durham to make cigarettes an,
I'll package smoking tobacco Th
I'd amount of bright leaf used in Durham
y, makes that city the greatest manufac
U turing town Of it's size in the worl
rs in point of value Of product as com
it ;.ssSed with the value Of raw materis
Sc used, and the hands employed Th
at manufacture of tobacco in Durha
es has been reduced to as complete
ne science as that of anYemanufacture G
ey anything on earth. The tobacco com
Is, panies Of Durham have been amor
an the most active agents in nnaline ~
is manufactures of the limited S+,-x
he known around tho p-orId .nd - =: