The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-02-16
the City With the
World for Its Market
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' tIIdG SoSo
TO the Mississippi and to the Gulf OF
Mexico.
l have followed that Allegheny
brook until it became a river and until
it became the Ohio river, and then
for hundreds of miles until it became
the Mississippi, and l have encount-
cred the Mississippi in many places
until it reaches New Orleans Sup
pose a man asks me at New Orleans
where this big river started? Would
| tell him up in Potter county. Penn
S~ylvania, or in Lake 1taSca. Mime
sofa, or in the Mountains Of Beaver
Head county, in Montana, or where?
Five or six years ago, l don't just rec
ollect the date and it does not mat
ter particularly, the government in its
trust busting exercises. dissolved the
American Tobacco Company The
company was then making nine bill
lion cigarettes q year, and its out
put Of cigarettes at the present IS
about double that number. Evidently
in that time a big expansion has been
going on. But that was not the be-
ginning. Possibly that is about where
the Red river joined the Mississippi to
make it bigger. Neither could we
| say that the formation of the Ameri-
can Tobacco Company a few years be-
fore was the start. It simply goes
| back to another union Of forces that
arrive from farther back.
Or we might go to the spring at
| the head of the farthest hollow and
say Durham commenced at Chapel
Hill before the war. The boys who
came to Chapel Hill used TO Guilt
vate the habit of smoking Cuban CT
CARS when tobacco was not taxed and
Cuban tobacco was cheap. But about
1858 John r. Green began to intro
duce to the boys a pipe obacc that
he made from the. bright leaf which
he sold for twenty cents a pound. The
boys took to the tobacco, and when
they went home for the summer they
carried supplies with them. The war
started two or three years after Green
opened his little tobacco shop, IN
Chapel Hill sent a lot Of boys to the
army. They took Green's bright
smoking along. and introduced it to
thea rmy. Sherman's army came this
way, and when Johnston surrendered
to Sherman just below Durham the
two armies fraternized long enough to
plumber Green's tobacco shop Of thou
sands Of pounds of bright leaf smok-
ing. They introduced the tobacco all
over the United States as they went
home.
Blackwell. Carr. Duke.
Green died in 1858 and w. 7. Black
we'll bought the trademark Blackwell
was a live wire. In a few years Gen.
j. S. Carr joined Blackwell and they
developed h bright leaf. Washing
ton Duke came into the game, and
made cigarettes. Almost every time
anybody turned around it was like the
~entranceo f another river into the big
stream. The bright leaf, mild, pleas
al favored tobacco, captured the
, people who became acquainted with
it. Few things have ever made the hit
. that this North Carolina obacco has
I 6nnn on1 II Canpoc fho+ fhD -.-I@ -
were handy to follow up the uncom-
, mon opportunity. Factories grew
. farms took to planting tobacco, the
! cross roads village of Durham bull
up and down along the country road
: and before anybody could conceive
: what fe. all meant here had risen {
( city that had become famous from
New York around the earth and bach
the other way.
Durham is a that is still
in the process Of developing, for thi:
n story is not half told yet. The tobacco
! factories are paying out millions O,
dollars a year for leaf tobacco. The,
r paying some more millions a yea
in wages The cotton mills are doins
I the same thing. The demand fol
bright Leaf tobacco seems to be keep
ing up with the production and ner
laps ahead of It III spite of the con
slant effort VI farmers to increase III.
cro The war in Europe it set
lifting new tastes in tobacco. Coun
tries that have been calling TO
HTurklsh tobacco are asking now 70
the blends made Of american Tobacco,
to give the peculiar bright leaf tast,
and a little OF the Turkish flavor {,
still catch the old habit. Conntrie
that have been trying out the Arneri
can brands are asking for so much o
some particular brand that it i
dropping out OF the American marke
AID going in bulk to particular for
eign places. South America is de
lighted with one brand. Anothe
brand is made Up to suit TIE taste q
the Chinese trade. India is findin
satisfaction n another, and tina
brand is made in vas quantities fo
India The particular choise of an
country is met, and it is gwen strict
what it likes.