The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-09-19
ANOTHER WAREHOUSE
Experienced Tobacco Men Of This City
and County Take Over the Man
chester Loose Leaf Warehouse
and WIN Move II To Their
Lot mt Bank and
Front Streets.

Maysville is to have another loose
leaf tobacco warehouse, and 1t is to
be run by men who are up in in the
tobacco business, too.
Yesterday Messrs. II. l.. Turner,
Robert Wells, ID. X. Wood, b. II. Wood
and Thomas A. Keith, Jr, took over
the Adams County. Ohio Loose Leaf
1obacco Company's holdings at Man
chester, including the large warehouse
at that place, which is 140x2i0 feet,
and 1t will be dismantled and removed
to this city and placed on the lot at
the head of Bank street on Front
street, in the Fifth Ward.
This movement for the establish
ment of another loose leaf warehouse
here has been under way for several
months. The gentlemen interested in
the move started out to get ware
house established in time for the open
ing of the 1916 season, and the taking
over of the Manchester plant means
that they will be successful.
The location of the new warehouse
is the best of any in the city. accord
ing to old tobacco men. In the nrst
place it is out of the tobacco district
as now established by the seven ware
houses East of Commerce street, and Is
the first one on the drive to that dis
trict going east. This means that
about three-fourths of the toDacco
hauled into Maysville by turnpikes
will come to the new one first on the
journey to market. as 1t is just one
square nearer the center of the city.
The promoters figure that a certain
per cent. of the growers have hereto
fore been seeking a shorter drive, and
their new warehouse will supply this
want.
All the men interested in the new
enterprise are thorough tobacco men:
they know the business both by expert
ence from the first planting through
its growing and curing process to the
marketing of it. Col. r. l.. Turner, a
grower himself in the Mayslick pre-
cinct and for three years a stakeholder
and officer of the Central Warehouse,
is known all over this section by the
growers and buyers as a man thor
oughly capable of handling a ware
house to the best interests of the
farmers; Mr.. Robert Wells has spent
all his life in the tobacco business
and knows it from beginning to end
the Messrs. Wood were born and
raised on Mason county farm and
were tutored in the school of expert
ence when raising tobacco meant
Thomas A. Keith, Jr., went through
three years of experience in the Cen.
trail Warehouse here, where he be-
came an adapt in the business; so We
see at a glance the new house has a
roster of men that actually know the
business, which means much to the
growers hereabouts.
The promoters give assurances that
the new house will be ready for bust
ness when the bell gives the signal
for the 1916 season to open, and they
will make a strong pull for all the
business that can be induced to come
To this house.
This one will make eight loose leaf
warehouses in this city, which means
that there will be more tobacco sold
here this season than ever before, as
they propose to not only move the
warehouse from Adams county, but to
bring its business as well, and as this |
years crop is the largest ever pro-
duced around here, it is a foregone
that the sales on this mar
ket will be carefully taken care of by
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