The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1922-10-18

np!e paper TO mention briefly some
things q party of friends and saw
III North Carolina last week.
Messrs. w. c. Plowden, w. II. Ken
nedy, j. W.. Morris, and l left the
above named place at 8 o'clock in the
forenoon in company with Mr.. R. D,
| Cothran of Manning, to 90 to Wilson
North Carolina, to visit the tobacco
market and get some information at
| first hand.
| We went via Florence, crossing the
Pee Dee River at Mars Bluff. OF
course the reader will understand that
we went in automobiles, after cross
ing the river we went via Marion, Lat
| ta, Dillon, Rowland, N. c., Lumber
ton, ST.. Paul, Fayetteville, and Dunn.
| We arrived at Dunn, about dark, and
put up for the night. After supper
we set out to investigate conditions
in this charming little city, for such
1t is as it has beautiful streets, cleo
trio lights, good business houses, and
every thing that goes to make up a
real modern city.
We found stores crowded with Gus
toners, and business on real boom,
out around the freight station we saw
about fifteen hundred bales of white
cotton whose staple, had never been
tingcd by the boil wccvil pest that
mad been sampled and sold that day
on the independent cotton market of
this little city.
We talked to business men in gen
erai ABOUT how business was, every
body said with one accord good. but
we are expecting the boil wcevi next
year.
We were very much impressed with
the roads and beautiful country from
humberton, to Dunn, cotton planted
III abundance and much of it would
make more than bale per acre.
We left Dunn Sunday morning and
went via Benson, Smithfield, Selma, to
Wilson, this too is beautiful sec
ton made up of fine cotton and to-
bacco farms. We arrived in Wilson
about noon Sunday. We went to the
Briggs hotel and registered, and after
getting a much needed rest we put
out to see some of the sights we had
mad heard awaited us in the king to-
bacco city of the world. Our curios.
ity carried us around quite a bit.
We OF course walked down to the
tobacco warehouse section. Here we
got glimpse OF what we had heard
so much talk about for years, Wilson's
: large tobacco warehouses, we had not
, been here long before these large
establishments were opened up and
tobacco began to pour in in solid
, trains of wagons, this continued
throughout the night, my room was
near the street and l could hear the
rumbling of wagon wheels as they
, Ipassed down the streets headed to-
| wards the biggest bright tobacco CEN
ter in the world
We got up next morning bright and
early and again went down to inspect
; at first hand what was going on in
Wilson from q tobacco market stand
point. We found the warehouses
Tipping full to overflow, and wagons
| standing in the street at six o'clock
in the morning. At nine o'clock the
auction sales began with four sets of
buyers, and / mean four auction sales
going on at the same time in four
seperate houses too, and believe me
things were moving and humming
We found the tobacco sales entirely
satisfactory to the growers, we heard
l no grumbling, we found that Wilson
has much better grade of tobacco
than we have in our section. And
aside from the better types the prices
: were about like they were on the Man,
ming market this year. We walked
had convinced ourselves that Wilson
was a real tobacco market. We were
S told that the six houses had up that
day around one million pounds, ant
9 we do not doubt the statement either
y as it looked to us we he'd indeed come
to the biggest thing of the kind pos.
sible to be gotten together in ono
Q place.
We think that we were much b!ne.
fitted by our trip to Wilson. We have
come back home full of new thoughts
new asperations. We want to sec
bigger things done in Clarendon
County. We want to see our people
i. make better grades of bacco, we
, want to see them improve in Their
methods Of growing and handling, We
found that the farmer in Wilson
County, N. c., that used good methods
= was being well paid for his efforts.
, We want to see the business mer
of Manning get behind movement
that will give us better methods OF
handling our tobacco in 1922 than we
had this year. We want to see r. d
Cothran have a better house next
year. We all feel kindly towards hin
I, and the Manning market, and the
:, business men of Manning in general
we are we'll pleased with the goot
roads leading to Manning. Let's wake
| up for 1923.
Yours respectfully,
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