Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-08-28
CAIRO IS ASSURED
MODERN TOBACCO
MART NEXT YEAR

CAIRO, Ga, Aug. 26.-Cairo is
virtually assured OF a modern to-
tacco warehouse and market for the
| 1925 season. All that remains 10 -
done is to secure sufficient acre:>r-G,
and judging from the opinions ex-
pressed by scores Of prospective to-
0acco farmers in this county it will
be an easy task to secure the mini
! mum of 1900 acres necessary to at
-ract the buyers.
| A committee of local business men
| has been in conference with repre-
! sCntat:ves of the big tobacco con-
Germs for several DAYS and these con-
| Ferences disclosed the fact that the
/ buyers think it safe and advisable to
establish a market in this immediate
| section, with Cairo the favored site.
Second to Cairo they recommend Gil
max, a small place fifteen miles
west Of here, in Decatur county.
| ThOmasville and cambridge have in
| timated that if Cairo does not eS-
| tab!ish a market they will do so.
And since the bright-leaf industry
has a firmer footing in Grady county
than in eth or Thomas or Decatur
counties, the local business men feel
that they will go the limit to land
the warehouse.
The growers in this county formed
an association last year and it's Off
Gals are cognizant of the danger Of
over production, but since there
were four hundred acres in this
county this year. and since the gen.
eral belief is that there will be
voluntary increase in acreage suffl-
Gent to warrant the establishment
Of a warehouse in this immediate
section anyhow, they feel that the
move to establish a market here is
6 sound one.
The growers in this county gener
ally have been we'll pleased with the
sales of their product this year, for
the Grady county product has
brought good prices wherever it has
been offered for sale. Most of the
local tobacco has gone to Camilla,
Valdosta and Blackshear, though
some small lots have been sold at
| Triton and Quincy. At Camilla, es-
pecially. the buyers have found the
| Grady county leaf to be superior,
generally speaking, due, they say, to
the soil conditions here, and in most
| instances the product OF the loca.
| growers has been marked by a large
| banner stretched above 1t IN the
warehouses.
The cigar or wrapper tobacco IN
dustrv in this county is well estap-
| Hshed and approximately seven nun
| dred acres have been planted mere
! each year for number OF years.
This tobacco has always been mar
| keted in Quincy.
| CAMILLA LAYS PLANS
FOR MARKET IN 1873
CAMILLA, Ga, Aug. 26.-Wlth
the closing of the first years TOBACCO
| market in Camilla a week OH, ar
rangements have been made to care
| for the 1925 crop and that OF the
wears succeeding. A company mas
| been organized to build another large
warehouse on up-to date methods. II
| has been demonstrated that the pres
| ent floor space cannot take care Oh
| the anticipated acreage that Will
naturally come to Camilla Tor mar
| ket.
-Four DAYS during the week the
| present warehouse, 100 by 30O feet,
has been taxed to it's capacity to
| care for the tobacco brought Tor
sale. While the present house can
be, and probably will be in
creased very considerably, 1t was
thought best by the parties backing
the tobacco industry that com
| lotitive warehouse would help to
more properly take care Of the crops
! following this year. The present
facilities. when increased as far as
| it is practical to do, cannot care
| for more than two or two and one
| half million pounds. 1t is now evil
dent that this years sales for
Camilla will run close to one and
one half million pounds. Seventy-tlVe
| to 100 per cent increased produc-
ton in the territory that Camilla
serves, and which percentage of in
crease is certain, will overrun the
| present market.
With the large percentage Of to-
bacco soils surrounding Camilla as
a basis, and the assurance of an up
to-date market arrangement for
1925, it is the ambitious plan of
Camilla and some out-of-state parties
to make Mitchell county and Camilla
the largest tobacco market in the
state.
Those backing the movement for a
new warehouse except to apply for
a charter after the present season
closes, and sell stock to local bust
ness men and bankers in small
blocks and well-distributed so as to
get wide cooperation. Options have
been obtained on several desirable
lots advantageously located as build
ing sites. 1t is probably that the
warehouse will be located nearer the
center Of town than the present one.
MOULTRIE CONCERN WILL
HAVE WAREHOUSE READY