Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1947-08-07
Farmers Find Market
Here For All Produce

Z n agricultural Interest
among farmers around Tabor City
is the growing of tobacco. Since
the first tobacco warehouse was
constructed in 1909. known as
the Carolina. the Tabor City mar
ket has continued to expand great
". Now four large warehouses
are in operation, with today's Car
DINA warehouse, four times the
original size, located near the old.
In 1916. more than ten and a
half million pounds of tobacco
were sold on Tabor City ware
house floors with farmers rev.
enue in excess of five and a half
million dollars. The same year
saw the Tabor City tobacco mar
ket rise to top the average price
of any of the South Carolina and
Border Belt bright leaf markets.
Only Kinston in the Eastern North
Carolina Belt exceeded Tabor
Citv's average of fifty-three dol
lars and eleven cents per hun
dred pounds in any of the flue-
cured states. This is the official
report of the U. S. Department.
of Agriculture's tabulatlon, OF
sales for the flue-cured markets.
The Tabor City Tobacco Board
of Trade, headed by Roscoe Z;
Coleman, B. Alton Carroll, and
Harriet L. Skies, has endeavored
to bring about closer assocla-
ton between the grower, ware
houseman, and buyer. Generally.
greater cooperation on everyone'S
part will make the tobacco m
dustry as profitable in the post
war era as it was during the war
years. =
For long past businessmen IN
Tabor City have recognized the
farmers needs. 1t was an early
realization that the success OF the
town virtually rested upon SER
vice to the farmer. In order to
better serve farmers of the ada
cent territory, a year-round mar
ket was opened a good many
Years ago to handle all market
abe produce climatically possible
70 raise in the locality. Business
firms invited the farmers patron
age by making farm supplies
available on more commercial
basis. The entire town cooperated
completely in aiding the farmer
As a result farmers found they
realized a year-round income and
the town found it enjoyed a great
er vear-round business than any
other town not furnishing year
round marketing facilities to Its
community farmers. OF partlcu-
lar note is the fact that farmers
we're encouraged at this time to
engage in diversified agriculture.
Since 1885, when forty-one
carloads of sweet potatoes were
shipped, Tabor City has become
the worlds leading sweet potato
market. From a small beginning
in the early twenties when ). L.
Lewis built the first sweet pota-
to storage house, the sweet pota-
to capitol of the world has erect
ed eleven curing and storage
warehouses and two dehydratlon
plants. The 1916 sweet potato
crop was in excess of million
bushels with growers RECEIVING
more than two million dollars.
From 1910 through this years
season, three hundred thousand
crates of strawberries have been
sold on the Tabor City market,
bringing farmers an income OF
almost two million dollars. -Four
hundred fifty thousand hampers
of beans brought in the same
period six hundred thousand dol
lars. Although the 1947 season
saw a surplus in Irish potatoes,
the Tabor City market shipped
several hundred carloads to North
eln markets.
With adequate and efficient