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[Greenville Tobacco Market Makes
Keady For'Annual Chant Of Tobacco
Auctioneer And Pay-Off To Farmers
(Jrocnvillo Market This Year to Have 5 Auctioneers
an«j 5 Sets of IGiyers; l‘A)>ecl lo Sell Between 12
an(rT5"MiTrioiiT)rui'ai'S'’^vT>’yVrx'&'i
Greenville, outstanding and
knov^n throughout the world as
one of the greatest tobacco markets
on the globe, is making ready for
another selling season. It is just
a matter of days, and they are few,
before the clarion cry of the auc
tioneer will signal the banks of
this city to unlock their vaults and
gin the 1939 “pay otl” of the to-
"^bacco grower.s of Eeastern Caro
lina. At nine o’clock, on the morn
ing of August 22, five auctioneers,
in the van of as many sets of buy
ers, will start their musical chant
and as an accompaniment they
^ will have a jingle of dollars. Be-
S^ore the final basket of this year’s
, crop is “knocked out,’’ and the
warehouses closed until another
^ season, these men who grow the
nicotine weed and sell thi.s money I
crop in Greenville will have re
ceived between $12,000,000.00 and
$15,000,000.00. Every cent of this
will be a well earned reward.
During the interval that must
necessarily pass between the sow
ing of the plant beds, cultivation
of the crop, its harvesting, curing
and final preparation for the mar
ket, the farmer has many hard,
hand blistering, back breaking
hours of labor; and he suffers
.many hours of anxiety and uncer
tainty. The final outcome of a to
bacco crop is just about as uncer
tain as the jump of a frog. No one
can determine until the leaf comes
out of the barn whether or not
the crop is a success. Then after a
crop has gone through every stage
and is loaded on the truck, one
mere question faces the farmer; a
question mo.st important. The
question is, “Where is the be.st
place to sell this tobacco?” There
may be many markets within a
few hours drive, but which one of
fers the most? One wonders,
“What does it take to make a good
market?”
In searching for a good market
the growers should first consider
the composition a market offers.
Since tobacco is sold at auction ;
TODAY-
TOMORROW
AND ALWAYS—
Some things can always
be known for certainty.
One of them is the peace
of final rest. Another is
our comprehensive and
considerately priced
Basffiight-Sarpeit
Funeral Home
I through 1938 and they will prove
'this statement. These figures show
I that in 1933 when tobacco
Aower than at any-time in this .six
year period, that Greenville aver
aged .$1(1,82 per hundred against a
Belt average of $18.3(1. Tliey will
show in 1934, when tobacco prices
reached a peak that Greenville
averaged $31.21 per hundred while
tlto Bolt averaged $29.71. Take any
year during the period that has
•■md.. it will be,
found that Greenville consistently
sold tobacco for an average price
higher than that paid by the Belt.
It can also be said that no other
market in Eastern Carolina can
claim this distinction, and no oth
er market, since the halyccn days
of 1929, has an average price as
high as the $31.21 that Greenville
paid in 1934. That mark still
stands as a record for prices paid
during the past decade. Now, why
does a grower receive more money
in Greenville? The words “com
petition, facilities and service” an
swer this question.
Competition depends on the
buying orders placed on a mark
et, and the placing of buying or
ders depend on the facilities the
market has to offer, In Greenville,
eight big factories that can re-dry,
pack and ship approximately 2,-
500,000 pounds of tobacco daily
bring orders from every known
country; in both the Eastern and
Western hemispheres. It can be
said, without fear of contradiction,
that “all the world bids on tobacco
sold in Greenville” and this in it-
;elf is a.'jsurance to a tobacco
grower of the strongest possible
competition on every leaf that
comes off the stalk; from the com
monest sand lug, or tip, to the
choicest cutter or wrapper. Every
and goes to the highest bidder,
compeptition is all important. Se- I "viupijci. t-vci.
cond, The facilities of the market ! ™hntHhcturer and bi;
should be considered; floor space
on which to spread the tobacco,
and the opportunity for a quick
sale. Third, the competency of the
men vrho handle the sale of the
tobacco should be taken into con
sideration.
Now that tne three prime re
quisites of a good market have
beeen named, let’s look around for
one market that has them all.
Twenty thousand or more tobacco
growers in Eastern Carolina will
immediately answer, “Greenville.’
Here is what one of these men will , Eastern Carolina on this mark-
say about that market. ^ | since demand is the moth-
Greenville has the reputation of ; gj. Qf competition, it is only natur-
; consistently paying an average \^i for tobacco to sell higher there,
price for the tobacco sold there I
higher than the average price paid j Floor space and buying facili-
by the Eastern Belt when taken as j ties are necessary for a prompt,
a whole. One can take the official ! orderly sale. They comprise the
figures released by the Federal and i second major qualification for a
State Governments from 1933 i good tobacco market. Greenville
exporting company that uses flue
cured tobacco is represented on
the Greenville tobacco .market,
and in addition, France, Germany,
Switzerland, Japan, (iihina, the
continent of Africa, the nations of
South America, every nook and
corner of the world where the pipe
and the cigarette is smoked, places
orders with one or the other of the
three big independent companies
that operate factories and main
tain buying staffs on the Green-
j vllle market. There truly is a
• demand for everj' type leaf grown
stands at the^top among the mark
ets of^ the World in this respect.
Ten big wailia^ouses, convenient
and modern fri^m driveway to the
rear loading dooi^,^ spread out over
nearly twenty ac'^pc- of land. Be
tween 3,000,0001 and 4.000,000
pounds of tobaccfn can be .spread
for sale at one tinip on their floor.s,
This j.s more tobacco than any
market in the Wiholo world can
possibly sell in f one day, but
GreenviII£sJive se^i buyers, the
rnaximCm nurfi'cretw^imd on any
market, can mak(?^^eat inroads
into this spread, fhis enormous
amount of floor space and five
sets of buyers assui-e a grower of
a more prompt and orderly sale
with a minimum amount of delay
and congestion.
Mentioned third and last; but by
no means least impej-tant, are the
warehousemen who handle the
sale of tobacco after it is brought
to Greenville. The majority of
these men have been associated
with the market for years. They
have watched, and have been in
strumental in its growth from a
little one buyer mart to one which
has led the world in the sale of
bright leaf tobacco. With hardly an
exception, each and every one of
them can be traced back to the
farm, and they all have a first
hand knowledge of the money
weed they sell. They can tell you
in a moment how many backaches
there are to an acre of tobacco;
how many are the trials and tri
bulation of the men who grow
it. It is only natural for them to
have a kindred feeling for the far
mer. That is one reason why the
rule of the market in Greenville is
to “sell every basket of tobacco
for the market price, or better.”
Courteous, friendly and efficient
service goes a long ways towards
making a satisfactory sale. Begin
ning with the Center Brick, oper
ated by Harvey Ward and Dow
Lassiter; then taking the Dixie
Warehouse wl>ere Biggs Cannon
and Will Moore are the head men;
Forbes and Mo.*ton, operated by
Gus Forbes and Billy Morton;
Gormans Warehouse where Jack
Mayo, Mat Long and Yock Joyner
are in command; the Harris & Ro
gers Warehouse with two brothers,
Dick and Red Rogers, and Ed Har
ris in charge; Keels Warehouse
owned and operated by Rufus
Keel, Wayland Sermons and
James Keel; McGowans Ware
house operated by Hugh McGow-
the man whose name it bears;
the New Carolina built and man
aged by Floyd McGowan; and the
two Smith & Sugg warehouses, No.
1 and No. 2, where Guy Smith and
Bruco Sugg reign supreme, one
can go through the entire list and
it will be found that courtesy,
friendliness and efficient service
is pi-edominanl with them all. Not
only, that, but these men expect
the siyne. of every employee on
their pay roll.
MENOLA CLUB
HOLDS MEETING
The Menola Home Demonstra-
nn Club met Wedne.sday after-
(lioon, August 9, for tlie first time
}n the beautiful new community
bouse.
After 1he business .se.s.sjon and a
talk on hobby exhibits by Mrs.
Hugh Cooke, Mi.ss Florence Cox
was given charge. She gave a re
view of her ti'ip to the world con
ference of Farm Women in Lnn-
dn, pnd other places visited on her
I European tour. She also showed
la number of souvenir.s, which she
I had gotten from ihe different
countries. The ladlies enjoyed
Ihes.e very much as well as the
.scrap books she had made on the
countries .she visited.
During the social hour Mrs. A.
G, Otwell and Mrs. Harvey Vin
son, hosles-ses, served ice cream
and cakes to the folioaviug mem
bers and visitors; Me.sdame.s .Take I
Parker, flijgli Cooke, Ch.arlie I.iv--|
ennan, Mlkses Elsie Cnw.sn,
ixirah Btown, Flr.r.-n-’e (
Mrs, Henry Ero-.vn.
Fru-mer.s’ mutual telephone com
panies own a total of 878.000 miltvs
of wire, according to inf.ormation
compiled recently by ihe U. S.
Bureau of Census.
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The Greenville Tobacco Market Consistently Averages More Per f^unefrerj; Pciincfs Ilian llie
Eastern Beit In Which It Is Situated or The Border Belt Which Opens Earlier
MARKET OPENS
tUESDAY. AUGUST 22
HERE ARE GOVERNMENT FIGURES
Crop Year
East Belt Avg.
Border Belt Avg.
Greenville’s Avg.
1933
$16.30
$12.93
$16.82
1934
$29.71
$23.93
$31.21
1935
$20.86
$20.54
$21.02
1936
$22.85
$21.58
$23.24
1937
$25.77
$22.38
$26.46
1938
$23.34
$22.95
$23.63
1 he average price of tobacco may vary
from vear to year.
grade, every leaf on
the stalk con.sistently sells higher in
GREENVILLE. ' .
MARKET OPENS
TUESD W. AUGUST 22
DAILY MARKET REPORTS WPTF-
Ali The World Bids On Tobacco
Sold in Oreenvlile
Where there is demand there is competition — The STRONGER THE COMPETI
TION THE HIGHER THE PRICE. Ei*ht Big Companies with factories that can re-
dry. pack ami shiji over 2.000.000 pounds of tobacco daily, liny for every kno^vn
country in the world. There is a continuous demand in Greenville for every type of
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tobacco grown in Eastern Carolina.
“Our Greenville, Yours If You Come”
Tobacco is Sold Quickly^ Proinptly
and Higher in Graenville-
Greenville s 10 Warehouses, covei'ing nearly 20 acres of ground, assures selling space
for every load of tobacco brought here. Five sets of buyv^^rs assure a jrrom])! ami order
ly sale with a minimum amount of delay and congestion. Tobacco well dis]»!ay(‘d am!
sold orderly is sold higher.
This has long been a slogan of the Greenville people. Friendly tobacconists live up to
that slogan. This assures you of a warm welcome to (jireenvillc. and a personal in
terest in every load of tobacco you sell.
Demand-Competition-QVICK, PROMPT
SALES-PERSONAL INTEREST-MEAN
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