Sketch book of Lynchburg, VaIts people and its trade .. . enough is before me to justify a statement that the tonnage to and from Lynchburg during the past year was about nine time as much as it was ten years ago. ******** During the past ten years, the trade and manufacture of tobaccohas increased, but not in proportion with the advance of other indus-tries, a fact which is significant, and for which many reasons are given. In 1873, 18,206,321 pounds of leaf tobacco were sold in Lynch-burg ; in 1883, 24,620,811 pounds. In 1873,4,503,337 pounds oftobacco were manufactured here; in 1883, 6,061,
Sketch book of Lynchburg, VaIts people and its trade .. . enough is before me to justify a statement that the tonnage to and from Lynchburg during the past year was about nine time as much as it was ten years ago. ******** During the past ten years, the trade and manufacture of tobaccohas increased, but not in proportion with the advance of other indus-tries, a fact which is significant, and for which many reasons are given. In 1873, 18,206,321 pounds of leaf tobacco were sold in Lynch-burg ; in 1883, 24,620,811 pounds. In 1873,4,503,337 pounds oftobacco were manufactured here; in 1883, 6,061,568 pounds. ITS PEOPLE AND ITS TRADE. 143 Why this trade alone lias lagged in the race, is a very difficultquestion to answer. For one I have no great apprehension that the tobacco trade ofthis City will decline. There is too much energy and capital in it forthat, but the fact is the place has outgrown this particular years ago, aye, twenty years ago, when Lynchburg won anddeserved the title of The Tobacco City, when capital and industry. RESIDENCES ON CHURCH STREET. MR. CHAKLES W. BUTTON. DR. D. A. LANGHORNE. sought no other channel, when a citizen was a tobacconist or nothing,and when a stranger, to use the language of the sable poet, was only Gwine down to Lynchburg carry his tobacco down dar, this place was dependent on that trade exclusively. This is not nowthe case, not because of any decline in the tobacco trade, but becauseother enterprises have to so much larger extent occupied the indus-tries of our people, and have made such rapid growth that tobacco,while it is still indisputably king, and will be so for many years tocome, finds a rival not to be despised, and all good citizens must re-joice that such is the case. 144 SKETCH BOOK OF LYNCHBURG, VA. ; • Long since the war the commercial vigor of Lynchburg was con-fined to the retail trade. Now the retail trade has greatly increasedin bulk and in profit, and in addition, house after house is be
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