Sketch book of Lynchburg, VaIts people and its trade .. . AVERAGE SALES FOR FIFTEENYEARS, FROM 1870 TO 1884, INCLUSIVE, 145 PER CENT. Amount of tobacco exported in 1886 81,710,723 Amount of tobacco exported in 1885 9,604,246 INCREASE PERCENTAGE EXPORTED IN 1886,133 PER CENT. The remainder of the purchases for 1886, amounting to 27,621,- ITS PEOPLE AND ITS TRADE. 139 ^2] pounds, have been manufactured in Lynchburg, bought on do-mestic accounts and shipped to home markets. I am unable, as youare aware, from our .system of selUng tobacco, to ascertain the aver-age price paid for tobacco sold here
Sketch book of Lynchburg, VaIts people and its trade .. . AVERAGE SALES FOR FIFTEENYEARS, FROM 1870 TO 1884, INCLUSIVE, 145 PER CENT. Amount of tobacco exported in 1886 81,710,723 Amount of tobacco exported in 1885 9,604,246 INCREASE PERCENTAGE EXPORTED IN 1886,133 PER CENT. The remainder of the purchases for 1886, amounting to 27,621,- ITS PEOPLE AND ITS TRADE. 139 ^2] pounds, have been manufactured in Lynchburg, bought on do-mestic accounts and shipped to home markets. I am unable, as youare aware, from our .system of selUng tobacco, to ascertain the aver-age price paid for tobacco sold here, but I assert it without fear ofsuccessful contradiction, that if it were possible to divide the dark andbright classes, the average on the former would far exceed that ofany loose market of the State, and the largest proportion of thebright, being of the finest quality of cutters and wrappers, would farexceed any average on the bright markets of North Carolina and this State. H-, ****** * In my last address I called your attention to the importance of. CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS MONUMENT. (in the METHODIST CEMETERY.) constructing the Lynchburg, Halifax and Durham Railroad. Youhave acted wisely, and now this Railroad is about to be constructedthrough the finest tobacco counties of Virginia and North the completion of this Railroad, I predict an increase in yourtrade annually of 5,000,000 to 10,000,000 pounds tobacco, to saynothing of other benefits to be derived from it, both by the farmersalong the line and the citizens of Lynchburg. South Boston, that flour-ishing and enterprising town of Halifax, is soon to be closely alliedwith you. Geographically, you occupy a position superior to any inthe State, as a distributing market. You have railroads stretchingout in every direction, and connection with every tobacco market of 140 SKETCH BOOK OF LYNCHBURG, VA. , the world. Your loose tobacco market is now favorably known toevery nation and every city of the world. Your exp
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