MESSRS. W. E. GARY k CO.,
who came here regularly as visiting
buyers from the beginning of the mar
ket in 1872, when bright tobacco
making was but a small industry, to
the year 1879, when the amount
brought here induced them to make
their home among us. Thus these
gentlemen, starting with our market in
its infancy, with their shoulder always
at the wheel, have grown along with
the town, until to-day they stand at
the head of the tobacco dealers of
North Carolina. With the constantly
increasing confidence of the tobacco
world, and with orders from every sec-'
tion, they found it necessary in the
fall of 1883, to build their present
mammoth quarters, consisting of a
main building 40x110 feet, four stories
high, and a wing, of 40x50 feet, four
stories high. In 1885, two years after,
not having sufficient room they erect
ed on same lot a two storv brick
building 120x40 feet, which they fitted
up with an engine and steam fixtures
for drying and stemming. The two
houses have hanging room for about
three hundred thousand pounds at a
time, thus enabling them to accom
plish what they do, handle more to
bacco than any individual firm in
North Carolina. It will be understood
by this we do not mean some ware
houses who as a general rule have to
buy a quantity of scrap and inferior
stuff, don't buy more pounds. The
main, or wooden building is used ex
clusively for tobacco bought for their
American orders, among which may
be found several of the oldest and
most substantial manufacturing firms
m this country. The brick, or steam
house is used only for tobacco shipied
directly to European order. Notwith
standing their immense purchases, all
on order, everything is managed with
the utmost system and precision, and
to this and their exceptional judgment
of tobacco, is due in great measure,
their enviable success a success we
are proud to note, as we are fully
aware they have contributed as much,
(or more,) to our material gpwth as
any other men engaged m uusmess
here. Certainly no one has done more
to introduce our market to the outside
world than Wyndham Gary. 