Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1884 — Our Tobacco Growth. [ARTICLE]

Our Tobacco Growth.

[Newport, Ky., Key State Journal.] The growing of tobacco in this country annually assumes vaster proportions, and is becoming more and more lucrative. Cuba begins to see a rival in the United States in the cultivation of tobacco, which it was supposed, twenty-five years ago, could not be produced anywhere in quantity and flavor equal to that grown and cured in the Gem of the Antilles. . This fact cannot but have a powerful influence in Spain on the subject of theXsale of Cuba to the United States. Onbe it is clearly demonstrated that the tobacco crop of Cuba can no longer be mad? a 'controlling produce in the markets of the world, and that the United States is producing a crop equal, if nos superior, to the crop grown on that island, Spain will be ready to sell, and that at a price to suit the buyer. It is often in this way that diplomacy is suddenly arrested, and the best laid schemes of statesmen to acquire power or domain put to confusion. Time is the old Justice that examines all offenders.— Shakspeare. John Hell is the principal ice-dealer in Balt Lake City.