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cases. The box shop and printing office (Fig. 134) is 

 an important department of a large factory, while the 

 packing room (Fig. 135, page 476,) is larger and em- 

 ploys even more help. The internal revenue stamps 

 are put onto the packages in a special department, called 

 the stamp room and canceling room (Fig. 136), in which 

 millions of stamps are used and canceled, the amount 

 paid for stamps by the Durham Company reaching up- 

 wards of a million dollars a year. A new machine 

 automatically packs tobacco in the bags and labels them. 

 The largest manufactory of pipe-smoking tobacco 

 in the world is that of Black well's Durham Tobacco 

 Company at Durham, N. C., the main building of 

 which is illustrated in Fig. 129, and glimpses into some 

 of its departments are given in illustrations 134, 135 

 and 136, all made from photographs taken specially for 

 this work. This business was established by the late 

 John K. Green, who selected the famous trade-mark of 

 the Durham bull that is now so familiar all over the hab- 

 itable globe, this trade-mark being an absolute guarantee 

 of a quality of smoking tobacco that never varies and 

 never deteriorates. W. T. Blackwell succeeded the 

 founder of the business, and later, Mr. Julian S. Carr be- 

 came president and has enormously developed the busi- 

 ness, which has resulted in the development of a populous 

 and prosperous city at Durham. The premises occupy 

 13 acres of ground and the main factory has a frontage 

 of 350 feet, exclusive of seven large warehouses for the 

 storage of tobacco, besides outbuildings, engine room, 

 stables, etc. The company also manufactures cut plug 

 tobacco for either chewing or smoking, and during the 

 busy season employs 1000 hands. 



FINE CUT TOBACCO. 



Fine cut tobacco is only the leaf cut into fine shreds. 

 The tobacco employed for this purpose in the United 



