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rolling machine in 1880. He was about 21 at the time. His 

 completed machine was in a freight yard at Lynchburg, 

 awaiting delivery to Richmond, when it was destroyed 

 by fire. A new model, built with funds received for his 

 damage claim, was patented by the inventor in 1881. 

 Bonsack's making machine did not live up to expec- 

 tations when installed in the sponsoring firm's factory. 

 Three years later a copy of it was set up in the Duke 

 factory at Durham, North Carolina. Aided by improve- 

 ments made on the spot, Bonsack's machine soon was 

 producing 120,000 good cigarettes a day, forty times the 

 daily output of a good hand roller. Not long thereafter, 

 this mechanical roller became standard equipment in 

 Virginia's cigarette factories. In 1885 tax-paid cigarettes 

 first passed the billion mark. 



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Production of Bright tobacco and of Burley had been 

 expanding rapidly in areas outside of Virginia. Manu- 

 facturers began to set up their plants close to these 

 sources of supply. By the middle of the 1880's, therefore, 

 Virginia began to lose its dominant place as the center 

 of tobacco manufacture. Yet its factories continued to 

 produce large quantities of tobacco goods, other than 

 cigars. 



Consumer demand for almost all tobacco products 

 continued to show solid growth. The expanding market 

 brought in a host of small, energetic manufacturers. 



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