Gunnison Gazette | 1909-04-30 | Page 4 | Making Cigars

Making Cigars. In the cigar factory the bales are opened as needed. The tobacco required re-quired for the day's work is first dampened damp-ened and then goes to the strippers, who remove the stem and mid-rib of the leaf. The leaves are classified into wrappers and fillers, and turned over to the cigarmaker, who, with no other tool than a knife, cuts out his wrappers, wrap-pers, shapes the filler In the hollow of his hand and deftly rolls the material into a finished cigar. There are cigar-making cigar-making machines, but these are employed em-ployed only for making the cheaper grades of cigars from domestic tobacco. to-bacco. It is a peculiar fact that despite de-spite the wonderful progress of mechanical me-chanical contrivances in all lines of manufacture, the better grades of cigars are made to-day exactly as they were a hundred years ago. Bohemian Magazine.