The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1877-10-18

Methodist Episcopal Church, was
nominated for Chaplain, receiving
seventy-eight votes.
The Tobacco Trade ofRichmond,
Va.
That sterling evening journal, The
STATE, in its issue of the LIST inst, con-
tains six columns on the Tobacco
Trade Of Richmond, in the shape of
interviews with the leading mem
bers ofthe trade, and statistics of the
quantity received and sampled, and
stocks on hand.
We would be glad to publish the
whole for the benefit of the tobacco
growers Of West Virginia, but we
have only space for the reporters in
tsrview with Maj. Jesse I. Hutche-
son, of the well known house of
Hutchinson & ssrvay, Proprietors of
2 r. .I.
Planters Warehouse, and the table
showing inspections, stocks, &c.
JESSE 7. HUTCHINSON.
The writer next tackled Major j..
T. Hutchinson.
Reporter: Major, we understand
you have been connected with the
tobacco trade OF this city over seven
teen years as inspector and seller of
leaf tobacco. Will you be kind
enough to tell me how the tobacco
year Just closed compares with the
past five years in quantity, quality
and price?
STATISTICS.
Mai. H.: The inspections for the
year 1872 were 81 SOP hogsheads; for
1878, 1880; 1874, 4S,267; 1875, &c.
1873; 1876, SO, 7S5; 1877, 81, 800; and the
stocks carried over on the 1st 0cto-
Der, 1872, 6,S9S hogsheads; 1878, s.
Sal; 1874, S, 555, 1875, 1881; 1876, -
97S; 1877. 1851. In quality, the
comparison is most unfavorablc. l
have sampled largely, over 100000
packages Of leaf tobacco during my
connection with Mayo's and Planters
warehouses, and | have never seen
during the seventeen years have
been handling leaf tobacco as much
inferior or nondescript as / found
in the 1l,00O packages sampled by
us this year, The prices obtained
for all tobacco of decided character
have been very satisfactory, while
nondesCript and inferior grades, in
the absence of all speculative de-
mand, have been neglected, and
prices unsatisfactory to producers.
Reporter 1t has been intimated
that a good portion of the stock car
ried over in this city is so inferior
that it will be difficult to find a pur-
chaser for it at any price. Is there
any foundation for this2
MaiorH.: know but little Of the
stock in other warehouses. Full
twenty per cent. of the stock carried
by us / regard utterly worthless for
purposes, and in my
opinion should not be regarded as
available stock, composed, as it is, of
the "cullsn Of the past five crops.
Reporter From the returns Of the
different warehouses in this city for
the past year l see you have received
and sampled more than any other
warehouse in the city, hence you
ought to be able to tell the effect Of
the repeal of the inspection laws on
the trade, Has the repeal been ben
elicial or otherwise?
Major H.: The repeal, so far as l
know, has been of incalculable bene-
fit to all interested, The planter has
been benefited by the reduction in
the price Of sampling; the buyer by
the reduction in storage and guaran.
lee that he will get every pound he
pays for, and tobacco equal 10 the
sample by which he buys, We have
sampled over 1900 packages since
The law was repealed, and have given
more general satisfaction than any
year during my connection with
warehouses
STATISTICS AGAIN.
Below We give a comparative state.