The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-12-13
OUR TOBACCO TRADE.
Interesting To Chewers and Smokers.

clip the following interesting reading as to
our tobacco trade:
| The past year in the leaf tobacco business
in this city has been perhaps the most in
portaut one in the annals of the trade at
Cincinnati. In the first place, the business
has not only shown material increase over
the preceding year, but has been the largest
the city has ever enjoyed. The receipts
at the warehouses for the year aggregated
80, 022 hogsheads, compared with "a, 1873
hogsheads in the year 1876-T. The largest
receipts in any preceding year were 3S,043
hogsheads, which occurred in 1914. The
sales also show material increase, having
been 40 l40 hogsheads, in comparison with
"a, 743 hogsheads in 1857, and "a, 548 in
lS72-73, the last named having been the
largest quantity sold in any season preced-
ing the past two years.
The offerings in the year 1S77-7S were
81 JAP hogsheads, compared with 1885
hogsheads IN 1S76-77, and the rejections
IL, 1872 hogsheads against 1922 hogsheads in
the previous year. In boxes containing
the seed leaf which constii utes much the
smaller part of the business, the years
work, mainly owing to the extraordinary
foreign demand, which took the tobacco di-
rectly from the growing districts, shows
falling off, the receipts at the warehouses
having been 6970 boxes, compared with
8, l23 boxes in the preceding year, and the
sales 6,727 boxes, in comparison with 924O
boxes. While this is true concerning the
warehouses; the entire movement at Cincin-
natl shows q corresponding increase, hay
ing been SO, 2S0 hogsheads, compared with
71,2l7 hogsheads in the preceding year, and
the shipments 95O49 hogsheads against
6S, 759 in 1976-77
But it is not in the increase in business
transacted, which, to some extent, comes,
in the very nature of the case, from the re-
lation which we sustain to the tobacco
producing regions, in which is found the
most important and interesting feature OF
the past year. 1t is rather that revolu-
ton has been wrought in the nature Of the
demand for the main body of the tobacco
which is raised in the location tributary to
this city.
The crop of 1877 in size, measured by the
number of hogsheads, was not quite as
large as the preceding year, though above
an average crop, and yet having been OF
heavier body, it was in pounds little if any
below the yield of 1876. In usefulness,
considering the new use to which it has
been largely applied, it certainly has had
no equal in any crop ever marketed at Gin
cinnati. The unusually warm weather en-
| aDleQ Jne FARMERS W lldllulc tHcll lODdCCo
throughout almost the entire winter, so
that the crop commenced moving at an ear
| ly period after the 1st of January, the re-
ceipts having been relatively large through
out the winter months The season opened
at unusually low prices. To the demand
| for cutting purposes was added that of the
| plug manufacturers, which was not long in
stimulating prices, an advance setting in
which continued to the close of the COM
mercial year.
The crop of seed leaf is said to be excep-
| tionally fine.
The previous deficiency at Cincinnati in
the manufacture of plug tobacco, which
has been alluded to in these reports, the
past year has gone far to correct, the at
Tempt to place this city in position, in this
regard, similar to that which she has en-
loved in the manufacture of cut tObaccos,
having been fully inaugurated. One large
establishment in this city has entered on
this work, and during the year three plug
manufactures have commenced WORK in
Covington. Others will necessarily follow,
so that so far from shipping our leaf tobac-
co to remote districts TO be made into plug
tobacco and returned to us for consump-
ton, it will not be long before fair share
will be manufactured here, with all the
benefits derived from producing near the
: fields of the raw material, and equally con-
. yenent to the consumers of the manufaC-
l tured article.
The year, to manufacturers of fine-cut TO-
. ibacco, has not been favorable one. The
: usual demand for such leaf for plug to-
: bacco, as was previously nearly exclusively
fused for cutting purposes, with the conse-
I quent relative increase in the price of the
, raw material, the possible reduction of the
q tax imposed by the internal revenue laws
/ and the steady growth of production in q
, small way by consumers for their personal
), use. which, under the law, is allowed, have
, all conspired to depress the market, reduce
- the production of tine-cut tobacco, and cur
tail The profits of manufacturers. While
n Cincinnati has doubtless, maintained hel
e relative position in this regard, the figures
y of the revenue department show dimn
II ishment both in quantity produced and in
), the revenue derived. The total production o
d tine-cut and plug tobacco in the year ending
e July 31st, 1878, in the First Internal Reve
J. nue. District OF Ohio (Cincinnati), accord
:, ing to the returns of Amor Smith, Jr., ESQ.
u Collector, was 2,480,544% pounds, in com
parison with 1885, 5,6SlK pounds in 1857
It showing falling off of 355, 1856 SO pounds
y On the Kentucky side of The river accord
/ ing 10 the figures of w. s. Holden, Esq.
e Collector in the SIKH Kentucky District
G the production was 1926, 584A pounds, com
:. pared with 2,O98,65S pounds in the pre-
J. ceding year, showing relative reduction
s. equally pronounced, having been 272, 1l12
,, pounds. The total production of the cite
a of Cincinnati and Covington was 4,307, II
IS pounds, compared with 4,934, 339H pound
in the year 1S76-77 showing total reduc
ton in the two cities, which commercial.
and industrially are substantially Cincin
= natl, of 627, ,210H pounds
II The production of smoking tobacco un
e like the chewing, exhibits decided in
crease in Cincinnati while Covington, whicl
had done previously comparatively moth
# ing, makes for the year favorable show
ing. The total production in the two cities
for the year, was 2,l47,027 pounds, com
;; pared, approximately, with 1893, 1888
n pounds in the preceding year. On this
h taxes were paid in 1878, to the amount 0
il $5l5, 1856 81, compared with $407, ,591 80 il
n 1867.
The total production of chewing an
smoking tobacco, in the two cities was 6
454 156 pounds compared with 6,632, $685.
lie pounds in the previous year, on which take
n were paid in 1877-7S, amounting to 81, ,548
:, 997 Al, against s., ,59l, 1856 20 in the preced
- ing year.
The business in cigars. which, at this city
T has exhibited such marked progress within