Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-12-13
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fine speaker and reader and his discour,es
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Spaulding's sermons yesterday. He Is o
fine speaker and reader and his discoursee
were practical, impressive and logical.
TOBACCO.
The New YORK Market
The Journal, of New York, gives the
following resume Of the transactions in
that city last week: A lot Of 2, 400 cases
Of 70 Pennsylvania, which, two weeks
ago. was purchased by city firm from an
other firm of this city, the particulars Of
which were duly noted in these columns,
was resold to three different jobbing firms
during the week. We wish to draw par
co did not 60 out Of the market, but mere
being jobbers. Had this tobacco been
sold to manufacturers, it might have
been taken as evidence Of a scarcity
OF tobacco in manufacturing circles.
Nevertheless, We deem it right to
advise manufacturers not to rely upon any
further fall in prices of 70 Pennsylvania.
The figure at which these 400 cases
changed hands is said to bo II cents,
though the buyers claim to have paid q
trifie more. Be this as it may, We regret
that We do not see any possible chance for
a further decline in the prices of this crop;
but VIC also hold that those who expect q
great rise in prices will find themselves
mistaken. The 81 Pennsylvania crop will
be bought low. There is moro doubt
about it. The crop is defective, but its
defects need not stand in the way Of its
sale if manufacturers arc enabled to pur-
chase it low. Outside of the resale Of 70
Pennsylvania mentioned above and the ad-
ditional sale Of few hundred cases of the
same crop, We learn Of only few more
transactions, all of them small.
Connecticut sells quietly in the usual
small lots, while Ohio continues to move
into manufacturers hands, mostly for use
as binders. New York state Wrappers Of
the 1879 crop arc taken freely, they having
proved very profitable stock. Reports
of sales of 70 Wisconsin arc hardly OBJ
tainable. Either no sales are effected or
this crop is sold nnder another name. As
will be seen from report elsewhere, pur-
chases of 80 tobacco are going ON more
lively than ever in Connecticut, and espec-
tally in the HOusatOnic Valley. The bad
prospectus for fine stock in the 80 Penn
! sylvania have caused the activity in Con-
nccticut and New York state.
| The sales for the week sum up as fol-
lows:
Pennsylvania.-Crop 10: 2, 700 cases
largest portion at II cents balance, IS to
10 cents for running.
Connccticut.-Crop 70: $50 cases; a
little of it was HOusatOnic; IT, 90 and 93
cents for running.
.Ohio.-Crop 10: 500 cases 81 to II
cents.
state.-Crop 70: 1855 cases, 10 to II
| cents.
70 cases Big Flats, 161 cents.
Havana.--Market quiet. Sales 400 bales.
Prises unchanged.
Gans's Report.
Sales of seed leaf tobacco, reported by
J. $. Gans's Son & Co., tobacco brokers'
Nos. 81 and So Wall street, New York,
for the week ending December 13, 1880 !:
2, 700 cases 1879, Pennsylvania filters, &C.;
assorted lots. 11@ &c.; wrappers, 1S(940c. !;
200 cases 1879, New England seconds and
wrappers, 13@4Oc.; 1877 cases 1879, Ohio.
cases sundres. p. t.; total, g. 237 cases.
The Local Market.
Trade is decidedly dull. Sales Of few
small lots of good leaf are reported at 20
cents and upwartis-a few fine wrappers
having brought % cents. But prime
leaf is said to bo very scarce. A
|
it as his opinion last week
that there were not 1O, 600 cases of sound
tobacco in the Pennsylvania crop of 1880,
and another extensive buyer declares it as
his belief that there are not ono thousand
cases of sound tobacco in Lancaster and
York counties. Another extensive
dealer states that he madO it
his business to secure about fifty samples
of lots of tobacco, some of which had been
purchased by other dealers at 20 cents and
upwards, and in the entire fifty samples
there was only one perfect leaf. The chief
defect was of course the pin-hOles " made
by the "lively fiea,' but to these were
superadded in many instances the bigger
holes made by the grasshOpper, while
almost every lot examined was moro or
less affected by white vein. Rust, pole
rot and other imperfectiOns made up the
ills to which the crop is said to be heir.
Iuanswer to the question How does it
come, then, that scarcely lot sold thus
far has brought less than 20 cents ?" the
dealers say: "There are several rea-
sons for it. 1t being patent to all that the
crop is poor one, some dealers are anx-
ious to pick up that part of it which is
best, and this is very small proportion Of
the whole; others buy few small lots to
let tho growers know they are still in the
market and others pay purposely, for
smOll lots, more than they are worth, 50
as to prevent rivals from purchasing 'On
the poles knowing Gas they pro-
fess to know that when the crop 10
taken down and an opportunity is given
for more thorough examination of il, its
defect will become SO palpabie that it can
be bought for less than one half the prices
| that arc now being Maid besides. very
little, comparatively, has yet been bought
the whole amount falling below 1000
cases." Our friends went on to say that .
large proportion of the tobacco is yet un-
stripped, good deal Of that which has
been stripped has developed white vein
since it was taken from the poles, and
that while there is some really good tobac-
co in the crop, the bulk Of it is SO bad
that it will not sell for more than and 2 !
In confirmation of these rather gloomy
predictions the dealers referred to the
| fact that while the Connecticut and New
York crops are being rapidly bought up.
the Pennsylvania crop is almost entirely
neglected-the buyers having left the field
and gone home. To the suggestion that
that they would all be back again after
the holidays the reply was, "They will
not be back before the 1st Of April unless
the farmers come down in their demands"
Meanwhile the farmers continue to strip
their tobacco, and while admitting that
there has been much damage dOno by the
flea and the grasshopper, many Of them
positively affirm that they have as good
tobacco this year as they ever had, and
that they expect to get as good prices for
it. We hope they may; and once more,
wo uo,,Jd r1r0o ,,nnn them the importance