Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-08-16
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
TOBACCO.
Our staple Crop.

The Ne" York os.;oes. ssoss. and the Local
Some two hundred cases of 1879 leaf
were sold last week on private terms, and
a number of buyers are in the city taking
a look at the crop as it is being sampled
and also making tour of the county to
look at the growing crop. Samplers are
actively at work in most of the ware
houses, and it is conceded that the crop of
1879 is turning out exceedingly we'll.
Not much can be said of the growing
tobacco except that last Thursday a con-
siderable tract of country was visited by a
hail storm which damaged moro or less
from 600 to 800 acres. Tho path Of the
storm was from Mcchanicsville (or Snuff
town. to Masonville, in generally south
eastern direction, though tho line was zig
Tag in some places. 1t was also noticed
that there were occasional breaks in the
fall of tho hail-One field or two being
badly damaged, while fields on either
side of it escaped :injury. No ?cstima:e
has yet been made of tho extent Of tho loss
or tho amount Of insurance. Gentlemen
who passed over tho route Of tho storm
and observed tho folds AZ carefully as
they could say that tho topped tobacco in
some places is damaged SO badly that It
will bo fit for filters only, whilo the later
plants, not yot topped, arc damaged COM
paratively little.
There was another slight fall of hail on
Thursday in tho vicinity Of ChurchtOwn,
but tho stones wcro small and did not do
much damage.
Considerable quantities Of the new crop
have been cut off and hung up, and the
great bulk of tho balance is being topped.
Great irrcgularity of growth continues to
bo noticed, and it is thought from this cir
cumstanco that tho proportion of fine
wrappers will bo much less this year than
last. In bulk the crop will be the largest
ever grown in this county, and it is too
early in the season to form a:cOrrcct Opin-
ion as to its quality.
Tho New York Reports.
The wonder fully wise man who conducts
tho New York Tobacco Journal is drcadfully
excited again over tho favorable reports of
tho growing crop in this county, and while
he is compelled to republish them from
tho Lancaster papers to give his read
ers tho news, he peppers his paper
with comments intended to fright
en- away buyers from Lancaster
county tobacco. His ridiculous perform
anccs of last season betrayed so keenly
his lack of judgement and want of fore
sight that little attention will be paid to
his rawlings now. An illustration of his
folly is furnished in the fact that he charges
the packers of '79 with eraggerating The
prospects Of the 80 crop 80 as to get big
prices for that ,cAichtAey are holding.
The journal sums up last weeks sales as
follows:
Pennsylvania crop 70: $50 cases. price
kept impcnetrably secret). Crop '7S: 500
cases, filters 124 cents, seconds Is cents,
wrappers IS to As cents.
Connecticut crop 10: 1G0 cases, seconds
124 cents. Crop '78 -.
State crop 70: $50 cases running, 101
cents.
Havana.-The market remains strong
and active, with sales running up to 900
bales. Filters of tho 10 crop are quoted
as follows: Low, S74 to $1.00; medium,
$1.05 to s1.124; fire, up to $1.s5.
Cans Report,
Sales of seed leaf tobacco reported by
J. S. Cans Son s. Co., tobacco brokers,
Nos. 81 and S6 Wall street, New York, for
tho week ending August Is, 1880:
200 cases 1879 Penn, pt.; 125 cases 1878
Penn. 1O}@3Oc 400 cases 1877 New Eng
land seconds 1O4 c.; 400 cases 1878 New
England filters 7c., wraps 12@22 c.; 200
cases 1878 Ohio 11c.; A cases 1879 Ohio
&c.; 100 cases sundrics 9@1Sc. 1869 cases.