Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-01-26
TOBACCO.
Tho New York Market.

1873, Pennsylvania and New York state
being the favorites. The sales for the
week amounted to 1856 cases.
Sales of seed leaf tobacco reported by
J. $. Gans's Son & Co., tobacco brokers,
Nos. 81 and sc Wall street, New York, for
the week ending Jan. 26, 1880: 800 cases
1873 New England, seconds, 1Ok@114c :;
wrappers, 13G25c. 800 cases 1878 Penn
sylvania, 1OtW15c. 800 cases 1878 New
York. 9l@lOlc. 15Ocases 1873 Ohio, 91@ |
1Oyc Total 1850 cases.
Mr. Oscar Hammerstein, editor of the |
Journal, who has been doing everythin. in
his power, fairly and unfairly, to break
down the prices Of Pennsylvania, and
failed miserably, came on to Lancaster
last week, and in two columns and a-half
of drivellins nonsense processes to give his
readers an account of what he saw and the
condition of our local market. He rciter-
ates his oft-repeatcd statements that the
buyers of the - crop are idiots and
fools; qualities this statement by
another that they have not paid
more than half as much for the crop
as has been reported then lies outright
by declaring that there remains 81, O0J or
40, 900 cases as yet unsold, that prices are
fast diminishing, and that within a few
weeks good crops will be purchased at II,
) and cents, or even less. The Journal
acknowledges the New York market to be
. lively,' quotes 1878 Pennsylvania as be-
ing the best tobacco next to Havana
and quotes the prices at 104 for filters, IA
for running lots, and 10 for wrappers. The
1879 crop is reported "a magnificent one
in size of leaf and appearance, and that
manufacturers will in the near future he
| supplied with cheap and extraordinarily
profitable tobacco ~
About the only paragraph i'll Mr.. Ham,
mcrstein's rambling letter worth reproduc-
ing is that in which he frankly states the
opinion entertained of him by leading to-
bacco men. He says:
They were bent upon proving to me that
my occupation as editor of paper was a
distressing failure. Mr.. NJ. Lachenbrucll, of
New York Mr.. Bunzl, of New York; Col.
Teller. of Philadelphia Mr.. Pentlrage, Of
New York, and goodly number of others,
but all tobacco packers, began the recital
of all my mental and editorial deficiencies,
at 10 midnight, and stopped two hours
later. Did l dream that Mr.. Lachenbruch
had called me ''nO editor nor a gentle
man.? that the colonel of Philadelphia
had referred to me as "a fOol'? that the
sombre Mr.. Bunzl had mentioned seer
tain institution where l could be treated
gratuitousy -? and that the rest Of the
argumcntative and demonstratiye assem-
blage had moved uncomfortably close and
expressed the desire of seeing some one
''hit him over the head':'
Tobacco Notes.
There is an increasing demand for 1878
tobacco.
John Kautz sold to Fatman & Co. three
acres of tobacco for %, 8 and B.
G. Blessington, of Strasburg, has sold his
crop of tobacco of A acres to John Moore
for "a, 10 and ) !; he sold and delivered one
to Joseph Altchue for % and ).
Martin K. Mylin, Leacock twOwnship,
sold acre OF tobacco to John Moore at l!
and 3, and acre at 16 and ).
The Hartford Democrat published at
Bel Air, Nd, says : Last week Andrew
Boyle sold farm of IS acres, with fail
|
caster county, Pa, for $4,000. Mr.
Thomas will establish carriage factory on
part of the property and devote the
, balance of the cleared land to raising
tobacco. Mr.. Boyle has leased part o
another farm to another gentleman for the
same purpose"
Our Local Trade.
| &c = 10 70,
to what was said On Saturday. Crops arc
being received at several of the warehouses;
but there is no rush and crush as there
was two or three weeks ago. Packing
continues active at all the warehouses;
!, giving employment to hundreds of men
Buyers are yet in the field, picking W
everything that is offered at prices to suit
their views. Prices are shade lower
: Many of the packers having secured theil
supply from the choicest growings, the
competition among them has been lessened
A portion of the crop remaining unsOld is
first-class, but larger proportion of il
: is not of rs high grade as that
which has been bought. Estimates differ
as to the amount remaining unsold some
affirming that there is not more than 6, OO(
or 5000 cases in the county, and Others
that there is more than twice that guam
tity. 1t is difficult to determine with any
decree of accuracy the quantity in the
state as yet unsold, but the wild estimate
of the New York Journal that there is
from $1,000 to 10000 cases is generally
laughed at. There is, howeqer, fai,
supply of good tobacco for those who
| choose to hunt it up and pay for it.