Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-02-28
the TOBACCO TRADE.
Now Corners to Clean . Closely Reaped Fie
Tho Crop Of 1880.

Now Corners to Clean Closely Keaped Field
Tho Crop Of 1880.
During the past week there has been an
unusually active demand for both 1878 and
1879 tobacco. OF the former not less than
400 cases have been sold at advanced
figures. Of the latter it is impossible to
tell how much has been secured, but a
large number Of buyers have been scour-
ing the county and picking up all they can
find at prices ranging from cents for COM
mon up to 90 and even 25 cents for fine
lots. Among the buyers are some new
comers, who, under the advice of the
Tobacco Journal, have been waiting until
the "insane spectators should get
through and who then intended
to come into the field and take
the bulk of the crop at their own
prices. Alas! they waited too long, and
now they are frantic at finding that the
" fools and "lunatics - have bought up
almost the entire crop, and the wise and
knowing ones can scarcely secure an acre
of even secOnd-rat goods without paying
first-rate prices. From almost all sections
of the county come reports that the
growers have sold out. The few crops yet
held by them are widely scattered, but are
nevertheless eagerly sought by both new
and old buyers. 1t is believed there are
not 1000 cases remaining unsOld in the
county, and that in two weeks from this
time the purchasing season will have
closed, with the crop more closely bought |
up then it has been for many years pre-
viOus.
The receipts at the city warehouses dur
ing the week have been large, but there |
has not been the same rush and crush that |
was witnessed some weeks ago. Few of |
the warehouses have received less than |
$4,000 pounds, while some of them have |
received 100, 900 and 1900 pounds re-
spectively. In several instances there /
have been disputes between the growers
and buyers, the latter alleging that the to-
ton required by the contract, and the
former refusing to be "docked. " In a
few instances where the parties could not
agree, the tobacco was returned to the
grower, and in ore or two cases lawsuits
have been begun between the parties.
The mild weather of the past week has
set the growers to thinking of the crop of
1880. We hear of some who have already |
prepared their seed beds and sowed their
seeds, and many others who are giving
their tobacco land a preliminary plowing
up, the better to prepare it for plants when
planting time shall arrive.
Nearly all the growers with whom we
have conversed express an intention to
plant on 4 larger scale titan they did last
year. To this increased acreage by old
growers must be added the paintings of
many new ones, not only in our county,
but beyond its borders. With favorable
season the crop of 1SSOwill be the largest
ever grown in the state.
To-day Gerschel & Bro. received 81, ,919 |
pounds of tobacco. Yesterday they re-
ceived 10 acres from Martin Kready, for |
which they paid 21 cents round, which,
with some other lots bought by them, was |
among the best lots in the county.
Sam'l Cruel, the efficient foreman Of |
Aaron Teller's warehouse, has found |
among the past week four quadruple |