Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-03-01
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TOBACCO.

TOBACCO.
The New York Seed Leaf Market
The U. S. Tobacco Journal continues its
croakings, though it finds nobody as yet to
sympathize with it. Its last issue says:
The inactivity continues. Everybody in
the market looks sleepy, but nevertheless
in conversation evince commendable
hOpefulness that as soon as the 70 crop
comes into market business will take the
shape of the boom, and
that the sun of great prosperity will shine
directly on Water str ct and vicinity. 1t
will certainly be u matter of unusual in
terest as to WHO will be the first seller and
buyer of packings of the crop named.
There will be such an overwhelming
majority of sellers as compared with
the purchasers, that the latter will
find themselves in predicament,
especially as both the late and
early purchasers claim to possess
packings Of such magnificance that the
very sight of them will be sufficient to
throw the prospective buyer into a severe
purchasing spasm, and that price will be !
thing of not even minor, but of no consid-
Grafton ut all. In the face OF the daily in
creasing number of purchasers in and
about Lancaster, and also i'm the tobacco
growing regions of Connecticut, packers
evince a decidedly jubiant disposition,
while the predictions of the U. s. Tobacco
Journal are sneered at and treated with
naughty contempt. These people probably
forget that with every new buyer in the
country, another chance of disposing OF
their own tobacco is lost. This very active
ity in the country is what will act detrimen-
tally to the packers who expect to sell their
investments in bulk. 1t almost seems as if
the jjobbers large retail dealers and manu-
iacturers OF some note are imbued with ,
spirit of rebellion. They are turning pack
ers, and even if their purchases are not
very large they will enable them to bear the
market for u long time and till weak hold
ers sell out at low figures. The great error
of the first buyers OF the 70 Pennsylvania
crop was that the excellent looks of the
tobacco made them forget the quality that
could be had. Ii they had paid One-half
the figures they actually did pay (and they
could have done SOY and then had purchaS-
ed twice the quantity, the crop would be
confined to fewer holders and an easy out
let found i'll the jObbers and manufacturers.
Hopes of an extensive export business
are booming up again. Everybody knows
THAI only cheap tobacco can go to Europe.
and our Pennsylvania and Connecticut
leaf has cost too much to permit it's being
put to such use. The 70 Ohio and part Of
the Wisconsin crop are at the disposal OF
the exporters. These, however, do not
interfere with the home market if they
remain in this country or find users in
Europe. The wiseacIes who cOntemptu-
| ously smiled ut the earnest appeals of the
y. s. Tobacco journal early in the packin"
full, :.
the time comes to sell their so-callcd bar
gains.
The sales of last week we enumerlte as
follows:
Pennsylvania-Crop II GO cases wrap
pers, sS cents crop'7S :472 cases running,
- to ~ cents, filters, 1aii cents.
Connecticut - Crop '7S: 115 cases
seconds. 12ii cents (marked wei%hD crop
7S: 11S cases wrappers, 21 to - cents.
Ohio-CrOp rs: 100 cases running, II
cents.
Havana--Markct quiet The excitement
has subsidized nevertheless prices remain
firm. Exporters have bought the tail ends
of the ~ and '7S crops at about so cents
in bond. Total sales for home u.s.. i2J
bales
Gans's Report.
Sales of seed leaf tobacco reported by
J. S. Gans's Son & Co., tobacco brokers,
Nos. S4 and S6 Wall street. New York. for
the week ending March,
800 cases 1878 Pennsylvania filters ga,
10c assorted, Halle. 300 cases 1878
New England seconds, 9G11c wrappers,
14G,25c. III cases 1878 Ohio. &c. so
cases 1878 Wisconsin 7@1lc. Total, GG1
cases.
Notes of the Trade.
MIR. Herbs of the cigar manufacturing
firm of Herbs Il Spiess will leave for
Europe in April for six months sojourn.
1t is Oak Grove, Clinton county, Pa,
which now puts in a claim for the produc-
tiOn of ''fully equal to any ever raised in
Lancaster county" Preparations are
making here for continual increase of
the present acreage, and it will not be
many years before we will in this respect
be the peers of Lancaster county" In your
mind
The Tobacco Journal has long and al
legged humorous account Of the Bunzl-R Refs
man fight in this city, with illustration of
the teeth lost in the fray.
On the 9th of May last year thirtysi
buyers withdrew voluntarily from the
Louisville tobacco board of trade, for the
reason that they desired some changes in
the scale of fees. Negotiations began
about two weeks ago with u view Of COM
promising the existing differences. which
have now terminated. The basis of S, e.
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