Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-04-11
TOBACCO.
THE NEW YORK REPORTS.

ASoAOOO.
THE NEW YORK REPORTS.
seed Loaf and havana Last Week.
United States Tobacco journal.
No change has taken place in our mar.
ket this week, and evidently the spirited
and extensive business in 70 stocks has
come to an end. Whatever there is left vi
bers, who do not care very much to dis
long as there remains chance to sell it in
small lots at better figures.
Wisconsin, Ohio, and state of the '7s
crop are to he obtained in limited quaint.
ties only, and consist mostly of inferio.
grades.
Connecticut of the 70 crop, of which
there is still large stock on hand, moves
very slowly. Large manufacturers con-
tinue to shun it, jObbers want to buy it at
almost binder figures, and the occasional
sale of small parcels to small manufacture
ers is not conducive to the creating of a
stir anywhere. Therefore, unlesss the '79
Pennsylvania leaves the market very soon
10 Connecticut will have poor show.
Export is almost extinct, owing to the
supposed certainty Of che establishment OF
a monopoly in Germany.
In regard to the 80 crops, little or moth
ing new is to be reported. There are the
customary annual market whispers regard
ing dry rot in the Connecticut, wet rot in
the state. white veins in the Pennsylvania
nd gummy fattiness in the Ohio and
"sin. If even here and there some
Wisco.- ION exists for these rumors,
real fOunOaI.. - nrOvc that whole crnnS
there is nothing w.. g long as there is
are thus affected ana o. "ome MS to
an uncertainty it would not Oe~ ~ the
dwell further ON the subject. Wiz
proper time comes and investigation ca.
be carried on properly and with certainty,
the United States Tobacco Journal will not
hesitate in making fact known to its
readers, hurtful, however, as they may be
to few individuals.
The sales of the week were as follows:
Pennsylvania-Crop' 10: 800 cases;
wrappers, 43 cents; fine running, 22t
cents medium, II and 19cents; filters, Z
cents.
Connecticut-Crop 10; 100 cases,
mostly wrappers, 80 and 35 cents.
Ohio-Crop 10: $50 cases, 81 cents
running.
Wisconsin.-Crop 70 1856 cases, Havana
seed, Is cents.
Havana-Market remains quiet. Sales,
GOO bales, mostly 49,. at former figures.
One sale of 100 bales of 80, to large
manufacturer, is also reported.
\ Cigar Mystery.
Something mysterious is going on in the
cigar trade. Manufacturers complain that
business is bad, and that it has been very
dull since the first of January. Box
makers also have the same complaint to
make. Nevertheless it appears that in this
city tax was paid on 81, ,457, 1888 cigars last
month, an increase of 7,747,65S as com
pared with February, and of 5, 22S, S33 a
compared with March, 1880.
Now the first question that strikes any
one who is familiar with the industry is
eff business is so bad, why has tax been
paid on such large quantity of cigars ?
Surely capital can be more prOfitably EN-
ployed than by investing it in interna
revenue stamps. No manufacturer, i
seems to us, will purchase stamps until III
is in immediate need Of them. What thel
is the solution of this mystery rs we ma!
fifty term it ? There is no doubt that tn
cigar business is at a standstill. We ar
assured of it by manufacturers here, a
we'll rs by those in nearly all parts of th
United States. There is only one way il
which to account for the payment OF sucl
a heavy tax-tl,at old orders are beint
filled. And yet it seems strange that thcr'
should be so many untitled orders on hane
as to require the outlay in one month o
$344, IA for tax. We cannot, however
account for it any other way.
If over fifty seven million cigars hat
been manufactured last month and ia!
had been paid on them, it would not be a
all puzzling, for then we should take it TO
granted that manufacturers were laying il
big stocks in order not to be embarrassed
should general strike take place. Blu
that, with business in such dull condi
tiOn, tax should be paid Oh over fifty sevel
million cigars-weli, we confess it is
mystery we can't satisfactorily solve.
Cuba and Key West Leaf.
The latest communications from tn
island of Cuba seem to confirm the re
ports that high prices are being paid il
the growing districts for the new crop
In the San Luis district the prices pait
are For from firsts to sevenths, S.
cighths, So ninths, So; tenths, 81
} clevenths to twelfths and Capadura, 3
reals per carat.
The cigarmakcrs employed in a numbe
Of factories in Key West struck about tel
days since in consequence of the manufac
turers paying them their wages in scrip o
orders, which they were forbidden to &C
ccpt 10y regulation of their Union. For
time considerable excitement prevaile'
ana it is reported that a cigarmaker wa
killed. There were several arrests made
Among those who were arrested on sus
picion was Mr.. Marara, a manufacturer
He gave bail and was released and after
wards exonerated from all blame by tn
court. Several cigarmakers are still lay
ing in Jail awaiting trial. The prircipa
officers of the Union are reported to hav
left Key West and the Union has been dis
solved.
The Philadelphia Market.
Handlers Of cigar leaf claim fair busi
ness, with demand largely beyond tn
supply of stock in store which at this tim
is required by the manufacturers in othe
words, OLD leaf is scarce and difficult t.
obtain at price at which it can be resolt
at fair margin. This is particularly tn
case with old Pennsylvania. Prospect
are reported favorable and encouraging
but packers must not pay too high pric
for new leaf, as cigars will only bring