Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-03-14
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Seed Leaf and Havana for tho Week Ending
March l2. 10 4 m, a

Seed Leaf and Havana for tho Week Ending
March 1e, 10 .. m. a.
U. 6. Tobacco Journal.
Market dull. Withthe exception of a
sale of 900 cases of 70 Ohio, nothing
really noteworthy occurred. Prices tor all
'79 stocks have not advanced any during
the past week, nor did they decline. Those
having useful stocks on hand do not make
any effort to attract buyers, as il will be
many months before the 80 crop becomes
q competing article. Furthermore, the
been growing smaller Of late, and though
facturers here during the past few months
supplied themselves largely, the greater
portion of the middle class manufacturers
have, as usual, no great surplus of leaf on
hand and consequently will continue to
buy whether leaf is cheap or dear.
The opinions regarding the 80 crop are
still too varied to affect anybody or any,
thing. Packers in Pennsylvania have
become very lively, as will be seen from
reports in other columns. All statistics
and calculations regarding the amount
of seed leaf tobacco raised in this
country having proved fallacious, any ar
gument why the 80 crop should or should
not be bought at the figures that have
been and are being paid, would be out
of place. So, therefore, let those who
wish to invest their money in the 80 crop,
do SO peacably. Their profit does not SO
much he in the good or bad qualities of
the crop. 1t lies in the quantity raised.
The result of the 70 crop showed that the
prices paid by jobbers and manufacturers
were not in accordance with the quality or
yield of the tobacco wrappers especially,
they were in accordance with the quantity
raised. There was not, apparently, such
quantity Of 70 tobacco raised as was re-
perted by the agricultural bureau at
Washington. And should tho estimated
amount of seed leaf raised in 1880 he as
incorrect as that of 1879, the investments
in the 80 crop will prove profitable. If a
manufacturer can't get tobacco without
holes, he will take that which has them.
d. Sales of the week:
Ohio-Crop 10: 1000 cases running ;
reported at to II cents.
Pennsylvania-Crop 10: 600 cases fine
running, 22a cents; medium, 1S cents ;
filters, cents.
Connecticut-Crop' 70: 800 cases, mostly
wrappers, % to 40 cents.
Crop TO: 60 cases seconds, IA cents.
Havana-Market active. Sales 200
bales, of which 200 were of the 80 Rene
dios crop; price 80 cents (reported by
brokeD. 10 stock continues in good de-
mand at previous figures.
A Fraud Exposed.
A brand new swindle on grand scale,
has been going Oh in this city, which,
thanks to the vigilance of a reporter for
the q. S. Tobacco Journal, will now prove
not very hurtful either to the Havana to-
bacco trado of this country, to the reputa-
tiOn Of tobacco grown in Cuba, or to the
manufacturers Of cigars there.
OF late it has doubtless been noticed by
readers of this paper that the sales of Wis
cOnsin and Pennsylvania filters, as report
ed in these columns, have been unusually
large. In face of this, however, manufac-
turers of cigars have been buying very lit
tie seed filters in the market, a great many
running lots of leaf which they had pur-
chased. Therefore, the rapid disappear
ance of filters from the market has been
the talk of the trade, no one being able to
designate the real outlet for this stock.
We are enabled now to give an explana-
tion, and one that will, no doubt, cause
astonishment and surprise in all tobacco
circles. The filters referred to were and are
being shipped to the Island of Porto Rico,
which is not great distance from Cuba,
both being in the same group. The to-
bacco has been and is now being put up in
carrots like Havana tobacco, packed in
bales just like Havana bales, and the
steamers of the Atlas mail line, plying be-
tween this port and Porto Rico, are carry
ing those bales to the latter port. From
there Trey are smuggled into Havana, and
resold there as genuine Havana tobacco.
Gans's Report.
Sales of seed leaf tobacco, reported by
j. S. Gans's Son & Co., tobacco brokers,
Nos. 81 and SG Wall street, New York, for
the week ending March IA, 1881: 1896
cases 1879 Pennsylvania. filters, &c. :;
assorted, 12@22c.; 200 1879 New England,
wrappers, 10000. 1924 cases 1879 Ohio,
5@13c. 100 cases sundries, 9( 1Sc. Total,
2,76O cases.