Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-01-31
TOBACCO.

TOBACCO.
The New York Market.
United States Tobacco Journal.
After the activity of the previous week
the market was comparatively quiet. The
continued reports of the bad condition of
the 80 Pennsylvania have caused jObbers
and manufacturers to provide themselves
with larger quantities Of the 20 crop Of
that state than they would have had the
80 Pennsylvania been more promising.
This condition Of things is . blessing to
holders Of 20 Pennsylvania as other
wise their sales and profits would
be small. Those among our packers
who have not yet invested in the 80
New York state and Connecticut arc
sOrely puzzled as to what to do.
Whatever there is left in the just named
states is high in price and therefore prob
lcn,atic rs 10 profits. To buy 80 Pennsyl-
vania ut any but very low figures, seems
extraordinarily hazardous. 80 Ohio and
Wisconsin, which even now might be
bought reasonably low, are, owing to the
continued cold weather, in IN unfit state
for thorough inspection. Should these
last named two states also prove to be
without any fine stock, the outlook for
really fine goods in the whole of the 80
crop is very narrow one. In fact it
almost seems as if the 80 New York state
and Connecticut will be leaders in tho
market. Nevertheless the Pennsylvania
tobaccOs are popular among manufactur-
ers, and if they can be bought cheap, their
cheapness may, after all, cause them to bc
accepted by those manufacturers who
have learned how to make useful stock
out Of that which freaks Of nature have
made deficient in looks. The principal
buyers last week were large manufacturers
who for reasons stated have secured the
market for suitable stock. Some h:sve
purchased sufficient during the past two
week to make an investment in 80 to-
baccos unnecessary. Though the pros
poets for export are 4 little more encOur-
aging, very few transactions were made
for that purpose. A summary Of the
weeks business is AZ follows:
Pennsylvania-CrOp 70: 100 cases
fine running, 10 to 23 cents medium. II
to II cents a; filters, 8 cents.
Connecticut-Crop 70: 400 cases 100
Cases wrappers, 81 cents; running, u to
90 cents seconds. 49, cents.
State-CrOp 10: 200 cases; Big Flats
wrappers, &c cents low running, 8 to 10
cents.
Ohio-Crop - !: 80 cases running.s 8 to
II cents.
Wisconsin-Reports uncertain.
Hlvana-Market active, Sales 800 bales.
JObbers invested freely. Two hundred
bales Of 70 medium Vuelta AbajO sold ut
81 .O5 ; Remedies, 80 to 90 cents. A lot Of
$50 bales Of various 10 grades sold. at Y
cents. 4 good disposition is shown for
70 tobacco, as prices for 80 stock now
range considerably higher. No transac-
tions in 80 have taken place.
Gans's Report.
Sales Of seed leaf tobacco, reported by
J. s. Gans's Son & Co., tobacco brokers,
Nos 81 and Sc Wall street, New York, for
the week ending January 81, 1881: 1900
cases 1879 Pennsylvania filters. &c; as
sorted, 12(d21c.; wrappers, 1S@4Oc.; 200
cases 1879 New England wrappers, 13(g
4Oc.; so cases 1879 state, &c.; 500 cases
Ohio, 44t014c.; 100 cases sundries, 9018c. :;
total, 1850 cases.
Trade Notes.
In the United States during the last
eleven fiscal years tax has been paid ON
10, Al, ,9l7, 3S3 cigars. A comparison Of
figures shows that the production has more
than doubled in that period, as in 1870
tax was paid on ,139, 47O,6 cigars and
in 1880 on 1857, ,SO3, $50 cisars-an in
crease in eleven years Of ,22S, 332 476
cigars.
DR.. Moritz Herzos, chemist, was Sc
cured by MIR. NJ. Mason, superintendent Of
p. LOrillard & Co.'s factory, to discover
the nature of the f1avOring material used
by w. T. Blackwell l. Co. in preparing
their celebrated '!Durham smoking to-
baccO, as it was superior to and different
from anything Of the kind used by any
other tobacco manufacturers. lie said he
could do so, and procuring samples Of
Blackwell's "Durham," subjected them
to q thorough analysis. He, as he alleges,
found out the nature OF the flavOring ma
tcrial used in the manufacture of the
"Durham tobacco; but before letting
MIR. Mason into the secret of the prepara-
tiOn he told him he wanted $50, 600 for his
discovery, which Mr.. Mason agreed to pay
him. It was not paid he sued and the
court granted nOn-suit because MOritZ
failed to show that Mason had been au-
thOrized to so contract by the LOrillards.
Three months ago, one Mr.. Lewis, rep
rescntiny himself to be rich California
operator, and whose references were an
swercd fayOrably by the bankers Seligman,
cut wide swath among the leaf tobacco
dealers of New York. He bought 100
cases of Pennsylvania 70 from Cans &
Son, and gave his note for three mouths :;
A similar transaction was had with BuDzl
Il DOrmitzer, NJ. II. Levins, Charles
A. Spitzner, Havemeyer and Wig
illus, and l.. Friedman IS, 600 worth were
bought from We'll & Co., and s19, 200
worth from A. T. Rosenbaum. 965, 200
Of leaf tobacco Lewis purchased altogether
ON time. When it arrived at San Fran
cisco he offreed the greatest portion of it
at auction and sold it for cash and at q
loss. The money for his notes has not
yet arrived, and his creditors begin to fear
they have been swindied.
The San Francisco report is that "the
crop Of 1879 Pennsylvania wrappers is not
such rs might be desired, but on account
of tile brisk demand for cigars, leaf may
bc expected to hold its OWN"
The Philadelphia correspondent of tho
Leaf reports: "Seed leaf moving nicely;
all grades Of cigar leaf at full figures.
To-day find that one of our prominent
manufacturers purchased from John
Moore & Co., packers, fine lot Of Penn
sylvania amounting to $4,000. The sale
seems to meet with especial approval from
both buyer and seller. Prospects look
very bright for the future for the demand
for cigar leaf'
Among the transactions in seed leaf in
New York reported in detail are 300 cases
Of Pennsylvania sold by a. Cohn; 800 by
NJ. Neuberger & Co; 200 by II. Schubart
Il Co; i50 by Black & Lindheim 500 by
Gans's Son Il Co, to Kerbs & Spiess 80
by Gustav SalOmon & Bros; 100 cases by
Busch & Fisher to Pretztield Bros, Pitts
burglI, and 104 cases to Kaufman Bros