Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-11-07
TOBACCO MARKET.
SEED LEAF AMI HAVANA.
For the Week Ending Saturday, November
3, 10 A. M.

D, ~ "A. M
United States Tobacco Journal.
1t has become very quiet in our market
and very few are the transactions made.
In the opinion of holders of all grades of
80 tobaccos outside of the unfortunate
New York State Big Flats, the fate of the
80 crop is irrcvocably settled. "They
will have to buy what We have left at our
figures" is the sentiment that pcrvades
them. The present quietudc does not
give them any uneasiness what troubles
them is the 'Sl crop. Most of them are
waiting for farmers to put lower figures on
their crops, claiming such to be a necessity
before they invest Those who have al.
ready invested in 81 crops are confident
that prices will rather be higher than
lower growers who see their neighbors
realizing large figures for their crops can
only he moved to accept less by some ex
traOrdinary turn of the state of the mar
ket. No such extraordinary event is pos
sible for long time to come. The cigar
trade is solid now it may slacken in ac-
tivity for short while, but will resume
again. There are no speculative motives
worth speaking of in these enormous pur-
chascs of cigars actual demand by the
consumer has brought about the great bus
mess of the past nine months, and actual
demand will keep the cigar manufacturing
industry equally busy for many months to
come.
That seed leaf tobacco of the 'S1 crop
will not go any higher, though, is also Ger
tain. Sumatra is, as We have said in many
of our former reviews, putting a check on
the demands of the growers. And it is
we'll that such is the case with the bright
prospect before us there is no telling to
what height fine seed leaf wrappers would
rise. if it were not for the rapidly growing
importation of these Sumatra wrappers.
1t is, therefore, reasonable to say that
while there exists nothing at present that
would influence fall in prices in 81 tobac-
cos, no further rise in prices for that crop
will take place as long rs it is in the hands
Of the growers.
The business of the week We specify as
follows
Pcnnsylvania-Crop 80 : 720 cases, fine
running, 22b cents !; medium, 16 to Is
cents low, l3 to II cents.
Connecticut-CrOp 80: $50 cases /;
wrappers, 30 to 45 cents.
New York Statc-CrOp So 200 cases,
It.
OhiO-Crop 80 $50 cases A. cents for
filters running, to 12l cents.
WiscOnsin-Crop sc 100 cases, p. t.
Havana remains active sales 700 bales,
mostly 80 stock. Prices firm.
Cans Report.
Sales of seed leaf tobacco reported by J.
S. Cans Son & Co.. tobacco brokers, No.
13l Water street, New York, for week
ending Nov. :, 1881: $50 cases 1880
Pennsylvania, lea lSc. d; 800 cases 1880
New England, wrappers, 1S@30c.; 300
cases 1850 Ohio, 4G BE; 80 cases state
p. t.: 1oj cases sundricS, Ga lOc.: total,
1900 cases market very dull.
Sales of Seed Leaf IN October.
Leaf
October was busy month in the seed
market of this city, the sales amounting
10 Il, 900 cases. Only in June and Sep
tember We're the sales larger than in the
past month. since the opening of the pres
ent year. There have been heavy trans
iers Of New England, Pennsylvania and
New York state leaf, those Of the first
named section exceeding all otherss sew
orally considered, though closely followed
by those of Pennsylvania. Prices have
continued steady and up to th, date there
is no change in quotations.
Operations in the country were prose-
cuted throughout the month, but only
with mere shadow of the vigor Observ-
able in September. Flying visits were
made to all the producing districts of
several producing states, but the quantity
Of 1891 tobacco purchased bore but a
slight resemblance to that secured the
previous month. Purchases made in the
country from this time forward arc likely
to be effected in the regular course of
business, instead of in the hurried way in
which they were made when the buying
season opened.
The total sales for tho twelve months
of 1880 were -, S57 cases, and in the ten
monthes elapsed of 1881 the sales have
been 100, 9G4 cases. With this aggregate
already, it will hc matter for surprise il
the end of the year does not show grand
total of 80, 600 cases sold.