Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-02-13
THE TOBACCO MARKET.
SEED LEAF AND HAVANA.

For the Week Ending Saturday, February !
L. S. Tobacco journal.
An improvement was noticeable in our
market this week. Large manufacturers
however, still complain Of the absence Of
orders Of magnitude, and consequently
they are not inclined to make investments
in leaf. They all complain bitterly of the
yield of the 80 Pennsylvania. While this
tobacco is of most excellent quality, the
tenderness and Indifferent colors have
made it a most expensive article to the
manufacturers. The enormous business
done by them last year was thought to
have been accompanied by corresponding
profit, but the poor yield of the wrappers
of the crop in question increased SO greatly
the cost of cigars, that in many cases the
boastel profits proved unreal. II is one
Of the mysteries of the cigar manufactur
my business that the manufacturer
hardly ever knows the cost OF his
goods till the end of tho year. when
he figures up his profits and losses, and
takes an accounting of his stock of leaf
Holders of the balance of the 80 Penn
sylvania can be but Indifferent to the feel
ing against this stock entertained by mai
ufacturers. The time when the 81 Penn
sylvania can be of service is too far OFF to
make the crop a competitor with the OLD
one, and with the revival of activity
among manufacturers the remnants of the
80 Pennsylvania will find buyers. rcluc
tam though they may be 10 take it. o;
the 80 Connecticut 10 large stock is left
in our market, and gradually it is moving
off. This stock, magnificent in
looks and in quality, is and, it seems.
always will be, the favor!te of the
the medium and small class of manufacture
crs. The cause of this is found in the un
reliability of the 80 Connecticut in burn
ing. Ono case may be faul;less in burn
ing, while another one, identical in III
most all other respects with the first,
proves quite unreliable rs regards burning.
This is the main reason why that a certain
class Of manufacturers. who select ease ~
case, invest in the so Connecticut.
The 80 New York Big Flats is rs ur-
popular IS ever. With the exception ci
one packing of several hundred eases,
held by the Lachenbruchs, of Water
street, and which is an exception to the
rule. this stock is 4 first class fraud. Hs
clumsy trickery and the aid of tunilry
brokers, one house in the city holding very
large quantities have tried time and again
to make it appear as if they were $ciiiiG
this stock in large lots to .iobhng houses
and manufacturers. and tia; the balance
was something the manufacturers shcm!d
rush for at once. or lose a fine chance forever
The facts are that those WHO bon .,lt #
returned it. or as much Of it - iliey posi-
bly, could. Owing 10 rs unrcliabilit, ri
burning and naStincss ni roior AID flavor
it is what is commonl, called -, sticirr.
The people who, under the suise I'll A.
sumed responsibility, resort to low com
mercial jugglery to fuist a yalGclc&S. Lnt
to say dangerous, article upon iluSli>jcrt
ing manufacturers and iObbtrS, and ti.r!..
by probably cause their ruin, are II" hcitci
than the % stool pigeons OF Il inw 'N;:t-
ham street dive.
The little that Is left al lne 50 '.iiih AMI
Wisconsin sells very easily at mHie;:,;,'
figures.
The sales of the week ran as follows
Pennsylvania-Crop so: 800 cas-. :,
low, 12t to Is cents; medium, Il I" y
cents.
Connecticut-Crop 80: "An c..~e-s
mostly wrappers, 80 to 4J ceut<.
Wisconsin-Crop 80 go ca,,-s - IL
lG cents.
Ohio-Crop 80: zoo cases. 6! to II
cents.
Market very active. Choice goods. al
.shich there is but a limitc! quantity i'll
the market, find eager buyers, especially
among Western jobbers and ,nanutactur-
ers In the city the late auction SALE
have somewhat filed up a certain cla3s ut
manufacturers and ,iobbe.s. bat the great
reduction in the stock OF iina goods t:v
market has experienced 10y the rcstructi..
fire couaterbalanccs this. and importers
holding serviceable stock are very firm III
prices, expecting i not incansiderablc i;;sc
in values before long.
Gans's Report.
Sales Of seed leaf tobacco reported b.
J. S. Gans's Son d Co.. tobacco brokers,
No. 131 Water street, New York, inr the
week ending Feb. 13, 1882
500 cases 1880 Pennsylvania, assorted,
10 to IS.
24s cases 1890 New England, wrappers,
1G to 81.
Sc cases 1880, Wisconsin, heavy and
broad leaf, 81 to II.
80 cases 1880, state p. t.
100 cases 1880, Ohio, 4! to:
Total. ,774 cases.