Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-03-06
THE TOBACCO MARKET.
SEED LEAF AND HAVANA.

For the Week Ending Saturday. March
United States Tobacco Journal.
The prevailing feeling of the market is
Total abstinence from "fine'' 80 Pennsyl-
vania. As long a. there is anything else
in the way Of fine wrappers to be had, no
matter in what state they were raised,
they are preferred to what is called '.fine''
Pennsylvania. But the scarcity Of fine
goods in the market, the gradual exhaus-
tion of old stock in jobbers' and manufac-
turers' hands, and the approaching busy
season, viii! push the reluctant buyer on
the, unfortunately inviting, "tine 80
Pennsylvania.
In the meantime 80 Wisconsin and
certain portion of the 80 New York state
stand excellent chances Of profitable dis
posal. Of the latter only packings of uu
doubted reputation find attention, while
packings tainted in reputation by rejec-
tions and rehsndling are absolutely uusala-
BILE. A purchase OF 300 cases of 80 New
York state. part of packing of undOubted
regularity, by o large uptown manufac-
turer, was q notable feature in the market.
The price obtained il quoted at between 16
and 10 cents, though buyer and seller are
reticent as to the figure.
OF 80 Wisconsin about 900 cases found
buyers. A portion Of this was filters for
export. This tobacco is very popular, but
the supply is exceedingly small. In 80
was done. \ few hundred cases of Ohio
were sold for export at 81 cents.
The 'Sl crop, as far as can he judged
just now, is. ON the whole, better crop
than its predecessor. Pennsylvania, which
for good many years past has been tho
leader in the market, may expect to be
deprived ot its iaurels this year by Wis
consin. Though there is q quantity of
really excellent stock in the 'S1 Penn.
sylvania. in fact far superior to the best Of
the prev 'us years crop, the 81 WiscOn
sin shows quantity Of wrappers which,
| in gcueIaI deve elopment and texture, sur
pass anyt', ever produced In the coun-
try. The changeful climate of Wisconsin,
though, may, as it has frequently done,
| interfere with the full maturing Of the
tobacco. Ii it does not, packers Of the
same will make fortunes.
Tic 81 Connecticut seems to- have all
the ,an!t> aud cxcellences of its predeces-
sOrs IEdicat ,ls, however, are that the
colors will run somewhat darker than
usual. From Chic and New York the
reports are, as yG.. very meagre and un-
reliable. For Now York i very sound Leaf
is claimed.
The sales OF the week We specify as fol-
lows:
Pennsylvania-Crop 80: 200 cases !;
filters 64 cents running IL to 1S cents.
Wisconsin-Crop 80: 600 cases filters
4 cents ; running 8 to 10 cents.
New York State-Crop 80: 300 cases !;
| terms private.
Ohio-Crop 80: 300 cases !; filters A
cents running cents.
Havana-Moderately active. Sales, 500
bales, mostly 80. Prices firm.
Gans's Report.
| Sales.of s"ed leaf tobacco reported by
J. s. GaDs's Son Il Co.. tobacco brokers,
No. 131 Watc: street, New York, for the
week enGiDs iiarch 6, 1882.
| 700 case $3.50 RESPONSIBILITIES, 81 to
| II WRAPPERS. to II cents. 315 cases 1880
State Flats. assorted. p. t.. 400 cases 1880
Ohio-fillers, 4! to A., sorted, 6 to 81. 200
cases 1880 Pennsylvania-fllers, 6 to 81,
assorted. 20 to II. so cases 1880 New
England wrappers, 10 to s.. Total 1,eso
| cases.