Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-04-18
THE TOBACCO MARKET,
SEED LEAF AND HAVANA,

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For the Week Ending Saturday, April Is,
10 a. II.
United States Tobacco journal.
A cloud of melancholy hovers over our
leaf market. No stir, no excitement, no
buyers and even but few sellers. Not
withstanding the dullness of trade in Leaf,
for the past few months stocks have con-
tinued to get smaller and beautifully less
by degrees. A correct computation of
the stocks of leaf tobacco in our market is
impossible, but q general estimate will
hardly yield an exhibit of over 10000
eases. OF these there are about 5000
New York state, 5000 Pennsylvania, 5000
Connecticut and 2,0O0 Ohio and Wiscon.
sin. Even if there should be . continu-.
alton Of comparative inactivity during the
next three months the natural consump-
1ion will almost clear our market of old
tobacco.
Immediately upon the settlement of the
tax and tenement-hOuse cigar manufactur-
ang questions, the manufacturers of cigars
will, it is safe to say, leap into prosperity
far greater than any records of the past
show. The stock of cigars on hand all
over the country has dwindled down to
very small proportions. The consumption
Of cigars has and is increasing daily.
Stocks of leaf in hands of manufacturers
are small also. Consequently the outlook
for the leaf market is exceedingly bright,
and packers of most of the '81 tobaccos
are counting their unmatched chickens
with admirable GOODNESS. Nothing can
shake the expectations of packers of '81
Wisconsin that their stock will be in the
lead and throw every manufacturer who
merely glances at the samples into state
of absolute bewiIderment, admiration and
enthusiasm. Packers of '81 Pennsylvania
are seriously contemplating the widening
OF their store entrances, so as to avoid in
juries to the lives and limbs of tho manu.
facturers who they believe will rush upon
them in crowds. There are also packers
of the 81 New York state who cannot be-
lieve other wise than that their stock is
worth its weight in gold.
Positive it is that all of these three crops
contain a certain amount of leaf than
which none better ever was raised in this
country. Holders of 'S1 Connecticut pre-
serve an air of Indifference. They are sure
Of the sale of their stock whether business
is good or bad. Connecticut is Connecti.
cut, and as long as it has not too great AN
amount of white veins and it is not too
light in color, its old patrons will take it,
even il Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and state
arc wonderful in all respects. From pack
ers of 'S1 Ohio. also, no great boasts are
being heard. Perhaps their Sc Cinderella
will be queen this year. Who can tell /?
The sales of leaf il our market during
the past week were as follows
New England-Crop '81: 800 cases,
mostly wrappers, 25 to 40 cents.
Pennsylvania-Crop 81 200 cases,
wrappers, 30 to S5 cents.
Ohio-Crop 'S1 900 cases, partly for
export, 44 to o. cents.
Havama-Market active Sales 1000
bales nca,ly all Remedies. Prices firm.
Cans Report.
Sales of seed leaf tobacco reported by
}. S. Gans's Son s. Co., tobacco brokers,
No. 131 Water street, New York, for the
week ending April II, 1882:
91S cases 1880 Ohio-fillers to Al, as
assorted 81 to 81, wrappers 9 to 13; 200 cases
1SS0Pennsylvania' 6 to IS $50 cases 1880
New England-wrappers, 13 to 35; 100
cases 1850 State, p. t. $50 cases 1880
Wisconsin, Havana seed, 9 to 124. Total,
1918 cases.
The Local Market
The market has been very quiet for a
week. The demand for low grade old to-
bacco continues, but there have not been
many sales-the whole probably aggre-
eating less than 200 cases, aud these on
private terms. Holders of old tobacco.
which is getting scarce, appear to think
there will be rise in prices and refuse to
entertain offers except they be very good
ones. They have also confidence that
their purchases of new tobacco even at
the prices paid, will turn out we'll, and
this confidence is increased by the avidity
with which moro tarty buyers are now
picking up what is left Of the crop of
1881.
AS yet nothing of any account has been
done towards the preparation of the
ground for the coming crop. Reports
from the country are to the effect that
though some seed beds were ruined by the
late freeze, most Of them escaped injury,
being we'll protected by canvas or other
covering. A few farmers have plowed
their ground, but most of them are wait
ing for milder and more favorable weather
than has yet prevailed.