Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-01-22
THE TOBACCO MARKET.
For the Week Ending saturday, January
20. 10 A. M.-ln New YSrk-The
Local Outlook

For the Week Ending saturday. January
20, 10 A. M.-ln New YSrk-The
Local Outlook.
U. S. Tobacco Journal.
There is no change to report. There
were a number of prospective buyers in
the market there were some packers of
'81 Pennsylvania, that slyly limited of hav,
ing made some very satisfactory sales :;
there we're some manufacturers who brag-
ged of having bought 81 Pennsylvania
tor 10 cents, and that they could have
bought it cheaper if they only had had the
heart to make offers. Some whose credit
would cover 25 cases, insinuated that they
had made offers on several thousand cases
of this and that crop, and some said that
there wasn't anything in the market tit to
buy.
Seemingly more business was done than
We are able to report to day but as We
are not on detective duty We give what we
believe to be facts.
There were sales as follows
Penusylvania-Crop 80 : 500 cases, at
s. to - cents.
New York-Crop 81 45O cases Big
Flats, at 9 to 12 cents.
Connecticut-Crop ST: $50 cases :;
seconds IA cents wrappers % cents.
Ohio-Crop 81 200 cases, st 81 to :
cents.
Sumatra-Market vely active. Itseems
as if everybody is and has been providing
himself with Sumatra in order to be ahead
of an increased tariff or to balk any high
notions on tho part of the seed leaf trade
Sales number about 800 bales at from 81
to 81 .35.
Some large sized, dark, but dry. colored
Java was sold at 95 cents to s1.O5.
Havana-very active. Sales 800 bales.
Prices unchanged.
Cans Report.
Sales of seed leaf tobacco reported by j.
S. Cans Son IL Co.. tobacco brokers, No.
131 Water street, New York, for the week
ending Jan. %, 1888:
500 cases 1880 and 1881 state, 9a14
$50 cases 1881, New England, 1926
400 cases 1880. Pennsylvania, 64@12 200
cases 1880 and 1881 Ohio, 1857. Total,
1850 cases.
The Philadelphia Market.
Tobacco Leaf.
Seed Leaf-Cigar leaf of all kinds shows
steady increase at very far figures, but
the demand is largely confined to wrap.
pers. Pennsylvania 1881 crop begins ia
show such quality that it is gradually
coming to the front; York state Havanna
seed follows close behind. Packers report
'82 Pennsylvania as excellent in some
localities, but not generally o. X. Stock
in hands of our dealers here is we'll select
ed, and of such character that trade
must follow sooner or later. Prices are
held very steady by owners. Outlook is
favorable.
The Local Tobacco Market.
The sales of 1880 and 1881 leaf during
the past week foot up about 300 cases
terms private.
The transactions in 1882 have been
limited. Farmers hold out for old prices
and packers insist on reduction. The
trade continues to DO depressed, also,
| by the uncertainty as to what the action
of Congress may he relative to the repeal
of the internal tax on tobacco, and the
| imposition of a prohibition tax
on that bugaboo," Sumatra leaf.
If Congress would simply say that
the internal tax shall be repealed or re
Guced, and that the tariff on Sumatra
shall be increased, or shall not be in
creased, dealers and manufacturers would
know what to do, but as Congress-, as
usual, don't know what to do, the to.
bacco trade languishes. The Republicans,
Who are in the majority, seem to be di-
vided in opinion as to the propriety or
necessity OF a change in the present law,
and the Democrats, who will be in ma
jority in the next House, appear to be
willing to wait, and thus claim whatever
glory there may be in the repeal Of the
obnoxious tax.
On Saturday there We're some deliverie.
of 1882 leaf at few of the packing houses
in this city, but it was nothing to compare
with the deliveries Of former years. 1t i.
estimated that scarcely more than 3 3,O0'
cases Of the 1882 crop of this county have
yet been sold while this time last year fully
10000 cases of the crop of 1881 had beer
bought.