Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-05-11
TRADE IN OLD TOBACCO
NOR rkRi tCTIrE, KirHER ~ LUuiL
or DISTANT MsRkETs
Two Hundred cases 50 About the Total Trans
actions ncre--A Comparison OF Last Years
Busine.s In New work. with That of 1856.
Cnutiouirg Country Cigarmakcrs

The local trade during the past week con.
sists of the sale of about 200 cases of old to-
hsccO. To this must be added the reported
sale Gin New York; of LOCO eases of ~ Ian
caster county Leaf, alleged to have been
packed by II. Ledermau and ex.Cougress-
man Smith in the spring of lisa, at a cost of
no less than l5cents pound, marked weight,
and now sold by Mr., Lederman to Lewis
Rremer's Sons, Philadelphia, at 9lg cents re.
weight, entailing loss of about slj,OOO
1t il proper to state that ex Congressman
Smith denies that he ever had any connection
with Mr.. Lederman in packing tobacco.
In connection with the above story the l..
N Tobacco Journal reports that NJ. II. Levin,
of New York, an extensive tobacco packer,
lost $500 ON packing of 1000 cases of 81
Wisconsin which cost him over - cents a
pound and which he sold the other day to
Schroeder 4 Bon at lOig cents, J. :. Cans,
son Il Co acting rs the brokers.
AS the last named firm make no mention
of these large sales and heavy losses in the
weekly report of the New York marke ct
furnished by them for the lNTELLTGE>CEK
and printed below, the alleged sales are
probably spocryPhal or at least greatly
exaggerated.
The only other sensation in the local trade
| is the burning OF cigar factory in Strasburg,
reported elsewhere, and tho increasing
| strength of the tigarmakers' / Mon of TINS
| city.
\ correspondent writing from Watson,
| town, Northumberland, states that there Is
for sale in the vicinity of that town about :,
tons OF Old and go tons of new tobacco botr
seed leaf and Havana seed, none of which
is more than one and a.hali miles from tn,
| railroad depot, and an hours drive vii
| reach the entire lot II might be worth
| while for Lancaster dealers and manutaC
| turers 10 take look at it.
The New York NarEst.
Notwithstanding the 1000 cases above
! mentioned as having reen sold last week tn,
organs of the tobacco trade report trade a
very dull. The TOhucro Journal saws Z"
few hundred cases of low grade ~ Wiscon
sin was sold for export at from to s., cents
For the home trade the demand, Will
| somewhat better, showed a slight improve
| ment, resulting in sales Of about 500 cases
mostly in small purchases. The prices ar
virtually unchanged excepting for old coars
| filters, which command excellent figures
running As high as - cents"
OF Sumatra tobacco from loo To- us bale
were sold at sL5WG L15, and 80 To $40 bale
OF Havana oilers at 60 10 SL2U.
Cans Weekly Report.
Sales Of seed leaf tobacco reported uv ]. :
Cans Son X Co, tobacco brokers, NO T.
Water street, New York, tor the week end
ing May 10, 1856:
400 cases lSSi Wisconsin Havana. ). 10. c
| - cases lSSS do. Sc; 800 cases l~>G Penu,y
vania, sl3@llc.: 100 cases ls>I do. Havar
seed, =. L; 80 cases l-oJ do. seed leaf, : &C
| 30 cases lS-J ONO do. p. t.; $50 cases -
New England Havana, l5Ct2Oc.: 80 cast
snndries, 4 "a -OC Total, l,3.l5 cases.
sales of seed Leaf IN New York In April
From the Tobacco Leaf
As will be seen below, the sales OF see
leaf in this city, as reported, in April we
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