The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-03-31
TOBACCO DEPARTMENT

REcHMOSD. March 30.-No sales oil
loose tobaccos TODAY.
Sales Of loose tobacco for week ending
March 3oth, 1889, amounted 10 lis, 49t
pounds. Highest price for the week. $l3
Soles Of loose tobaccos for the month
ending March goth, 1882 amounted to
62J.3S pounds
sales of loose tobaccos for six months
ending March Slst, 1889; amounted TO g.,
s,j,4S5 pounds.
No sales Of tobacco at auction OF
Change to-day.
Registered a, the Tobacco Exchange
\. I. Leftwilch, Baltimore; Walter But
Ter, p. Boydell, London, England; Alex.
ander Harthili, Louisville. Ky; B. II
Cozart, Oxford, y C.; b. W. Andrews,
Lunenburg.
Office of the tobacco inspector reports
to-day: Inspections, IA hogsheads; re-
inspections, hogsheads. For week, in
spections, 4iG re-inspections, $50 hogs
/ heads.
Office of United States Collector Of In
ternal Revenue reports collections for the
city OF Richmond today as follows: Tax
paid on cigars and cigarettes, S46sS on
to5accos, S3.53096 on sundries, 1897.
Total collections for the city to-day, 81
Dos ~ for the district for week ending
saturday, March 80. 1889. amounted to
S3j,50j
Sales of tobaccos reported to the sec
rotary TO day Wrappers, Is hogsheads /;
oilers, @ h0gsheads; smokers. 5 hogs
heads; sun-cured, II hogsheads West
ern, IS hogsheads Total sales reported
today, 50 hogsheads.
Sales for week ending March 30. 1889 /:
Wrappers, 824 hogsheads; filters, IS
hogsheads smokers, 10 hogsheads cut
lers, 81 hogsheads; dark, % hogsheads
and boxes; West Virginia brights, 2
hogsheads sun-cured, 80 hogsheads ;
Western. IS hogsheads Total sales for
week, 5ii hogsheads.
Crenshsw's, Planters shockoe, Blanch-
ard 5, Dayenporl's, Centre, Myers, Sea.
brooks, Old Dominion and Shelburne's
warehouses report deliveries to-day of
62 hOgsheads, tierces and boxes.
Deliveries for the week ending Satur.
day, March 80, 1889, amounted to 62S
hogsheads, ( tierces and boxes
The following named tobacco commits
sion merchants, 10 wit Messrs VI. L..
Smith K Co., sirause & Raab, W G.. Mil
Ter, Darlington & Co., K. J.. Norris e
Co, J.. NJ. Griffin & Co., A. Il. Gum, L.
d. Neal, Jr, T. J. Parrish & Co., Silas
Shelbuinc, Charles Watkins & Co., Ar
ringtons * Scott, K. G. Morton & Co. re
port their holdings of oN and douJis old
fue-cured and bright type tobsccos a.
follows
Wrappers lall crades). s97 hhds.; fill
ers lcommon), 0l9 hhds cutters, 4O7
hhds.; smokers, 93j hhds.; common ex-
port hugs, so bids; primings, ? hhds;
rotten tobaccos. hhds.; strips II hhds.;
SCRAP, 100 Ehds.; trash, % hhds; total,
1888 hhds.
The foregoing is a carefully complied
statement, and includes tObaccOs of all
ages, except new. and Of all grades, and
shows the correctness of the estimate Of
the old stock on the Richmond market,
Z. e., that there are about 600 hogsheads
Of OH GQs-cured and bright tgpe tobacc0s
in our warehouses. OF which fully one
halt is not on the marke; for sale, being
in The hands Of consumers.
This shows a strong position for all
desirable colory tobaccos in the old
stocks left on the markets for sale. A
very small years supply, as all will al
nit, and manufacturers everywhere are
busy, many having orders ahead of their
capacity to fiji, and taking all these
things into consideration, [ am conf
dent OF an active and higher market for
the year
The present stocks OF tobaccos in the
several warehouses In the city of Rich
mond are estimated TO be about Is 900
hogsheads. Of these 1000 to 1900
hogsheads are dark Virginia and West.
ern tObaccOs The balance of the stock
say 5000 TO 1000 hogsheads, are Of the
hue-cured or bright type, and OF this
latter class | believe there are all of
5000 10 $500 hogsheeds stored here in
the Richmond warehouses for local and
foreign manufacturers, and which will
never come on the market for salc until
after IL has been manufactured, which
leaves for future wants 5000 to $500
hogsheads Of the hue-cured or bright
type t0baccOs, which is decidedly the
smallest stock we have had of this class
Of tOJaccOs since 1882.
These facts do not justify the state
ment 30 often made, that Virginia fill
lers are rot appreciated by the manufac-
turers and consumers, as the stocks Of
this class Of tobacco are rery right, and
| can unhesitatingly say that there have
been more Virginia filters used in the
past eighteen months than in any SINH
lar period since the war, and a. proof Of
this, / refer TO the collections Of the In
ternal Revenue Department for Win
s,on. Martinsyille. Reidsyille, Danville,
Lynchburg, and Richmond, and in addi-
ton it is said by our own manufacturers
that 10 portions OF the South and South
west, where two years ago hurley lobac-
cos were taking such a strong hold, there
is now p decided tendency to come back
to the consumption OF Virginia filters.
] had the pleasure of meeting Mr.. A.
4 Leftwich at the office of Mr. I. ID.
Neal, Jr. Mr.. Leftwich IS one Of the
most prominent tobacco brokers In the
city OF Baltimore, Md.
The Richmond tobacco market was
quiet to-day, though the presence OF
many tobacco men from other markets
indicate good inquiry and a very healthy
condition Of things. c. Mel.