The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-03-24
TOBACCO DEPARTMENT.


Registered at the Tobacco Exchange
Ro. lIaskins, Durham, y. C.; +. Martini
Allegheny, Va; W. W. Netherland, Hen
rico county; NJ. p Jordan, J. G. Swain
Dauyille; Frank Coleman, Winston, y
10.
The Office of United States Collector
OF Internal Revenue reports collections
FOR the city of Richmond to-day as fol-
lows Tax paid on cigars and cigarettes,
SO, 1885; paid on tobaccos, n, $40 65
total collections for city to-day, 50, 66s, 60
Total collections for the district for week
ending Saturday, March %, 1889, Sil ;.
1881.
The office of Tobacco Inspector re.
ports for yesterday Inspections. i0l
hogsheads; reinspections, 100 hogsheads
For to-day Inspections, "a hogs
heads; reinspections, - hogsheads.
For the week ending Saturday. March
23d Inspections, asp hogsheads; rein.
speclions, 4,3 hogsheads.
Sales of tobacco reported to the sec
rotary to-day Wrappers "a hogsheads.
filters, hogsbeads; cutters, 81 hogsheads,
dark, y hogsheads; Western, 5 hogsheads.
Total sales to-day, l0l hogshesds
Sales for week, ending Saturday,
March %, 1850: Wrappers, 3ll hogsheads:
oilers, 1873 hogsheads; smokers, Is hogs
heads; cutters, III hogsheads; dark. l6S
hogsheads; West Virginia brghts, @
hogsheads; sun cured, 30 hogshesds;
Western, II hoqsheads. Total sales for
week, 700 hogsheads.
Shockoe, Blanchards. Davenport :.
Centre, and Old Dominion warehouses re-
/ port deliveries to-day So hogsheads.
Deliveries from the several warehouses
for week ending Saturday, March 2Sd
4 1889, ,23j htds., 10 tics, boxes
The deliveries for the past week have
been heavy. The sheds az the dock Of
the Old Dominion Steamship Company,
about : O'Clock on yesterday, presented
the appearance of tobacco ware
house. There were so many packages
delivered there that 1t was fosnd neces-
sary to rio them hree and four high as
they do in the warehouses in order 10
store them temporarily, and At one time
the steamship company stopped receiy-
ing hogsheads OF tobacco. Ii is estimated
that between four hundred and five
/ hundred hogsheads of tobacco We're
shipped 10 New York by Yesterdays
steamship, and Tuesdays steamer Will
/ probably carry a. many more. With
such shipments our stocks must show a
very considerable reduction in the next
monthly report of our tobacco inspector
From conversation with members of
the Trade and from my know ledge of
the shipments | am satisfied that there is
not now In the stocks ION the Richmond
market of North Carolina and Virginia
fue-cured tobaceos, consisting Of wrap
psrs. hllers, cutters and smokers, over
5000 to $500 packages, the balance of
the stock being made up OF Virginia
dark and Western tobaccOs, and of ihes.
5000 hogsheads "A large percentage
common, nondescript and undesirable
tobaccos, and the percentage of the de-
sirable working tobaccos is smaller at
this time than they were ever known to
be in the history Of the Richmond mar
ket
( With the unprecedentedly small per.
centage of bTtghts in the 1883 crop, ii
would seem that there must, by the law
OF supply and demand be very much
higher prices for all so9ory old fright
stocks. O
From all the information can gather
/ from correspondents and from converse.
tlons with people from various sections
OF the fright t05tcc0 districts, ] am satis-
fed that the 1883 crop VIII not average
more than from 80 to 0j per cent a.
many puma as did the 1857 crop.
In making this statement, IL must
be remembered that the tobaccos
of last year are unVsually stoH and saod,
and that laIgs pr0portion Of the crop
was on the hills when the frost came and
cut IT, and much Of II so damaged that il
will never be marketed at all, which of
course lessons the number of pounds
that will be received on the several mar.
/ kets c. Mel.
/ From an editorial in the Cincinnati,
/ o., WesteTn Tobacco Journal il appears
that the old county hurley planters and
those who in Lexington lately agreed
upon a fifty per cent. reduction OF the
crop, have only regarded the resolutions
theoretically, and hence preparations in
| plant.beds are already about a. large as
usual while in the new and fresh hurley
sections there will be large increase IN
planting The one great difficulty j. in
reaching the planter, who takes no pa
pers that keep him posted on the iObac-
co situation, which IS ever changing.
As the new crop prices now and here
after depend much on the preparations
/ tor another crop, it car but be lett 10 the
/ planters to discern what effects an in.
! l.. r.fa nF q
/ planting will have on prices; and even II
the crop should be cut short late after
planting, the depression beforehand will
be adverse to planters on the 1888 hold
/ ings Ii looks more like the planter
West had formed combination 10 keep
prices low; for if the manufactures and
dealer finds the prospect for getting to-
5accO in any quantity wanted, at any
time needed, such will surely make no
effort 10 buy till the time for actual de-
mand comes, and this will cause con-
tinued low prices.
The alliances seem to have little effect
in crop reduction, though agreeing
freely upon this policy as best for The
planter we can only wait and see
In Virginia and North Carolina it is ei
too early to make any predictions or TO
foresee any special crop features.
Several large Western factories have
advanced the price of plug from two to
three cent. per pound.
ESLARGISG, &c.
D. S. Gotten i Co., Detroit, Mich, ART
enlarging their already very large nne
cut, smoking and plug factory.
We call attention 10 this increase IN
business in the Northwest because il
shows what might be done more adyan'
tageously here and yet, compared 10 IA
cilities OF other places, Richmond IS be-
hind the world in smoking tobacco fac
tories. There ought to be many, or, bet
ter still, one or two mammoth smoking
and ine.cut factories here \ Joint stock
company would pay well. We find al
present the big factories at Durham, st
Louis, Chicago, Detroit, Mich, &c.-mos
of them far away from the centres Of pro
duction, and yet prospecting and enlarging
There is big field and opening for pro
fits in large smoking factory here, Will
needed capital to compete with othel
points. and At less cost Of raw materia
and labor. W. L. u.