The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-01-16

ToBACC0 EXCHANGE, Jan IS, 1899.
Offerings of tobacco on Change Tues
day, January 49, 1889.
Messrs Carr S Dickcrson offered %
packages West Virginia brighls. prices
ranging from 81 10 SAP twenty-onc
packages for $40 and upwards.
Mr. Silas Shelburne offered rs pack
ages West Virginia brights, prices rang
ing from $3.50 20 S2j, thirteen packages
selling for s, and upwards
The principal bidders az auction sales
to-day were Messrs Allen 81 Gintcr. ".
II. Jones, Dr Il. a Patterson, Strause *
Raab William f. Dibrell, and A T.
Harris
Good colory tobaccos brough~ full
prices
Registered at the Tobacco Exchange
to-day = H. Legg, John Kelley. John
L Bays. &. I. Jones, Fayettc county, W.
Va; Hugh Dinser, Sydney. New South
Wales. James a. Glenn. South Boston;
J.. j. Christian, Chcsterteld Hanson
Hume Bosron, Mass
Messrs Is j. Norris 81 Co. report sale
of fair lot of filters yesterday
A prominent tobacco commission mer.
chant reports to-day "a large shipment of
hrichts 90 North Carolina manufac-
turcr
Messrs Sublcti d Cary report sale on
yesterday of a good lot of smokers
Messr- j VI Conrad Sons report to-
day sale of few hOgsheids Of medium
wrappers and fine filters
A prominent tobacco commission .
house reports sale of a few hogsheads of
cutters and wrappers
Mr. a. r. Gum reports to-day The sale
% q small lot of filters.
A prominent tobacco broker reports
he sale of twenty-five hOgsheads of sun
cured tobacco to-day.
Mr.. Nilas ohelburne reports the sale of
% few h0gsheads of new West Virginia
lngAts 40 private sale to-day He says
Doe has fine break for Tomorrow.
prominent tobacco commission house
reports the sale of wrappers to-day.
Mr.. Thomas A. Davis. of Henderson
y c., is i'm the city and is making the
office of Mr. r. d. Neal, Jr., his head
quarters.
Mr. Davis, in answer 90 questions, said.
The character of the new crop is very
loor excepting that OF Nash county, \.
BE- and three-lOuTths of that has been
Old 10 is the meanest crop Nash
.Ounty's portion always excepted that
nave seen since the tlue-curing process
vas introduced There are no wrappers
30 all, and cutters are very scarce, as will
eadily appear when | tell YOU that as
Ugh as $3.50 is being paid on our mar
set for then"
The tobacco inspectors office reports
.ogsheads opened to-day as follows
SO reinspections, &c.
W e had the pleasure of q chat with our
w. Charles Watkins. who arrived al
.omc yesterday from a trip 20 Henderson,
)Xiord and Durham, North Carolina
u answer 90 interrogatories, Mr. Wat
.ins said As far as l could learn the
Impression in the North Carolina mar
efs is general that the So crop will not
100 amount in p0HHds 10 more than
r3-Mirds of the crop of 1851
Judging from the characteristics OF
eliyer.cs up TO this time. there is
.ss color than has ever been known in
crop in the bright section of North
af0lina ] saw no one on the trip but
.h0 said that The tobacco delivered up
b this time was fully as good if not bet
,r thanl that now in the barns, and the
.asons many gave for these statements
'ere That common tObacces have been r
cling very low, while the brights have {
cen selling very high from the com
lencement of the delivery of the crop q,
ld have steadily adYanced-anything y
ith color bringing extreme fancy 4
rices Farmers, like other prudent peO- y
.e are inclined TO sell that portion of Y
leir crop which commands the highest
ricos. and 10 hold back that which is
ling unusually low, trusting that the y
ture may do something for the common
AIDES
All the interior markets seem to have Z
iyers with large orders for tobaccos x
ith color Cutters on these markets :.
e selling higher than they have done p
nee ! have known anything Of the "
rade
All of the interior markets report A
'cided advance in common goods dur ~
2 the past twenty or thirty days and NJ
was particularly struck with the large ~
Mount of t0baccOs offered on the breaks, a
at showed frost p,
The tObaccos of 1888 growth are much p
ckng in size. What is known as the X
Vas county crop has decidedly the u "a
si color, but is very small in size, p
Do spread OF leaf rry hort r
] heard while in the county of large h
ansaciions in bright tobaccos during r.
q past few days r
to-day were very good One W
irchouse kept six hands busy all day "
ipping.
Total shipments reported to-day was A
D hogsheads C. Mel II
r