The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-05-26
TOBACCO DEPARTMENT.
i RICHMOND. May 25.-No sales Of loos'
.0naccOs u day.


II RICHMOND. May 25.-No sales OF loose
ohaccos to-day.
Offerings of totaccos ut auction on
iJnange to day, Saturday, May % 1857
We e light. u
Office of the United States Collector
Of futerpal Revenue reports soi"'''on,
for the city of Richmond. va. to-aay
a. follows TIA paid on cigars anu
c,aarettes. ssh 90: t9s PAID Oh W
baccos. SifG9SS; tax PAID spec'.,'
Si1j. 80. goal collections Tor ci'y W
day. sf.f275S, for district Tor w Nss
enaIrg Saturday. May 70, 1857 600
$50 20, -.
Farmers Wilson's. Crenshaw s.
shockce. Iayehport's. Old Dominion;
Centre. Seabrcok Blanchard :. ana
Myers warehouses report 6i hogeheads
and 2 lierces delivered to. day.
deliveries Tor week ending Situroay :
Nav 18th. athouhtcd "a o. hog'neaos
and SO tierccs.
'saies reported TO the secretary tVaay
N,ai pors. IL hbds.. filters. W mus
Total sales fepofied to-day % hhds.
SHES Of tobaccos reported 10 the sec
retary for the week ending SATURDAY :
Nav -. 1889: Wrappers. lOo hhds' III
ers. l1a hhds.. cutters. il hhds.' uarh'
100 hhds.: sun-cured. ! mid, Nes'ei"'
Is hhds. Total. 34l hhds.
Salts Of lohaCcos at auction Oh
Charge for the week onnlng Sa'uiusy :
Nav 20. 1850. 1911 bids. Total sales ioi
the week. sos bids.
Registered al the Tobacco tSch'uBe'
j. IL. GRAY. Petersburg. Va.
Office Of the tobacco Inspector IepoI's
today: In.pectiols, 3 h1eshtads' r.
inspections. y hogsheads. For Weeh
ending Nav 18th, 1850: Inspections.
800 hoesheads; reirspection-, l'5 nogS'
heads.
The Ministry OF France to-day award
cd the Italian tob1ccO contract To tne
sane European house which has had IL
for several years past. They are rep
resented in this country ey the hon-e
of ". Abenheim 81 Co.. of New YORK
CITY. and we are glad 10 say that our
Mr.. j. n. Vaughan will continue 10
act as agent for the ab0ve-ramcd New
York house, for the purchase OF the
Virginia portion If the tobacco re-
ouired 10 fill the contract.
Mr.. Silas Sholburne has just returned
from a trip u Southwest Virginia.
East Tenne see aud North Carolina. and
in spes king Of toe places visited, and
of wiat be saw. says: | went inst 10
Southwest Virginia ard found IN that
section that there will be a reTy smdfi
crop planted. In this scc'Ion'
embracing the counties Of Montgomery
FLOYD. etc. planters have been very
greatly discouraged from raising To-
baccos. by reason Of continued failures
Of the crop for some years Iast. ana q
LARGE number have abandoned planting
tot gether.
Further West. about Bristol. East
Ter ressee. the planting viii be rcfY
small. owing 10 the scarcity Of plants
A great many people in TINS secioi
hav, found IT Improbable to continue
the cultivation Of tobacco. IN ii are turn
ing uleir attention 10 other agtlcultu
raj products. The railroads. too, "blcl
are in process Of construction IN TINS
section of country are employing Sc
many hands 40 Co make labor Tor agii
cultural purposes scarce and high. r.
that many planters are dele -r'd iol
want of hands. or the means OF secuf
iug hands. from continuing to plant to
bacco. ard are cndeavOTlng to rals'
corn and provisions. Rom badly needed
IN the Ashcville as. G. }. section 1t Il
exceedingly dry. tobacco plonts are II
great demand and reg scarce, whlcl
preclude the possibility of a fun aver
| age crop. The excessive drouth ant
scarcity Of plants has caused mapl
plan.efs 90 piint their tobacco Ia -ds II
corn.
In the Durham. II. c.. section th
rains have been iigh.. Only about one
talf Of a crop has been planted III ina
section.
Around Oxford aud Henderson the,
nave had fire rains. AID pretty nearly
lfuil crop has been planted in those Ia
lcalitics. | suppose i1ur-lifths OF GRO
has been already planted ia THESE SIC
ions. but even here the crop VIII DC
mcdiam.sizsd one. 'wing T. iii
fact that "a great many OF the MOI
weli-t0-do larmcfs have determine 4.
making smaller crops aDd hymJ Z
IA 1lc better fOjdccOs; while laig
numOer of tho poorer classes ar
too poor TO buy guanos 60 make tooa'
cos. and are endeayoring 20 make cor
and food products instead.
/ found there had been q c0nsiderabl
advance on all Sine upland mar keis' a.
pfices for al grades exceedingly higl
Tie Richmond tobacco mafk'
was fairly active for a Saturday mas
ket. Inquiries reported good.
G.. Mel.
RicnMoyD. Nay 25.-From Oxlor'
n c.. We hear Of good rains. and IN
planters are very tusy setting crop
The storms did TO damage. SD lar.
Dlnviiie still is Suffering Tor want
rains.
3 There WIS confined buyirg Ct ol
warmers on Change to-day. Oth'
3 transactions small. \ most promlnel
(! seller and large stakeholder IN oI
/ b,irhts. reports CONTINUED sales at we
/ advanced prices this week. We ieai
p Of some rich mah0ganies on whlc
! very handsome profits have been !
g fused. after sixty days holding an
, nn,rbase of same. ". +. d.
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