The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-09-18
TOBACCO DEPARTMENT.

RICHMOND. September l7.-Offerings
OF tobacco at auction on Change to-
day, September 18th. 1899: Total offer
ings, 20 packages. Highest price. $50.
Nineteen packages brought under 81, Of
which were taken in.
Private sales reported to the secre.
tary to-day: Wrappers, Is hogsheads;
filters, hogsheads: scrap. hogs
heads; burleys. 1 hogshead; dark to-
baccos, 3 hogsheads. Total sales re-
ported to the secretary to-day, 81
hogsheads.
Registered at the Tobacco Exchange:
c. +. Thomas, Lynchburg: ID. c. Jack
son, Lynchburg. Lawrence. Lamb.
Memphis, Tenn; T. A. Lamb. Memphis,
Tenn; 4. II. Walton. Florence, Ala.
A. Knox Gore, King George county.
Office of the tobacco inspector re-
ports to-day: Inspections, bright, "A
hogsheads; dark, 80 bogshesds
western, IS hogsheads. Re-inspections,
bright, 10 hogsheads; dark, 20 hogs
heads.
Office Of the Collector of the United
States Internal Revenue reports collec.
tons for the city of Richmond TO-DAY
as follows: Tax paid cigars and cigar
cites, S6Ss. 30; tobacco, 1886 SO: spe-
cial, SO 40. Total collections for city
to-day, sS,05l.63.
Farmers, Shockoe, Blanchard's, Da-
venuorts. Allegheny. Crenshaw 5.
Seabrooke S, Planters and Merchants,
Old Dominion, and Myers warehouses
report 70 hogsheads, tierces, and !
box delivered to day.
HARMONY, HALIFAX COUNTY. VA,
September ID, 1889. !
Dear Sir,-In reply to your inquiry, |
have within the last thirty days had an
opportunity Of seeing the growing crop
Of tobacco in the border counties, from
Granville, n. c.. to the mountains. in
Guiding the best bright tobacco section,
which includes Person. Caswell. Buck
ingham, Guiford, n. c., and Pittsylva-
MIA and Halifax, Va. On account Of
scarcity of provisions, owing to short
crops last year, scarcity Of labor. and
means TO farm on, | do not consider in
the first place there was more than %
per cent. of crop planted, and Of that
IS per cent, owing to the excessive
rains and freshets. there will be more
than from 50 to 60 per cent in weight
in pounds.
As to color there is. or will be If the
season continues as favorable as up to
this time), larger per cent. OF brights
OF poor, thin tobacco than i'll any crop
in my recollection-say some 20 per
cent. OF smokers and about the same of
cutters. and 10 or 20 per cent of yellow
wrappers. and the remainder Of monde
script smoker-trash, &c.
As to tough filters and navy wrap
pers. think there will be but q small
per cent, say 10 per cent. Of each.
Really, | see very little that promises
these grades.
If it is seasonable from now out, ana
we have late frost, some Of the late
planting may make some pretty good
tobacco of these grades, but the pros
pect does not look that way now.
The tobacco on the hill is not grow
ing any. it is rather going back, from
the dry season we are having at this
time think about half Of the crop
has been cut. and the best half. What
has been cut was not, as general
thing, ripe. 1t has been Cur because
it cured ysllole, or bright, easily, and
the farmers were fearful it might set
in wet, and the tobacco would take a
second growth, and could not be cured
bright. For that reason, and the small
growth generally Of the crop. put II
down at fifty or sixty per cent. Of over
fifty per cent. J. and owing TO the TIM
ness of the leaf, 1t cures brighf 80 easy
We cannot have tough filters and good
navy wrappers without body, which the
tobacco this year has not, and there Is
hardly any gum in it.
| think what | have stated TO you
as TO the counties | have been through.
will be the character of nearly all the
yellow tobacco belt east Of the noun
tains.
have no late information from and
know nothing of the tobacco cropin the
North Carolina counties west OF the
mountains. VERY respectfully.
lSigned. WIN. II. FAULKNER
The Richmond tobacco market was
quiet to-day. {. Mel.
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