The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-09-20
TOBACCO DEpARTM ENT.

RICHMOND. September i0.-OGerinGs
OF tobacco at auction on Change
Thursday, September l9ih. 1889: Total
offerings, 4S packages. of which 33
packages were sun-cured and 1 packages
OF dark tobacco. and II were bright.
or the sun cured tobacco: One
package sold at so 80. one at
$l4. one AZ $3.50. one at Si025. one
AZ 80, one at 81 %. two at s.. one at
$3.50. two at S6.2j, twenty-five brought
under Sc. four dark sold. highest prics.
$3.50. eleven brights, highest price.
Sl4j0.
Private sales reported to the score.
tary to-day: Wrappers. 70 hogsheads;
filters, Al hogsheais; smokers. 3 hogs-
head; burleys, II hogsheads: dark to-
baccOs lGl hogsheads. Total sales re-
ported 10 the st cretary to-day, 234 hogs
heads.
Office Of the Collector Of the United
States Internal Revenue reports collie
lions for the city Of Il chmOrd u day
as follows. Tax PAID cigars and cigar
cites. $50; tobacco. S2.JOj 30: 50 cial,
Sl0.S7 Total collections for city to day,
%. 4Ol %.
Farmers. Shockoe. Blanehard's. Cen
tire. Crenshaw Is and SeabrOok' 5 Ware
houses report 50 hogsheads delivered
to day.
Registered a. the Tobacco Exchange:
w. +. Gillian. Farmviile; ". ID Jones.
Petersburg; Ro. Hassins. Durham: j
A. Smith, Blackstone: NJ. T. Mcdowell.
PhiladelDhia: W. G. Reed. Norfolk.
Mr. William Kirg. Jr.. Of Lyschburg.
is In Richmond. His headquarters are
nj the Office of Me,srs. L. {. Morton <
Co.
J.. b Vaughan, Of Vaughan & Sar-
way, just returned from his trip up the
James River Valley, says that from all
he could gather from planters. com
mission merchants and dealers ID Lynch
burg that not more than thr,e-fourihs
Of last year crop viii be raised. and
that there is less old stocks Ia the coun-
icy in the farmers hands than for many
years, and that between half and thsec- /
fourths Of the crop around Lgnchburg |
has been cut. Receipts in LyrchbuIG /
very light. generally Of inferior. ard +
unsOuud tObaccOs. but little of the new 1
offering.
my Dear Sir.-You are making son .
enquiry concerning the growing to- /
bacco crop. and in reply | have TO say /
that | have Travelled through the to.
blcco section. and from my personal
observation and from all the iulorma-
ton ! can gather, the new groNth is F
"A small crop. A very
small crop was planteJ-nOt more than
half crop. compared even with the
crop of last year.
AS to co.cy pliers, they cannot be
had, the crop beng light and choDy
crop.
There will BE- but few mohoyuy.
lcr0ppcrs, ii any. as it u poor and
hight crop, though the c0iOr Is t0leIaby
good in this section.
Signed u. d. WALKER"
DdVSrHic. ~ C.
The Iomahuck Of Henderson. h. c..
Of yesterday says:
The warehOu SEES Yesterday were
moderately full. and. We think. there
was some more animation in tine mar
ket. li0st of our buyers have recently
made shipments which gives them room
to- handle. and several who were vlr-
tdiil vi iilf Iu4l htA i'N Ntf - NN's 40 '
now lively bidders. We think ans rel-
sOnable man will be satisfied with Che
price tobocco is bringing here at pro,
ant.
Since Saturday morning the ship
ncnts OF tobacco from here amount 90
over three hundred h0g-hoads. nearly T
Two hundred OF which were consigned ;
10 Allen q Ginior, Richmond. bg tie.r
agents here. The crop is coming il 800
-apidly. buyers find they have % make
shipments az fas' as possible On account
IF room. We have had a considerable F.
quantity Of Old red tobacco on lho mar
Set the past two weeks, mostly badly T,
When any sound Or d6-ir-
able red stock comes here, there i-a
lively competition for IL
The Richmond tobacco market wa-4
active to-day. with good sales of 0l
fright ard 1913 daIk tob4Ccos. Total ,
"a hogsheads. G.. Mol.