The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-08-21
TOBACCO DEPARTM ENT.

RICHMOND, August 90 Sales Of to.
bacco at auction on Change Monday,
August 20, 1889:
Total offerings 10 hogsheads dark
tobacco. D hcgsheals offered. highest
price. 50: bright tobaccos, , hogshea4s
offered. package taken in at Sil.j0.
] do. at $40; do. at = 20: do. under
81.
Pirate sales reported to the secre-
taiy: Wrappers, 8 hogsheads, filters,
80 hOgsheads: smokers, 10 aOgsheads:
cutters, lG hogsheads scrap . hogshead &.
Total sales reported to-day 70 hogs
heads.
Farmers, Wilson's S. ShockOe. Blanch-
ard 5, Davenport s. Centre, Crenshaw S
and Old Dominion warehouses report
66 hogsheads and tieIces delivered to-.
day.
Office Of the Tobacco Inspectors re-
ports to-day inspections Bright. 70
hcgshoads: dark, 2G hogsheads. Rein
speciions. Bright. $ hogsheads; dark, 81
hoGsheads.
Office Of HE Collector of the United
States Internal Revenue reports collec-
tions for the city Of Richmond to-day
as follows. Tax paid on list. 1920;
on cigars aud cigarettes, 50 3l2 10: ON
tobaccOs. s. 37l 0S. special, SO o.. To-
tai tax collected. = 703.4j.
Registered at the Tobacco Exchange:
l.. r. Gooch. Henderson. y. c., X. q.
Eubank. Virginia; r. ID. Robards. Hen
dersOn. Ky: a l.. Parrish, GO0chland,
Va: j. NJ. Iludgin, Caroline. Va.
Mr.. J. d. Robards, president Of the
Richards q Kichell Tobacco Manufac-
turing Company of Henderson, Ky,
was on our market as a buyer to-day.
Mr.. L. r. G0och, of Harris. Gooch &
Co., of Henderson. y. c., is in Rich
mOnd and expects 10 be in the city
day or so. In speaking of the new
growth, Mr.. GO0ch said We have a
mighty cOlOry crop so FAR; 1t is light.
and seems to be ch0Gy. but what 1t will
be from nOc on 1t is hard 10 say. as it Is
difficult to predict what effect the
weather will have on it if il continues
this way. and so far since the cessation
of the rains the weather has been propi
tious. think that pliers. especially
tough m0hog0ny pliers, ard wrGppers
will be scarce, ana all ,crappers will be
OF hghf weighf.
In Granville and the counties east Of
it the general idea seems TO be that
there VIII not be over from go to 90 per
cent. Of an acreage crop W pounds. and
that three-fOulths of this will be housed
this month. thing not known before
in the history of the cultivation Of to-
bocco in that section: indeed. there l. q
saying there which is as old as tobacco
itself, that August cutting loftobaccol
have no bOdy
SO far the tObacc0s are raycOl0Iy
reiy brghf In the sales at Henderson
on last Friday (which lasted all day II
is said that ut least nine-tenths OF the
tObaccOs offered were of the 1879
grow th. and the prices paid were ex-
tremely fancy.
Nothing offered 50 far Of the crop Of
1889 that can be classed as crdDpcrS, or
Wlcrs being wanting in body.
A fair amount of business was done
on the Richmond tobacco market to-
day-Mers taking the lead.
M. julius A. HObson. OF Vaughan
& Sarvay. attended Goochland court
Yesterday, where ne interviewed TWEEN
tv-fve representative farmers on tie
court green. with the following result,
viz planted last year G56 geo hills of
tobacco. and this year only POS, 500 hills.
a little over OHe-fhird of last year 5
planting. All concur IN reporting the
crop in rcry bud condition. c. Mel.