The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-03-21
TOBACCO DEPARTMENT.

RfcuMoSp, VA, March a0-sales of
loose tobaccos to-day amounted TO 800
pounds Highest price, $3.50.
Offerings Of tobaccos At auction on
Change, Wednesday, March 20, 1889;
Total offerings twenty-ninc packages,
principally West Virginia Brights. One
package was taken in at s33; one at S2s;
one at S26; one at $50; one at sl5; one Mt
Sl662t one at Slj; one at Si4.50; one at
s1175 Twenty brought under so, OF
which twelve were taken in.
Registered at the Tobacco Exchange:
Arthur Gray, powhatan; a. F. Carpen-
ter, Plainneld, y. J.; 4. l.. Johnston,
Timbuctoo +. A. Gray, Cumberland;
Henry G. Nelson, Manchester; L. a.
Walton. New York; John L. Watkins,
Henderson, y. C.; w. j. Young, Peters
burg; W. II. Shepherd, South Boston.
Tobacco-inspector's office reports to-
DAY: Inspections, l2l hogsheads; re-
inspections, 81 hogsheads
Office of United States Collector of
Internal Revenue reports collections for
the city of Richmond to-day: Tax paid
cigars and cigarettes, Sl2245; tax paid
tobacco, E3,903.0j: total collections to-
day, si,025.50.
Farmers, Shockoe, Blancharl's,
DayenpOri's, Wilson's, Myers, Old Do
minion, Seabrook's, and Shelbousne's
warehouses report deliveries to-day; 19l
hogsheads, / tierce, box.
I saw "A very singular package at
Davenpori's warehouse to-day. 1t was
seyenty-two inches long, by forty-three
inches diameter Of head, and II it had
been set up on the head, the gentleman
who registers on Chance from Kant
cAatta is about the only party we know
Of who could eat plate of soup of the
top with anything approaching ease and
dignity. The package referred to came
from West Virginia, and | am told that
they have been received here of such
length that it was impossible to get them
in the factory doors, so that it was abso-
lutely necessary to cut them in two in
order 10 get them into any building for
manufacturing purposes.
Sales reported to the secretary to-day :
Wrappers, 81 hogsheads; filters, 20 hogs
heads; smokers, IS hogsheads; darks, 10
hogshesds sun-cured, l3 hogsheads.
Total sales, 1876 hogsheads.
\ prominent tobacco commission mer-
chant, who handles dark tobaccoes eX-
clusively, reports sales in the past few
DAYS of - hOgsbeads Of dark toOaccos
istemming) at an average Of S1l1J, and
the entire crop averaged $1,000 Another
merchant report sales of IA hogsheads
Yesterday at an average OF Sll5O for the
leaf.
If farmers will make good stemming
tobaccos they will get good prices; and
if they will make strictly fine TO fancy,
snowy stemming tobaccos they will get
fancy prices for them. These kinds will
always pay well. II is the common and
nondescript tobaccos on which farmers
lose money.
Mr. John NJ. Taylor, of the firm of f.
J Parrish & Co, has just returned from
oxford, y. c., and, in speaking OF the
tobacco market, he says SALES lasted
until about o'clock. The breaks show
no improvement on what they were
when | was last there. At the four
warehouses in oxford | did not ee five
hundred pounds Of nep wrappers q cary
description.
q A farmer sold 1000 pounds Of aid
urqppers Yesterday at one OF the ware
houses for little over Sl,lJO.
The general impression in Oxford Is
that more than half of the crop has been
already marketed No tobaccos with
color could be bought under s.. The
position of desirable colory tobaccos OF
all grades grows stronger daily, Jumpers
especially. Our estimate showed only
$50 hhds. on this market weeks ago.
Since tLen sales have been large-to-day
< packages Of wrappers were sold
with the visible supply rapidly diminish
ing. The demand remaining the same,
prices must inevitably be ocry mach
higher than they n0U are. {. Mel.