The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1889-09-26
TOBACCO CRUMBS.
Some Notes of Interest to the Trade.

Some Notes of Interest to the Trade.
If an Edgecombe cotton farmer
wants to see happy granger let him
20 to Nash and hear his brother chant
the praises of tobacco.-2ar60r0
S0utherner.
This is a good year for the tobacco
mist everywhere. The leaf market IS
in exceptionally good shape. The
crop news is encouraging. In ma
jority of the tobacco counties the weed
is very fne-indeed, in some counties
the best ever grown.-Rlthm0nd State.
The tobacco trade of Danville, es-
pecially the manufacturers, are much
gratifed, in fact, | may say elated, at
the notable increase in the volume of
sales of Danville plug and twist dur
ing the present year compared with
preceding years. Every month this
year there has been large increase
over the corresponding month Of last
year, and the aggregate increase for
the eight months just ended amounts
to I,553,286 pounds, the total sales
for said eight months being 5,o3717S
pounds.-LyneA6urg AA0anee.
Jenkins & Lewis, leaf tobacco COM
mission merchants, report to the New
York Tobacco Leaf as follows: The
old or '88 crop has been about all sold
by the planters in this section. The
attention of everyone is turned to the
80 crop, which is coming to market
very rapidly, and selling at very salts
factory prices to the planters. The
first curings, which were leaves pulled
from the plant and cured on wires,
were very white in color and thin and
fair in texture, while the offerings now
of the last CuringS are not SO bright,
though it is much superior in color to
the crop of '88, which has passed from
the planters hands. The new crop is
estimated lighter in weight than the
'88 crop, which was short in compar-
ison with the 81 crop.
A special from Richmond to the
Durham Globe, dated Sept. 10, says
of the condition of that market:
The market has been very dull this
week and very little business was trans
acted in bright tobacco, either yester-
day or to-day. OF course some scat
tering sales have been made each day,
but no round lots have been sold I'M
less it was done privately. Good
wrappers can be sold here at what
looks like high prices, but the sup
ply is very limited. There has been
quite good demand here for filters
but this seems to have quoted down
considerably in the past few days
Our receipts during this month have
been much larger than was expected
and shipments are not keeping pace
with them, consequently when our in
spectors' report comes out at the end
of the month we expect it to show an
increase in our stocks.
Capt. Ed. NJ. Pace, the veteran
warehouseman of Danville. has re
Gently taken charge of the warehouse
at Rocky Mount. Writing to the Gin
cinnati Tobacco Journal about the to-
bacco raised in that section, he gives
the figures OF some sales made at his
house and says:
It's not generally in keeping with
the order of things for a warehouse
man to tell buyers tobacco is selling
high; such remarks are only intended
for farmers, but the matter changes
when you allude to the tobacco of this
section. Such prices would appear
high in big Danville, but here it's diff
terent; the tobacco is SO much finer
than other sections, accounts for the
difference. x l could prolong the
list, but this suffiCes, and | have moth
ing to retract as to what | said about
the fine lemon and canary wrappers,
cutters and smokers raised in this sec
ton. Our Democratic Congressman
has very fine crop of tobacco; he
gave it his close attention, and is now
busy stripping and classifying. Come
down to our agricultural fair in No
vember and I'll show you.
Cotton was once called the King,
And produced the Georgia cracker,
But now we've got better thing,
The glorious bright tobacco.
THE CROP IN VIRGINIA AND NORTH CAR
OLINA.
AS to the Virginia and North Caro-
lima crop, it is the general testimony
that the crop is unusually bright and
generally very thin. Even in Western
North Carolina, where much body
was anticipated, the early marketings
are proving thin. This will make the |
bulk of the crop suitable only for cut
lers and smokers, and while at first
thought it might be the opinion that |