The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-05-24
TOBACCO DEPARTMENT.

RICHMOND, May 23.-Sales OF loos
tobacco to-day amounted to 2,30
pounds. Highest price, $500.
Offerings Of tobaccos at auction oil
Change. Thursday, May 33d. so: Tota
offerings. 81 hogsheads. principally sun
cured and common dark tobaccos.
Messrs. j. ]. Wilson, Son & Co. OF
fered "a packages. One package sole
ut Sl4 per 100 pounds; ono at 80 %; on
at 50; one at eS.75; one at IS 20; two a
s7.75; one at 1925; two at SO. Fourteen
brought under 30.
Mr.. George A. Haynes offered 2
packages: One package sold at SlS.2'
per 100 pounds. one at SLIPS. ole a
$40 %, one at 1926, one at 1925, two
at 1925 and one at SO. Eighteen
packages brought under Sc.
Messrs X. G. Morton x Co. offered
one package of brights, which wal
taken in at 500.
Office of the tobacco inspector reports
to-day: Inspections, IS hossheads; re-
inspections, l6 hogsheads.
Office Of the United States Collector
Of Internal Revenue reports collections
for the city of Richmond to day "a
follows; Tax-paid cigars and cigarettes,
S737.9O: tax-paid tobacco, s3,967 40
tax.paid sundries. $3.50: total collec-
tons for city to-day. S4.9S5.30.
Registered at the Tobacco Exchange:
a. s. Beazley, Hanover; A. b. Gwath-
mey. Hanover; III. III. Harris, Louisa
Ro. L. French. CincinDati; r. S. Clarke,
Rochester, n. Y; Ii. o. Whipple, Ro-
chester, n. Y.
Wilson's, Crenshaw's, Shockoe.
Blanchard g, Davenport s. Centre, Shell
burne's. Allegheny. Old Dominion, Ny
ers' and Seabrook s warehouses report
ia hogsheads and IL tierces tobaccos de-
livered to-day.
Sales reported to the secretary to-day
Wrappers. 10 hogsheads, filters, IS
hogsheads; Western, Is hogsheads. To-
tai sales reported to-day, 40 hogsheads.
A prominent tobacco commission
merchant has just returned from the
South Boston and Danville districts and
reports as follows:
They have had no rains TO amount
to anything around the Danville sec
ton, and no seasons for striking to-
bscco. Scarcely any planting has been
done as yet. The farmers complain
very much Of the plants being orer-
grOWn. and ray that overgrown plants
are worthless for the development
of anything like fine tobaccos.
The breaks were very small and
mean. Prices high for all desirable
stocks. 1t is conceded that the best
portion of the crop, both in quantity
and quality. has been sold, and that the
breaks during the summer will show
terror bright rrdppers than they have
done up to this time. So say and think
the st-posted tobacco men, but only
time cal prove its correctness.
A prominent tobacco dealer told me
to- day that be didn't fell like offer
ing his old stock Of ,crdppers. especially
wrappers, as they are NOR
cery scarce. ana wrappers Of the neU
grOWth will not become mahogany
before sprirg. 90 that it will be aedrly
4 year before they c0I Dc used. so that
up to that time. even with possible adj
lions from the nsU 0roUth. mahogany
Crdppers will be exceedingly scarce.
| say possible additions, for in any
went such accroiions must be light for
he stock Of lrrdppers in the nets crop
S confned-to the. first cuttings, which
embraced reyy small portion Of the
new growth"
The Richmond tobacco market was
iull to-day for all grades Of old to-
,accos except wrappers and sun-cured
obasos, supplies Of which are short.
G.. Mel.