The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-01-19
TOBACCO DEPARTMENT
Sales Of 10 ,se tobacco to-day amounted
to % $40 pounds
The average price was about the same
as that OF yesterday.

one package sold at 500 per hundred
pounds. packages sold 40 500 and up
wards per 100 pounds, 6 packages sold at
Sl0and upwards per 100 pounds ~ pack
ages sold al $3.50 and upwards per 100
pounds
Messrs. Carr & DiCkensons offered %
packages. prices ranging from 80 to $40.
One package sold at $40 per 100 pounds
packages sold at $50 and upwards per
100 pounds; packages sold at 500 and
upwards per 100 pounds, 8 packages sold
"a: SO and upwards per 100 pounds. !
packages sold at So and upwards per 100
pounds
The several warehouses report ship
monts to-day amounting to 50 hogsheads
tobacco.
Registered at the Tobacco Exchange
to-day Thos Roberts. Baltimore, Md;
G.. r Lindsay, Louisa county; James ii.
GRAY. Petersburg, Va; 7. l.. Brown,
Dnville. Va; J. T. Oden general mana
ger Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, city;
Col G. d. Langhorne, city; i. /. Wingo,
Amelia county Va. f. W Seay, Amelia
county, Va T. J.. Rawley, Reidsyille,
n c.
A prominent tobacco commission
house reports sale Of a lot of bright Tugs
to-day
Mr. VIM. G.. Miller reports sale Of lot
of common filters to-day.
Messrs. II H. Dibrell q Go. report
sale of 20 hOgsheads of filters and com
mon wrappers in the last day or two.
A prominent tobacco commission mer-
chant reports sale to-day of % hogsheads
cutters and filters.
4 tobacco commission merchant re-
ports sale of good lots of wrappers and
smokers to-day.
Mcssrs Carr & DickensOns reports sale
of q lot of West Virginia brights to-day
az private sale.
Sir Silas Shelbune reports sale to-
day of old wrappers and a lot of ne"
filters privately.
The inspectors Office reports hogs
heads opened to-day as follows lnspec-
iions. 2i reinspections, 20.
Mr.. Leon J.. Strause (of the finn OF
sirause a. Raabl las just returned from
70 business trip TO Oxford and Durham,
n. C.
Tie reports the North Carolina markets
active. with small proportion of Trap-
0,re Offering The most active buyers
being the cigarette men, and against ali
precedent and established usage ihey
are luving heavier bodied tohaccos TINS
wear than ever known before, and are
going as high as $50 for any tohaccos
with color The breaks were fair IN
size. but they are expecting larger breaks
ON account of the fine shipping season
just had
We quote from the Baltimore SIN OF
to-day as follows
LOUISVILLE TOBACCO DIsAoREEMENTs.
LOUISVILLE. January IA circular
signed by thirteen of the largest tobacco
manufacturers i'm the country this morn
ing addressed 10 the Louisville Tobacco
Dealers Association am ultimatum, with
The request that 10 De answered by noon
to-day If rejected they propose 10
withdraw from this market entirely.
Their demands i'm substance are
fhaf there be one uniform inspection for
an warehouses here; that the date OF
sampling and name of shipper be placed
ON the tags of samples that warehouse
men Doe responsible in case the tobacco is
not so good as the samples, and that
there be no bidding 10y warehouse men OF
their employs. 49,
The warehouse men replied al I'D
o'clock to-day that they would not agree
90 these terms The representatives OF
Ligeett g. Meyer, of ST. Louis, and Lo-
rillard. of New York, and a few others,
have not been at the auctions to-day or
Yesterday Il is said that these great
manufacturers wish by their combina-
tions to- control this and other markets
in the country.
Also from circular of Messrs. NJ. II
Clark 81 Brother as follows
GAINESVILLE. Tenn, January To-
Receipts continue very light, and sales
for the week foot up 1853 hOgsheads, con.
-istinr almost entirely of old tobacco
aith moderate sprinklng of new to-
iaccO that shows very few attractive
qualities
There are no new features 10 note in
our market this week Prices run about
the same as they have been doing lately
with the usual fluctuations and iregu.
larities of am auction market
We clip the following from the New
York Iojacc0 Leqf OF the 18th instant
which. coming from constitutional bear
+. worthy OF note just now
TirginiQ Le0f-Ne publish the fol
lowing communication with the name OF
the writer appended. If there be adj
verse comment upon it he will be respOn
sible.
More life in Virginia tobacco the past
week Some good sales were made fOl
export and home trade Buyers here dc
moi realize the bad condition of the 1885,
crop. both in bright and dark ] cal
safely sag that Virginia and North Caro-
lima have not produced one-'hirl
the usual quantity of bright wrap
pers and cutters What wrapper
are offered with color are very shor
leaves with good spread, but not at al
suitable for large work. The new cut
tiers that are offered are selling al very
high prices, running up as high as 40 Il
40 cents Spectators are not buyina
any. as the cigarette manufacturers VINO
have orders In the upland markets are
running prices up beyond reason, glyln-
more than spectators can pay. If man
ufacturers would let these markets alone
they could buy their cutters from ih'
spec NANNO-n al ltA7t ANNt lNA I'NtAAN 80"
than they are paying now. Cutters tina
should sell al l2c TO 1jc. are selling il
the loose markets at 22ic TO 2jc. Thu
cost of handling and asserting is fully
9 cents per pound There is one thin.
certain Spectators will run tobacco
up to their limit, and manufacturers vii
have 20 take il above its value as long "a
they are bidders. If manufacturer
would rely on the leaf dealers for thei
stock instead of trying TO drive them of
The market. prices would be more uni
form. and they would find that tn
dealers would be willing TO sell at
small profit and sell them tobacco at
much lower price than they pay for il OF
the loose markets Manufacturers vii
have 20 supply themselves with wrap
pers out OF the 1887 crop.
The bulk of the bright crop was Gu
before it had ripened for fear Of frost
and consequently most of 10 is almos
worthless, being green and not suitable
for anything but the most common
smoking Very little Virginia Tobacco