The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-01-23
TOBACCO DEPARTMENT.
RICHMOND, January %


Sales Of loose tobacco to-day amount
cd to 99.020 pounds, which is the largest
sale of the season. Highest price, 80
average $294.
Offerings Of tobaccos on Change Tues
dave January o. 1880; Mr.. Silas shel-
burne offered l3 packages West Virginia
! hrights at auction to-day, prices ranging
/ from S4.G0 to $50. One package sold at
/ $50 per hundred pounds one package at
/ 500 per hundred pounds; one package
"a $50 per hundred pounds, two pack
ages sold nj $40 and upwards per hun
bred pounds, eight packages sold ut $50
and upwards per hundred pounds ten
packages sold at 500 and upwards per
hundred pounds; six packages sold at
/ $40 and upwards per hundred pounds
7 fourteen packages sold at $500 and up
wards per hundred pounds
Tobacco Inspectors Office reports
hogshcads opened to-day as follows: In.
.pections, ll9; reinspections, 80. Centre
/ Seehrook's, Dayenports, nd Shockoe
warehouses report aggregate shipments
90 hogsheads.
Registered At the Tobacco Exchange
r. Bleadsoe, Hanover county II. c. Nc
Lain, Fayoite county, W. Va; J. a.
uedrick, Patrick county. Va; W. A.
Burdett. Putnam comfy, W Va; NJ.
Drcver, Lynchburg, Va NJ. Salmon,
Go0chland, j. A. Blanton, Amelia county.
a prominent tobacco commission
house reports to-day sale Of about 100
cutters.
Another large tobacco commission
house reports sale Of wrappers to-day.
Mcssrs. Darlington & Co. report sale OF
a small lot OF tObaccOs to-day.
A prominent tobacco commission mer-
chant reports sale of a small lot OF filters
Today.
Messrs X. II. Dibrell 6 Co, report
sale of few hogsheads medium filters
on yesterday.
Mr.. Silas Shelburne reports sale OF
some hogsheads West Virginia brights
privately to-day.
Mcssrs. r.. c. Morton 81 Co. report a
sale of filters to-day.
A large tobacco commission house re-
ports sale Of wrappers to-day. They
also report more inquiry and more trad
ing in that line OF tobacco.
a prominent gentlemen from North
Carolina, who was on Change yester-
dav. said chat in an experience OF thirty
wears, he had never seen such a mean
crop as the present one is, and where
the wrappers are TO come from be could
not sec"
1t is said that there are no wrappers to
peak of in the new hurley crop, and
hat the new tobacco has not 6ody
enough to make wrappers.
There was good inquiry on the Rich-
mond tobacco market to-day. Bright for
cutters and smokers, and also consider
able inquiry for desirable sun-cured to-
baccos
Mr.. T. J. Talbot, ex-president of the
Danville Tobacco Trade, and MI NJ.
Drever OF the well-known firm of Left
wich, Drever e Co. Of Lynchburg, Va,
we're 90 the Tobacco Exchange to-day.
Mr.. b +. McCue has just returned
from the West Says he was on the
breaks in Louisville and Cincinnati, and
that he found dark tobaccos there,
we're like they are here had few
friends on account of the poor monde
script quality That reliable ware
louseman told him that they had adj
,anccd on the basis Of a fine crop, and
'ound themselves sadly mistaken, the
new growth being then leafy and green
Burlcys, both old and new, are active
and selling we'll, with no prospect OF
decline in prices. {. Mel.