The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-09-13

s599 TO- tar paid plug tobsccos. es.466oS; tay
paid special 1866: tax paid penalty. e12.60.
Total. s4,144.34. Collections for the weeks
Tax paid cigars and cigarettes, el3, 1890
tax paid plug tobsccos. $18. 560.34 TAI paid
special, t66.66; tax paid penalty, el2.t0. 10.
Our Colonel James r. Gray left this eve
ming for Blue Ridge Springs to join his fam
lily. who have been summering 1t that %.
lightful resort.
A gentleman who left Richmond during the
past week writes from Henderson, N u.
under date OF September 18th;
After q careful personal examination OF
the crop in tho country around Henderson. I
am free to say that the condition OF
the crop standing in tho fields, and that
which has besu cured. from all that have
seen. fully justifes what have heard in re-
rule, is very small and narrow to make wrap
pers and that which has good SIZE sttsr Y
has been cured is very thin. and what should
be wrappers are brown, sponge-lke cutters.
Altogethor it is the meanest crop that mas
been made with the exception OF the irosseo
crop in 1881, since have been living mere. Ine
crop is firing up badly and wasting away IA
fields worse than | ever saw il, and such
wasting is tending very much TO curtsii tho
yield in pounds" =, w. II
Another letter from GAINESVILLE. Va: OF
same date, from prominent tobacco broker.
says: I'VE are selling very little new on TINS
market as vet; and that has been very common
stuff IL seems TO DO the universal opinioe
that this crop will turn ont poor one, and -
for wrappers they will have very poor II any
quality at all"
A letter from a another Henderson, N. O..
party says THE crop is showing up as mean
as ever you saw: no wrappers. and the nuSrs
seem to be burnt and very badly BACKED. We
are unable TO tell you how mean tho stun -
up1Sss Won could IL fOrvOurs9lf"
A letter from the Raleigh, N. c., section
SAYS: II have Just returned from trip into
the eastern section and have seen lots OF to-
bacco, and must say that 1T is fully as BAD
as | have written you before; The frst cur,
;ngs have very good color and some very gooo
size but it lacks body and gum.
The late curings are all very much diseased.
with no wrappers, so you may look for crop
from that section something ike the S9 crop,
with not SO much color and more disease"
A letter from Danville says From reports
get from the crops. conclude that this 10
far from being q wrapper-crop. There nave
been six or eight curings at friends In Cas-
we'll county and he tells me there are COM
paratiyely no wrappers, but principally nom
descript smokers and cutters
"One of our warehousemen wasinthe Ruffin
neighborhood few days since. who says that
much he saw cured was complete failure.
There is no possible chance OF good crop.
experience teaches US that tobacco Is dry
weather crop and this has been the wettest
year on record
This report like those given above comes
from all quarters letter from Durham
confirms these reports.
The Henderson IN. o. Gold Leaf contains
the following on the tobacco crop We have
interviewed quite a number Of planters from
different sections of this and adjoining coun
ties since last week. and reports of the tobacco
crop are not any moro favorable. In some in
stances planters have had better success in
curing this week. but almost without
exception they say the tobacco 10 OF
no account after it is ourod. It, is
thin. chafy stun, spotted and bug
eaten and will be lacking in the better grades.
As for wrappers and good filters there will be
comparatively few in this crop-as far as it
has gone. This is not the statement OF
few men either: il is what they all tell US.
From present indications we are led to be-
lieve that the crop of this section will show
a very small proportion Of good tobacco. And
the reports from other localities are TO the
| same effect"
Registered at the Tobacco Exchange to-day:
| j. w. McLin. Petersburg.