The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-04-02

The housekeepers Of the Roanoke and
elsewhere will supply their tables with
cheap sugar in q very few days. Dating
from Yesterday, sugar will bd admitted
free and there has been falling off
about two cents per pound on nearly all
grades of sugar.
1t will probably be four or five days
before the low prices of sugar prevail
generally in Roanoke, though some
standard graduated sugar was sold yes
terday at wholesale for cents.
The former wholesale price of stand:
ard granulated was7 cents, and the finer
grades ranged from IN to 8. The
brown sugars have been selling at 6 81
to 5 Il according to quality. Tho duty
largely consumed was , cents per pound.
AS soon rs the free sugar is in stock the
prices given above will be reduced
cents per pound, and granulated sugar
will retail for cents.
There is general scarcity of sugar
throughout the country, the merchants
having allowed their stocks to run down
to prepare for the reduced price.
Several wholesale merchants OF Roa-
noke had their last orders filled on
guarantee from the rcfiners that they
would be allowed a rebate of 9 cents per
pound on all sugar remaining on hand
April l.
The refiners made arrangements with
the government some time ago, by
which raw sugar was imported free and
the refined product held in bond till
April 1. For several days carloads of
free sugar have been going South,
covered with placards giving warning
that the cars BIC not opened till released
by the United States customs officials.
A car load OF this sugar arrived in
Roanoke last Saturday and Mr.. o. S.
Howell, customs official of Norfolk, is
expected here to-day to release tho
sugar. Other merchants have free sugar
on the road that will arrive this week,
and the small amount that was left in
the wholesale houses is going at the re-
duced rates.
The cheaper grades of sugar will not
be affected as much as the higher grades,
as the duty on them was lower.
Molasses and syrups will not be af-
fected for GO days yet. The sugar re-
finers have purchased all the raw sugar
that could be secured and the syrup
makers have been unable to secure the
free raw material.
The Porto Rico and Cuba molasses
and syrups and the products made from
imported raw sugar are all that will be
affected.
The prices of New Orleans and glu-
cose syrups will not be changed in con
sequence of the charge in the tariff
laws only as they come in competition
with the goods that will be reduced in
price.
Dealers expect to SEQ sugar lower
within month than at present. There
will be an active demand for some time on
account of the present scarcity and this
will have tendency to keep prices up.
The present consumption of sugar in
the United States is 100000 tons per
annum, and the reduction will be con-
siderable saving to tho people Of this
country.
The following telegram from New
York shows the condition of the sugar
market in that city:
NEW YORK. April H. Special AS
to-day was the first of the refiners get
ting the benefit of the removal of the
duty on the principal grades of raw
sugar with which refined sympathized.
there was much more active business in
the latter. Consumers in the country
had held off the past few days or bought
close to actual wants in order to obtain
close benefits. The raw was reduced
this morning to 3ls cents net for fine
refining; 81 cents net for 96 test centri-
fugals: 81 3-l6@21 1916 cents for mo-
lasses, while refined was down to
cents for cut loaf and crushed: Az cents
for powdered, and AZ cents for granu-
lated.