Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-09-29
LOUISVILLE TOBACCO MARKET.

SEPTEMBER 26.-Burky.-The character OF tho
offerings was about the came rs last week
with more funkod hogsheads As n result OF tue
late aot weather, with the thermometer az w
and a2 degrees every day this week. The total
Of erinss wore very much lighter thah last
Week.
Red smokers were unchanged. although rather
active, while colOry and bright are scarce, as
,nry have been FOR some time past. Nopith-
standing the large PROPORTION OF iow-grade
Oilers, offered the dem; nj was good, WIN
trash-nilers sustained, while common ana me
diunls were 1.c. higher On inside figures, with
al The high grades being scarce, active, ana
FULLY higher than last week. and 32tsc. PAD Tor
the best offered.
Barks-Although tho offerings OF old crops
we're considerably larger this week, tho demand
was active Tor everything In merchantable order,
with MI heavy dark a. well as Hight red iugs
scarce and tending upward. IL now looks as II
ali old Jugs IN every respect desirable nave soeh
heir lowest prices, rs 1t IS We'll Known thaI inc
1890 crop did not furnish very many Tugs and
they were very poor, while the supply out OF
1891 crop will be small ~ the crop from all ac-
counts viii be very esfy ana Of excellent quality
IL Is now thought the contractor Tor Spain VIII
have 10 DO cousllerahle scratching to got what
he wants, and az the same time save hiinseif
from being badly cornered.
Offerings Of 1890 dark crop woro also larger
his yeeE and while soiue hog-'i"ads were let 30
A. o.. and IOc. reiectlors we're frequent at under
these figures, as sellers inslst On noldihS ior
more money, even In the face OF the new cop
coming on.
| pr,r,sts SAILS this week were 943 hogshesds.
embracing 81 hogsheads Burley. 100 hogsneads
Creen-riyer iIlers J23 hogsneads old, ana I'D
new dark leaf and Tugs. Most OF the darks
taken for spain. , -.
The sales 20 far this year show an Increase OF
1904 hogsheids over 1890, 81, lt7 hogshead-
! oyer 1880, and 60,051 hossheads over sales N
! 1888, showing the largest buainess over done III
| this market or any other market
| Th, 1881 GONE have bad another week o.
| the mort favorable weather, with the opinion
! generally expressed that the 1891 crop OF al
| kinds promises 10 be the finest grown for many
| years. while a. same Time 1t VIII not be exces
| sively large The acreage was less man las
| year. but leafy character will make more pound
| ms rear The dark crop promises 10 90 neavy
| rsIieJ iess reggie and more German IN ,harac
ter. while regarding the Burnley crop all the wa
| from, Brown county, o., down to Shelbyyilie
| X. there is only one opinion that II ais
VIII be- IN uch better In guilty, WITH more prigh
| and rich blight red manufacturing stock than VI
! savc had for years. Another week OF slcl
/ weather "a of lato viii sec nearly the whole OF !
| Ie,t.,rs to-day saw that 30 TO 60 per cent @
the gro In the Ciarksvfle district y housed. an
| cutting going on rapidly, ana win iavorspi
| xeafhc. all the crop-cxcepting some extra lat
| ,nhecrn will be cut within week or so an
prove a very useful crop.
I'm tno henderson dis riot about two thirds
| eut and housed. In Greensboro cutting goes Oh
| with tlsg 80 per cent. housed
| Owing 10 the great heat farmers in all district
ha va beeal able to cut aud house only during th
| sooles, hulrs OF the day TO prevent sun-burpini
| IL mere a every year, there will be some yer
| icte tons. co, which may never rtpen and VIII b
| cut groeu.