Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-04-27
TOBACCO NOTES.
Clarksvllle Continues to Spread
Herself as a Market.
Planters Here From the Upper Cumber-
land With their Tobacoo-other
Items of Interest.

"According to the Sud Deutsch
Tabak Zeitung the French are buy
ing the Alsace Germany tobacco
and prices have risen l to cents pc
pound in consequence. The short
age of suitable stock in the Unitet
States at old prices have set tn
French hunting in Germany anC
Austria for substitutes"
Says the Cincinnati Tobacco Jour
nal /:
"The stock of Western strips, while
yet large in England, are $4,000
hogsheads less than April l, 1891
while Virginia leaf and strips are
$500 hogsheads larger than April l
1891.
sit seems to be the general opin
ion that good to fine wrappers, bott
bright and mahogany, will be a gOoC
thing to hold, as the 1891 crop has
shown very small proportion, and
as probably 70 per cent. of the croE
has been sold, little can come in
with the tobacco yet to be marketed
Therefore holders of 1890 crop, which
yielded large surplus, are more
confident as the year progresses, and
sales already made have yielded an
excellent profit, but many are hold.
ing for much higher prices than
have yet been paid and feel conf
dent of getting their figures before
long, for while no general move
ment has yet been inaugurated for
buying up the holdings of dealers,
considerable has been purchased
quietly, and the tendency is toward
more active purchasing"
Clarksville continues to spread her.
self as tobacco market. Yesterday
the Elephant Warehouse sold anoth-
er big batch of Upper Cumberland"
goods. These tobaccos are not old
"run-arounds" from Nashville, but
straight goods, accompanied by the
planters. This makes the third sea
son these same men have come to
thih market, passing by Nashville.
Each season the number increases,
until now they sell from fifteen 10
twenty hogsheads at time. The
Clarksville district now extends from
Paducah to the head of navigation
above Nashville. She is almost as
long 'tother way and still spreading.
She stands to- day the acknowledged
queen of the dark trade and is get.
ting ready to compete for the Burley.
Louisville has to admit that her
trade in "darks" has slipped large
ly away, and the first thing she
knows the Queen City of the Cum
berland will be walking by her side
through the white fields OF fragrant
Burley.
1t begins to look like old times at
the Exchange this morning. Prices
are considerably better on almost all
grades of tobacco, and bidding is
lively. A special feature was the
unexpected demand for "Africdns"
unexpected because it had been
predicted that Frances little powder
burning in the ozark Continent
would cause a depression in the baler
trade.
The j. II. NoelI Tobacco Co., OF
Greenville, Tenn, have commenced
work on plug tobacco. They have a
three story building with 15,6OO
square feet of floor surface, and are
now employing seventy-tive hands.
They also make twist and smoking
tobacco, in which trade was first es-
tablished by Mr.. j. II. NOEL, Jr.,
and who has been succeeded in busi.
ness by the new company, They
have purchased nearly half million
pounds of leaf, apd expect to do a
very good business. The firm is
composed of w, T. Campbell, j. r,
NOEL, Jr, and w. F. Lane.
Leaf sales on the Greenville mar.
ket have dwindled down TO 10000 OF
$4,000 pounds per week, and growing
lighter each week. There is not II
per cent. of the crop in that section
now unsold. Prices remain firm on
what little they have. The season is
favorable on plants, and prospects are
good for full average crop, SO re-
ports a correspondent to the Western
Tobacco Journal.
"Old Kentucky Tobacco Work.
is new industry at Georgetown
Ky. They make smoking, twist anC
plug tobacco. They employ at pres
ent twenty-five hands. a new thre,
story brick factory has just recently
bee. erected. This company have
succeeded to the business Of Kinze'
Stone. This gentleman is presiden
and Thos. J. Barclay and w. g
Walker are his associates.
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