The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-07-28

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Private sales reported TO the secretary
Of the Richmond Tobacco Trade to-day
were light
| The tobacco inspector reports to-day:
| Inspections Bright i hogshcad: dark, lOl
| hogsheads; western. Il hogsheads.
Crenshaw s.. DayenpOrt's planters. Sea-
brooks, Old Dominion. Sbockue. South
| ern. Allegheny. and Myers tobacco ware
| houses report to-day: Receipts, Al pack
ages; deliveries Isl packages.
United States internal revenue collec-
tions on tObaccos for the city OF Rich
| mond Va. to-day. Cigars and cigarettes.
S29Sl5. plug tobaccos, S2.4S'35. Total
| 81 7S54S.
The Petersburg Record" OF Saturday.
July -. 1896 says:
The following viii show the movement
| Of tobacco during the past week at the
various warehouses: Farmers-Inspec-
| tions. 119. receipts. -; lose. s,2OJ. Oaks
| Inspections, 70. receipts. 81; loose, 1880.
| Moore Inspections, % receipts. -.
| Centre-InspectiOns II. receipts II: loose.
| 7+75. West inspections. /. Total
Inspections. Do; receipts III; loose. 2s.3i0.
Inspections TO date, 800; same time last
| year. 3.2iO.
Loose-lst October 1894. 10 July !. 1895.
| SG45.9G0: from October /. 1893. to July
| I. 1896. 6275.93O.
J. b. McCULLOCH. Inspector.
Messrs. Charles W. BONNER d co. re-
port the Lynchburg Wa) tobacco market
for the week ending Saturday, July -,
| 1896. as follows:
Sales for week ending July is. 1SlG.
| $4,000 pounds sales for week ending
July % 1896. 2O70D pounds. Decrease
week ending July -. 1896 $500 pounds.
Sales from October /. 1893. 10 July -.
4. I. lie.
Der ]. 1891. 10 July -. 1898. 2O374. 400
! pounds. Decrease for 1S9J-1S9G, 72O, 800
pounds.
There was no change in the quality OF
| offerings and prices ruled about the same
as they have done for some time past.
Mr.. Alex. Harthill reports the Louis
Vile O[yD tobacco market for the week
ending Saturday, July %, 1896 as fol-
lows:
Largely reduced offerings Of hurley
heavier offerings OF dark tobacco. more
active market generally than for some
weeks past. with weather very hot, sultry.
and rainy. were the leading features OF
the week.
Offerings OF hurley for the week at
auction:
Old and New Crop-This week 1916
hoesheads; last week, Pap hogshoads;
week IN '9j. .. 446, week in "a, 2.292 hogs
heads.
Original hogsheads sold this week were
2.O79 against 2.526 last week, reviews,
81. against 80 last week.
Reflections of hurley, All hogsheads.
against 592 last week.
Darks-Onerings were somewhat largeI
than last week. but showed no chang,
Whatever from what has been Offering an
along during the season-namely tobacco
suitable only for rehandlers and Spanish
Tugs, the latter being In abundance IL
is the rarest thing TO see a hogshead at
auction that comes anywhere near being
suitable for Regies. Most all the ware
housemen who handle dark tobacco are
busy the latter part Of the week. when
there are no sales. sampllng dark tobacco
for private sale.
Five hundred and ninety-hve hogsheads
1895 crop were officially reported as sold.
but great many OF them were only
sampled up for private sale.
Reflections. 36i hogsheads dark. against
27O last week.
The 1896 CrOp-During the past week we
have had the hardest rains ever seen. In
the upper hurley country there were two
cloud-bursts doing enormous damage 10
life and property. In some places alony
streams houses were washed away and
whole fields of wheat I'm the shock ruined
There is no way Of estimating the dam
age. Where tobacco IS on the high lands
it is looking well, but so much rain is
causing 1t TO grow too fast and viii make
1t very large and coarse
Clarksyile reports the weather alternat-
ing between showers and hot sunshine
forcing weather. II rained three DAYS
this week, which is usually dry weather
Hopkinsyille reports pretty much same
conditions as the upper hurley country
namely. the condition OF the growing crop
account OF the extremely heavy rains
over the tobacco growing district which
has washed and drowned out a great deal
OF tbacc and corn. There is great deal
OF tobacco running up spindling and but
toning, and In q great many places