The herald., 1896-08-19
MARKETS OF THE WORLD
Local, Eastern and Foreign
Commercial Dealings
WALL STREET SPECULATION
Wine Grapes Bring Twenty to Thirty
Dollars Per Ton
Coffee Culture In BrsziI-Foreign Trade of
Japan-VueItas and Other Cuban
Tebaccos Local Markets

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| some growers expect to obtain $40 per tor
for their Zinfandel grapes, and do not be
| neve that any wine maker with present
| prospects and prices. can pay more thar
| SzO per ton for common varieties and S2
to $2S perhaps $30 for very choice, such as
| Cabernet Sauvignon, Johannesburg, Riess.
| ling, Semillion, etc. This is good payine
price to the producer, in average seasons
| and should be satisfactory. We must Give
and let live If we intend to reach success
| under present conditions. This applies tc
all who must sell. For those who intent
to make their own wine, and are paid foi
it, will give few hints which may assist
them in another article.-California Fruit
| Grower.
| The Gazeta of Ouro Fino Minas Ceraes
says that there is a plantation in the dis
| trict of that city containing 1900, 900 cof
| Zee trees, 100000 in Jacutinga, 100000 in
| Monte Siao and 500 900 in Campo Mystico
or S,S0O.0O0 trees in the whole municipality
The introduction of immigrants has given
impetus to coffee planting and it is ex-
pected that the total will very soon be.in-
creased to l0,GVO00O trees. The present
crop Is estimated al $40 go arrobas, or 8, 600
ooO KllogfaInnles.-RiO News.
Consul General McIyer, at Kanagawa,
has forwarded to the state department ta-
plso sLcWlHS lne IOGGlSn trade OF Jdpan FOR
1896. In these tables the japanese silver
yen has been taken as equivalent TO 81
cents, this being it's mean value during
that year The total value of exports was
s6S, ,osS 662 and of imports $65, 921 sos or this
AMOUNT the United States is credited with
w, "a for exports, and 81, 7S0,9 943 for i'm
ports. The custom duties collected were
For exports, 81, 159 2Sl; imports. s. 161, ,80s
miscellaneous, $SS.045, making a total of
". .4Os s lS2; During the year 1863 steamers
ana l0Oo sailing vessels entered the ports
Of Japan from foreign countries. OF these
50 were American, 9S7 British and 81 Ger
man. Forty-nine American steamers and
wise trade of Japan, as against 7e1 British,
ed s., 428,s25 Of gold and sl2, 4ss, go Of silver
bullion She imported bullion to the value
of $525. 255 in gold, $247o,56S in silver
An article in the New York Tobacco Leaf,
speaking of the several grades Of Cuban
tobacco, says:
at is impossible to set down in print any
description of tests by. which the Vueltas
may be distinguished from the semi -Vuel-
taste, who have dealt in Cuban tobacco for
twice a score of years and more, have learn
the practical details of their business as
much by what may be called the feel of
the leaf as by anything else. The finest
Vuelta Abajo leaf is a most expensive COM
modify, and it is fact that the cigar man
ufecturers of Havana are prepared to pay
more for it than any of their competitors
III tlc lHltcu OtdlSS OF III Europe. 1t is also
a fact however, that they do not always
succeed ingetting it. The merchants Of
New York, have long. purses and good
friends in the Pinar del Rio, and very fire.
quently they secure parcels which would
be most welcome in the store room of some
great manufacturer in Havana. Vueta
and 81 a, pound in Havana, is not uncom-
mon Occasionally extraordinarily fine
parcels rSe bring from IS to SO ape pound a..
Ter, never fetch such prices as these, and
thus is indicated in the only practical way
which is apt to lodge in the memory, of the
reader, the difference between the Vueltas
and the semi-Vueltas.
The Partidos leaf is grown in the province
OF Havana. 1t is narrower than the Vuel-
tas and very glossy and snowy. 1t is used
largely, therefore, for the wrappers of ci-
gars. In point of flavor the Partidos,
though serViceable in many ways to the
compare with the Vueltas. Partidos wrap
pers commend prices as high as the Vuel-
tas. even higher. This is because of the
The Remedies leaf so called from the
district of San Juan de los Remedies in
the province of Santa Clara. is the export
avow the fact to be, that this type of leaf
is not used at all by the cigar manufactur-
ers of Havana. Immense quantities of Re
medios tobacco are imported by the United
States. The leaf is slightly, it has strong
aromatic. flavor and 1t is popular in this
country because it blends well with our
domestic tobaccos to make the filler" of
the cigar of commerce.
The Vuelta leaf is grown in the province
Of Pinar. del Rio. in the district called the
Vuelta Abaio. It is the Vueta Abaio leaf
which is the unique. gift Of Providence to
Cuba. No other tobacco in the world APP
proaohes it in flavor, or in the combination
of all those other qualities which make It
so precious to commerce. The Nuelta Aba
jo leaf is so rare a thing. so indispensable
to the comfort Of a world that worships
perfect cigar, that We're it's production
threatened with extinction through the
permanent occupation of the territory in
which it is grown by forces of hostile SOL
diery. the nations would be justified in
drawing a ~-don about it and serving no.
tice upon the contending armies that though
they might be suffered to devastate every
other region of Cuba they should not in
terfere for one instant with the work of
the tobacco planter in the Pinar del Rio
nor with the shipment of his produce to the
markets of the world.