The morning times., 1896-06-21

tobacco the manufacturers handle with a
wink at you. 1t is so very much Ike the
| Spanish, they say.
About the Illinois t. bacco there is one
peculiar thing. 1t has a wide range of ex-
cellence. Only a little OF it is grown as
1t has never paid the farmers of that
rich producing State to deal in anything
that went begging. But here 10th wrapper
and filler can be obtained i'll a most ex-
cellent state.
New York State raises very nice to-
bacco. II is principally doEe in the town
OF Corning and there is quick native
demand for it, 1t has never been offered
on public market. Vermont tobacco IS
the same way. Very good in quality. but
uscdup so quickly near by thatthe dealers
have had no chance TO test it,
Said one of them: Perhaps we do not
say openly this is a Spanish tobacco. Bat
if man picks one of the cimmer Spanish
from Ohio up and says: That's a good
Havana, give it to me- why we are not.
the men to say that cigar has never been
any further away than Ohio. Now. are
we? But TO Come to the point OF it,
can't tell Ohio cimmer from Havana nor
Wisconsin from Cuban
TIED UP TOBACCO.
There is very good supply of Spanish
tobacco now in this country, not yet taken
out Of the custom house. Two hundred
Thousand bales are there, each bale weigh
ing 10 poInds, which makes something
like twenty millions OF pounds. Its Gus
toms duty is about 80 cents per pound for
filler and 81 80 for wrapper. This seems
dear. but the oustoms duty on tobacco IL
much more than the first price per pound.
has been slyly limited that if the feeling
for domestic tobacco continues as it Is this
viii not be taken out OF the custom house.
for the native tobacco VIII do as well
and be much cheaper.
The cry that cigars will 70 up In price
may not be fulfilled. II the states rs-
double their efforts to raise tohacco. and
II the workers get promptly at work upon
H.. cigars may ~ down instead Of up. n
you can get cood filler from PennsyI-
vania. Ohio, Wisconsin. and Massachusetts,
and good wrapper frs m Connecticut and
Illinois. why 10 locks as though cigars
would be lower than ever aud letter.
The direct result u that tobacco prices
have taken a Jump. 50 far as the tiller of thu
soil is Concerned. Mortgages that have
stood for years IRE being raised. and the
price OF tobacco leaf has Jumped 50 and
100 per cent. Extra Csnnectlcut wrapper
leaf that brought 10 ceats per pound Is now
over ~ cents.
Tobacco leaf handlers say that there are
10000 farmers actually engaged In rails
ing the tobacco plant. and that $500. 90 o 600
are invested in the native leaf. Big CAPT
talists are buying up farm lands and start
ing farmers at the tobacco crop. II is an
easy aud Interesting crop. And farmers
declare the soil 10 lie rire for It.
The jump In the native raising of tobacco
is surprise even 20 men who have been in
terested in tobacco for life and their fathers
before them. They declare 1t is the most
important unforeseen event that has hap
pened 10 native agriculture for n hundred
years. They are tobacco kings all of sud-
den. And this is a thing that VIII mark a
new era of prosperity for this country, as
well as make this century notable for ore
more of its many surprising thugs.