The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-09-04
THE TIMES-RICHMOND VA. SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 1897

ma a. q 70 one at $40, one at "a. 10. one
Al s3'go. one al $3.50. one at 81. one at
$3.50, one at $3.50. one at $40. one at
81 20, one at 81. 10. one az 81
one package sold at sl22j, one taken in
AZ 40 ~ one sold at $50. one at $3.50. one
at 1925 one at $500, one AT y 80.
AZ the sales at auction on Change to-
day by Mr.; George a, HAYNES ay re,, Mr; J.; H.
Va. got 500. SOS. 80, SIS, fi6.25. $3.50 si3.
s1275, 1925, and $40, making an aver
age OF s1562 10.
county, Va. got si1. SID sli2o; s72o'
and So making an average Of Si2O5.
Mr.. Melville Broadus, Of Sparta, Caro-
line county. got SD. Sl950 Sl6.T5. si525.
si3, $3.50. and S1O75, making an average
Melville Broadus &C.. above) got 1925.
S11, $1O.TJ, S0.2J. 500 ana $o.lo, making
Mr.. ]. w. Gouldin. Of Caroline county,
got S24 S142j, 50. -, Ss.t5. and $3.50. max
Ing an average Of $3.50.
J. W. Gouldin and l.; got sl2, sl4.I5,
S1275, SlO.75. S92j, ana -, making an
average OF S1i.5S %
Melville Broadus wv. above) got SIS for
two nackaees So $3.50. $50. $500, So.
and 81, making an average Of S9.7lIs.
]. W. Gouldin CB. above) got SO. 81, and
S6.25, making an average OF $40.
J. w. Gouldln CIV. above) got 1925 for
Mr. s 10 pitts. Of Caroline county, got
81. $3.50 for two packages. and S2.lO,
making an average OF So.o2ls
Messrs w. l.. Blanton q Brother, OF
g Ss 70 e &c Sog e q a So $40 sic ssSO
81. $3.50. $50. and 90. making an average
Private sales reported TO the secretary
Of the Richmond Tobacco Trade to-day
were light.
northumberland 63 hogsheads; dark,
% hogshaads and - tierces. keinspections
Bright / h0gshead, dark, . hogsheaas,
Shockoe. Crenshaw's. Shelhurne's ALE
ghany. Old Dominion. Myer s. stoneWaH
Meals. Planters and Seabrooks tobacco
warehouses report to-day: Receipts, lol
packages: deliveries. y packages.
limited states internal revenue colec-
tions on tobaccos for the CITY OF hlcn-
mond. Va, to-day: CIGARS an9 eisa t 49,,
50 l55.6s; plug tobaccos' $f'-oo'oo' lo'S''
Planters Warehouse had an excellent
sale OF bright loose tobaccos To-Day most
lv cutters and stripping lear. some farm ll,
ers averaged up in the teens the Darh
A very nice sale OF bright loose tobaocos
al Stonewall Warehouse to-day. cutters
sold as high as 23c. common Bfaues "i
smokers were very high.
Professor william G.. Stuohs, OF lne
United States Government agricultural eN-
pertinent station az the University OF
Louisiana. was on Change to-day WIN
samples of bright tobaccos raised by nm
on his farm. Valley Front near Sassa :
fras. Gloucester county Va, by way OF
experiment 20 prove that ine bright To-
baccos can be raised In Tidewater VIZ
glnia. Professor Stubs has gone 10 con-
siderable expense in his venture, import
ing a tobacco expert from North Carolina
10 manage his Virginia farm. Professor
stubbs said he had cured three barns,
and will have seven or eight more. Inc
samples exhibited by Professor Stubs
were passed upon by competent critics
and were valued at from three 10 thirty
dollars per hundred pounds. Professor
Stubs Is 10 the manner born. lie Is =
brother Of Senator James y. Stubs OF
Woods X Roads. Gloucester county, va.
and says his motive in attempting inc
raising OF bright tobacco IN his native
State Is patriotic one, which. n az sue,
cessful as he hopes. II will be. viii add
enormously 10 the value Of lands now con-
sidered Of little value.
Professor Stubs ~ an eminent scientist
has the agricultural chemistry at his mn
gers ends. and discoursed 20 an inteil'
gent interested audience to-day upon the
structural chemistry 81 the tobacco plant