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The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-10-20
WISCONSIN, TOBACCO MARKET

EDGERTON, WIS, October 90 1899.
While there is some feeling of the
pulse of the growers going on, there is
no earnest effort being made in the buy
ing of the new crop. Some riding for
the old stock is being done and also some
for the gathering of samples of the new
since casing weather came.
The transactions of the week are al
most exclusively in old leaf Phil Bonn
having purchased about 300cs from first
hands and Mr. Litch of Harrisburg, also
lifted few crops.
The following sales show the trend of
prices:
John J. Rue, 67cs '99 at 9&5c.
VIM. Seamonson, 59cs '98 at SIC.
Albert Skaar, 19cs '99 at84c.
J. D. Spike, 38cs '99 at 7c.
John F.. Johnson, Aces 98 at p. t.
The most important transaction among
packers of late is the sale of the Helger-
son packing of 98 at Viroqua of nearly
800 cases to G. f. Mabbett. G. L. Cul-
ton reports the sale OF 4OOcs OF '9o for
the week. G.. Ell. Rumrill purchased
about 1OOcs of '98 of local packer. A
number of out of town dealers are in the
market and we learn some fair sized
transactions are under consideration.
The weather of late has been much
more favorable to the curing of the late
harvested tobacco which has been COM
ing down rapidly and yet such leaf is not
beyond the danger of fat stems from an
early freeze.
The shipments out of storage reach
1908 cases, 26 car loads for the week from
this station to all points. Since last re-
port 115Ocs of cigar leaf were exported
from New York. H..
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-10-20
Connecticut Valley.

I = The selling of tobacco continues with
unabated interest. The later sales have.
been at higher rates than were paid a
month ago, ranging from 18 to 231ac, 90
cents in the bundle has become the5rul-.
ing price. Those who sold for from II to.
lac are now engaged in, kicking them
selves for their indecent haste. They
seem to swallow what the posted buyer
cared to tell them, and in the fear that
another opportunity would never occur.
Now word to the growers Don't be
too anxious to make up in weight what
you have lost in price. A half gallon Of
water will weigh about five pounds, and
this sprinkled on 100 pounds of tobacco
may bring you few shillings sand may
spoil the tobacco. Don't do it. Prices
for good light crops will 60 higher yet.
AS long as such wrappers sell at from SOC
to 81 per pound of the '98 crop, what ex-
pectations can any one have that the
light colored and sound leaf will depre-
ciate in value and demand for much
more than the '99 crop can supply. But
don't get crazy over the prospect ahead
and plant your whole farm to tobacco
next year. Keep cool and not try to get
the earth in one year-Cultivator
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-10-20
NUMBER As.

vania Hav. seed p. t.: 4OOcs SO Pennsyl-
vania Broad leaf, N. W., II to 12c; 500cs
'97 thinner Spanish Is to 1Sc.
Sumatra AT the present writing this
branch of the trade is in better con-
dition than any other. The fact of there
being less suitable tobacco than usual
otferd at this years inscriptions, coupled
with the shortage of wrapper leaf in New
England, is beginning to tell, and all
local Sumatra importers are doing a very
satisfactory business.
Havana-This market remains neces-
sarily quiet, although some little trading
between dealers has been done this
week. According to late reports, the ac-
tivity in the city of Havana is increas-
ing. Buyers there are learning that the
portion of the 80 crop available for Seed
and Havana manufacturing purposes is
smaller than was at first believed. This
puts an eagerness into the buying that
means a further advance in prices.
Many New York importers will so to
Havana during the present MONTH
Leaf.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-10-20
New York.
New YORK. Oct. II, '99.

Although a few very good sales have
been put through during the past week,
the Seed leaf market generally has not
been satisfactory. Trading has been
spasmodic and not evenly distributed
throughout the market. This is due
largely to the fact that the tobacco in
demand just now cannot be obtained ex-
cept from a, limited number of dealers,
and no concessions are made by those
who have desirable lots on hand. The
best seller for the past few days has been
the new Wisconsin, and something like
1000 cases of this tobacco changed hands
in the local market. 1t went in good
sized Jumps, however, and only few
houses benefited by the activity.
The demand for 1898 Pennsylvania
Broad leaf is growing, and promises to be
active in the near future. Running lots
are selling at from IL to 12c, marked
weight, and large heads for binder pur-
poses command from Ia to 15c. The
remnants of the 1898 Big Flats are rap
idly disappearing from the market. :.
The following sales have been reported
during the past week: 800cs '98 Wiscon-
sin, running, 10 to 12c; 800cs '98 Wiscon-
sin, running, 111ac; 150cs '98 Wisconsin,
filters out, 141ac; 40Ocs '98 Wisconsin,
running IL to 12c; 3OOcs '98 Pennsyl
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-10-20

it is to be hoped will be supplemented by
further studies, are of the greatest in
terest and Importance to growers and
packers of leaf tobacco. It has long
been known that tobacco, if packed too
closely, will not ferment properly: which
is readily understood if fermentation is
an oxidation process, requiring the pres
ence of air, which too close packing al
most entirely excludes. 1t is a question
whether under our usual methods of
packing in cases, sufficient air is always
present for fermentation, until by dry
ing in the cases the leaves have shrunk
somewhat, and thus admitted air. If
these anzymes or ferments are the con-
trolling factors in fermentation, it is of
Importance to study their occurrence
and the things which favor their activity
in the cured leaf
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-10-20
New YORK Oct. II, '99.

Some transactions took place the past
week in our market which will fortify
the impression of very brisk trade. The
one was the sale of 1000 boxes of '9S Zim-
mer's to the western trade. The exact
price could not be learned, but it is
believed to have been 1870. They were,
however, fancy packings and strictly BIS
and Cs. The other was the sale of 1000
boxes of State seed and Wisconsin, the
bulk of which went to one party, chiefly
for the use of cheroots and little cigars.
The price is also kept secret, though it
was very near the full market price these
types command at present. Of course, a
quantity of other leaf of all types and
kinds was also disposed of, mostly on
orders from the road. The boys never
had such an easy time on the road, as
everything is in demand, provided the
prices are not beyond reach.
The Sumatra market keeps up it's,
briskness. Nearly 300 boxes were dis.
posed of during the week, and "no ques-
tions asked" That is to say, the former
nagging and beating down and counting.
spots and endless sample trials have
given place to plain business methods.
The Havana market remains un-
changed, but it seems to grow prospec-
lively more difficult. All tales from Ha-
vana agree upon the great scarcity and
enormous prices of Remedies. AS high
as $50 per quintal is asked for first capa
duras, and there is not enough of it to
supply dozen frst-class factories. In
the meantime the stock in the bonded
warehouses here is being depleted in
such ratio as would leave them en-
tirely bare at the close of the year if
they are not, soon replenished by fresh
supplies. journal,
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-10-20
MIAMIsBURG, OHIO, Oct. II, '99.

The market has quieted down. The
extreme prices of last week have not
been sustained, the outside figure being.
&c for Spanish. Buyers are still on the
road in large numbers. Very little rain
has fallen for over a month, and the to-
bacco is about all "dried out" Stripp-
ing will begin as soon as the Spanish
gets damp enough to remove from the
poles.
Quotations: For Al SO Spanish 10c;
'98 do, to SC; '99 do, 8 to 9; seedleaf 6
to Sc; Dutch 7 to Sc. Shipments car
loads.-News.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-10-20
Patents Granted.

List of Patents granted to citizens of
Wisconsin for the week ending Oct 9th i,
reported expressly for The Reporter
through the patent and law Office of O..
E. Duffy, TOT G. ST., N. w. Washington,
D. c., from whom copies can be had for
twenty-five cents each:
August Bynell, Grantsburg, cattle-tie;
Adolph Hamacek, Sturgeon Bay, elec-
trio arc lamp; w: J. Hay, Oshkosh, skirt
binding; M. w. Neuens, Port Washing
ton, window; F. G.. Stuckle, Racine, au-
tomato weigher; Ell. E. Swartz, Wauke-
sha, music-leaf turner; w. M. Sweet,
Burlington, bicycle; Ezra Dederick, Mil
waukee, design patent for hook.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-10-20
New York.

Sales of Seed Leaf Tobacco reported
for The Wisconsin Tobacco Reporter by
J. S. Cans Son, Tobacco Broker, No. 12S
Water Street New York, for the week
ending, Oct. 16, 1899:
1OOOcs 98 Zimmers at 13 to 1515c.
1OOcs '97 Zimmers at 16c.
650cs '98 Wis. Hav. at 9 to 1OAc.
425cs '97 Wis. Hav at 9M to 1910.
65Ocs '98 Pen. seedleaf at 1917 to lie.
12Ocs 81 Pa Hav at 1111a to 1215c.
2O0cs 81 Pen. seed at II to 13c.
650cs '98 State Hav at 10 to tic.
125cs '98 n. E. Hav. at 20 to soc.
1OOcs '97 Dutch at 13 to 15c.
Total 402Ccs.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-10-20
Lancaster.

LANCASTER New ERA, Oct. 10, 80.
The home market was not very active
during the past week. The only sale
we have to report was 200cs by Henry
Schock of Marietta.
The frosts of last week nipped few
belated patches, whose owners were a
little dilatory
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-10-20

The theory that the flavor of tobacco
was produced by living organisms, bac-
terra, lately exploited through the news
papers, has suffered a set back in some
recent experiments made by the depart
ment of agriculture:
The nature of the lamentations which
take place in the curing, fermenting and
aging of leaf tobacco has been recently
studied by DR.. Loew of the y. S. depart
ment of agriculture. DR.. Loew finds
that, contrary to the statements of
Suchsland and others, the fermentation
of tobacco is not caused by bacteria, nor
is. the aroma of tobacco due to the action
of specific bacteria. Fermenting tobac-
CO, when it has the proper content of
moisture, from 18 to 25 per cent, is ger
micidal in it's action, and few if any mi
crobes are found on freshly fermented
leaves.
The principal changes that take place
in curing and fermentation are due to
the action of soluble ferments or engines
found in the plant while growing and
perhaps while whiting after the harvest.
The engines are chemical bodies-not
living organisms, like bacteria or molds,
which, under proper conditions, cause
extensive chemical changes in bodies
associated with them. In the fermen-
tation of tobacco leaf the main changes
are caused by two oxidizing enzmes
alone, by the agency of which the oxygen
of the air is made to unite with various
compounds contained in the leaf The
development or color and aroma is due
principally to the action of these oxidiz-
ing engines.
DR.. Loew has found that one of these
is no longer able to act when it is heated
to 149 to 151 degrees F, while the other
is rendered inactive only by much
higher temperature, 188 to 100 degrees.
These observations of DIR. Loew, which
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-10-20

Special sale of cloaks Friday and Sat
urday, Oct 9th and 18th. Don't forget
the date. T. P. BURNS, 8
GAINESVILLE, Wis.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-11-08

in less than a year, and work was COM
menced in 1876. Since then it has pro-
crossed until the cross has now been placed
on the dome, and all is finished.
Winter Exhibitions.
Most of the leading art societies are ac-
lively engaged in preparations for the
opening of the winter exhibitions. The first
to welcome visitors is the Society of Paint
ers in Oils, which has supplied an exhibit
ton on familiar lines in it's rooms in Pic
cadilly. Speaking generally, the display is
a poor one. The pot boiler is rather pain
fully in evidence, while there is besides a
sense of monotony about the pictures which
a few brilliant examples do not entirely
dispel. Perhaps the best work Is to be seen
in the domain of landscape Here are to
be found a good many pretty transcripts
Mr. Leslie Thomson. Mr.. Frank Walton
and Mr. Waterlow, one delightful Dutch
painting by Mr.. w. r. Allen and a notable
Scotch work by Mr.. Robert Little. In por-
traiture Sir George Reid easily holds the
lead with vigorous piece of painting. to
which he gives the title IAN Old Master
of the Edinburgh Merchant Company
On American Lines.
At the end of November new sixpenny
illustrated weekly newspaper called The
King, will be published in London bv
George Newnes, Ltd. This paper, which
has been in preparation for some months.
is intended to compete with such publica-
tons as the Graphic, the Illustrated Lon
don News and Black and White. and an
attempt will be made to introduce a large
number of the best American methods of
illustrated journalism. Up to the present
time the leading London Illustrated week
lies have partially failed in getting hold Il
the earliest possible moment, of news MIC
lures, to be issued hot from the press at
the very moment when events were being
talked about The King will ATTEMPT this
work, and much interest is being created
in London journalistic circles by its an
nouncement. The paper is owned by Sir
George Newnes. 1t will contain NOT only,
the news features already mentioned. but
will maintain a general view of ali the
worlds doings week by week, and snch
general matter, personal gossip, humorous
pictures and fiction as will serve to inter1
est the largest possible public. Mr.. Walter
Smith, an American, will be the editor ~
the new venture. Mr.. Smith is now re-
sponsible for the success of the America
edition of the Strang Magazine va II
L. H. MOORE.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-11-08
SOME PROMINENT BOERS.
Men Now Active in Administering
the TransvanIs Affairs.
From the London Mail.

From the London Mail.
Gen. Piet Joubert (Sliem Piet) is perhaps
the second most prominent figure among
the Beers. Long-headed, shrewd, cold, and
calculating, he is also by no means a typi-
cal Boer. He has paid two or three visits
to England, and perhaps is one of the three
or four in the inner government circles in
Pretoria who realize what war with Eng
land would mean. Still, he in no way lacks
physical courage; he has shown that time
and again. He is essentially a time-server
a trimmer, a sitter-on-thefence. When he
contested the presidential election against
Kruger, no one took his candidature very
seriously. he was obviously put up as
voice-splitter.
His religious tenets are not obtrusve and
bad financial transactions. As a general in
the field he is cool and clever, and thor
oughly expert exponent of Boer fighting
tactics, which are mainly of the SHIPPING
order. He has now gone to the Natal Dor
der, at NolkSruSt, the next best Boer COM
mander, Cronje of Doornkop fame, being
on the Marco frontier, toward Mafeking
A man who in a quiet, unoStenta tiouS
but deadly effective way has done as much
as anybody to engender bitter feelings be-
tween Boer and Uitlander is the present
chief justice of the Transvaal, Judge Gre
gorowski.
An Orange Free State man, of Russo-Pol-
ish extraction, he was specially brought to
Pretoria, indicted into the rites of full
burghership, and elevated to the bench for
the purpose of sentencing the sixty-odd re-
form prisoners after the Jameson raid. No
Transvaal judge-Kotze, Ameshoff Morice
or Jorissen-could be trusted to be suffi-
GENTLY severe, Draconian, Jeffreys-like So
they imported Gregorowski. Right well he
did his work. Not only were the sentences
terribly drastic. but the method of the man
in delivering the death sentences latter
ward commuted), and his trickery in per-
hitting a pleading of guilty to certain
counts of the indictment, made the final
scene at the trial one of the most terribly
affecting ever witnessed in q court of JUS
tice.
The Transvaal state secretary, Mr.. Reitz
formerly president of the Orange Free
State, where he succeeded but in no way
protited by the example of the late la
mented President Brand, is a pathetic
figure. Old beyond his years-senile al
most, suffering from incurable disease
at the beck and call and entirely under the
thumb of Kruger, he signs documents put
before him without reading their contents.
-, Il reading them, not understanding
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what they are about. 4 shiftless politician,
not rich as are others i'm high office be-
cause he came to the TransNaaI too late.
and most of the piciIings We're picked. Pc
sides, he is passing honest. and almost an
old gentleman, to boot. His sphere is the
aims house, and his need pension. He
lags superfuous on the stage.
The landdrost or. chief civil magistrate
of Pretoria is one J. S. Smit and he Is a
man entitled to high honor IN his own land
he recently charged the public funds with
sum of over $4,000 alleged 10 have been
spent in constructing and repairing certain
streets in Pretoria. A question arising as
to the legitimacy Of this expenditure, a
committee of the volksraad was appoirted
to inquire. Smith could only produce
vouchers for about half the sum. The in
quiry closed without reporting. Next ses-
sion ii was mentioned in the volksraad
and on the proposal Of John Meyer.
bosom friend and great supporter of the
president it was resolved that me matter
should be considered as closed. Nothing
has ever been heard Of the mi 5sng 40. 600
and Smith continues in office.
Quite the most patriotic Bosr and rabid
anti-Briton is member of the Vnlksraad,
named Stoffel Tosen. This man is a rene
gade Englishman. and his name was Ste
phen Townsend. His father was a private
in line regiment qUartered al Pietermar-
itzburg. Many years ago he deserted to the
Transvaal and fought for the Beers In the
war of 1881. His son, the present bearer of
the Boer variant Of good British name, is
"A
years ago. when the monster petition from
the Rand praying humbly for better repre-
sentation was presented to the raad, Tosen
from his seat, called out. of course I'm the
Taal: IF they want the franchise they've
got to fight for it!' Again, he was known
to have been heavily insulted to promote
the passing of the dynamite monopoly bill.
The bride took the form of bet of $500 to
a shilling that the bill would not pass or
course it passed, and the loser gladly paid
up the sporting odds. In supporting the bill
Tosen gravely said that 1.-The word of God
had come to him overnight telling him that
1t would be for the good of the country for
the bill to be passed" This is textual.
really typical Boer is Barend Vorster,
jr. He has been mixed up with most Of the
Pretoria financial scandals. and he always
comes out branded, but unscathed in posi-
ton. Over the Selau railway deal ne re-
ceived a gold watch and some spiders" or
four-wheeIed carriages. A newspaper openly
accused him by name of accepting bribes,
and the president himself defended Vor-
ster's action, saying that he saw no harm in
members receiving such presents. The va
garies of Norster would I'LL chapters, and
he is not at all an unfair example of Boer
officialdom.
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the cause always go up with the building.
The average time for a shooter or nitro
glycerin maker to remain in the business
does not exceed five years. Death IS in
stant and no one has ever recovered from
nitroglycerin accident. Bodies are torn
to atoms. Two years ago a magazine in
the northern part of Blackboard county went
up, and George Hickok Harry Woods and
two horses were practically annihilated.
The wages of employees of the factories
range from 1925 to $50 a month
Strange as it may seem, the man who
made and exploded the first pound of nitro
glycerin in oil well is hale and hearty at
seventy-two years of age. He is Colonel
William A. Myers, and his home is at Boil
var n. Y. He built the first factory in
the United States, near Titusvile, Pa, in
1868 Up to that time powder had been
used in torpedo oil wells. 1t was then that
an explosive that could be discharged I'M
Colonel Myers father was a Philadelphia
chemist, and taught his son how to make
1t. The first well torpedoed was on Colonel
Mills lease, near Titusville, and the charge
consisted of only two pounds. Oil was
worth 50 a barrel then, and a torpedo that
would double the production of a well was
worth almost what the maker chose to ask
for it. Colonel Myers built twelve different
factories in different parts of the oil re-
gions from 1868 to 1885, when he retired
from the business. Only one of the original
factories stands intact today; Myers made
several fortunes and spent his money like
prince, but, fortunately for him. he still
has a snug sum laid by.
Well shooters spin great yarns of their
experiences and the stories are of the hair
raising order Well shooters generally are
fatalists to a considerable degree in their
belief, and it is probably one reason why
they do not fear the fluid. They state that
when one would think 1t was the most dan
gerous the explosive is the safest. The
smallest drop can be placed on an anvil
and struck by the heaviest sledge hammer
and the hammer will bound back over the
shoulder of the striker. no matter how
much he may try to hold it. Some claim
that 1t will tear the arm off, but this is ex-
aggerated. Transporting the explosive
from a magazine to a well is not as dan
gerous as timid people think, according TO
the shooters. 1t is transported in soiIare
cans such as are used for varnish In nre
pairing for shooting well long tin is sus
pended in the tubing and the shooter pours
the fluid in as If 1t was water 1t is NOT
unusual for 200 quarts to be in a we'll
shooters wagon on one trip. A slight leak
in can may be touched off by friction and
explode the entire load If it should ex
plode in the center of a town every buiId
ing would be reduced instantly to debris
Considering the danger he encounters. the
shooter Is poorly paid. The glycerin com
panies pay him 10 cents a quart for doing
the work, which means he gets from So to
SIG for every charge he handles.