The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-01-09
WISCONSIN TOBACCO MARKET,

co markets of the state. Work now has
been started at about all the contem-
plated packing points, with the prospect
of long season of warehouse handling.
Soon everything will be working smooth
ly with the thousands of hands employed
throughout the tobacco district.
Buying of either old or new goods has
not been resumed much in any locality
since the holiday vacation.
While receiving has hardly yet reach
ed it's height, deliveries have been am
pie for all needs so far. The tobacco is
coming to the warehouses in fairly good
packing condition, though some lots con-
tanning shed burn and wet were the
cause of deductions in settlements.
These cases, however, are exceptions to
the rule. The farmers are still busy
with stripping, but the work will soon be
finished when a general scramble will
ensue for delivery.
No new features have developed in the
cured leaf market to vary the monotony
of a quiet trade.
The shipments of storage reach total
of 13 car loads, 63Ccs, from this market
to all points for the week. Since last re-
port 30Ocs of cigar leaf were exported
from N ew York.
EVANSVILLE, WIS, Jan. 7, 1907.
The attention of the local packers is
devoted to the getting their asserting
rooms in active operation, to be able to
handle the large purchases they made
during the past few months. The fol-,
lowing local dealers opened this week:
T.. B. Carle & Son, III. S. McGiffin, M. Ell.
Soverhill, F. S. Baines. j. A. Ryan, J.
T. DeForest, M. T. Decker, Fisher &
Fisher and A. L. Mcintosh. Previous to
this week S. B. Heddles, A. N. Jones,
Sanford Soverhill, T. e. Welsh, John
Soulman, Geo. Ell. Rumrill, Geo. M.
Decker and j. L. & M. F. Greene had
begun asserting, making total of sew
enteen firms at work. These have in
their employ over 600 people and by next
Monday will have about 800 persons at
work.
The deliveries by the farmers have
been very liberal for about week past
and it is thought enough will come in
from now on to keep all at work regular
ly. From fifteen to twelty car loads of
bundles have been received from other
parts of the state, principally Orfordville
and Dane county sections.
Old goods are receiving little more
attention. F. S. Baines bought 63cs of
G. E. Brictson of Mcfarland, and 74cs of
Fisher & Fisher, all low grades 1900.
Sanford Soverhill sold 129cs of Con-
necticut 1901.
Ghas F. Heddles, James Earle and
James Scott were in Rio Saturday re-
ceiving purchases for S. B. Heddles.
M. f. Greene was in Brooklyn Monday
and started up his asserting room in that
city and Tuesday opened up in Oxford
Vile. HAVANA.
SToUGHToN, WIS.,. Jan. 2, 1908.
The most of the 1902 crop in farmers
hands is now in the bundle and ready
for delivery. Next week will witness
busy times in the tobacco market Deal
ers are ready for the weed and with the
fine weather and excellent roads there is
no reason why they should not get it.
0. X. Roe started his asserting crew
Monday, with about fifty hands, and will
open his new warehouse at Soldiers
Grove and also at DeForest on Monday
next, with full forces.
John Holton, agent for the American
Cigar Co., commenced in warehouse No.
3 on Monday with sixty hands and will
start up on Monday next in warehouse
No. | with 125 hands.
O. G. Lee advertises in this weeks is
sue for hands to start operations in his
warehouse Monday. Mr. Lee has pur-
chased large packing and will employ
from 80 to Is hands.
G. M. Hintz will open warehouse No.
Is next week, where he will put up a
packing for A. Cohn & Co., of New York.
A stroll through the several ware
houses now in operation denotes life and
activity. The tobacco being handled is
of fine texture, good size and beautiful
color, and from appearance one of the
best ever grown in Wisconsin,
New York.
New YORK, Jan. 3, 1908.
In reviewing the record of the year
with especial reference to the trade and
industry with which we are solely con-
cerned, we meet at every step, too, the
traces of the child of the modern era.
Whether it is the leaf market, the cigar
industry, or the retail trade, the indus
trial combination which, true enough,
dates it's birth back into the past CEN
tury, but which has become the solidi-
fed consolidation it is now only with
the entry of the new century, has been
reckoned with as leading, if not domi-
mating, factor, though its influences and
domination have more often than not
been rather over than underestimated.
It was certainly overestimation which
ascribed to it the power and influence to
advance the price of the raw leaf, and
thus, in the view of the leaf market, cut
down the markets customary profits.
Had it possessed the power, how could
the Sumatra have been secured by our
importers at lower rate, and how
could the Remedies have gone back to
their former normal price. in spite of
its strong competition as buyer in both
of these commodities? But there is the
inordinate advance in our domestic cigar
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