The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-02-14
IT BROKE
The I 4 RECORD.
Over 6oo,ooo Pounds Of Tobacco
Sold Here During the
Week
THE PRICES ARE VERY HIGH
New Movement to Sell Tobacco
on Warehouse Floors DIR
ing the Year.

Notwithstanding the extreme cold
weather tho sudden downpour Of snow
and the terrible condition or tho roads,
large quantities OF tobacco found It's way
4 to Richmond market last week. swelling
the breaks above tho half.mllion mark,
which was quite unexpected by tho local
tobacco people
Mr. IIazell OF Shockoe Warehouse, was
interviewed on Friday Immediately after
"a he had finished a GO,O00 pound sale, and
he expressed himself as highly pleased
with Gales made, saying that no COM
pIaint had come to him from a single
customer, which Is rather unusual In
saleyof that size, where so many people
are Interested The entire sale OF 10000
pounds was sold for average Of 81 per
hundred pounds. quite q number Of
planters, who had good stock, receiving
an average or from $40 to sl2.50 per hun
dretl for their loads Several good lots
Of sun-cured tobacco were sold BY Mr..
E1nzel at prices ranging from $l5 to
s9l.50, the last named price boing the
highest price obtained by any one this
IS eek, and was bought by Mr. Il. j. n oble
for his firm, the r. j. Reynolds Tobacco
Company, to be used in their famous
sun-cured brands. {5 rs Az si
55 The a''shortG crop theory IS fast gain
s ing ground says Mr. Hazell and many
who are III position to konw, say ull-
hesitatingly that the shortage will
be atRleast 33 1-3 per cent. Of last years
receipts. Sa
The tone OF the market shows q decid-
ed upward tendency on desirable working
stock which Indicates that the nanufac-
turers are beginning to realize that there
Is really something in the shortage"
&rumor. 5i5s III
IN reply to our inquiry as to the prob
able future Of prices on this crop Mr.
Hazel declares himself as firm In the
opinion that good , sweet sln-cured stock
will con tinue to sell WE'LL and may sell
ever higher later on than It Is now doing
Loose sales on the warehouse floors arc
expected to last much longer this year
than in former years, II. III fact, they
do not run through the entire season, as
there Is strong sentiment among buy
5lers and warehouse men In favor Of con-
ducting all tobacco sales on the ware
house floors, as is the case In all other
live, hustling markets.
"a Total sales for the week were $50, 1913
pounds. Sales will begin Tuesday at
istonewall, running to Shelburne. Cren-$
|9bs light next week,
THE PRICES. VI
The comment and price list issued for
this week by the Grain and Cotton Ex-t
change is as follows:
Dark Fired Tobacco-New: receipts, lib
cral; market active ut quotations. Old;
receipts and offerings very light. and
market very quiet, but little doing.
Brig hts-R eceipts continue light and mar
ket quiet, but firm. Sun Cured-Re-
ceipts,, liberal market steady at un-
changed quotations.
lark Fired Tobacco-New; Jugs, s276
to 81: short to medium leaf, 81 to $3.50:
long leaf $3.50 to IS; selections and wrap
pers, IS to Sl2
Eark Fired Tobacco-Reordered; prim-
ings. s275 to $3.50; Tugs. common to good,
81 to s4.75; lugs, good 10. prime. s4.75 to
81. short leaf, $3.50 to So; medium leaf
Sc to 81: long leaf, 81 to 80: wrappers and
selection, $40 to s13.
Bright Tobacco-New; smokers, COM
mon, So to S.; medium. IS to So; fine,
SO to s12: cutters, common, SO to s12;
ne dunn, sl2 to $13; fine, Sl5 to SIT: fancy,
SIT TO $40; filters, common. Sc to 81; me-
dunn, IS to 50: good. 50 to s11; fine sl2
to $l4 wrappers common, $li to SIS; me-
dunn, s1S OF $751; good. $27 to $35; fine,
49,, to $40; fancy, $40 to s55.
Sun Cured Tobncco-New; prlmlngs, 81
to 50; Jugs, common to good, $50 to $3.50;
lugs, good to prime s460 TO Sc; short
leaf. Sc to IS; long leaf, IS to s11; wrap
pers, SO to s2l.