The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1905-10-06
n asw York.
NEW YORK. Sept. 80, 1905.

NEW YORK, Sept, 3U, l0U0.
The condition of the leaf market is
one of unbroken activity and serenity.
Purchases of leaf are steady and they
could increase in volume if concessions
in price were made to the anxious buy
ers or if the stock wanted could be had
in sufficient quantities. The imminent
scarcity of a supply of domestic leaf is
becoming daily more self-evident and if
demands coftinue as at present and the
output of our cigar industry continues
to grow as of late genuine famine in
the stock of domestic leaf is unavoid-
able. Those, therefore, who are still
haggling for reduction of quarter
or an eighth of cent will find them
selves short of their necessary supply.
This condition may be hard for the cigar
manufactured but it is caused by the ex-
panding of the consumption of the coun-
try on account of the general prosperity.
The only really troublesome factor in
the leaf market seems to be the high
price that our importers paid for
their Sumatra at the inscriptions. If the
quality and yield of the leaf had at least
corresponded to the high price sales
would have been easier. But as things
OuC are SQ
and not entirely without justification.
In consequence trading in Sumatra does
not keep up with the boom in the other
types of leaf. Whatever sales are made
they are not accomplished with the
grace of satisfaction to either buyer or
seller. In an entirely different condi-
tion finds itself the Havana market
Here goods are rapidly consumed, even
at an advanced price, because the quail
ity of the tobacco justifies it aside of the
well-nigh shortage of the supply. The
Havana market in factory vegas has also
become steadier and more promising on
account of the insistance of the u. S.
Tobacco Journal on a more impartial
and correct classification of wrapper to-
baccos. The "grafters' that smuggled
wrapper leaf under filler rate and there
by demoralized the market for the hon
est importer are being driven under Gov
er and out of the field. The stern eyes
of justice are now on them and dishon-
est competition because of fraudulent
evasion of the proper duty is being brok-
en- up at least for the time being
Journal.
NEW YORK, Sept 27, 1905.
the previous market letters exist in an
aggravated form this week. The avail
able supply of Eastern tobaccos, includ-
ing New York state, is being picked up
at stiff figures. Pennsylvania Broad leaf
is in big demand at prices ranging from
Is to 16 cents. Samples of the 1904
crop of the Ohio tobaccos are being
shown, and the tobacco turns out ex-
ceptionally fine and sound, especially
Gebhart, which is selling at from Ia to
15 cents, marked weight. There is con-
siderable inquiry for 1904 Wisconsin,
| which few packers have sampled yet.
Sumatra.-The Sumatra market shows
a steady demand for all the different
grades of the leaf and the most desir-
able lots of the crop are being gradually
picked up. The reports from the first
fall inscriptions have been such as to
steady the market. There are but two
more Inscriptions this year, and the
prospects that they will bring out any
thing approximating the kind of tobacco
that would materially affect market con-