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The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1905-12-22
Connecticut Valley Tobacco Market.

That the period since the harvest has,
been full of bitter disappointments for
the New England tobacco grower cannot
be denied. When the tobacco first went
into the sheds, conditions had never
been more encouraging. The crop was
a large and we'll looking one and it was
evident that the demand would be un-
precedented. The latter has proven to
be the case, but the promise of the for
mer was never fulfilled. The fault seems
to have been largely with the weather,
which has been wet and dry, warm and
cold, just at the wrong time, the result
being that an unusually large proportion
of the crop has suffered from pole sweat,
and owing to the continued absence of
casing weather, the work of taking the
leaf from the poles has had to be put OF
until late and most inconvenient per-
iod. Prices, at first far above the nor
NAL, have fallen off considerably since,
the beginning of the buying season and
today the range is from II to 20 cents for
good crops, with an occasional sale as
high as % cents, Of course, these are
pretty fair prices, but nothing like what
was expected when the season opened.
However, within the last week there
have been so few transactions recorded
that one can hardly speak of prevail
ing market price. That the situation
should be so disappointing might seem
unaccountable considering the admitted
ratio of demand and supply.
Our correspondents report as follows:
Montague, Mass: "The tobacco is pret-
ty much all taken down, and is found in
good condition. Very little damage from
1o ,~ I1xr ln6 +o
be a better crop than the average. No
sales to report, though buyers have been
looking" Bradstreet, Mass: ''F. p.
Jones opens his asserting shop this week
with the usual number of hands for the
winter" North Hadley, Mass: "Tobac-
CO buyers have been making things live
ly during the last week, the rain storms
of Nov. % and Dec. 3 putting the tobac-
CO in good condition for stripping. All
the hail-cut crops are sold at from to
1870 in the bundle. Many crops are
pole sweat and sold at 10 to l5c in the
bundle. A few lots are still hanging"
Conway, Mass: Tobacco has been the
order of the day among the farmers the
past ten days, those who didn't finish
taking down Nov. % finished Dec. 3. The
buyers have been quite thick here the
past week and have bought good many
lots. Among those selling are D. New
hall, d. Western, A. Newhall, B. S.
Graves & Sons, w. Batchelder, A. Evan
son, H. r. Newhall, Ell. d. Pease. One
sale was made at 15c and one at 10c; the
rest at II and 121sc. 1t seems pity to
sell at such figures, but when it is dam
aged the price has to be lower" East
Whately, Mass: Il report the sale OF
the following crops of tobacco: Mrs. Ed
win Quinn, 10a; Morris Powers, 9a; John
Blunkard, 1Oa; William Conklin, Mon
son Bros, 15a; Willis Waite, IA; Charles
E. Bradwell, Erastus Graves, 11aa."
North Hatfield, Mass: "The following
persors have sold their tobacco: William
Coffee 5a; Maurice Fitzgibbon, 119a;
Smith Briggs, to 5a; John Brennan, ga;
George Donaldson, 5a." a."-Cultivator.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1905-12-22
NEW YORK, Dec. 13, 1905.

1t is remarkable that although little
more than one more week of business re-
mains of this year, trade in leaf circles
has kept up briskly, and bids fair to be
sustained even through the holidays. In
other words, the approach of the holi-
days has not been characterized by the
slump in sales that usually occurs about
this time. AS to the specific nature of
the business going on il leaf tobacco,
there is nothing of particular impor-
tance to report. The facts detailed in
these columns for the past two months
apply with equal force today. There is
a great scarcity of tobacco of all sorts.
The reports from the new crop have al
most without exception been discourag-
ing, especially in view of the high hopes
that had been aroused by the bright re-
ports earlier in the season. In Pennsyl
vania the Lancaster dealers and packers
held a meeting recently to protest against
the uneven manner in which the grow
ers had stripped the tobacco that had
been received; and from all accounts
pole-rot and other ills to which tobacco
is liable are visibly and prominently in
evidence. Some damage is reported in
Wisconsin, and in the New England
states there is much complaint of pole
sweat. In Ohio the new crop is supply
ing good quality of serviceable tobacco,
but even in this section there have been
reports of damaged leaf. The buying of
contracts in Wisconsin at advances over
the original prices, reported in last
weeks issue, is still going on.
Sumatra.--T presence in New York
of Amsterdam leaf dealers who are liz
search of Sumatra tobacco for the Ger
man market lends an unusual aspect to
the case, and emphasizes the reports
given in this paper during the inscrip-
tions last spring and fall of the condi-
ton of the last crop of Sumatra. 1t is
stated that they were successful in find
ing some goods of the character and
quality they wanted. When it is remem
bered that the high prices that had to
be paid for Sumatra at the Inscriptions
was charged to unusual competition
from German buyers, as we'll as to the
shortness of the crop, and particularly
when it is remembered that the crop ran
largely to grades suitable for the Ger
man market, the incident becomes even
more significant. There has been
steady, continuous demand for Sumatra,
and sales have been taking place daily.
Leaf.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1905-12-22
New York.
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NEW 1ORk. D0C. 10, l0UO.
A breathing spell is at last perceptible
in the leaf market As but two weeks
are remaining to the close of the year,
factories too are Stacking down to pre-
pare for taking their annual inventory.
The markets activity in consequence is
being suspended except in the few in
stances where either particular type is
needed to help out an immediate want
of supply or some goods are being bought
on speculation. In the midst of this
quoting down of what will prove one of
the most sensational markets on record
came the disturbing report from Cuba
of incessant rain storms for the past ten
days which are likely to do considerable
and in some sections irreparable damage
to the new crop, which would mean
further shortage and also further ad-
vance in the price of Havana leaf. This
news was the most distracting feature of
the market during the past week, as the
importer is likely to suffer from it as
much as the manufacturer because of
the shortage of supply.-Journa].
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1905-12-22
Baldwinsville, n. Y.

The market remains quiet with but
few sales reported. The American Cigar
Co. have rented the Bigelow warehouse
adjoining the Riverside Hotel and ex-
pect to open it next Monday with Ed
ward Beebe in charge as foreman. Their
purchases in this vicinity will be re !.
ceived and assorted at the warehouse
Gazette
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1905-12-22
WISCONSIN, TOBACCO MARKET.
EDGERToN, Wis, Dec. %, 1905,

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At this writing damp snow has been
falling for several hours with tempera-
ture above freezing, which is slowly
bringing the hanging tobacco into case.
Should this condition remain for few
hours longer there is every reason to be-
lieve the crop can be removed from the
sheds for stripping and the work grow
ers have been waiting several weeks to
perform can proceed. In this event the
warehouses will be able to start up after
the holidays and the seasons packing
will be under way.
Old stock is being eagerly sought after
in the local markets, but the trading is
mostly in small lots. Pomeroy & Co. re-
port the sale of about three car loads for
the week. George Rumrills December
sales will reach upwards of 1000 cases,
who also has purchased the Conrad and
McGee packings of 'O4. A number of
out-of-town merchants have visited local
markets during the week in search of
class of goods that is hard to find.
A few of the Vernon county ware
houses have begun operations, handling
the new crop since last report, and the
tobacco received is showing more shed
damage than was expected.
The shipments out of storage reach
about 900 cases from this market to all
points for the week.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1905-12-22

The Department of Commerce and
Labor is in receipt from the Japanese
foreign office of the statistics on the op-
erations of the tobacco monopoly of that
country for the nine months period of
the current calendar year. During this
term 7,658,776 pounds of leaf tobacco.
valued at 81, ,091, 1856, were imported by
the monopoly, as compared with 4O60,-
329 pounds valued at S515,363 imported
iE the same period of 1904. Practically
all of this leaf was obtained from the
United States.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1905-12-22
Tariff Bill Reported.

Congressman Babcock made hard
fight to prevent the report on the Phil
ippine tariff bill by the Ways and Means
committee on Tuesday but was over
ruled by a close vote. The contest will
now be carried on on the floor Of the
house, and it is no ways certain that the
measure will pass owing to the strong
opposition of the tobacco and sugar in
terests. Congressman are needed now
who will stand by their constituents.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1905-12-22
Lancaster.
LANCASTER, PENN, Dec. IL, 1905

LANCASTER, PENN, Dec. II, I9U5.
A number of buyers visited Lancaster
last week, having come after what is not
here old tobacco. The local tobacco
dealers are not doing business in old leaf
just now, but they are getting ready for
receiving the new crop, which is already
moving, though slowly, and general de-
livery is not expected before the new
year opens. As many of the smaller
growers, and not few of the larger
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1905-12-22

If THE little furry over the finances of
the university has no other good result,
it has at least called direct attention to
the cheap attempt to deceive the public
made by the state officers in their no
state tax announcement of six weeks
ago. The records show that the present
state administration has been far and
away the most expensive in the history
of the state.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-08-06

| ness of the Tourilli is the Ouiatchouar
club, which holds the lease of the river
of that name running northward from
Lake Bouchette to end in the Ouiat-
chona falls and Lake st. John. To
reach Lake Bouchette one must jour-
ney some one hundred and eighty
miles over the Quebec & st. John rail-
way, a trip remarkable in itself. For
almost one hundred and twenty miles
of the distance the train climbs stead
lily up the Laurentian meuntains-the
Canadian Acknowledgement at Lake
Edward one is 1900 feet above the level
of the st. Lawrence river.
Where Fish Stories Come True
At Lake Bouchette waiting canoe
is the ferry to the first house on the
other side of the lake. Here clothes
are changed and all signs of civiliza-
ton are left behind. Five miles by
river and portage reveals the main
Los Angeles herald., 1905-08-06

"Yes, two to your one"
"Well, / amt no man fer bettin', but"
-and by this time the old gentleman
is in the car and party of five have
backed out of the far yard and the
machine is going at a pretty fair clip
down the white road. The old gentle
man keeps time, the machine falls short
and the farmer wins the bet. After a
four or five-mile run total darkness has
settled down, and they turn back TO the
farm. When they alight the former
Jotund is a beaming human being, and
the nights lodging is settled and sup
per of a most fanny kind is set before
the guests.
Undoubtedly vanity follows the flag.
However, vanity is a blessing to civil
ization If it's not carried to extremes.
AS this is the case, dressing table is
necessary, even on an automobile trip,
and very convenient one can be made
of the back of the machine. The door
of the car has a catch, or lock. On
this mirror may be hung. and 1t is
just in a place that will enable the fair
lady TO sit on the machine step and
obtain a perfect view of her lovely
face. Her powder box may be stored
in her pocket. but there is complete
little portmanteau made for this spe-
cial purpose. 1t is fitted with brushes.
combs, nail file and scissors; towels.
powder box and puff and with the as
sistance OF this little box you may
always look as charming on an auto
mobile trip as you do when first start
ing out. and take one of the old tour
lists opinion on the subject:
1T is always better to drive into
farmers yard looking respectable and
civilized than dust stained and care
less. He viii have deal more respect
for you, ana the quality OF pity will
be lacking. You viii in all probability
get what you want. Then, too. it's
best for the men to carry a box or so
Los Angeles herald., 1905-08-06
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vokingly by his table and reads the
weekly"
IT say. it's getting cold, and we'ra
late for our next town. Can't you give
US lodging? Our machine"
by gracious, young man, you and
your machine can go to-"
But, you see, we tried to get there
and couldn't" supplies Mr., Woolston.
The old gentleman has thrown up the
window by this time and is looking out.
Ever try an automobile for reaping"'
queries Mr.. Woolston.
mo- growls the implacable Jotund
OF an upstate farm.
"Well. I'll tell you, they can go like
the wind How fast? Oh l don't know
Just how fast In the field but come out
and I'll show this ones speed on good
road"
"Too cold; I'm tired"
1T won't take long. I'll wager Wen
go a mile ln--well, in the shortest tima
you ever made. less than minute"
NAV, you KANT"
Los Angeles herald., 1905-08-06
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any certain town on the road for the
night, but, on the other hand. If the
shades of night overtake you turn into
the yard of some prepossessing looking
farmhouse and ask for lodging. There
are four of you, and farmhouse of
these days cannot always accommodate
four, but then you have to take your
chances.
"rurn into a farmhouse" Oh, how
simple rustic, alluring 1t all sounds. but
be not deceived; it is sometimes a most
difficult undertaking, for up in the coun-
try an automobile Is still a very rascal
of thing and the farmers don't like IL.
When you come footing into the
peaceful yard ten to half a dozen dogs
will be reused and the farmer himself
will wear a brow as dark as Jotund's
when in passion. but II you are New
Yorker without doubt you will have
the old gentleman smiling before long,
and this is a formula an old tourist
advises:
"Ho there. insidel Can you give US
Los Angeles herald., 1905-08-06
Light Housekeeping Autonobie- Original Outing

IN all probability had Frank r.
Stockton ever enjoyed a two weeks
automobile tour American literature
would have been enriched with his ex-
perence and many a reading family
would have spent some hours in joyful
risible exercise.
But stockton did not add volume of
must content ourselves with the history
Of the Rudder Grangers and the Du
Santes and look to a real trip in an
automobile for the humorous side of
the most modern machine.
Nowadays trips in big touring ma
chimes are very much in vogue among
people who are free to consult their
pleasure and fancy and through the
medium of these machines one is abso-
lutely independent of all other forms
of locomotion.
An automobile is not unlike a yacht
in one respect-you can never tell what
capacity she has until you try her. To
the amateur it is absolutely a reVela-
ton to see the stores disappear into all
sorts of corners, under seats, In places
where he thinks the gasoline ought to
be and in cushions that he thought con-
tained only springs. After this there
is the floor. The floor Of an autoombile
is sometimes a perfect wonder OF
place. 1t is a dungeon from out of
which most tempting viands may ke
produced. 1t is not unlike that magic
carriage In which the fascinating
Roxanne travelled to the battlefield. In
fact, IL you know the combinations an
automobile is just as handy in it's way
as that proverbial pocket In the shirt.
10 tour in an automobile is not to
travel few miles and stop at a hotel
for two or three days TO tour i'm ths
proper and strenuous sense OF the word
is to start out with car full of the
necessities OF life-quite enough to last
two or three days. DO not try to make
Los Angeles herald., 1905-08-06
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large clubhouses, the main one accom-
modating, twenty persons. with their
guides, and the other, Crosses camp, on
the Little Saguenay river. There is
one smaller house for ten persons and
other camps, each equipped with cots,
stoves, kitchen outfit, table service and
two or more tents and camp kits. For
the guides nine separate camps are
provided,
Within the club limits there are three
hundred miles of first class trails, with
stairs crossings, and log walks at the
most difficult places. These trails open
up 1875 lakes and more than three hun
dred miles of rivers and streams. For
the members are provided some one
hundred and twenty-five canoes, of all
descriptions, fitted with paddles and
poles, and at the main house, Tourilli
Lodge, provisions are on sale for all
who take to the trails
The trip to the Tourilli properly be-
gins at Quebec, over the Quebec and
Lake st. John railway. One is carried
Los Angeles herald., 1905-08-06

From the lodge parties set out over
the trails as their fancy directs them
Yet none of the other camps is far
enough away to make the journey
long or tedious. Cache camp, distant
some eight miles, half of which can be
covered in canoes, is fair sample of
all the camps. 1t is, indeed, safely
hidden OH the bank of stream that
runs at the feet of two mountains. The
camp is of heavy logs and boasts of
but one room, which has a stove for
heating, a table for eating and four
wire cots, with plenty of room for pine
boughs on the floor if the party be
larger. Outside the guides do the
cooking for all hands, and later sleep
in a somewhat similar camp on the
other bank
The Tourilli is only one example of
large number of clubs in the Lake
st. John district. Into all of these
Americans have gained membership
and the list is growing every year
In marked contrast to the elaborate
Los Angeles herald., 1905-08-06

north some forty miles to a quaint old
village, st. Raymond. Here, as in all
this section, the English language is
almost unknown, and on a fete day
every house is adorned with the tri-
color of France with the British emblem
nowhere.
From st. Raymond there is drive
of some sixteen miles past houses of
the habitants. with whitewa shed
walls and red roofs. This part of the
journey is made in buckboards, and
the rate for a rig which carries four
persons and your camp bags, outfits and
canned provisions. costs 50 for the trip.
In CampIand
Tourili lodge is vastly comfortable
and better than the average hotel in
Canada. It's spacious sitting room is
filled with great, deep roomy leather
chairs, and there is a big bathroom
with porcelain tub and water hot and
cold. All this had to be carted into
what was perfect wilderness a score of
years ago.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-08-06

of good cigars. Every farmer has his
weak point, you know"
Some enterprising farmer might
make his everlasting fortune if he'd
start "coaling station" for to run
out of gasoline when you're many
mile from town is something more than
provoking; there is chance for many
and effect and he might start little
gasoline trust all his own.
For the Housekeeping Basket
One chatting dish.
One gallon of alcohol
One small dishpan.
Plates.
Cups, no saucers.
Glasses, one apiece.
Knives. forks. spoons.
Tea, coffee, sugar. condensed milk.
Can opener. corkscrew, pail for
water.
Hand towels, soap, toilet articles,
dish towels.
Sofa pillows, looking glass.
In purchasing canned goods for the
trip it is we'll to include some Of the
canned soups, for on cold day they
are very good things to have: a cata-
logue from one OF the stores will fur
nish good list OF canned meats; pur-
chase all the smallest cans. for they
are better to carry-once opened there
is little left to be thrown away or
prove inconvenient to carry
Los Angeles herald., 1905-08-06
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~AMPING in Canada is more thar
pleasure, it is art development
In the highest degree of all thai
makes for the comfort of man in the
woods. Best of all is it's utter absence
of civilization, though it may be enjoyed
almost on the edge of the busy world
One dimes in dinner coat at the
Chateau Frontenac one night and the
next in canvas jacket, and from a
more or less battered tin plate.
While camp life in the north includes
every comfort necessary for complete
enjoyment, there is, except in isolated
instances, no place for luxuries. Even
the guides show this in dress and
charges. In the Adirondacks your guide
is picturesque to degree and
charges you therefor from SO to 81 a
day. In Canada his garb is common
place in the extreme, but he knows
every nook and corner of woods and
lakes, he never grows tired, he is will
ing to work from sunrise to sundown,
and often later, and finds his own food
at that
Camp life in Canada is in many re-
spects a vastly different proposition
from what it is in this country. Across
the border it is largely a governmental
matter. The administration takes di-
rect and personal charge of the terri
tory, leases portions of the vast hunt
ing grounds to clubs, taxes the indi-
vidual and regulates every detail of
fishing and hunting.
1t is not to be understood that this
Is onerous. On the contrary it is of
such great assistance to the sports
man that none would have it otherwise.
In this country comparatively few citi-
quires much travel, considerable money
and ample leisure. In Canada it is the
national pastime. The grounds are
practically at ones back door, and the
item of expense it kept at a minimum
Here one has to plan an elaborate
vacation for the woods; there the
weekly rest from Saturday to Monday
is often enough for both preparation
and enjoyment.
While the happy hunting grounds of
Canada stretch without interruption
from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and
far into the lands of Hudson bay and
the northern Rockies, it is in the district