The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-12-10
MUCH AC TIVITY
IN LEAF TOBACCO
ESun-Cured Stock Selling Quite
High and Bright in Active
Demand.
.DANVILLE MAN ON MARKET
Package Dealers Doing Quite a
Lively Business Just Be
fore the Holidays.

Dry weather and cold weather and
some other conditions combine. when
they do combine, to cut down the re-
.ceipts OF loose leaf tobacco ut taa
warehouses in Virginia and in North
Carolina Throughout this territory
dry weather. much of ii cold. and some
that matter III all OF the loose lear
warehouses, much of II cold, and some
other untoward conditions have pre-
vailed for the past ten days. and as
result the sales OF leaf tobacco have
fallen Off not a little. All the markets
within reach report smaller sales and
some of them very small sales. How
ever. the prices keep right up mi il.
no instance has n farmr who mas Of
fered his leaf in any of the loose leaf
markets been sent home dissatisfied,
}unles he was awfully hard to satisfy.
4 The sales on the warehouse :loors
in Richmond for the past week
amounted TO but very little ovH- n
half million pounds, II that much,
all OF which consisted of the sun-cured
stocks. The stocks offered came to
market In very much better order than
for several weeks past, and the buyer
had no complaints to make of the wet.
ness and softrcss" of the weed. Prices
were right up in The pictures nil the
week. The average for the not less
hHah Hdii pOuluS SDlu uUNtE
the eloqucnce OF the auctloneers was
somewhere above IS per 100 pounds
/ and that is doing mighty well, when
/ 1T is considered that OF this half a
million pounds sold, there was all
kinds of stuff
These figures extended over q large
range. AT Shciburnes warehouse some
j. good filters were knocked out at the
good figure OF SIC per 100, and u pile
~ ell =
variety, at the same warehouse. was
pulled in at $50.
AT Hutchesons new freproof ware
house. at Sixth and Canal Streets,
where nearly 100000 pounds were sold
/ during the week. some right fancy
! prices were recorded Some sun-cured
iillers went as high as Sl5.7s. and two
Piles of wrappers, offered by a Han
i over county man. brought s31s0. An
'other pile, small pile, from the same
county WAS knocked out to the r. A.
Patterson Tobacco Company at $3.50.
ing on, but between the lines l learn
week. These are but samples. On
the whole. the market Is Very firm,
and any goods OF the sun cured va
ricty that has body and character will
bring the fun outside price.
The package dealers report fairly
good business. These fellows are al
ways Very reticent as 10 what is go
ed restful night. 1t Is doubtful that he
that during the past week many pack
ages changed hands. and some very
large sales were made. r. l. Dlbrell,
of Danville, a very large packer of
the bright varieties, spent several
days In Richmond the past week. Mr..
Dibrell is u native Of Richmond, and
often visits the old scenes, but he is
known TO be strictly business, and
sentiment cuts but little figure in his
visits. When he is in town tand
spends several days here). II may be
concluded, that there Is something do
ing in the bright tobacco line. He
was here several days last week, and
the information is that over 500 pack