The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1911-11-22
A BIG POOL Of.
TOBACCO SOLD
Embracing TwentyMiIIion
Pounds of Weed.
GOOD PRICES WERE OBTAINED
Which We're $40 to Sc for
Leaf and LugS and So
for Trash.
PoOLERs ARE YET TO RATrFY

POOLERS ARE YET TO RATIFH
The Greensboro Inquirer of Sum
day says:
The most important announce
ment in tobacco circles on. Saturday
was that the Green River Tobacco
Growers Association had closed a
deal for the sale of 2O,OOO.OO0
pounds of tobacco pooled with the
association, involving about 81 =
500, 900.
The sale was practically closed
on Friday afternoon, but was left
open until Saturday, so that some
minor details could be agreed upon.
The purchasers are the American
! Tobacco Company, Gallaher Limit-
'1ed, the Imperial, and James Hodge,
and the prices obtained were $40
to Sc for leaf and Tugs, and SO for
trash.
The Board of Control will meet
on Monday morning, and the sale
will be approved by it and the con-
tracts will be signed during the
week.
1t is stated by one of the men,
bers of the association that the sale
will be submitted to the poolers for
their ratification, at a meeting to
be called within the next few days.
The amount of tobacco to be re-
ceived by the respective buyers has
not been definitely agreed upon, but
1t is known that the American To-
bacco Company will receive the
bulk of the pool.
AS to when the deliveries are to
begin is not yet settled, hut will
probably be at the meeting of the
Board of Control on Monday.
For the first time, the associa-
ton has agreed to give the poOlers
an opportunity to ratify the action
of the Board of Control in making
the sale, and the members have no
doubt but that it will meet with
the approval of all the poolers.
The samples upon which the sale
was made were presented 20 the'
buyers during the past week, and It
was almost certain that sale would
be made before the close of the
week.
Later Report Denies Sale of
A. S. of f.. Pool.
4 The OwensDoro inquirer of Mon
day evening says;
This afternoon late the officers of |
the A. s. of E. and Home Ware
house pools decided to submit to
the poolers an offer of $40 and Sc |
for leaf and Jugs, and SO for trash,
for acceptance or rejection, at a
meeting next Saturday in Owens
boro. The companies making the
offer are the American, the Gala
her and the Imperial.
Price Baird, president, and l.. N.
Robertson, secretary, of the Green
River Equity Warehouse Company.
in a signed statement, addressed TO
the Inquirer, deny the report that
the tobacco pooled with its socie-
ties has been sold. The statement
is as follows
Owensboro, KY, Nov. 20.-Edi-
tor Inquirer: The statement In a
morning paper to the effect that the
tobacco pooled with the American
Society of Equity and the Home
Warehouse Company had been sold
is untrue. We have had an offer
for our tobacco, but it cannot be
sold below the prices fixed by the
poolers without first being referred
to them for their acceptance. :
PRICE BAIRD, Pres.
L.. N. ROBERTSON, Sec'y. i.
c. r. e. Company.
II was rumored on the streets
.Gaturday afternoon that the Amer :
lean, Society of Equity and the
Home Warehouse company had .
made a sale of the 100000 :
pounds of tobacco pooled with these
societies Jointly, but this was de-
MED late Saturday night by L. N.
Robertson, who stated most posi-
lively that no sale had been made. c
The officers of the society held a !,
continuous session on Thursday
Friday and Saturday Of last week.
and had a number of buyers to ex- o
n mine tha aannIon ana a Il ,,ndar- | q