The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-05-18

ciaI rules have been made governing
sales reclamations, storage, nesting.
reinspections, damage. etc. Until re-
cent years the trade organization
maintained an exchange. where hogs
head tobacco was sold by sample. At
the SGT time on sales days each dealer
would appear at the exchange with
his samples. Sales were conducted
both privately and at auction. When
venientIy placed on table. where the
buyers could look them over and make
their bids. The exchange feature,
however. was discontinued about
1905, and inspected tobacco Is now
sold entirely at private sale In the
dealers office. Nearly all farmers to-
bacco, however, is sold loose at auction
on the warehouse floors.
Big Burnley Business.
Beginning in the winter Of 1s09-1o
regular days for the sale Of loose bur
ley at auction have been established
In Richmond. The tobacco was de-
rived largely from the scattered crops
Of hurley In Virginia and from ship
ments made by West Virginia growers.
About a million pounds Of hurley were
thus sold loose in Richmond during
the first season and over 100000
pounds the second season to the num-
erous hurley manufacturers in the
city who have given the market every
possible encouragement.
With the development of the num-
erous leaf tobacco markets through
out the fiue-cured tobacco sections
since 1870. the trade in leaf at these
points has been confined almost ex-
clusively to the local type as produced
in the territory Immediately tributary
4~-ty ~
Lynchburg Is considerably larger than
that OF Petersburg, and It's leaf trade
has therefore, been better maintain
ed, though not az large as in the seven
ties and eighties Of the last century
when 1t was at its maximum. Lynch
burg at present is the largest mar
ket in Virginia for the sale Of DARK
tobacco. The quantity Of leaf sold al
first hand from farmers on both these
markets in 1908 was extra large.
Lynchburg and Petersburg.
Both Lynchburg and Petersburg
were also important manufacturing
centers and each had a large number
of factories engaged principally in the
production of plug chewing tobacco
The manufacturing interests OF botf
cities are still considerable, although
the manufacturers of Petersburg have
been much better maintained thar
those of Lynchburg because OF
the location there Of important manu-
featuring plants engaged principally In
the manufacture OF plug tobacco fol
i export. Since 1905 an export cigarette
factory also has been located there
However. this factory was closed dewr
temporarily In 1910 because OF very
great increase in duty levied on al
forms Of tobacco. including cigar cites
by India, to which country the product
OF the factory at that time was almost
| exclusively texported.
| In total volume of exports oil
manufactured tobacco Petersburg far
outranked any other center, and. In
fact, exceeds all other centers com
bined. Some OF the factories there are
devoted exclusively to the manufacture
of tobacco for export.
The total tobacco product from the
factories OF Petersburg In 1909 was
5.5340s4 pounds OF plug; $4,000, oo(
cigaretteB, and 16.04S,172 cigars. OF
this, all the cigarettes and nearly ali
the plug-that Is, 5,5s3,175 pounds
were exported.