The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-02-27
TOBACCO TRADING
FOR WEEK Brisk
Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand
Pounds Sold, Although Season
Crop Is About 20 Per Cent Sold.

Conservative estimates place the to-
bacco crop of this season about 10
per cent sold, but the weeks sales
were unusually brisk. more than $50
600 pounds being disposed OF, along
with a good lot OF wrappers sprinkled
through the sales
Sales from now on will naturally be
small as incoming shipments are now
wearing down. The tobacco season this
wear has been a successful one. Prices
we're. as a rule. higher than last year.
It is claimed by some of the more
prominent growers hoYeYer.- that the
weed Is not bringing it's full value
yet.
The Shockoe Warehouse gives the
following extra good sales for the
week: y. E Dabney. OF Hanover
County, sold at the following prices:
50. $1,000, $3.50 and s21; j. H.
Snead, at $3.50. $1,000. $12.75, s14.
s21 and s2s; Lutte Harris. at 1915,
$40. $40, $1,000, $21 and SEA: E. c.
Taylor. at 50. sl1. s21 and s23. All
the above from Hanover County.
The following offerings were from
Louisa County: f. T Mills, at $40.
s1425, SIS and s25; f l. billiard,
at sf3, s25 and s27, w. w Wood.
at $40. $3.50. STEPS. $3.50 and sci:
O. r. Button. at 50 so, $40, sl2.75,
$3.50 and s22; r. T Pritchett, at
SO. s10.75, $12.25 and $21.5o: Vel
ford Atkinson. at $s.75, SIS and s25'
sl2.75, $1325. $3.50, 1880 and $26;
J. w. Hancock. CT Caroline County. at
50, sl275, $3.50 and s21; Julius
smith. OF Goochiand, at $3.50, $1,000,
sl275, $l4. $3.50 and S21; l. w
Patterson. of Buckingham County. al
SI0.25. s12.75. s21 and s25; G.. l.
Payne. Of Goochland County, at sS.15
$3.50. $11.75. sic, SIS, s22, s26. s2s
and $50. making an average price OF
1881 for the lot of $3.50 pounds,
including Tugs and all grades. j. NJ
Martin. of Louisa, at IS, $40. s22 80,
$3.50 and $40, making an average
OF $20.0S. including Tugs and all the
grades which Is the highest average
made on the market this season.
At the Shockoe Warehouse on We'd
nesday the entire sun-cured sales OF
34,035 pounds averaged $ll.26. sur
passing any average for the season.
Buffers Warehouse reports the fol-
lowing extra good sales: Louisa Coun-
ty-J. w. Childress. at 50, $l1, $11.25,
SIS. SIS and $50: w. II. Pugh, at
$3.50, $12.75. SIG and s1s; a. F.
Payne. at 81. ss75. $40. s10,75, sl2.75.
sl6. $50 and s25; Richard Miller. at
$3.50, 1915. 50. $40. s11, $3.50, $40.
s27 and 22750: H. c. White. at 50.
1915. s12.50, SIS. s23. s25, $3.50
500 and s32.50 or an average OF
$3.50. w. z. Swift. at 50, $3.50, 1915,
$3.50, SIS, $22, $25 and $3.50, or
an average of 1852. Hanover Coun-
ty-H. c. Casker. at IS so. $1l.50, SIG,
$3.50 and s25: n. P. Mills. at s7.75,
1915, $11. s12.50. SIT and $3.50: J.
p. Moss, at SIS, ss.75. sti.75. $3.50,
s13.75, $3.50 and s2eI Buck Bald
win, OF King william County. at
s1O.50, s1225, s14, s14.75 and $3.50:
william Baldwin. of King William
County, at $3.50. s11. sl2.50, s14.76
$3.50 and $l7.50: j. r. Nuckols. OF
buckingham County. at 1915, SIS and
s25; p. NJ. Ponquent, OF Louisa Coun-
ty. at SIS so, $3.50. IS. sic, $12. s12.75
s13. $3.50, $21 and s22; Burton Pom
quest. OF Louisa County. at 81. So
IS, $3.50, $f025. s13, SIS, S2l and
SIS. The floor average at the Butlor
Warehouse was over sic Ref-iee
pounds.
Hutchesons Warehouse reports the
following extra good sales. along with
the offerings for the week: A. w
Clarke, of Goochland County, sold al
81. $40, SIC and $21.50; w. +. Beaxley
Of Caroline County. s.os6 pounds At ~