The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1917-11-09

happened on the Richmond market
last week. says the Richmond Times
Dispatch
The offering amounted to $4,000
pounds, consisting almost altogether
OF the sun-cured quantity OF prim-
lngs and no dark shipping tobaccos.
The quality OF the leaf was good, very
good. AS matter OF fact, all of the
offerings SO far this season show
that in quality the sun-cured crop Of
this year is much better than last
years crop, better indeed than any
crop for several years, The only OBJ
lection the buyers found to the Of
ferings of the past week was that
some of them were in rather high
order.
Sun-cured wrappers sold readily up
IN the forties, many piles going as
high as SIS to $49, and one pile made
the record OF $50 per hundred Fill
lers went away in the twenties and
some extra fine as high as $50. The
lower grades were also away up in
the pictures, nothing going for less
than $40. Even the few thousand
pounds Of .primings offered brought
from $3.50 to $l4. The average for
the entire $4,000 pounds Of all kinds
and grades sold, was a fraction over
S35 per hundred
The waFehousemen look for even
larger deliveries this week, and none
OF them have any idea of any de-
cine IN prices. 1t would not surprise
them if the books this week show an
advance over the figures eagerly bid
by the buyers last week.
Lynchburg, Va, Oct 27.-Thc cold
dry weather prevents the farmers
from handling their tobacco and get
ting it ready for market, the result
being continued light sales. amount
ing this week to only $4,000 pounds.
The demand for tobacco on this
market is greater than ever known,
and all grades are bringing remark
ably high prices.
Ar-cured tobacco or anything with
out smoke, is selling from $40 to $40
per 100 pounds
Smoked tobacco is stronger and
bringing decidedly better prices than
at any time last season.
Nothing i'll the way of tobacco is
too common to sell, and everything
is selling right along.
Petersburg, Va. Oct. 27.-The to-
bacco market was very active this
week, with large offerings of bright
tobacco at advanced prices over last
week. A great many lots were sold
at the following figures per hundred
pounds: $35, $40, $45, $50 $50, SIS,
500, sos and $40 The average of the
weeks sales were 1896 per 100
pounds.
Rocky Mount, N. c., Oct II, 1917.
Receipts have been rather light
the past week, amounting to less
than 100000 pounds. The~average
was $33.75, the highest of the season
so far. Total sales to date are nearly
100000 pounds, at an average of
$2812.
The offerings as whole have
shown better color and more charac-
ter, the proportion of the common
grades diminishing, while wrappers
and bright cutters have shown I'D in
increased quantities. Medium Tugs
and export leaf still predominant.
Prices have ruled higher than any
week this season, and have been high
~ satisfactory to the seller.
The notable feature of the week
was large lot Of wrappers (o,500)
pounds sold by planter from dis
lance tor an average of $500 per
100 pounds. This is record sale
Tor this market, and, perhaps, has
never been beaten in the state.
1t is estimated that between 70 and
IS per cent of the crop has been sold,
and by December will be practically
out OF the farmers hands.