Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-02-11
LEAF TOBACCO SOLD IN
PACKAGES IN RICHMOND
Weed Disposed In Loosc-Leaf State
in This City Only Drop
In the Bucket.
COMPANIES STORAGE HOUSES
Dealers Handle $4,000 TO 10000
Packages Year Big Companies
Sold Over 100000, 900 Pounds OF
Carolina and Virginia Leaf.

Some readers Of the weekly renor..
IF the business done on tho loose lon,
obacco market OF Richmond. who arc
'o' FAMILIAR with tho tobacc business
Generally. may get an idea that tho
100000 to 100000 pounds OF ,ooss
caf sold in tho warehouses here con
stitnte all Of E!chmond's leaf business
whereas the loose leaf sales on the
warehouse floors are but drop in tn,
bucket.
The big compa mics: the American
nopacco Company. the Export Leaf
Iohacco Company. the Imperial To.
pacco Company. the Liggett &. Myers
company. Ga llahcr. Limited and the p.
LoTr. Hard Company are all largo
noEcrs or Virginia and North Caro-.
,''a la. ana inc larger part of their
purchases in those States are handled
in this city.
lhcre arc ff:een leaf dealers who
not only buy on the Richmond market
ont Oh other Virginia markets and on
mos" OF North ASA South Carolina.
ana 81! o, their purchases are handled
N tn!S city. Neither the leaf deaI6rs
VINO buy the Leaf for repacking ana
!cse!linE. nor the big companies who
bnT for consumption in their yarious
factories III various parts of the coun-
Try are required to make monthly 70
nort OF their purchases and sales to
the Tobacco Board OF Trade IA, s-e
the warehousemen. and the ouart.r,v
eports they make to the United States
government are confidential and the
revenue officials will not give them
out 10 the newspapers
however. canvass among the deal
ers and manufacturers, and litt:e
ing hSures that are at least very near
70 being an accurate sum up Of the
business they do in the leaf tobacc
line. The fifteen dealers who buv and
handle the leaf for resale. handled
last year between from 80. 300 TO so ot,
pantcs named above handled In their
Richmond establishments just about
the same quantity. Zach of these
packages contained from 1000 TO 1890
pounds Of leaf. Thus it will be seen
that somewhere from SIS. 100000 20 90
100000 pounds of leaf were handled
last wear by the dealers. and a like
amount by the large companies named
Add 10 this the leaf bought from Ken
lucky. The Carolinss ard in Virginia
and manufactured into smoking and
chewing tobacco by Richmond fac-
above. and the 100000 or 100000
pounds OF loose leaf sold on the ware
house floors and il Will be seen that
Richmond handled last wear consider
ABLY moro than o00.0o0.Uo0 pounds Of
leaf tobacco. the larger portion o.
which was grown in Virginia and the
Carolinas.
The American Tobacco Company and
the Export Tobacco Company have i'll
this city immense storage warehouses
Of their own. and carry therein cnor-
nous stocks. Some of the other com
panics have smaller storage houses
here, and the balance of the dealers
make use OF public storage houses oil
which there are quite a number in this
city. The main storage plants of the
American and Export companies are
located in this city, although they
have smaller ones in several other to-
bacco towns.
The figures given and all that is
said above have reference to the TO-
haccos used ultimately in the manu-
facturc OF chewing and smoking to-
Dacco and cigarettes. or course. an
enormous quantity of cigar Leaf comes
to Richmond for manufa cture into
cigars and cheroots.