Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-08-11
EItE TOBACCO MARKETS
TO START UP THIS WEEK
Selling of the Bright Weed win BE
Ssos Commenced in Most Marts
SsSss Next Thursday,

Il Selling of the Bright Weed win 81
so1 Commenced in Most Marts
.SssSss Next Thursday.
SOUTH CAROLINA SOLD oU1
Virgins and North Carolina Ware
q houses In Bright Belts Will Throw
Open Their Doors to Break Re.
-acord as to Prices.
The South Carolina leaf tobacco mar
n kets. are still booming, and because
81 of 6the high prices being paid for thu
Il bright weed the farmers are rushing It
q to the numerous markets in that State.
v The. ind cations now are that pretty
* much all of the crop q. l?lS Will have
n passed out OF the hands OF the growers
s next week. leaving all of the big buy
81 ers to give their undivided attention u
al tho Virginia and North Carolina bright
markets. the most of which will open
"a up" nest Thursday, the 18th.
skssst+Tae reports from the South Carolina
siS markets, received by the leaf tobacco
4 dealers Of Richmond. show that the
h leaf Is still selling high. One OF the
markets last week scored an average
ss9xsS52.5G per hundred and another made
s. tho average OF sil.Sa. All the markets
II that had sales last week scored aver
cages above SSS. the most OF them &C.
4 ing to $40 and over.
4 SirEinis and Carolina Ready.
= I, Most OF the bright markets of Viz
q Einia and North Carolina Mill open up
!: Tor the selling season OF l?iS-'l9 this
week, the opening sales occurring on
ThIFsday next. The Times Dispat Gin
Z mas information from nearly all Of
athtse markets. which pictures the to,
( bacco dealers generally as being in
aarmild state OF excitement. They aro
looking Tor the iivc!est business in the
loaf line that they have ever known.
No one doubts that the leaf will opsn
higher than ever known before. for the
I demand is great and there is not a
buyer on any OF the markets who Is
mot ready to become an eager bidder
p Tor anything that is offered on the
y opening day. There is not little
;ispeculation as to how long the open
< Ing activity and high p-icca viii hold
A MP The consensus of opinion is that
a there Will be no decline Ia any of the
ssSsma' IS after the selling of the crop
us . commenced. ON the contrary,
Y mnaaG e OF the opinion that as tbs
4 pr!r' eS are sold OF and the higher
graz # the weed begin TO reach
q inc morkets prices viii continue 10
4 moyc: upward until the crop OF 1918
&Will go on record as bringing mora
money 20 the farmers of Virginia and
n
nave ever grown. that is, OF course
q provided that the quality of the lear
II equal or superior to that grown last
Esar.
H3nnSilie May Brcnk lis Own Record
Is DANVlLLE. VA, August lO.-Thc
\ tpbacco wavchouscmen have informa-
II 1lon from the country surrounding that
4 Reads them 10 look for heavy deliveries
i or priminSs for the opening sales OF
s fhc crop OF l9lS. The farmers in All
H the large sections OF Virginia ana
Eor'h Carolina wlu rlH.sc; their leaf
here, encouraged by the high prices OF
last year and the prospects OF still
bigger nsures this year, have stretched
every nerve, not only to make more
TOBACCO in spite OF shortage of labor
S brfjo make 1t better They are giving
Nv ekDe;ial attention 10 the curing and the
~ cErs of the primings, and the informa-
III lien. reaching the warehousemen and
~ the -buNcrs is 10 the effect that there
ID oifssred. " '''' - "e
IN AThe Danviile buyers ready for
4 the call Of tho auct!onccr, and there is
81 every Indication that the market will
e ApeR next week in a pretty lively way
II aFl around. The greatest bright to-
( hatEo market in the world" expects to
& break It's own record the coming sea-
1 fon.ito open next Thursday
= South noston Sta-s on Next Thursdny.
III srSOuTH BOSTON. VA, August 10
i 9Hetohacco dealers AID the warehouse
4 men are looking forward to the open
z 3nE-of the leaf tobacco market next
: Week with good deal moro than the
i Isua1 Interest I IS agreed on all
Z ara nis that Lent irh.cco viii start off
B tbs year higher than Il has ever been
Y known III the 0'clHo"y "f tho oldest In