The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-05-06

Many years ago, when Cincinnati,
Louisville and st. Louis were the three
great primary leaf tobacco markets Of
the country, the sale of cigar leaf was
q feature at Cincinnati warehouses.
One would have naturally supposed
that Cincinnati would have retained
its hold and indeed attained suprem-
acy as the sales center Of the Ohio
leaf, at least, for much of this crop Is
grown along the trolley lines leading
out Of that city. But this has not
proven true. There are no longer
regular auction sales of cigar leaf
held in Cincinnati. nor are the "Sales
OF Burley on the break" of any
where near the old-time volume or
Importance And this holds good,
also. as to Covington, KY, just across
the river.
Auction Sale Of Cigar Leaf.
But Cincinnati Is hoping to come
back, and made its first attempt in
that direction on Saturday, April e..
by holding an auction sale on the
Globe Warehouse floors. 1t had been
many long years since there had been
such an offering and the sale was
purely an experiment; tryout of the
buyers, If you will. But 80 cases of
low grade, mostly resweated tobacco
from Southern Kentucky, was put UP,
and these ranged at from Al to 9A
cents per pound. the average for the
entire lot being 1851 per hundred
pounds.
These prices sufficiently indicate
the quality of the offerings and we
hate like the deuce to even mention
this lot of tobacco, suitable exclusive
ly to stogie manufacture, in connec-
ton with real cigar stock.
Gebhardt Seed Leaf Prices.
Somebody contributed six cases of
Gebhardt seed leaf to the sale, and
the price brought at auction is of in
terest to all our Ohio growers.
We are not aware of the quality of
this leaf. not being present at the
sale; but that it was good" leaf
hardly seems probable in view Of the
prices obtained. These were from
$3.50 to $1225 per hundred pounds,
the average being $10.36.
Nothing "scrumptuous" about that
price for goods laid down at Cincin-
natl. 1t is evident that Cincinnati
will have to do much better than this
if she hopes to get even fairly good
grade of Ohio seed leaf to auction on
its floors.
PrebIe County Leaf Holdings.
There are $1,000 pounds of leaf in
one tobacco barn in Preble county
located on the farm owned by Mrs.
Jacob Ulrich. The owners of this
tobacco are: Henry Chrismer, 1900
pounds; Warren Williams, 10000
pounds; Ed Eks, Walter Stump, Tell
Street and Saylor Zimmerman, each
5000 pounds. This is quite a lot OF
leaf to be stored under one roof on
a farm, and represents considerable
acreage and a lot of hard work.
An agent for the Palladium made
some inquiry a few days ago as to
whom among our readers on one single
Ohio rural route had grown tobacco II
1918, and how much of the leaf they
claimed to now have on hand. The in
Quiry was made during one days trav
ell, and the route selected was Number
10, out of Eaton. The result was
somewhat surprising. In addition to
those named as owning the $1,000
pounds stored on the Ulrieh prem
ises he discovered the following, on
route ten and a percentage of sub
scribers not called on that day can be
counted on to add considerable ton
age to the total reported as follows
Name Pounds