The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1919-12-05
TOBACCO MARKET OPENS WITH
LARGE AVERAGES


The Paris tobacco market. for
many years regarded as one Of the
very best in Central Kentucky.
(and still is one of the very best)
opened yesterday morning with a
large attendance and spirited bid
ding on the crops on the floors at
all the warehouses. The receipts
were rather larger for the opening
sales than for the sale of the pre-
ceding year. The buyers and grow
ers were in a happy frame of mind.
and the prices realized at the sales
were very conductive of that feeling.
Tobacco has been coming to the
local market for several days and
the prediction was made last week
that the opening sales would find
the Paris market still near the Top
of the list.
The market partook somewhat of
the sensational when the high prices
were reached. Buyers from all the
leading houses in the country were
present and every neighboring
town sent quota of growers to
watch the market. The sale opened
at the New Independent House,
where total of 1920 pounds of
tobacco was disposed of for a money
value of s53,9S5.40, an average Of
5000 The sale was good on all
grades at all three houses.
At the Bourbon Tobacco Ware
house a crop of twenty-one baskets,
grown in Grant county, Indiana,
was sold for forty cents for the low
est basket and ninety-three cents
for the highest. The market
throughout was strong and the bid
ding brisk. 1t was generally pre-
dicted that the Paris market will
again lead the State in averages.
Auctioneer w. H. Wycoff conducted
the sales at the two Bourbon houses.
A remarkable incident happened
during the sale. A farmer who had
his crop of tobacco on the floor
waiting for the auctioneer to reach
it was approached by a local broker.
and asked what he would take for
his crop as a whole. The farmer
answered that he would sell it for
seventy cents a pound. The broker
Immediately accepted the offer, and
in less than 1--WE minutes after the
transaction had resold it on the
floor for nienty cents a pound.
Preceding the sales Auctioneer
Ollie Clay, representing the Allied
Tobacco League of America. made a
rousing talk to the growers and
handlers. in which he urged the
farmers and all other business inter-
est connected with the growing
and handling Of tobacco 10 organ
ize and work against the anti-to-
bacco crusade. The first basket ia
sales was secured by j. M. Sturgeon,
representing the American Tobacco
Company.
An unusual sale was made by Mr..
Charles N. Peddicord just before
the opening sale. A crop OF 3,45o
pounds raised by Charles N. Peddi-
cord, was sold on the breaks at
prices ranging UP to SO cents. just
before the sale Mr.. Peddicord sold
a half-jnterest in the crop to Matt
Lair for S1,o35, clearing the net
sum of 500. Mr.. Peddicord bought
the one-half interest in the growing
crop of two acres from fh1l Mp
pert and Mr.. Purcell, allowing Pur'
cell the privilege of using a portion
of his tobacco barn in housing the
crop.
The Bourbon Tobacco Warehouse
Co. sold yesterday at the opening
sale at their Bourbon Warehouse
4O.S25 pounds of tobacco for S22,-
e95. an average of 1888. At their
Paris Warehouse, a total or 81 ,Zoo
mounds of tobacco was disposed oil
by the auctioneers for an average
of s57.13. While there was guam
tity of high grade colory tobacco
there was much that was OF poor
quality.
At the Paris Warehouse the sale
blocked. One of the crops OF coiory
tobacco that brought from forty &c
eighty-f1ve cents was sold by Tarl
g. THOMPSON. Some of the crop aV-
erages follow:
Wagner & Brannock, ABS pounds
s7739. Nj.
Mrs. w. B. Woodford and Brls
town. 1000 pounds, s75.S7.
Caywood & Pence, 1888 pouhos
s69.39. ~ a.
Tarr & Simpson. $40 pounds
Marshall & Mitchell, 2.9S'
pounds. s64.10, m,
Griffith Sisters and Saswell. 2,o9;
pounds, $59.72. oe
Rovd & Son. 1926 pounds. $685.
Patterson & Johnson. 200 pounds
s60.33. !.
Jones G. Ishmael, 3,21o pounos
s63.S1.
Kuster & Campbell, 1870 POUNDS
sS037 .,o o,
Pleas Cooper, $50 pounds, s4s.SI
Marsh & Barnett, 2,72O pouhos
$3.50. oor
Mcdaniel & Fletcher. 9'oo'
pounds. $53.62. seo
G.. X. Jones, SO pounds, $500
Stewart & Stewart, 2,145 POUNDS
6 p. Burns. 2,625 pounds, s62.S2
Raw Arnold, 1.7S5 POUNDS, sStS'
Miss Ellen Purdy and Ritchie' q
$40 pounds, Sails. ,, coll,
Following the close OF tue se
the following telegram, receive
here by Chas. C. Clarke. Of the Ne,
Independent House. was read at a
The warehouses, ellcitins heart