Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-08-14
FOUR DAYS. SALES
Of TOBACCO TOTAL
3,194,772 POUNDS

A total Of 3,194,772 pounds OF to-
bacco was sold on the floors Of Geor,
Ella tobacco warehouses last week, ac-
cordng to a report compiled Mon
| day morning by Peter V. Rice, stat
| istician of the Georgia departm ent
| Of agriculture, and submitted to
! Commissioner J. j. Brown. The de-
partment receives weekly sworn
statements concerning the sales
Through it's crop reporting service,
as required by law. Several ware
| houses had not reported.
Reports received by 1890 a. m.
| Monday, when the tabulation was
made, follow:
Farmers Warehouse, BlaCkshear
! Ga: Pounds sold first hand, 41S,464.
! Average price of sales during week,
| IS 52-10Oc per pound. Quality, good,
~ ID per cent: medium, 81 IL per
cent; common, so per. cent. Planters
Warehouse, Blackshear, Ga: Pounds
sold first hand, 23S,096. Average
price of sales during week, 81 79-1OOc
| per pound. Quality. fair. Growers
| Warehouse, Douglas, Ga: Pounds
sold first hand, 23S-096 Average
nrice of sales during week, 81 49,
l10c. Quality, good, 20 per cent; me-
dunn, so per cent; common, 20 per
cent. The Big Tobacco Warehouse,
| Douglas, Ga: Pounds sold first-haEd,
257,141. Average price of sales dur.
| ing week, % $4,000 per pound. Quail
| ity, good, % per cent; medium, so
per cent; common, 25 per cent.
Planters Warehouse, Hazelhurst,
Ca: Pounds sold first-hand. 254,790.
| Average price of sales during week,
| 19c per pound. Quality, good. 30
per cent; medium, As per cent; COM
mon, 25 per cent. Gold Leaf Ware.
house. Hahira, Ca: Pounds sold
| f:rst-hand, 225,024. Average price
of sales during week, 10 $4,000 per
pound. Quality, good, 20 per cent;
medium, 55 per cent; common, 20
yer cent.
Fenners Warehouse Hahira, Ca
Pounds sold first-hand, 22S,2 8.
Average price of sales during week,
per pound, 20-44 100c. Quality, me-
dunn.
Banner Warehouse, Triton Ca
Pounds sold first hand, 306,32 Av.
erage price of sales during week,
per pound, 1925 100c. Quality good,
1919; medium, 1919; common, 700.
Dixie Warehouse, Triton, Ga. -
Pounds sold first-hand, 1886. Aver
| age price of sales during week, per
pound, 1881 100c. Good, $50; me
dunn, $50; common, 1919.
Rowland & Meadows Warehouse,
| Vidalia, Ga.-Pounds ~-'' first-hand,
273, 220. Average price of sales dur
m
Quality, good, $50, medium, 500;
common, 25%d.
B. B. Saunders Warehouse Val
dosta, Ga.-Pounds sold first-hand,
187,04G. Average price of sales dur
Quality. good, $3.50; '--''um. 500;
common, $50.
Alliance Warehouse, Naldosta, Ga.
Pounds sold first-hand. 57,156. Aver
age price of sales during week, per
pound, Pill 100c. Quality: No com
ments made.
Farmers Warehouse. Nashville,
Ga.-Pounds sold firsthand 1877, 480.
Average price of sales during week,
per pound. 1905 100c. Quality good,
$50; medium, $50; common. 1910.
Planters Warehouse, Camilla, Ga.
Pounds sold first-hand. 203,716. Az
eraee price of sales during week,
per pound, 1912 100c. Quality, me-
dunn.
No reports had been received from
Fitzgerald Tobacco warehouse, Fitz-
gerald, Ca: Planters Tobacco ware
house, Nashville, Ga; Union Ware
house, Nashville, Ca; Farmers
Warehouse, Valdosta, Ga, and Nor
gan's Warehouse, Blackshear, Ga.
NINETY CENTS PAID GROWERS
OF ONE VALDOSTA LOT
VALDOSTA, Ga, Aug. 12.-T0-
bacco sales Monday amounted 70
one hundred and thirty-siX thousand
pounds and the average at the first
two warehouses was 26 and 261aC.
Much better tobacco was on floors
than last week. The highest price
was 90c, to J. B. Cowart, of
Mineolaa. who also had four lots to
sell for Csc, one lot 64c and several
lots last week at from 40 to 55c. 1t
is his first year as a tobacco grower
and his stakes are regarded as re-
markabla.
Several lots of tobacco brought
above 60c at all of the warehouses.
1t is expected that the better
grades will be marketed this week
as the first of the season is usually
given to low grades of which the
demand is limited.
TOBACCO OF FIVE COUNTIES
MARKETED AT FITZGERALD
FITZG ERALD, Ga, Aug. r.
Mondays tobacco market opened
with tobacco from Coffee, Bacon, IT.
win. Wilcox and Ben Hill counties.
Forty thousand pounds were sold at
an actual average price Of 27c per
pound. A number of piles sold as
high as SOC, and E. l.. Rigsby, of
Ambrose, received the $40 prize given
by the chambe rof commerce for the
best tobacco sold today. The Rev.
w. II. Tomlinson, of Willacoochee,
averaged Sic and School Superin-
tendent Welchel, of Ocilla, 33c for
large lots on the market.
DAYS SALES AT NASHVILLE
THREATEN 400 900 MARI
NASHVILLE, Ga, Aug. 12.-MOn-