Evening star., 1924-12-02
HEAVY INCREASES
IN TOBACCO SALES
Virginia and Maryland Crops
Very VaIuabIe-Rush of
Holiday Buying.
by j. c. ROYLE.

Special Dispatch 10 The Star.
NEW YORK, December 2--More
cigars, cigarettes and tobacco Will be
given az presents this Christmas than
ever before in this country. Inter-
views with manufacturers in all
parts of the country indicate that
business never has been so good.
Practically all are running with full
crews. There have been more holi-
day cigar orders than in previous
years and the cigarette output is
enormous. Larus Brothers of Rich
mond, for example, report that they
are rushed as never before. The
Falk branch of the American Tobacco
Co, which is changing from the
manufacture OF cigarettes to prepara-
tion of smoking and chewing tobac
cos. booked ore single order recently
for 112. 600 pounds. The Allen G
Ginter branch of Liegctt & Myers
is turning out 20.OO6,000 cigarettes q
day from one factory alone.
Growers Prospecting.
The growers of the country are
prospecting in consequence. Henry Nj.
Taylor. Government statistician. esti-
mates that the 1894 crop of Virginia,
North and South Carolina, Georgia,
Maryland and Kentucky will be
worth at least SiSa,39S.S55. The yield.
according to his figures. is distributed
as follows: Virginia. i1,240,00e
pounds; North Carolina, 2T5S35.000: :
South Carolina, tl.360.0 600; Georgia;
51.200.000: Maryland. 1889, 600, and
Kentucky. 3S5,435.0o6 The total for
the States enumerated is 2t1 100000
pounds less than last year, but prices
are strong.
Marketing is now in fun swing and
IS particularly active in Virginia. In
the old historic market at panvilie
they have been auctioning as high as
800 piles an hour at unusually good
prices. The average price of bright
tobacco so far in Virginia has been
s21.6S hundred pounds. as compared
with S20.34 last year and $3n.3l the
year before. In North Carolina the
price averaged S23.SS, as compared
with s21.52 last year.
Virginia Stations Rushed.
The Virginia Tobacco Growers Co
operative Association has opened its
receiving stations for sun-cured and
dark-fred tobacco, and reports indl-
cate the quality of each is high. al
though the total of 4,S0I.600 pounds
produced is under that Of 1928. Much
of the tobacco grown in this country
is exported, and growers and manu-
facturers anticipate Il record export
year in 1925.
The total value of the tobacco prod-
ucts exported in the last fiscal year
was valued at sl9%.33S.O00, Il gain of
over S2O.O0O.000 which brought to-
. bacco 10 fourth place in American
exports. In the first hais OF this yea:
exports of leaf tobacco showed all in
crea Sc of 4j.A per cent, and there is
small doubt that the shipments by
January will have brought. the to-
tai to the highest point in all time
OF these shipments. bright hue-cured
tobacco. suitable for ci&aretteS con-
stitute ~ pc cent. while dark fired
Kentucky and -I-une@,S"e hurley ac-
count Tor al nj - i"r EN-.
Big Cixar.>'Ie y. ents.
1t is estimated ihut .,.., eleven bill
lion cigarettes will haye been shipped
TO other countries by tiIn first of the
year. England aud China are the
best customers, the former IL king
about b, per cent Of the total and the
latter 2S per cent.
New York. loug known as the
greatest tobacco manufacturing cen
ter, is losing it's right 20 that title.
owing to the difficulty of getting
cheap woman labor for the cigar ard
cigarette factories. The trend has
been toward centerS where there is
ample work for men and few indus
tries in which women can engage.
This city. however, still is the great