Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1921-01-04 | Page 12 | Tobacco Growers Face Low Prices at Sales

TOBACCO GROWERS FACE LOW PRICES AT SALES LKXIN'UTON. K.. Jan. 4. All wile on tho Lexington loom loaf tobacco market wan r.illed off for the dny at 19 ofdoOk this mornliiK. low prlcen offered by buy-nt for th largo tobac-00 tobac-00 inanufacturln companica was the cause assigned I.EXI.N.lT.iN. Ky.. Jin 4. Prepared Pre-pared to tak iimt low grad- of tobacco to-bacco for which bltycri f"r niiin nfarturers miff t wffcr such a low price th.it grower would reject thi tld. rcpre-enl itivcs of the Hurley Tobacco Market ng oOmpOAJf today at- I tended all tobacco alca in the Liurley dlatrlct. Tho company, an auxiliary of the grower' association, was Incorporated Incor-porated hart today. The average price of tobacco on the flm day of th aales here was. according ac-cording to growers, a disappointment. The figure of 120.40 prr 100 pounds wu lni ,.. below tlit rost of pro ductlon and was J26.60 per mo pounds le than th" average at the opening ' wiles last year. No action looking to the' reduction of the size of the 1921 crop or at-' I tempting to halt sales pending better! offers for the tobacco will be taken, according to a statement Juiued. by John W. Newman, president of the as-1 aociatlon. until It Is aeen what kind1 of prices are offered for tobacco on' the smaller Hurley markets. oo . , John J. Pemhlng receive pa ' amounting to $21 000 a year as rank- ii g c. neral oMh I nlted States army j ! HI-" allowance for quart era. heat and ' light Is 700. ' ,na