The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-11-14
FROM WASHINGTON.
Internal Revenue sIaIIstics-The Tobacco,
Trade.

Internal Revenue .s.as .ssaas,istics-rhe Tobacco
Despatch to the Associated Press
WASHINGTON Nov. IA statement lust
prepared at the Internal Revenue Office shows
that at the present time there are 946 persons
and firms engaged in tobacco aud snuff manu-
facture. The total amount of the penal sums of
the several bonds given by these manufacturers
Is 81 S47600 The penal sum of each manufac-
turers bond in excess Of $4,000 which is the
minimum sum fixed by law, is compute upon
the number of machines and instruments kept
for use, so that the amount of manufacturers
bond becomes in degree the measure of his
relative capacity for production.
The GAG manu- ufactories reported are distrib buted
among the States in the following Manner
Arkansas, factories, $ll, 900, amount of bond;
California, factories, $62 600; Connecticut 5
factories, $4,000 Delaware, 4 factories,
43 factories, 1857, 500; Indiana, % factories,
sl0S 600; Iowa, Z factories, S37, 900; Kentucky,
40 factories, 1924 900; Louisiana, 81 factories,
S93, 600; Maryland, l9 factories, S223, 900; Mas
sachusetts, 81 factories, s1o4, 900; Michigan, 96
factories, 1000; Minnesota, l factory, $4,000;
Mississippi, factories, $4,000; Missouri, 90
factories; $66s 600; New Hampshire, factory
$1,000 New jersey u t.o1oso factories $59 SS0
\ North Carolina, 19l factories, s9ll, ,OOO Ohio,
sc factories. S444, coo; Pennsylvania 40 facto-
ries $3.50, 600; Tennessee 30 factories, 1927 ,000
Texas, factories, $4,000; Virginia, 17S factories
50 1888 600; West Virginia, factories, $40 600;
Wisconsin, 9 factories, 800, 600.
The following States report no tobacco manu-
facturerE Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, Dako-
tab, District of Columbia, Florida, Idaho Kan
sas, Maine Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New
Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, North Carolina,
| Utah. Vermont, Washington, Wyoming
The number of persons and firms reported eu-
gagged in the manufacture OF cigars in the United
States Is 1927, and the total amount Of penal
sums OF bonds given is $1l, ,374, 100.
The number of cigar makers registered as
| being employed by the manufacturers Is 45, $50.
The minimum of the penal sum of a manufac-
turer's bond is $500, with an additional 800
for every registered cigar maker employed.
The following is q comparative statement OF
the number of manufacturers of cigars in each
State and Territory, with the amount of the
penal sum of the bonds given in
! eacb;-Alabama, IS manufactures, 800
bond Arizona l, $1,000; Arksuzas, 2, $1,000
California, 157. $763 500; Colorado, 2, $2200
Connecticut, 236, 1927 ,0OO Delaware, 81, $780,
600; District of Columbia, 63, $43 900; Florida,
Sc, $73 400; Georgia, 81, $29, 800; Illinois, 55S
800, 500; Indiana, sn, va, 400; Iowa, l40
$17s1OO; Louisiana, 122, Sl4S,000; Maine, 81,
$50, 600; Maryland, 427, SS65 900; Massachusetts,,
354 1852, 100; Michigan, 2l9 $lSS, 200; Mime
sofa, 30, $50, 200; Mississippi, 2, $1,000; Mis-
souri, 452, S4l2 700; Montana, l, $500; New
Hampshire 90 $3l, ,600 New Jersey, 500, 1894, 400
New York, 1896, $3, 1854, 100; North Carolina, 8,
$2S0o; Ohio, Ss4, OIL, ,09S, 200; Oregon, B. $9700;
Pennsylvania, 254S, 81, 5O4, 100; Rhode Island,
IS, sS9, 600; South Carolina 27, s32. 700; Ten
10, $1,000; Virginia, "A, S57, 500; Washington
Territory, l, $500; West Virginia, "a, 90, 300;
Wisconsin, 252, t223 600; Wyoming, l, 5000,
There are no cigar manufacturers reported
for Nebraska Nevada, Dakotah, Idaho, New
Mexico, and Utah.