The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-07-29
ALCOHOL.
A New Basi uess-The Whole World
90 be Our Customers,

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! 90 be Our Customers.
From the New York Journal Of Commerce
We are nov exporting from the city
OF New York about FIVE thousand bar
rels Of alcohol a month. Up to the
passage OF the Internal Revenue acts
Of lS62-'3-'4, etc, We have shipped
cargo after cargo OF alcohol, and it be-
gan 10 look like a business. But the
draymen who then carried the barrels
exclusively found their business drop.
ping Of till in 1865 they had not bar.
rel TO take to the wharf From 1862
the business declined till the years
lS6S. 90, 20, II, and the early part
Of 1872 passed without a smell OF
American alcohol in q foreign market.
Bu. the act OF Congress OF June 6.
1872, abolished all special taxes and
permitted expectation. The special
taxes amounted TO some seven cents q
gallon, tha. could not be Withdrawn
and tbs. itself is a good profit. 1t
prohibited expectation because the
margin OF profit IN production for export
was less than the special tax. The
new law, a. the act o; 1872 is
called, was Objectionable 10 two fea-
lures. The first was that a cargo OF
spirits lost q, sea would be obliged to
paw tax. TIE only cancellation OF bonds
proposed wss q landing certificate. In
order to get ri Of the enormous bonds
required in heavy exporting, twas nee
essar7, or rather bes. to ship first to
Cauada, erte, 10 bond, std ship from
Canada a. for export under the Wash
,ug;oo treaty through the United States,
70 New York city for port. The act
OF March 5, 1873, RENTED the tax on
spirits lost 8, sea, aad obTiated that
difficulty. The other difficulty has not
bean -emeiied, but il ought to be, il
orde! TO give our people 81 the chance
thev can get. That is, the imposition
o: g tea cen. warehouse stamp,atwenty-
i've cent export stamp, and q ten cent
inspection fee upon every barrel expor.
tel. This Is a little over one cent gal
lon. \ man who makes for export
10000 gallons a year, pays between
81 900 sui $4,000 tax on exported
spirits. Consolidation Of taxes in 1872
removed al taxes and difficulties but
this.
Whan il was found there was only 8
Ger: OK so On the gallon 10 the way OF
exporting alcohol, distii!ers IN this
coua.ry tegsa to look shout them.
Vaey ;olcd situation like this: 10
Hungary the cis,iilevs made a pretty
yooi corn Alcohol, snd undertook to
supply our toyme. customers. But they
were met with the Toronto and Mon
.rea, competition in the corn alcohol.
| Then ,ae Germans, Hamburg being the
Prize ral market, made kind OF alco-
/ 10, {: pcta.oes. This answered every
purpose, bu; was not eanal TO the corn
p.oiuct. The tact remained that the
bes, alcohol in the world is made in the
Cc;;el Safes. The field seemed TO
premise good results. Soon q cargo or
tro wsre shipped along the Mediterra-
mean. Last October the fret bar'
*. WIS shipped, ard to-day We
are shipping to Europe at the rate OF
5,Uyv barrels, CT aoout 3,5, 900 p.oot
gallons Of alcohol g mouth from the
pr; Of New York alone. Canada is
stopped from shipping by our COM
psii;.o2, and the foreign demand is fsr
greater than the American supply. The
probabilities seem 10 be that this state
o: things will continue. Ju! y sud
Angus. aye the worst months in the
yssr Tor G.s,illers generally, aud many
SOP work during these months. The
reason !. that in the west, where corn
g cheap scl abundant, and where dis
ti...ag - most profitable, the rivers are
low in August, water tor power Is
scarce, water for use for condensing is
TOO warm, and i. does not pay TO
use ice to give the proper temperature.
In Chicago soma dist'llers hsve artesian
WELL, a1d manage 20 get along that
VA.
Os:c. 10 the failure OF the grape
err a F.aace tie Frerch will require
c,a.iieraSle alcohol Tor curing tneIr
xiass aud tor transportation to Africa
CJr.,Iaeotlva trade 10 alcohol has
-gru7. ~ between this county and
N.rss:.les au1 Hsvre. We are ship
o.2: !areeir TO Trieste and Genoa, and
.a,e,y have begun to ship by the lsrge
Gao - Con=Isnt!nople. +. Q. Boyd
i Co.. have recently shipped three large
49,. .oa3s o; a,eohol to tue latter
49,. mli.h hiss heretofore been sup.
lis! by Germany with potato alcohol /;
u: ia: kind, besides being inferior to
3a-- u quality, is 10. put up in suitable
tzcGaEes. The Germans put theirs in
pascheons OF 40 gallons each. We
put ours in 80 wine-gslloa packages.
Ice German packages must be repsck-
81, but ours is just the size fox camel
10 carry to the interior, one barrel on
each side, held b. strap over the
back.
Let Us see wherein this affects Us
generally. Alcohol is used very large
" in the art., and for thousand pur-
roses. \ bushel OF corn will make
about 81 bushels Of highwines, or about
two gallons OF alcohol. Corn is pur-
chased Tor rex, to nothing where the
alcohol lie nade. A foreign market iol
alcohol uses up a CREST deal OF corn
sui thereby helps the farmer BY using
corr tbs; would never otherwise reach
= market. The distillery refuse tatsen:
hog. Therefore the more splrits ";
make the cheaper pork becomes. The
more alcohol We expor; the greater Il
The demand for bighwires. HighElne'
are now redi5tillei into alcohol IN Ne'
York 10 supply the home trade. 5. \
Pike Il Co, aud Martin R. Cook i Co.
sud Others are redis;illiug mere as fss
a they csn. The profit OF making al
coJol rom highEines goes to our rec