The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-15

| toDacce have been materially increased
here during the year, by the erection o.
three manufactures in Cevingtnn, two o.
which are directed to the manufacture o.
plug tobacco. making now, on both sides oil
the river six Important establishments
besides the smaller producers, engaged IL
making this kind of tobacco, The returns
of the Revenue Department do not show
| the relations which the fine-cut and plug
tobacco sustain to eaeh other In prodnc
ton, but there appears no doubt that the
production of plug tobacco here is not only
rapidly increasing. because of the restora'
tion to this city of a large and distinct
branch OF chewing tob1cco production,
which for many years has had, until re-
Gently. scarcely an existence, but that it is
also gaining, relatively, on the fine-cut
production, not because of the absence oi
enterprise on the part of the distin'
guished manufacturers here, whose pro-
ducts have arepntation as wide as the ooin-
try, bat because If preference, for the
time being at least, for the plug, which is
manifesting itself among large classes Of
consumers. The total production of fine
cut and plug tobacco, in the First Internal
Revenue District of Ohio (Cincinnati), &C
cording to the returns of Amor Smith, Jr.,
Esq, Collector, was 2,095, go pounds, COM
pared with 2,4S0, ,5442s pounds in the pre-
vlous year, showing a falling OH OF $50,
3242s pounds. On the other hand, the pro-
duction on the Kentucky side of the Ohio
River, which properly belongs to Cincn-
natl, according to the report of w. S. Hol-
den, ESQ.,. Collector Of the Sixth Kentucky
District exhibits large increase having
been, in 1s78-79 2,546, 6,99lss pounds, COM
narad with I 500 t59iL pounds in 1S77-72
an increase OF 720,4O7 pounds The aggre-
gate productlon OF Cinclnnati and Covlng-
ton was 4, 4,642,2r1ss pounds. In comparison
with 4,3o7, l29 pounds in the previous year,
an increase OF $3.50 OS2ss pounds. The total
taxes pa'd on en's prnauctioh IN oihcihhat'
was s422. .s44 81 in lS7S-79, compared with
1896 $50 ~ in lS77-78, and in Covington
$50, 10 o. IN comparison with S43S, 3SQN'
The taxes paid IN the two cities assresated,
on flne-cnt and plug tobacco, $9lZ,sa 81
compared with vi, o33 7lo VI. 1t VIII De
seen, that while there has been material
increase i'll the quantity manufactured,
there has been sensible loss III the reVe-
nue.. ,...........5,,
The relation OF the two years III smoking
has been much like that IN chewing. Ihere
was loss \. tho aggregate. quantity mann
factured in the two cities in the first nine
,nontbs of tho year which was more than
n'o,i.is u 'ue sea' "on H. ""o non,a;',Jar ,G az
niaue up oy e'1 sa,n h in .ne iaa1 Iee ooo
tle ye"', ."e 80. "nne ~ th n,hoIo
pon'ds, ano haa aaT i$on ~ mormSs va Tha
wear nas'ns 1eoa St;o j., t tu" ~ o;t;os fn !.
aEgrtsase . oo. 'so,W J" .no S"o oao,oa $3.50 .0
oe war nv Mns o,7 = Aon p' 1o-7 20 n ,uaioh
M'.l' q %,a.,o.. p?"o ~ tho ~ ,st oar Un
Saee Mses oooo w oe m o"u p"sO ith d ss,s ose sI
'ooI 70 49, Uo ot;a'' - al "n II,
ne va, atinoo :" ,as Zoo ooe a7os[
Ing ,"naop ' biob tI o.us ers a;d
"to' ~ sI 1,a aos aie A5 non,nara With q IA
,t,s W J .S e. =, 20 SW noa ~ t" m"m IT,
o, ,"o ""uo ,.ns roor .'"N -
p'I1iou9 o,os edi, tho oo, v,ih;ts both !, cir
49, rs; "ni IVY w. E,;nnrnr 80 "a Namnort ~ ~ =
I,m.," CIV 80 ~ t5nn a'h ~ ora dS 20 !"
dnetio,, st o of nrodmct;on n,L;ch was cnntined
ura,om w w 10 vi art 81 tha woar rhara
,nor w. .o ,ado in %,n;nnat; aur;n@ tho voar
so $50 % i5o ciaars ~ CON-, nar;snS witt, o.
J XIX oo, coo ~, 1a2ySe and H., ro,,inotnn .,,a
49, q 5a5 esn ,;rr.,r &c onn,na1od u;t,'
snt e75 Tha aaare"ato nrnd "ot;a, IN
tha tbroa n;t;os as az ak son o;rars j., j.,
cn,n ln nrar;sor Win ,03 o2o Ok in 1s77.7s -
rodnntinn nf & 7o4 AK cio,rs Tn aadi,inn
to these tbere wers mani, factured Of ci,ar ;.
ettes in tIe thraa c;t;es o7a so0 cen,
nsred with OK OOo in 1s7s-79 making in
the M aggregated s3S9 GOO cigars and cigar