Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-12-21
MAKING THE STUFF
That Forms the Soul of Thomas and
=,Jersmish, TOddies, Punch, Etc.
Immense increase in Production
Louisville Post, ST

The immense increase in the manu-
f~acture OF whisky in Kentucy, is
topic that is not only Of interest to
the honest tippler, but to every stall
wart church member who takes any
interest in our old whisky state. Al
though our capacity for making the
enemy that steals away brains, etc, is
double what it used to be, it would
have to be again doubled to fill the
present demand. Kentucky WHISTLES
are known to be the best, and lovers
of the beverage on this side of the
ocean and the other are just awaken
ing to the fact that the product Of
this state is the only safe one to drink.
Good old Kentucky sour-mash pre-
serves life where forty-Tod lightning
from Cincinnati is instant death. This
IS just beginning to be fully
appreciated, and soon from Pekin
east to st. Petersburg, and from
Paraguay to Greenland, every man
who can afford it will drink moth
ing but the genuine Kentucky article.
It is a fine thing TO see the demand
outrunning the supply. More OF our
whisky. ought to he shipped away.
For a number of years there has been
entirely too much OF it kept in the
state, for the good Of either the distil
cries OF the state. Within the past
year all Of the distilleries in this dis
trict have materially increased their
capacity, and are now doing all the
business they can possibly attend to.
la this district more whisky is made
than in any other, and twice as much
is made here this year as last, with the
prospect that next year the product
will be again doubled.
A reporter yesterday talked to a
number of whisky men, and from each
of them received assurances that
orders were pouring in from all sides
in such rapidity that the distllleries
here cannot halt FL them. Although
every point is being strained and all
hands are at work making the nasty
stuff orders are piliDg up so that not
only all that is now being made is sold,
but all that can be made for a year or
eighteen months to come is also sold.
When the whisky is made it is put at
once in bond, and a warehouse certi6
cate is sent to its owner, who has Or
dered it some time back, with a coupon
for each barrel. This certificate and
coupon are salable as whisky, and
while they would not have exactly the
same effect on the consumer, they are
worth just as much.
Mr.. james +. Buckner, IT,, in the
revenue collectors Office, gave the re-
porter yesterday some figures that IN
dicate the increase of the past year.
The recorder the month of October,
1879, shows hat at that time there
we're in bond in this district, which
embraces eighteen counties, 4,181 ,42l
gallons of whisky. For October, 1850.
the record shows in bond 8,654,16S
gallons, more than double in a year.
The amount in bond shares accurately
the proportionate increase in the man.
uficture at present for the demand is
so urgent that it is not allowed to re.
main in bond any longer than is abso-
lutely necessary.
Last year there were s~eyenty-six
distilleries in the district and now
there are l25, and many Of the old ones
are of greatly increased capacity. All
this goes to show that the business Is
on a tremenduous boom, and there l.
nothing for the state to do o but
get rich off the very product that has
kept it poor for so long. Fine whisky
is not manufactured anywhere in the
world as tits right here, and the New
comb Buchanan company is probably
the largest whisky distillery in The
country. There may be larger distil
leries, but they are manufacturers Of
highwines only, not of tho pure old
article. AT Cincinnati the immense
dis:illeries make highwines, and ship
them to France, where they are con
verted into French brandies anG
shipped back. At Montreal highwines
are manufactured and sent to Tennes
see, there made into the famou
'pizen allP Tennessee whisky, and
shipped back 10 the north. But her
in Kentuck honesty prevails, and W
make and sell TO the world the kind
we drink ourselves"