, 1881-01-30

The average price of lager beer, ale, etc, mn,
| be put down at IS per burrel, making tota
value Of 1406,3 800 for these T., $4,000 barrels
/ of beer. The United States imported during
] 1850 beer to the value of $.,75, Sa and exported
Of the sumo article enough to be worth SIS OFT
leaving an excess Of export over import of So.
| FL. This excess In export, subtrActcd from
SIZE. .40s,a 800 leaves the astounding of s112,.
3s6,os3, which tho people Of the Union paid fo,
| their homo consumption of beer.
| The Treasury Department at Washington has
decided, Mt the request OF the United States
Brewers Association, that it is bud policy to
| publish the exact amount Of individual sales OF
brewers, thus making known the privute busi-
ness Of each brewer. Although tito number Of
burrc!; manufactured b. our iurecr brewing
establishments were given THE TRIBUNE by the
prnrrietors, it forbcars to publish them, because
During tho year 1871 10,lsL15s barrels OF beer
were manufactured In the United States, lcay~
inE an increase Of $2.6l9743 barrels for tho year
reis Of beer during 1890 being san barrels less
than were brcwed in St. Louis, 1l9, ,lss barrels
less than in milwaukee,. III 81 barrcls less than
f}'0s0 barrels less than In Philadelphia, I44, I63
barrels less than In Brooklyn and ut, ,0s0 less
than in the City of New York. Chicago manu-
fncfured 1ei.sE barrels more than Albany, y. Y,
<oi,436 more than Buffalo, 1,66sg more thnn Bal
timore. only B:47l barrels more than Newark.
csso i and tSa 3arEes mose f than snn M Era
the Union, and has larrer population than
either one of the cities of Ros1on, st. Louis,
beer than any. one Of them. This proves ono OF
two facts either the people Of the Hub, the
Mound City, Porkopols: and the Cream City are
Chicago is fnr behind iii the manufacture Of
xe1.. vet sontrnt. The Southern. Westeru, and
Northern raflroud connections Of Chicago are as
good as those Of any Of tho cities referred
to. If our bre~erics 10 not possess
IL they do not possess the capital, in case their
capacity is not sufficient to increase it, then
there is room in Chicago for at least half dozen
more fFst-c!asS brcweries.
These statistics prove some very queer facts,
The population OF the stute of Illinois is. ac-
cordlng to the late census. 3,01S.76a. The llo
OF beer: Odsettiug the export With the import
from Milwaukee. every man. woman. aud child
The 81 sate hess dne @ auFns The year only X I
3f69Sf niabttants. The tive brcwercs of that |
State produced during the last tiscul year l751-
OF ;a o has
sets manufactures all the beer 1t needs ut home
and moro too. The States of Maine and Yer |
laws instead The citizens Of these two States |
are too law-abidlnx to voate that law SoI1 !
might hc presumed that the good people of New
Hampshire drunk all the beer manufactured In |
their State themselves, which amounts to I.a5 |
gallons tor every man. woman, aud child Of that |
state: Il they did, they did well Tor sober ana !
people, 1t they did not, |
wIIEEE DID THE SURPLUS GO?
perhnps the citizens OF Maine and Vermont were
rot SO w-abiding, and bought and consumed
he surplus after all? The thirty-onc brewcries |
n massachusetts, produced during the last fiscal
ear 64a0 0ds barrels Of beer, of which 5s0 IL bur-
els were manufactured III Boston, leaving II
'a1ance OF Us, $40 which were brcwed outside tne
ity. as already stated, Chicago produced 49,
N barrels Of beer, drank it all and more too,
iEf ffr1F1r al