Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-01-02
BEER MANUFACTURED IN ST. LOUIS.

st. Louis is the largest market for pig-lead
in the United States. Her easy and large ac-
cess to the incXhauStible deposits of that
mineral within the borders of the State gives
her an increasing advantage, both for smet-
ing, refining and manufacturing purposes
and these interests are annually being ex-
banded. While the United States produces
more of this metal than any other single
country in the world, it, unlike other lead
producers, consumes within itself all of
its annual output. Another singular fact is
that while Missouri produces more lead ore
than any other State or Territory. the bulk
of the metal marketed in st. Louis comes
from the large refineres working on far
Western lead ore from silver and gold
mines, and it is also true that the bulk of the
metal raised in this state is sold direct to
New York, and some of it resold to st. Louis
purchasers from that city. st. Louis then
owes its prominence as lead market chiefly
to the large manufactures located there
which turns the pig metal into shot, pipe,
and sheet and other more valuable shapes.
TOBACCO AND TOBACCO TRADE.
The tabacco trade of the state is simply
immense, and St Louis deserves the front
position she occupies. 1t will not be out of
place to record that nearly all the tobacco
received at st. Louis is raised in Missouri
Kentucky, Virginia, Illinois, North Carolina
and Arkansas, ninety-five per cent coming
III by railroads, with the balance by river
The greater portion of Missouri tobacco is
export tobacco, yet in some of the counties
on the Missouri river. considerable amount
of the tobacco grown (as in Callaway Cole.
Montgomery, Pike, st. Charles and a few
others is used by manufacturers of smok-
ing tobacco, while the burly grown in Ran
dolph, Monroe, Macon, Linn, Livingston,
Charlton and Carroll, is used in the mauu.
facture of chewing tobacco.
Fifty years ago, according to the census of
1910, Missouri produced only 9,0G7 9I3 pounds
Ten years later finds her with an increase in
production of 7,970,451 pounds while at this
latter period there was a falling off of 20 oG0
600 pounds in the total crop of the United
States. In 1860 the total product in Missouri
%, 0S6, 1876 pounds.
The comparative standing of thirty of the
largest manufacturing districts of the United
States, for the various products of tobacco
for the fiscal year ended June 90 1881 shows
st. Louis to occupy the sixteenth place as a
manufacturer of cigars; nineteenth place as
a manufacturer of cigarettes: seventh place
as Il manufacturer of snuff, and first place as
a manufacturer of smoking and chewing to-
bacco. When leaf tobacco manufactured for
chewing and smoking is considered, St Louis
stands at the head, not only of any CITY in
the United States, but of the world.
THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE
With the exception of the State Of Texas
the Territory of New Mexico, the southwest
corner of Kansas and larger portions of
Northwest Colorado and Southern Wyoming
all of the States and Territories whose sne-
cial interests are brought to view in this re.
port were embraced by the Louisiana Pur.
chase made from France in 1903 For this
reason it was deemed appropriate by Col.
Onel Switzler in the Introduction to his re-
port briefly to mark the origin, progress and
disappearance of the French power in North
America, and to rescue from popular mis-
conception some of the important historical
facts connected with the acquisition of Lou
isiana and the boundaries thereof