Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-11-17
SI46,O36,4I5
Is Uncle Sans Internal Rev.
enues for One Year.
Annual Report of Commissioner
Mason.


Mason.
Liquors S2S, ,605,129, Tobacco S32,-
7S6,27O, OleomHrgarine S1,O77,924,
Miscellaneous $3.50, ,127-Cost of Col
lection, S4,21O, O,GO4-Sugar Estimates.
WASHINGTON, Nov 1.-THE annual
report of Internal Revenue Commits
sioner Mason for the fiscal year ended
June 80, 1891, has just been made pub
lie. The report shows that the actual
receipts of the bureau for the year were
$146, ,035, ,415, The commission estimates
the receipts for the current fiscal year at
$3.50, 1000.
Receipts from taxes on spirits during
the past fiscal year were $S3, 335, 1858;
from tobacco, and its manufactures,
S32, 796, ,270; from fermented liquors. $685.
665, 1879; from oleomargarine, 81 OF, 1924;
and from miscellaneous sources, $3.50, 1877.
The cost of collecting these revenues
was $4,21O, GOA. During the past year
795 illicit stills were seized or removed.
The quantity of grain Ssed in the pro
duction of spirits during the past year
was 26, BAT ,641 bushels, an increase Of
1,144,7 ,720 over the amount used in the
preceding year. The number of gallons
of spirits produced from grain during
the year was ia. 1850 gallons, an in
crease of $3.50, ,957 gallons over the pro-
duct of the preceding year, and 2S,624,-
713 gallons more than the average pro-
duct, S5, ,553, 1854 gallons for the last ten
years.
During the year 1,7S4,319 gallons of
rum were distilled from molasses,
making the total product of spirits
during the year 115 062, 389.
The following table shows the stock
on hand, production and movement Of
spirits during the past year.
Gallons. Gallons.
In warehouse begin
mng year............ ", III O53
Produced during year. 115, ,9G2,3 ,3S9
Total l............ POS ,GS9 ,442
Withdrawn, tax paid
during year. ......... s7,176,22e
Withdrawn for eXpor-
tation. ............. 1,616395
Withdrawn for scien-
tific purposes, leak
age, etc. c.............. 3.9O9,364
Total withdrawn. 90, ,761 1856
In warehouses June 80, 1891 900. 112, 1921 ,457
An inspection of the tables presented
in Commissioner Mason's report shows
that the quantity of spirits remaining in
warehouse June 80, 1891, is the largest
on hand ii the close of any fiscal year.
This stock on hand has grown from 61,
600, ,000 in 1883, to 6S, 800, 900, in 1889, to
80, roc, 900 in 1890, and finally to nearly
10000, 600 in 1891.
The commissioner reports that 730
persons in the United States intend to
manufacture sugar from sugar cane dur
ing the present fiscal year, under the
provisions of the bounty act which made
the bounty payable on sugar produced
on and after July 1, 1881. These pro-
ducers estimate the production for the
year at 572, 06, $50 pounds on about 220,-
900 acres of land. Beet sugar producers
estimate production of 29,2l0,O0O
pounds on 1874 acres planted, and
sorghum cane producers estimate pro-
duction of 2,500,000 pounds from 5000
acres of cane. The commissioner esti-
mates the production this year by
licensed producers as follows:
Pounds
cane sugar. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 4b5,OOO,OOU
Beet sugar. %, ,OO0, 900
Sorghum 100000
Maple sugar. Observation-Disclosures. 10,0000OO
Total estimated production. SOP 100000
His estimate Of bounty to be paid dur
ing the year is as follows:
Amount.
On cane sugar. Observation-Disclosures. S., ,912 500
On beet sugar r................... 600
On sorghum sugar .............. 10000
On maple sugar r...........,.. 176,250
Total ....................... 50, ,62S, $50
Commissioner Mason embodies in his
report great deal of interesting infOr
nation in the way of statistics, respect
ing the production, consumption and
sugar revenues in this and other coun-
tries. BY these tables it is shown that
the United States is a large consumer of
sugar the people using more per capita
than those of any other country except
England. The annual per capita con-
sumption in the United States is SO 2-3
pounds against II As pounds in Eng
land. In the last fiscal year we imported
3, 3,4S3, AZ, 1926 pounds of sugar, valued at
$l05, ,661 ,431, and produced 2,26l, $50
or about one-eighth of the amount con-
sumed. OF the amount imported 66l,-
44S, ,057 pounds were beet and 1921 ,994,-
26S, cane sugar.
The following table shows the amount
more in detail of the sugar imported
into this country during the past fiscal
year: