The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-12-05
. WHEELING STOGIES.
How tho Business has Increased
Enormously in q Month.
ABOUT TWENTY THOUSANDD DOLLARS
Per Month Paid Out In Wages In this
business Alone, Which Shows What
an Important Industry has Grown
Up Hcrc...A Million Moro Stogics
Made IN October Of this Year than
the Same Month In 1900.

Few people have nm idea OF the mag
nitudc OF tho stogic business in Wheel.
ing or OF what tho industry is worth TO
tho city. A few weeks since tho INTEL.
~LIGEScER published some figures show
ing tho importance OF the industry at
that time and presented data to provo
that tho tobacco and cigar business
hero was steadily growing. That pub
LEGATION was n revelation to those who
had given the subject little thought,
and opened their eyes TO the fact TINT
Wheeling occupies u place in the front
rank among tho cigar and tobacco man
uiacturing centres OF tho country, and
that her famous stosics in particular
have 4 worldwide reputation.
From statistics furnished M 1STELLI-
GESCER reporter by Mr.. Hugo Loos, the
well known cigar manufacturer, some
idea OF the steady increase OF tho bust
ness in Wheeling may be gained. Tho
latest report available to tho trade
shows the production ior October. In
that month there were manufactured in
West Virginia G,4l3,S75 cigars and
stogics, more than % per cent OF which
were made in tho city OF Wheeling, rs
shown by tho records oil the internal
revenue bureau. This is an increase OF
nearly n hall million over the produc-
ton in September, which was 5,937, $50,
and nearly n million increase over that
OF October, 1890, which was $500, 900. Ii
this rate OF increase is kept up for the
next twelve months Wheeling will in
that time manufacture nearly one HIM
drei million cigars.
\ good idea OF what the business
amounted to in October in Wheeling
may be gained from Mr.. Loos's estimate
that it would take eleven freight cars,
loaded TO their full capacity, 10 trans
port the stogies made here during the
month OF October alone, and l22 cars TO
transport Il years production, il the out
put i'll October is kept up. Stocics, OF
course, constitute tho principal cigar
product, but Il very small percentage OF
the smokers manufactured in Wheel
ing being cigars.
~ lhust ioJ Dc suppUScu lilaJ VIC
enormous quantity OF stogies and cigars
made in Wheeling arc consumed here.
Wheeling stogics supply the markets
OF the world" They arc shipped to all
parts OF the United States. 1t is an
open secret that Wheeling manufacture
crs supply Pittsburgh jobbers, and that
many oi the so.callcd pittsburgh
tobies' shipped 10 all parts OF the
country, are made right here in Wheel
ing.
Wheeling people who pass the un-
%prctentious cigar manufactures every
day give little thought 10 tho fact that
they comprise one OF the most impor-
tant industries OF Whccling-that they
pay OF: mo3thly, in wages alone, about
10000, or nearly 4 quarter OF a million
dollars per aunum, every dollar OF
which is spent i'll the city. This esti-
mate Is based on the fact that an aver
age OF s. 80 is paid out for labor on
every 1000 stogics manufactured. There
are employed i'll Wheeling about five
hundred people in the cigar factories,
including skilled workmcn, shippers,
&c.