The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1893-11-28
WHISKEY and TOBACCO
The Sourcs Of the Governments Big
Revenues for the Year.
WHAT 1T AMOUNTS TO
Annual Report OF the Commissioner
OF Internal Revenue for the
Year-increass In Cigarette
Consumption,

WksWSGroS. Nov. .6.-The annual re.
port of the commissioner OF Internal rev.
enue. which is very lengthy, shows the
receipts from all sources of internal rev.
onue have increased from Sli6. 90. 500 last
year To sl6l ,00t $50 in is.'3. They include
spirits, sai, ,asC; tobacco. s3l ,sss..1 |;
fcrmentcd liquors, So, 2,5is ,aSi; oleomar-
gcrne, Il ,670,6i3; miscellaneous, Sl,5,Sn.
The receipts of the first three months Of
the fiscal year 1898 were S56, ,s1i, ,io2, q de-
crease of S, ,si9, ,liS, as compared with the
same time in 1892. OF this decrease
S',s3o,s5S was spirits and 81 SOS. So to-
bacco. Seven hundred and twenty two
Illicit stills were destroyed during tho
year and 81 were removed. Tho number
of persons arrested was is1 and three
deputy collectors were killed.
The report shows that 13.af3 Chinese
registered under the Geary act, OF which
i,s5o were in California and Nevada.
The number of distillcrics operated dur
ing the year was 4.7i3, n decrease Of .ia.i
compared with 1892, but decrease
wholly i'm the class OF fruit disiillcrs. Tho
number of gallons Of spirits produced
from grain during tho year was i2s, SIS .ol1
gallons, which shows an increase Of 49,.
132.229i gallons over tho product last year
and 81, i,69i.S)i gallons moro than the ave
erage produced for the past 10 years. The
quantity of spirits withdrawn from tho
warehouses aggregated 81 .i2i ,sa5 gallons,
an increase of i.i39,5sO. The quantity
withdrawn for export was j. .62 ,a.5l gallons,
an increase of 5i3,4u. The spirits re-
naming in the warehouses at the close of
tho fiscal year was Ia ,sai.soi gallons.
The quantity of tobacco in bond actually
exported during the year was iS,s2l ,6s6
pounds, cigars exported, 2,233. .io5, and
cigarettes, S9,, ,s26 go. Tho increase in the
expectation OF cigarettes continues large,
having grown from 4 s,o0i 500 in 1880 to S9',-
eco in 1895.
Regarding olcomargarine the report
says there was an increase of persons en-
gagged in the sale of that article as well as
an increase in the production during tho
year. The amount produced was 81 "a
95 pounds. Tho commissioner suggests n
number of amendments TO the present
law. The report shows where ,7S3 sugar
producers were licensed to manufacture
sugar during the fiscal year which ended
June 10, 1sa3 and s9.3.5.i3O was paid
As bounty upon sso,ic5.osi pounds oi
Sugar. Tho total production Of sugar OF
all kinds was 5i5,o5o, ,'03 pounds. The
operation of the law had tho effect. as
far MS canc sugar was concerned, to in
crease the production and lessen tho num-
bcr of sugar factories or licensed pro-
ducers. Beet sugar produced during the
year amounted to 7.0s3,223s pounds COM
pared with l.. .ooi SIS pounds in lsa2. There
were but two sorghum factories in opera.
tion during tho year. one at Medicine
Lodge. Kan. and the other at Fort Scott.
Kan. They produced ,o16,io0 pounds of
sugar. The imports Of sugar during tho
fiscal year 1898 were 1896, ,ii5,3i5; exports,
80 glo 3s1