The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-05-20

neg dSCoI AIuSiy uIl so, giving QSI
| the tongue. She was pleased with its
flavor and said: Your kindness shall
| be rewarded. Come here thirteen
moons hence and you shall find it,
They did so and found where her right
hand had touched the ground maize
| growing; where her left had been, kid
| ney beans, and where she sat they
Hound tobacco"
The amount of tobacco raised in the
Western Hemisphere prior TO 1892 is
not known, as the aboriginal statisti-
can was so largely in the minority as
10 be practically valueless. but in later
years there has been money in keeping
tab on the tobacco growth, and the
figures show a very considerable large
ness not only on this side OF the ocean,
but over yonder. The worlds product
of tobacco is estimated at about !, $780,
100000 pounds, valued at about S220,-
600, 600. OF this the Western Henri
sphere raises about 650.O00,000 pounds,
the United States contributing 100000
600, and Cuba, whose tobacco is the
widest known and most highly es-
teemed, only producing 100000
pounds. Europe raises about 100000
900 pounds, the East Indies 400,000,000
pounds, Australia 100000 pounds
and Africa not enough TO be counted.
BY the addition of our new territories
the United States will increase her
product by Cuba, 62,000,000; Porto
Rico, S,S00,00 and the Philippines 49,
900 900, which will give us a total of
sos, 5000 900 pounds. OF the States in
the Union, Kentucky leads with about
49,. 900 900 pounds, which is far in eX-
cess of any other State, North Carolina
coming next with only 100000 and
Virginia next with 35,000,000 pounds.
Internal revenue returns show that
even with these figures We hadn't
enough, for there were over 297 100000
pounds used in manufacturing chew
ing and smoking tobacco and snuff,
and over 357 900, 900 in cigars and cigar
cites, a total of over $50 100000 pounds
While elsewhere in this article 1t Is
stated that tobacco chewing was be
Iieved to be declining in popularity,
enough persons yet chew to warrant
the making of over 100000 pounds
of plug and 10000, 600 of fine cut, while
the snuff takers, who seem to be obso-
Iete. took nearly 14,000,0 900 pounds to
titulate their noStrils.
And cigars! There seems to be
enough for all the world and more to
burn hereafter. In 1897 there were A.
1856. 594,125 cigars made, and just lit
tie less than 5000, 10000 600 of cigarettes
and little cigars, or in all 9,062, 81 ,l39
That means 120 for each man, woman
and child in the country; but this Is
nothing when we know that there are
cigarette fiends who will consume
from 7 600 to 10. 900 each in year, and
a cigar smoker of ordinary habit will
take anywhere from 1000 to LOU
cigars a year What tremendous
amount of money this represents; ana
vet there is lot of soothing and COM
fort in it, and what's the use OF money
if one hasn't enough to burn?
The Government gets something over
over S2G 900 900 a year in taxes out OF
tobacco.
A rare kind is the perique OF st.
lanes parish, Louisiana, OF which only
$50 .OOO pounds are raised. 1t is USED as
a smoking mixture, the other smoking
tobacco of the country aggreSatlhs
over S5,OOO,OO0 pounds, into very
small portion Of which, however, any
perique goes
It used to be that we had to get our
host cigars from Havana, which has
sent us in one year as many as loo,-
600 600. but latterly we have got to
making our "Havanas" at home, or the
tariff has done it, or something, for IN
the last half dozen years we nave not
had more than 6O,000,000 year, and 1t
has gone nearly as low as 5O,OOO,OOO.
And Havana ships never less than $780,
600. 900 year and has gone as high Tin
1880 as 100000 900. AS Everybody in
Cuba smokes all the time, mostly
cigarettes, it is calculated that the l.
500 900 people on the island smoke
more cigarettes than can be counted.
At least nobody has ever counted them.
The average two for quarter Havana
cigar in this country can be bought for
a nickel in Havana, and there be those |
who will say after they have smoked |
one of these cigars that nickel would |
be high for it anywhere. |