The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-12-28
The Consumption Grows Every
Year.
Kentucky is to BE Found Among
the Leaders in
Production.
SOME INTERESTING FIGURES


American people has grown to an
enormous size. says the Washington
star. The people of the country use
more tobacco and snuff every year.
While the men spend more money on
tobacco. the women are doing larger
business with snuff than ever before.
There were 3l0,65i,6S9 pounds Of
tobacco and lSs4c,7l7 pounds Of
snuff Withdrawn from warehouses for
consumption during the last ficsal
year, not counting s,Si5,2l7 pounds
Withdrawn for export, making total
of the two articles of 337, $40, COS
pounds used, against 32S, AGA, 42S,
pounds in the preceding fiscal year.
A total of 6.7S7, 45l, los cigars was
withdrawn for smoking, an increase
of go. 437, lsl over the preceding
year. Cigarettes smoked during the
last fiscal year numbered 3, 254, ss3, $50,
an increase of 357, 2is, 4O3 over the
year before.
The increased use OF leaf tobacco in
ten years has been enormous. In
1898 the total number Of pounds OF
leaf Tobacco psed in the production of
tobacco, snuff, cigars and cigarettes
was 3l2,907,679. In 1902, the fig
ures for this year not being avail ala
the total was Ar, 663, se4 por. ,ds
The States Of Missouri North Caro-.
Ira, Kentucky, V.ainia, Ohio, New
Jersey, New York and Illinois, in the
order named, were the largest pro-
ducers Of both chewing and smoking
tobacco,
There was . total increase OF 49,.
SIT, SAC pounds in the materials used
In the manufacture Of tobacco and
snuff as compared with the preceding
year.
The production Of tobacco by the
principal states was ~ follows ;
Missouri, s4,Ssa,6 pounds; North
Carolina, 52,209.693 pounds; Ken
lucky. 80, 400, $50 pounds; Virgins
81, 6o2,77s pounds; Ohio. 25, 437, SAC
pounds; New Jersey, 2i,229,0s
pounds.
There were a6,423 cigar and 5i7
cigarette factories in operation. vir-
ginia manufactured 400. 702, 354 cigars,
using 4,Oa6. SOC pounds Of tobacco.
During the year 80. 296, $40 bushels
of grain were used IN making whiskey
for the people of this country, an in
crease of nearly 5000, 900 bushels over
the preceding year. The preparation
Of liquor out Of molAsses has been
steadily growing.
The total number OF gallons used in
making whiskey in 1908 was ~, s37,
7S2 an increase of over 5000, 900 over
the preceding year.
There were 6. 666 distilleries OF all
kinds in operation in the country dur
ing the year, Of which North Carolina
led all other states, with a total mum
Der registered of $50; Virginia second,
with 4l5; Kentucky being next, with
300; California fourth. with 1888, and
Tennessee fifth, with l05.
The huge distilleries in Illinois,
! Ohio and Kentucky use from forty &c
500 bushels of grain daily. In Illinois
8, 500, 900 bushels OF grain were con,
sumed by the distilleries. Kentucky
was close to Illinois, using about 8.
900, 900 Of grain, Indiana over Q, 1000.
, 900 and Ohio about 5000. 900.
In the fiscal year 1895 Illicit distil
leries were seized and removed by
revenue officers throughout the
country and Sc, <4i gallons Of whisky
destroyed was valued at si39.62s.
Not . single revenue officer Wal
killed or wounded during the entire
year, showing that in recent years
attacks on revenue officers have almos,
ceased.
Georgia furnished the largest num-
Der of distilleries CT she moonshine
character that passed into the hands
of revenue officers. The total in that
State seized and destroyed was 62l,
with OIL arrests.