The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1903-07-03

Internal revenue receipts of the state
of Montana for the fiscal year ending
Tuesday, June 80, amounted TO $ssI5SI.35.
The second division of the internal
revenue district composed of Montana,
Utah, Idaho, which has II headquarters
at Butte, furnished $i2soI4.76 or over
onc-half of this amount
Internal revenue receipts for the state
show a falling off as compared with the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1909, making
allowance for the so-called war taxes,
which having been repealed, were not in
force during the late fiscal year.
Two Revenue Districts.
There are two internal revenue dis
tricts in Montana, one having its head
quarters in Butte and the other having its
headquarters in Helena.
Receipts during the late fiscal year in
the first named division were. as stated,
$I25,of4.76, and in the Helena division,
So5,66o.s7.
Last year the Montana internal revenue
receipts amounted to S5s55Io.64. This
amount included the war tax on legacies,
documents, proprietary articles, banks,
pawnshops, billiard, pool and other articles
covered by the war tax.
Prof. Clinton II. Moore, stamp deputy
for this division, and c. d. French. deputy
collector, have completed the report Of
the receipts of this division for the fiscal
year and will forward the report to Col
lector L. II. Callister at Salt Lake to-
night.
The Second Division.
This. the second division, includes the
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ison, Galla,in. Powell, Jefferson, Mssoula,
Ravalli and Granite.
Receipts in the division for the late
fiscal year from the sale OF beer, cigars
and tobacco stamps amounted to $ItI,-
o6a.4o; of the amount beer paid $Io6,o,5.
The receipts from what are called special
tax stamps amounted to $IIs52.36.
During the fiscal year the beer, cigar
and tobacco stamp tax was less than dur
ing the previous fiscal year because the
tax on beer had been reduced from $500
to 81 per barrel. that on cigars from $500
TO S. per thousand and tobacco from nine
and six-tcnths cents TO six cents per
pound.
The special tax stamps are as follows:
Saloons Sa5 per year, breweries SIoo,
wholesale liquor dealers SIoo, wholesale
oleomargarne dealers 5000, retail oleo-
margarine dealers &C. rectifcrs $Ioo.
Work Of Brewers.
During the fiscal year ending June 80,
1903, the brewers in this division, ac-
cording to the reports to the collectors
Office, manufactured Io4Is3 barrels of
beer During the last fiscal year they
manufactured Io0,o26 barrels of the
amber fluid.
While the figures show an increase
there probably was not an increase in the
number of barrels turned out, as Missoua
county, which has brewery was included
in the division in the last fiscal year and
not in the previous one.
While the exact figures are not obtain
able, it is probable the manufacture of
beer in this division has not materially in
creased or decreased during the last fiscal
year.
The total receipts of the Butte division
the previous fiscal year were $ao4, ,az4s3
but this included the amount collected
from the sale of documentary and pro-
prietary stamps and the other items Of the
war tax, not including legacies, which
have since been repealed.
For the Year.
Internal revenue receipts for the entire
revenue district for the fiscal year ending
June 80, 1902. were $7oa,657.a3, divided
as follows; Montana ssss,sIo.64; Idaho,
$sI,7oo.S2; Utah, $I85,346657.a3.
"Of course, you want TO understand
that during the last fiscal year we had no
revenue from the war taxes" said Deputy
Collector French, these having been re-
pealcd."