Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-02
TOBACCO AND WHISKY
ENORMOUS INCREASE IN THEIR
CONSUMPTION.
Over Six Billion Cigars and Over Three
Billion Cigarettes Smoked
The Snuff Habit.

AO eopaSto I'LL VI tilc faHtiI-
can people has grown to an enormous size.
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 310.654. 639 pounds
of tobacco and 1s.s4O,7 TAT pounds Of SNUFF
withdrawn from warehouses for consump-
ton during the last fiscal year, not count
ing S.345217 pounds withdrawn for ex-
port, making a total of the two articles Of
S37 $40, 6O3 pounds used against S2S, 464, 42S
pounds In the preceding fiscal year. A total
or 6IS7 ,454, 10S cigars was withdrawn for
smoking, an increase of $40, 437, 1S1 over the
preceding year. Cigarettes smoked during
the last fiscal year numbered 1854 .SS3 $50,
an increase of 357 .213.403 over the year be-
fore.
The increased use Of leaf tobacco in ten
years has been enormous. In 1893 the to-
tai number of pounds of leaf tobacco used
in the production of tobacco, SNUFF. cigars
figures for this year not being available
the total was 1858 1854 pounds.
The states of Missouri, North Carolina
Kentucky, Virginia, Ohio, New Jersey,
New York and illinois, in the order named
were the largest producers Of both chew
ing and smoking tobacco
There was a total increase OF 33.S17 $40
pounds in the materials used in the man
with the preceding fiscal year
Production Of Tobacco.
The production of tobacco by the prin-
cipal states was as follows: Missouri.
81, 332.641 pounds: North Carolina, 50 .2O9.
500 pounds: Kentucky. 39.4O6GsO pounds;
Virginia, 81 602 ,779 pounds; Ohio. 25,437.-
$40 pounds; New Jersey, 21,229,0s4
pounds.
There were 26,423 cigar and 517 cigar
cite factories in operation. Virginia man
ufactured AGO, 7O2354 cigars. using 4,O96,-
602 pounds of tobacco. North Carolina
makes comparatively few cigars, putting
most of her manufacture into plug and
other tobaccos. North Carolina, for in
stance, used only 1s6,254 pounds of to-
bacco in cigars and made only 9,423 O36
cigars.
New Jersey produced more snuff than
any other state, the total being 5,5S3323
pounds, or nearly one-third of all that
was consumed.
Work Of the Distilleries.
During the year 80, 298549 bushels of
grain were used in making whisky for the
people Of this country, an increase of nearly
100000 bushels over the preceding year.
The preparation of liquor out of molasses
has been steadily growing. The total num-
Der of gallons used in making whisky in
1903 was l., S37, 1872, an increase Of over
100000 over the preceding year.
There were 2,668 distlleres of all kinds
in operation in the country during the year,
of which North Carolina led all other
states. with a total number registered Of
$780, Virginia second. with 415; Kentucky
being next, with 3O2; California fourth.
with 233 and Tennessee fifth, with 105.
There were grain, molasses and fruit dis
tilleries In the number. All the distilleries
in North Carolina, Virginia and a half
dozen other states put together did not
turn out as much whisky. however as the
nineteen diSfjllorfQS nj Illinois ba
nine of Indiana or the twenty-nine of Ohio,
the distilleries in those states and in Ken
lucky being giant affairs. In North Caro-
lima and Virginia the vast majority of the
d1sttlleries have a grain capacity of only
about five bushels daily, turning out not
exceeding thirty gallons Of spirits. The
huge affairs in Illinois, Ohio and Kentucky
use from 40 to 500 bushels Of grain daily.
In Illinois 100000 bushels of grain were
consumed by the distilleries; Kentucky was
close to Illinois. using about S,00O00O BUSH
els of grain, Indiana over 100000 and Ohio
about 100000.
Seizure Of Illicit Distilleries.
In the fiscal year 1896 Illicit distilleries
were seized and removed by revenue Off
GERS throughout the country and Go 444
gallons of whisky seized. The property
seized and destroyed was valued at $3.50 62S
Not a single revenue officer was killed or
wounded during the entire year, showing
that in recent years attacks on revenue Of
fcers have almost ceased Twenty years
ago it was a frequent occurrence for rev.
enue officers to be killed in the mountains
of southern states for attempts to seize a
distillery or to capture a moonshiner
against whom they had a warrant
Georgia furnished the largest number Of
distilleries of the moonshine character that
passed into the hands of revenue officers
The total in that state seized and destroyed
was 621, with 81 arrests. North Carolina
was next with 277 distileries seized and
A arrests. ALBANIA was third. with 112
stills destroyed and 155 arrests; South Caro-
arrests.