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countries. and exceeds every other narcotic
in the unversality of its use.
JAMESTOWN CROP.

countries. and exceeds every other narcotic
in the unversality of its use.
JAMESTOWN CROP.
The first tobacco cultivated by a European
within the present limits of the United
states was grown by John Rolfe. st James,
town, Va, in 1872, five years after the set
Element OF the colony. As early as 1915 the
fields, gardens, streets and public squares
Of jamestown were planted with tobacco
1t was the commodity which sustained
the struggling settlement, because it readi-
y commanded in reciprocal trade with the
mother country the necessaries OF life. 1t
was the medium of exchange and the stand
ard of value.
In 1871 the combined exports OF Virginia
and Maryland were 36.000000 pounds. From
1863 to ITO the average annual exports
from all the colonies amounted to sc, 7S0. 900
pounds, and for the years Immediately pre-
ceding the Revolution the average quantity
annually exported was 100000 pounds
During the revolutionary struggle the ex-
ports dropped to an average Of 12,0O0, 900
pounds annually.
In New England some tobacco was grown
in the decade ending with $780, but its Guilt
walton was abandoned until the beginning Of
the nineteenth century. when il gradually
revived. Especially in the States of the
North every town of any considerable size
has its cigar factory. supplying in part the
local demand and extending its trade TO
neighboring villages and towns in proper
ton to the aggressiveness of the manufac-
turer and his ability to succeed against
competition. The material used in these
local factories consists of small lots of leaf
tobacco varying in character, quality and
cost according to the quality of the cigars
to be made and according as the material
is intended for filters, binders wrappers.
Such material is usually imported from
importers, wholesalers or rehandlers and in
such limited quantities as to be quickly
worked up and realized on the local mar
ket. The live capital involved is, therefore,
not necessarily large even in proportion
of the magnitude of the business.
THE FIRST CIGARS.
The first cigars consumed in the United
States were imported, but the exact date of
the importation is not known, because it
was included in miscellaneous merchandise.
The separate tabulation of imported cigars
was begun in 1904, in which year 4,001, 900
were received. principally from the West
Indies. The first cigar manufactures in
in the United States were established in
Connecticut in 1910, but it is believed that
the household manufacture of cigars had
been carried on in Connecticut valley for
several years prior to that date.
Kentucky followed Connecticut in the
establishment of cigar factories. The in
dustry gradually diffused through the State
and into Ohio and Tennessee. In 1925 COM
paratively small factories were found more
or less widely scattered through New York
and Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia.
The first cigars made in the United States
were almost exclusively the product oil
domestic leaf, but the importation of Cuban
tobacco began early in the history of the
industry, and in 1S47 had assumed such pro-
portions as TO be tabulated in the customs
returns.
The first internal revenue law laying
tax on cigars and other forms of manu-
featured tobacco was passed to meet in part
the exigences of the civil war, and took
effect July 1. 1862. BY this act the revenue