Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-12-28
THE REVENUES.
Over a Million and a Half Collected i'm This State
 DistiIlery Seized.
(From Our Special Correspondent.)

tF'rom Our Special Correspondent
 Washington, Dec 28-The commits sioner Of internal revenue has just is- sued his report, which shows the work ings of his department during the year. For Connecticut the aggregate collec, tions were $1,566, 194, A., During the year one illicit distillery was seized in the state and removed. One arrest was made for violating the internal revenue laws, and BPS gallons of liquor seized, worth $332.
 It is interesting to note the large number of cigars manufactured in this country The number is given as G. soc, ,O17 ,429 of those weighing oven three pounds per 1000 and 592,4O6, 72l of those not over three pounds in weight per 1000. There are i'll the United States 26,456 cigar factories, of which 396 arc In Connecticut. There were used in the state 1 POS, 1856 pounds of tobacco in making cigars of more than three pounds per LOGO. and S,954 pounds used for those of not more than three pounds in weight. TherN were 62,097, ,439 cigars manufactured in the state of the former class and 791 ,45O Of the latter There are twelve cigarette factories in the state using | IA, ,576 pounds of tobacco and making :, 5,555, ,4SO cigarettes. The report shows ithat there are forty-six tobacco fac tories in the state, using 44,6OO pounds of material of all kinds.
 During the year 1,450 cigars were seized in Connecticut, valued at $6, fox violation of the internal revenue laws. From breWeries, distillerieS and other miscellaneous property STA, ,555 were seized and $19,077 were collected from compromise cases Another table shows the number of persons in the l liquor business in the state, who were engaged in it from one month to twelve. The list is as follows: Recti. fiers 27; retail liquor dealers. 3,391, wholesale dealers, 62, and brewers, %.
 There were during the year twenty six fruit distilleries in operation, and three grain distilleries, using 9,483 1 bushels of malt, 63 of wheat, 22,331 of | rye and 20T34 of corn; 13,354 gallons of apple brandy were manufactured, OBS gallons of grape brandy and 9O3 gallons of prune brandy. Taxes were also paid on 9O7, ,343 barrels of fer> mented liquors.
 There are three wholesale dealers of loleomargaTine in the state and fifty retailers There is at present not q single oleo factory in the state.
 National Banks.
 The comptroller of the currency has 1 just issued his report on national banks during the year. It shows that in Connecticut there were during the year 103 banks organized. Of these nineteen were in liquidation, four in. solvent and thirty in operation. Only three banks have been started in the state since 1900, two with a capital Of S25, GOO and one with S50,00Q, Tho ' ERawcatuck National bank was closed 4o business by voluntary liquidation 4 April g 1904, having been in existence since March 21, 1865. The capital stock was S1D0,OO0, all of which was in circulation. Of this amount $05.69a were outstanding at the time the bank lclosed.
 1 The Windham County National bank of Danielson was the only one clcseo by the government in the state. There are in the state ninety savings banks
 with 461 3s7 depositors, and an aggre, gate amount of $212, TIT, ,974Nin depos. its. There are also sixteen building and loan associations in the state, with a membership of S,085, and assets Of I S3 951 539