The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-12-15

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I beer. wines and similar beverages. TAX
ing the population of The city at 70.O00.
/ this means an average of S2142 for
I every man, woman and child residing
inside the municipal limits.
There are ninety-four saloons in the
! city Men familiar with the business
I say the average receipts are $50 a day.
or total of S4.100 each day Eliminat-
| ing Sundays. on which no LIQUOR IS
| supposed to ne sold. there are Sl4
working days" in this leap year This
would make the total sold during the
year, 81, 475.700 which is easily brought
to over Sl500.000 by quiet selling on
Sundays and by the sale of liquors for
family use.
Report of Revenue Collector.
! Internal Revenue Collector E H Cal
lister shows that during the twelve
months prior to June so. 1904 the total
collections in his district. which is
composed of Utah, Montana and
Idaho, were S442, 019.7S. OF this sum
there was collected IN Utah Sl21. 060. IA
in Montana Sz75.973.96 and i'm Idaho S44.-
9So.oS. Utah, at the time OF taking the
last government census, had go. 40.
lation.
The government collects S1.10 gall
Ion on ali whisky and fruit brandy
/ manufactured IN this or any other dis
trict, but permits the shipment Of the
liquor in bond from the district in
which ii is manufactured TO another
district, and the tax may be paid when
the liquor is taken out of bond The
/ tax on beer is 81 a barrel, the payment
OF which must be evidenced by stamps
/ before the beer leaves the brewery.
There are in Utah one fruit brandy
oistillery, fourteen rectifying establish
ments, nine breweFies, ftwenty-four
wholesale liquor dealers. 900 retail
liquor dealers, ninety-siX wholesale malt
manufacturers and dealers and fifty-six
retail malt manufacturers and dealers.
This is at the rate of one saloon for
every 307I5 persons of all ages and both
sexes in the state. as shown by the
latest government census. Deducting
the children Is years of age and under.
of whom in 1900 there were l63.399. "a. $50
males and 1903 females, 1t viii be
found that in that year there were but
1889 males and females above -
years of age.
Saloon to Every 139 Persons.
The population Of the state is now
estimated a 100000. and If this estimate
Is good there are at least 1Z5. 600 persons
OF - years and over now in Utah. not
counting tourists. b. dividing the 900
saloons into the 125.000 population com
posed Of boys and girls who have at
tanned the age of 10 years and Of males
and females of all ages above 10 years,
u will be seen that Utah has one resort
in which VinOus spirituOus and malt
beverages are dispensed To every I39 of
such population, lacking a small frac-
ton. Then if all the apostles. bishops.
priests, elders, deacOns. deaconesSes
and members of the Women's Christian
Temperance union and others who pro-
fess not TO partake of distilled or fer
mented liquids are deducted il viii be
seen that the number OF actual patrons
of the 900 saloons is small as compared
10 the whole population Of the state.
and that they must Init pretty good
lick" and keep it up in order to enable
the owners Of the dram shops TO keep
the wolf from the door.
The report quoted from shows that i'm
three states that constitute the district
there was $685. 1915 paid during the
year by brewers as tax upon beer
manufactured by them, at the rate Of
81 per barrel. The amount paid on
whisky. and fruit brandy manufactured
in the district during the year was
S2.03L42, at the rate of S1.1G a gallon
Cigars manufactured I'm the district
paid total tax of So. 915.7S. and to-
bacco made from cigar clippings a tax
of S1.125.S2.
Saloons in Salt Lake.
There are in salt Lake City ninety
four saloons. each paying an annual
tax of $1,000 In Bingham there are
twenty three, in Murray twelve. in
Sandy six and in Forest Dale one. II
would seem that Salt Lake City is far
ahead Of the rest of the state in the
matter of temperance. for dividing its
ninety-four drink shops into it's 10000
population the proportion of such
places viii be ascertained to be one To
each 144S persons. To high license is
attributed the smaller proportionate
number of saloons in Salt Lake City
than i'm other parts of the state.
It is not difficult TO find a saloon
keeper who win assert that the days
when man could get rich in this city
selling booze" and the other articles
of commerce usually handled in a wet
grocery have passed. TO return no more.
Almost any dispenser of inebriating
drinks will say that there is a living
in the business, and that is all"
Big Profit in Whisky.
In view of this contention the follow
ing figures viii doubtless prove inter
esting:
A recent report in a Cincinnati paper
contained this item: The whisky
market is steady, and the demand
fairly active, 1.451 barrels finished
goods selling upon a basis OF SI24"
That is Si.24 a gallon. the tax OF $40 a
gallon to be paid when the whisky is
taken out of bond, making the price 10
the buyer 1874 a gallon. Adding the
middleman's profit and freight. the
whisky would cost a saloon man de-
livered i'm Salt Lake City 81 a gallon
This price furnishes a basis from which
70 estimate his profits. OF course he
viii sell beer, wine. cigars and other
things. but 10 avoid a multiplicity of
figures il will be assumed that he looks
to his whisky TO pay all the expenses
Of running his place, including the buy
ing Of more whisky. to keep his stock
from depicting.
Many will doubtless be surprised at
the large sum that a barrel Of whisky
will yield when sold over a saloon bar.
1t is said that from eighty TO 100 drinks
can be obtained from a gallon Of wills
ky in a 'gentleman's saloon" where
few patrons require more than two
fingers" at each draught OF course
where imbibers are determined to give
the saloonman and the barkeep the
worst of il and insist upon taking
three fingers" eighty drinks is about
as many as a gallon win yield. But
the proportion of that class of drinkers
is small except in the lower classes of
resorts. While in the better class of
saloons two drinks are sold for % cents
1.-TWO bits. there must be two persons
drinking on one order TO get the cut
rate. When a solitary man seeks to
quench his thirst with a lone drink he
pays Is cents. Averaging the two-for-
a-quarter and the straight l5-cent