Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-12-30
REVIEW OF THE
REVENUE SERVICE
In This Jurisdiction Show up
albuquerque in Bright
est COIOrS.
UNCLE SAM WELL PATR0NlZED

pays into the United states treasury,
in internal revenue taxes, one-third as
much as the entire district of New
Mexico, comprising the territories Of
New Mexico and Arizona paid ten
years ago.
Internal m receipts in this
district have doubled in the past ten
wears, not considering the Spanish
American war perlou, whec owing to
additional war taxes, collections were
80 per cent greater h now.
Albuquerque, Barelas and Old
Town. collectively, pay about Is per
cent of all the taxes collected by the
revenue officers at Santa Fe, from
both territories, and these three
places also pay, approximately, one
third OF the revenue taxes collected in
New Mexico.
During the first five months of the
present fiscal year, ending in April,
there were issued to retail liquor
dealers $50 licenses, IS. or almost one
ninth. of which were issued to deal.
ers within a radius OF two miles OF
The Citizen office. One-seventh OF
the wholesale dealers in wines, spirit
Gus and malt liquors doing business
in this territory are residents OF Al
buquerque.
At present there are fifteen stills
devoted to the production of spirit
Gus liquors in New Mexico, only four
of which have been bonded this lis
cal These stills are located at
Albuquerque, Pennington, Bernalillo.
Sandoyal, Belen and Socorro, and
their output has been confined to
apple, peach, grape, pear and prune
brandy, the tax on which is $1.1o per
gallon. In former years much brandy
was produced at stills in the Mesilla
Valley, but during the past two years
none has been produced, and tae
stills formerly in operation in Mesilla
and Las Cruces are now producing
mescal in Old Mexico. Successive
failures in the fruit crop, due from
lack of water in the Mesilla valley,
caused these stills to suspend opera
lions. As revenue collections from
fruit distilleries constitute an I'M
portant part of the total, 1t may read
lily be seen that the suspension OF
these stills enhance the value of the
Albuquerque receipts.
At present there are four breweries
in this internal revenue district, two
III NtM CAV oDu WV
The Arizona breweries are located at
Douglas and Prescott; the New Mex
leo breweries being at Albuquerque
and Socorro. Ten years ago New
Mexico had five breweries, n al
Santa Fe, one at Las Vegas, and one
at Mogollon, in addition to the two
now in operation. AT that time Ar
IONA had two small breweries, n a
Globe, and one in Ramsay's Canyon
near Fort Huachuca. The four brew
cries now IL operation produce twice
as much beer as the seven produced
ten years ago, and the Albuquerque
brewery pays one-half as much rev
enue taxes as the other three com
bined.
Nine cigar factories have been il
business in this territory during thi
fiscal year, five, or over %one-half, o
which are located in Albuquerque
The annual output of the Albuquerque
factories alone are owe 100000
cigars, the tax upon which amount
10 over $4,000 per annum.
Four tobacco factories are in opel
alton in New Mexico, all four of whic
are located in Albuquerque. The onl
kind of tobacco produced in these fat
tories is smoking tobacco, made froI
cigar clippings. This product is take
at the rate of 6 cents per pound, an
the annual output of these four fa'
tories amounts to about 100000 pound
which means $4,000 in revenue co
lections.
The increase in revenue collection
has kept pace with the growth of tn
territories in the past ten years, no
withstanding the fact that in Ne
Mexico the territorial, county and cit
taxes have been increased over loo
per cent, or ten fold, and the add
tional fact that the licensing of 7
tail liquor dealers in settlements
less than 100 inhabitants was pr
hibited by the last legislature.
The city of Roswell, from whenC
halls the next governor of New Me
leo, now imposes a city tax of $2,Ol
per annum on retail liquor dealer
which has resulted in the reducing
the number of saloons in thai pro
porous little city Of 5000 people, to
number less than the town of Sum
side has, and ~Sunnyside, Of whit
doubtless not o%ne-fourth of the re-
dents of New Mexico ever heard. h
a population of only $50 people.
Albuquerque now pays as much re
enue in one month as Roswell pays
one year, and It must be remember
that, outside of Albuquerque. Rosw,
is one of the best towns in New Me
leo.
In one thing, however, has All
querque fallen behind, in the matt
Of revenues collected, and that is {
revenue taxes collected from the So
OF oleomargarine. Albuquerque ci
zens will have none of 1t. The c
iections from this source for the d
trict of New Mexico now amounts
only about 10 per cent OF the emit
sum collected ten years ago. II
falling off Is traceable 20 two caust
first, the almost prOhibtive tax OF I
cents per pound upon the colored
ticle, and second, the reduction OF I
tax pom the retail dealers in the
colored article from S4S to 50
year. People can readily distingui
between u~Rcolored oleomargarine a
butter, and will not buy II, but
n in ten can tell the difference
tween colored oleomargarine and
good grade of creamery butter. Hell
the prohibitiye tax placed upon
colored "oleO' and the consequ,
falling off in revenues from its 81
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