Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-12-27
WHAT VIRGINIA PAYS.

Inc ANNUAL IcpOtL vi OvnW'ooiV"o'
Yerkes, of the Internal Revenue Bureau,
tor the fiscal year ending June 30. 1906,
shows that Virginia contributed 81, $780,
25S to the United States treasury in the
shape OF internal revenue collections dur
ing the year Of this amount the Second
District, Asa Rogers and NJ. X. Lowry,
collectors, Lowry having been appointed
to succeed Rogers, paid in -, $50, l20,
and the Sixth District, l.. p. Summers,
collector. paid in 81, 249, 1877.
Moonshine." to tine Iuue OF z, l54
gallons, was seized in the State during
the year. There we're fourteen registered
distileries reported for seizure, forty
four illicit stills seized aud iitty-two illicit
disiilleries seized and destroyed. Viz
giuia shows 4 pretty good record as re-
CARDS "n constituting" compared with
some other southern Slater. 10 Georgia
there were 6SS arrests made and 10 Ten
nessee over So, 900 gallons of ''moonshine
seized
The report shows that Virginia may
plume herself as something Ot cigar
making State There we're l6i factories
turning out these after dinner comi"rts,
and they made 229, 646, 922 cigars weis b.
ing more than THREE pounds to the tbous-
and, aud S74, STA, 100 c'ga's weighing
not more than three pounds per thousand.
la the small cigars Virginia ranks first
among the States. 1t took over six mil
lion pounds of tobacco to make these
cigars. The Second DiStrict used S,777,-
552 pounds of tobacco 10 making 202,-
822, S7i large cigars. and 9sl, 595 pounds
in making 2O7, 227, $50 little cigars. The
Sixth District has fifty eight factories,
and used 55l, 230 pounds Of tobacco in
making 26, 1923, 56l large and 7GS,Tl3
pounds of tobscco in making 167, 346.-
220 little cigars.
No one will deny who consults the re
port, that Virginia supplies hsr fi'l shsre
of cigarettes. She ranks second among
all the States in the production Of these
little "koy stuniers" In the fiscal year
the Old Dominion turned ont 500, 000..
600 of them. There WAS quarter OF q
billion more of them manufactured in
the United States in 1905 than 10 1904.
The number manufactured in the U nited
States in 1905 was 3, 434, 600, 000
The State had eigbty-'hree tobacco
factories in operation during the cslen-
dsr year. They used materials IS fol-
lows: Unstemmed leaf 1868, 2lS
poundp; ,'emmed leaf, 7,2l6, 65s pouuds;
scrsps, 42l 257 pounds; "in process"
! lSS, ops pounds; stems, 81, l69 pounds;
licorice, 2,275. 795 pounds; sugsr, g.
06s, 760 pounds; other materials, 1885,
7S4 pounds; total, 81, ,505, 706 pounds.
The Second District used 2l, $780, ,8ls
pounds Of this total material. which
shows about the proportion for the two
collection districts. During the same
period the Virginia factories produced
the various kinds of manufactured tobsc-
co, as follows:
Plug -- Second District, 10, 1856, ,659
pounds; Sixth Districi, 7,4S6,S S68
pounds. Total, 1891, 1868 pcunds.
Twist. etc.-Second. 627 pounds;
Sixth, 80, 307 pounds.
Fine Cut-Second, 1926 pounds;
Sixth, l2,96l pounds.
Smoking-Second, 1898, $50 pounds;
Sixth, 259, 5ll pounds.
Virginia does no. manufacture sin.
gle pound of snuff, according to the re-
pert. The figures for the country as
whole shows decrease Of more than
G, 6,000,0 600 pounds of chewing tobacco
manufactured, as compared with the
previous year, and sn increase of more
than 16, 900, 900 pounds Of smoking to-
bacco. which would indicate falling of
in the rank0 of chewers aud more than
corresponding increase in the number of
smokers.
The efficacy of the Mann liquor Law in
driving saloons from country towns and
rural districts is shown BY the fact that
there are 1873 saloons 10 the Second
District, in which is located all the i'm
portsnt cities, with the exception OF
Lyuchburg, Roanoke aud Danville, whilo
in the Sixth there are only S57 saloou'.
There was nearly 1876, 900 bushels Of
grain used in making sPiiets in Virginia
in the fiscal year. There Was over &C.,
ono gallons of brsndies produced in she
State in the fiscal year, nearly $4,000
gallons having been made 10 the Sixth.
There was 2,99S, 900 gallons of spirit
gauged in the Second in the year, and
$50, 500 in the Sixth.