Arizona republican., 1907-09-06

1890. 37.2 per cent in 1900 and 41.e per cent in 1905.
 Of the reported aggregate value of products. cigars and cigarettes from | 64.7 per cent and chewing and smok- 1 ing tobacco and snuff 5S.S per cent. ] of the total number of wage earners, : S per cent were employed in the man. ufacture of cigars and cigarettes. The number of establishments reported as engaged in the manufacture of cigars and cigarettes was 16.395. while the
 number reported for the other branch
 of the industry was only 433. This
 striking difference is due in part to the
 fact that cigars and cigarettes are to a
 considerable extent manufactured in
 small establishments. whereas chewing and smoking tobacco and snuff is
 mostly produced in factories of corr siderable size. For the cigar and cigar cite branch of the industry the aver age capital invested per establishment
 was only $S.S52. while for the other branch it was S41S.Oi3. A similar con- trast appears in the average number of wage earners per establishment. the number being for cigars and cigar
 cites and 55 for chewing and smoking { tobacco and snuff.
 1 According to the reports of the com missioner of internal revenue the total
 amount of tobacco manufactured in 1904 was 44S.5II.5S3 pounds. the quan- | tity used in the manufacture of cigars and cigarettes being 141.O20.029 pounds. | as compared with 30I. 491.554 pounds used for the production of chewing land smoking tobacco and snuff. As reported by the census the value of the
 raw materials-mostly tobaccO-used { in the manufacture of cigars and ci- garettes (S69,291.01D was more than twice the value of that consumed in
 the other branch of the industry (sS1, ! 347,252).
 ! According to figures derived from | the reports of the commissioner of in ternal revenue. the number of cigars manufactured in the calendar year
 1904 was 7.S16.669.742. As compared
 with the year 1900 this shows an in
 crease of 19.4 per cent in the manufac- ture of cigare and of 5.4 per cent in
 the manufacture of cigarettes. The census bulletin calls attention to the | fact that the number of cigars and ci- garettes consumed increased 27.5 per cent between 1900 and 1905: and that
 between 1869 and 1905 the consumption of cigars increased nearly sevenfold. while the population in the same pe- riod increased only a little over two ! fold.
 The manufacture of cigars and cig- arettes is one of the few factOrZ indus tries that are represented in every
 state and territory. The production ranges in value from S9.310. reported for the state of Mississippi. to S60,023.- 6I7. reported for New York. The pro- ductiOn in New York represents in value 2S.3 per cent of the total pro- duction (S214.350.05D Of the United States. There were four other states | for which the reported value of pro- ducts exceeded S10,00o.0O0 These states. with the value of product. were as follows: Pennsylvania. S39.079.122; Florida. Sl6.764.256; ohio. S13.241.- 23O; and Illinois $11669,4s5. As com pared with the census of 1900 a very
 noteworthy increase in the value of product is shown for the state of New
 Jersey. in which the production in- creased from s2.547.595 for 1900, to
 $S351,6 ,611 in 1905. This increase was
 due chiefI-- to the establishment of a
 number of large cigar factories. most of which were owned by one corpora