The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1907-05-24
THE COST OF CIGARS

There were 1898 s79,785 cigars OF
all kinds smoked in the United States
last year. They cost all prices, from
the Pittsburg stogio at three for a
nickel to the two for a quarter thai
senators use, but the average that Is
emoked is the Scent cigar.
If all the cigars consumed during
the wear were laid end to end they
would reach a dist nee Of o3I,2zo
miles; they would circle the earth at
the equator twenty-five times, and II
laid from Washington to San Fran
cisco they would make a pathway
seventeen and one-half feet wide, and
if from the white nc Sc to the capitol,
the senators and rep esentatives would
have a boulevard o. over two and a
quarter miles wide to walk on when
they visited the President.
They would completely cover the
Washington monument and grounds
and there would be enough cigars left
to keep Uncle Joe Cannon supplied
for the ext ten years. If they were
laid in a pile 100 feet square they
would reach a height of FIVE and one
third miles, and would weigh 1896
tons. The ashes would weigh 2082
tons If they were all made by hand
it would require 3,199,359 cigar
makers to make them, and all the
smokers would have to smoke three
cigars each day in the year to con-
sumo them. Every time the clock ticks
during the twenty-fodr hours of each
day there are 2i01 CT gars sold. To light
the cigars it require 20,864 1892 boxes
of matches which re composed of
1878 tons of wood a d 40 tons of sui
phur and birthstone.
If a cigar was given to each man
as they stood side by side they would
circle the earth 1912 times, making
a ring of smoke one nile wide around
the world, and if each man was re-
quired to dig one day in the Panama
canal it would take Just three weeks
to finish it. If they stood on each
others shoulders the top man could
talk to the man in he moon, throw a
kiss at Venus. firt with the maids on
Mars and examine the rings on
Saturn.
At fifty cigars to the box it required
159,9 77 $40 boxes, which consisted of
~1S5,574,452 square fe of lumber, that
would make a trair of 1910 cars to
carry it and would extend a distance of
fifty-three mics. 1t would take sixty
of the largest locomotives to haul the
train.
If the boxes were laid end to end
they would make a bridge from the
jamestown Exposition to London,
England, three feet four ineNs wide.
And if laid from Washington to the
north pole Lieutenant Peary would
have a board walk of boxes three feet
one inch wide. and have one box left
to put on top of the pole. They would
make a fence completely around the
United States, and there would be
enough left to circle the District of
Columbia. They would build a tower
at Jane stown eight times higher than
the Eifel tower at Paris.
At y CcutS tdtu tAc tOSt WOuiu ot
1898, 944.S77.2, which is $15.45 for
every man, or $40. for every man,
woman and child in ne United States.
Every time the clo-k ticks there is
SIP spent for cigars in the United
States. If the morey was divided
among the States zach would get
9 8 1887 1854, and it would give IL 900
men in each State SIS per week for
one year. The money would educate
1,59O,779 students at Yale college
zach year. 1t world build fifty first
class battleships. L it were all in
nickels it would weigh 10,4l4 tons If
it were in 81 bills the President could
walk on a path OF dollars five feet
wide to the Panama anal.
The money would support 1860
families of FIVE comfortably, and give
them all the clothes that was needed,
besides allowing them to go to the
theater twice Zach week for one year.
II the money was in silver dollars
and they were laid on each other they
would reach \ height Of 1878 miles.