The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-04-18

between two and three gallons of white
liqnor per day A moOEshiner rperat-
ing, slill of this character has the
advantage of being able 20 transfer The
entire outfit over TO a neghbor's house
.or to carry il out and hide il at
moments notice in places so small
thst an officer would never dream of
looking for It, And when Il becomes
generally known that such still is
being operated In certain house Il
cnn be shifted to another at a mo
ments notice and the distillation of
liquor scarcely interrupted II is this
class of stills that arc the hardest to
locate.
The average moonshine still has
capacity of fifteen gallons of liquor per
day and a barrel of liquor is consider
.od pretty fair weeks work Whore
1t is retailed. the liquor sells for 75
cents per pint, or $500 per gallon To
establish siill OF this kind costs
about S400 and requires considerable
preparation. They are therefore 10
Gated in only the most secretivc places
land carefully guarded. From these al.
most inaccessible places il is always
Ia source Of wonder how the liquor can
be gotten out whore it can be sold.
These stills are always located on a
small stream. II has been discoverd
that the fayOrito method of getting a.
barrel OF liquor out from the still to
a market somewhere has been to throw
the barrel in the stream at night and
let it float out of the mountains. The
barrel rs not filed quite full and will
float. The moonshiner knows just
about how far the barrel will float In
q night and is there to take il out
when daylight comes. When a noun
tain stream is high the barrel will
iloat long way on il in q single night
The malt from which The liquor is
made fl uently gets into the stream
ON which toe still is located ana will
DRIFT for miles This is one of the fav.
orite methods of locating a still. II an
officer sees traces of malt floating i'm
a stream it is positive proof that some
where up the stream a still is located
IL may be a few hundred yards and II
may be several miles He has TO
search the main stream to its source
and then one by one take up each of
tits tributaries, but he knows no will
find the still if be thinks Il is worth
while. Another sure sign is known TO
the old still raiders. The malt and
the drippirg that come from q still
8nd get into stream is the finest food
on bees hat is known, Wild bees
viii come for miles to get it from the
water of a stream. When an old and
| Experienced officer finds stream on
which bees are working more than
usual, he Immediately begins to re-
cOnnoiter for the stilf tnat he knows
is not far away.
In hunting through the mountains
one often sees here and there a small
patch of corn and wonders why 1t was
planted there and how the owner will
ever get Il to market One time an
led mOuutaineer was seen plnting a
small patch of corn way up on the
mountai inside Asked how he ever
lexpected TO get his crop down he
sagely replied: In barrels His ans
wer was to the point If a still Is a
large one the malt is usually ground
at some grist mill. II is corn mixed
with barley The miller fully aware
of the use to which the malt is 10 be
put but il is not 10 his interest to let
lanyOne else know II the sil is a small
one the malt can be ground on a block
with a pestle and parched, and the
entire process take place in the home
of the moonshincr
Nearly every mountaineer knows
how to make moonshine whiskey. a
prisoner who was arrested in old ln
dian Territory ami sent to Atlanta
and placed in prison was actually
caught making corn ghiskey in the
prison. He had saved up his ration
of corn bread and hidden IT, and whef
he had a small quantity he used the
corn bread for analt and distilled liquoi
from IL over "A heater In the prison