Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1908-10-28
DIspDNsARY PROFITS seoa, ,a2e.
The Above is the Showing for First
Nine Months Of 1908.

Nine Months OF 1908.
columbia Cor. News and Courier.)
The dispensary sales in this State
for three-quarters Of the year have
exceeded two and half million dol
lars, and as the last quarter of the
year is the largest in point OF volume
OF business, the sales will likely
amount to three and a half million
dollars for the etnire year. There are
only twenty-three out of the forty
one counties in the State which have
dispensaries, the sales for the new
county Of Calhoun being included in
Orangeburg in this statement. Yet
In twenty-three counties the dispen-
saries do business in excess of that
of the State dispensary when it was
at Its zenith-or so the official figures
SAY.
The profits for the three-quarters
of 1908 are more than half a million
dollars-$662, 2,226.71-to be exact.
This Is also In excess Of the profits of
the State dispensary system, both
comparatively and actually. For the
three quarters of the year the dis
PShooi hoNO lhauc dh average
profit of 35 per cent, which Is very
good indeed for any business.
For the third quarter of the year
the sales have reached the sum Of
1919, ,269.26, and the profits amount
to $212, ,862.39. The last quarter will
exceed this in gross sales and proba-
bly, in profits, as the Christmas trade
Is to be included in the fourth quar-
tier. ...
Sumter county shows a percentage
of sc per cent profit, the highest in
the State. Florence is next with So
per cent; Abbeville shows SO per
cent, and several show as high as as
per cent. The lowest is colleton with
10 per cent profit. Charleston shows
a profit for the three months Of 23
per cent.
These figures are compiled by State
Dispensary Auditor West, to whom
the county dispensary boards are re-
quired to make reports monthly and
quarterly. He has given out the fol-
lowing statements:
For Nine Months.
Sales and profits of all the dispensa-
ries in the State for the first three
quarters Of the present year:
January, February, March--Sales
ss70,s64.o1. profits $26s,s41.9s, per
cent 80.
April, May, June-Sales $777,-
296.34, profits $3.50, ,422.34, per cent
80.
July, August, September-Sales
$s1s,26s.26,, profits, s212,s62.3S,
per cent 35.
Total--sales $2,567,529.61, profits
1862, ,226.71, per cent 35.
Comparison with Last Year.
The total sales for the county dis
pensaries for the quarter ending Sep
tember 80, 1907, amounted to $751;
F46, and the net profits OF that quar-
ST to $200,370. The total sales for
the entire year of 1907 up to Octo-
ber l (the symtem being established
In March, 190D, amounted to ST.
401 ,023, with net profits of 367,162.
1t was stated in this correspondence
in October, 1907, that at this rate
the annual profits of the county dis
pensary system would probably
amount to 725.00O In round num-
bers. as against an annual profit Of
1000 from the State dispensary
system in 1906. The total net profit
from the county dispensary system
in 10 months in 1907 reached $685.
056, and the profits in 1908 will go
over 100000, and may reach one
million dollars. ...... .
The State dispensary in 1906 did
gross business Of $2585,137; there
being 1873 dispensaries then in ope-
ration. The net profit in 1906, earn
ed in that year, was $575,975.
The county dispensaries' for nine
months of this year have sold as
much whiskey. or at least the re-
ceipts are as large, as for the entire
twelve months of the State dispen-
sary system-two and one-half mil
lion dollars. The county dispensa-
ries have for nine months made a
profit greater by 100000 than the
net profit Of the State dispensary in
one year.
To make 1t more plain.
Total sales dispensary, 1905, $2,-
585,137.
Total. sales county dispensaries,
nine months, 1908, $2,567,529.61.
Net profits, State dispensary, 1906,
$575,975.94.
Net profits, county dispensraies,
nine months, 1908, $662,226.71.
When the report Of the State dis
pensary for 1905 was compiled the
dispensary had been voted out of all
but 25 counties under the Brice Act,
and to show just comparison with
the State disi arsary, the figures
should be tai IN before the passage
of the Brice Act but those figures are
not now available.
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