Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-10-08
GREAT TOBACCO TRADE
ALL OVER THE COUNTRY
Cigarettes Made From Virginia.
Carolina Brights Having Big Rush.
More Chewing and Smoking.
VIRGINIA FARMERS on VELVET
Reasons Why the Raw Material Is
Selling High In AL Markets Of Old
Dominion-Prosperity That Seems
to BE Lasting.

| The activity that prevailed in all
| branches of the tobacco manufacturing
business all over the country, especial
tE In Virginia. In July last was more
than Kept up In the month OF August
The records for the last named month,
revenue collections show greater prog
rcss among the tobacco, cigar and
cigarette factories OF tho country than
has ever been known In the history
OF the business for any one month
This is especially true i'm regard TO
smoking and chewing tobacco and
cigarettes. branches of the business i'm
which Virginia and North Carolina are
especially Interested.
CHANGED CONDITIONS AND
WHAT THEY MAY MEAN
In the matter of cigarette manufac-
turing the record for August exceeds
all previous high records. not only for
the particular month named, but for
any and all months. The same may
be said as TO smoking and chewing To-
oacco. AS to the latter the condition
has changed to remarkable degree
The time was when August was re-
Eardcd rs the dull month of the wear
me same was true as to cigarettes
until year ago when the August pro-
duction of the collin nails" reached
the highest level OF any month In it's
history and produced for the govern
fment the largest amount of taxes to
that date ever received from this
branch This steady increase exists in
spite or the fact that constant agita-
ton I'm many cities and States com
tinues with a view of prohibiting the
sale OF the little smokes: licenses for
the retail sale OF cigarettes have boen
raised In numerous instances without
any apparent unfavorablc effect on the
nf 1A- 4,
SreSsional attempts to place higher
rates of special taxation on the manu-
facture of cigarettes evidently discour-
aged none OF the producers: in fact the
situation is perhaps best described nv
the homely expression that every
knock is a boost"
COMPARATIVE FIGURES THAT
WILL TELL THEIR OWN STORY
me total amount of internal rev
enue collections from all sources or
TOBACCO neutrality-suspicious. of the
war taXes-in this country during Aup
ust. 1916. was SS.Si0.55003, an increase
of $3.50, iol.37. as compared with tho
corresponding month Il year previous.
Revenue collections for August, 1916.
and 1915:
Aug. 1916. Aug. 1915.
Cigars ..........s1,a7o.134 1881. 1881
Small cigars 65,I5+ G0.I3S
! Small cigarettes. 3,3siloS o.16S.59O
Large cigarettes. 1893 $3.50
Shnh ............. e0S,372 2o0.4l9
Tobacco .......... 3.lSi.950 2,S12.iaS
Total .sS,slO.550 $3.50, o5s
The actual comparison OF the pro-
duction in the various lines during
August, 1916, and 1915. is as follows:
cigars increased 26.251.493: small cigars
decreased 6.6i4.S14 small cigarettes
gained ?12.4S6.96S. and the increase for
large cigarettes was lS3O2S; snuff pro-
duction decreased l50.69l pounds, and
tobacco gained +.655.652 pounds.
The revenue collections during this
first eight months of 1916 totaled s59.-
fi9,602.S3. or gain of s7,Si4.25l.7s
over the corresponding period OF the
preceding year.
All OF the above figures are encour-
aging to the tobacco growers of Vir-
ginia and North Carolina as they point
TO continued high prices for the bright
leaf that goes into the makeup OF the
cigarettes and the dark leaf that makes
the filler for the chewing tobacco.