The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-09-30
lost Of Them Will Continue to
Manufacture Alcohol for
Commercial Uses.
ZEN WON'T LOSE JOBS;
sAPITAL INVESTED SAFE
of Work Is Avail
| able for Those Who Have
Been Making Spirits

lecture OF distilled liquors for drink
b purposes is over forever
This does not mean at all that these
10 plants will be idle, that the capital
vested In them will be lost, or that
3 operatives they have been employ
B In the past will be thrown out OF
b.. Very little finaeial loss VIII
CUR and very few men VIII ma
Rmselves out. Indeed, the prospects
that with the adjustment of bust
gs all the men heretofore employed
many others with them Will End
ndance of work.
the first plac,~ the distilleries
prepared for the change. 1t was
hdden shock. this federal law, for
nactment had been forecast from
,Ttirne 1t was deemed necessary to
ke steps for food conservation.
Furthermore. there was sufficient
NE between the enactment OF the
w and its going into effect to en-
le the distillers 10 get themselves
adv to quit making beverage liquor,
Lded to all this was the steady adj
nee of prohibition which has been
marked and so general that the
uor men for years have been get
kg ready to change their lines of
sfness whenever the appointed hour
ould come.
Grain Free For Food.
Millions OF bushels of grain which
herwise would be ground up for
jAkey will be released for food Just
y many millions, no one knows, for
manufacture of alcohol for oever-
purposes ia so CLOSELY blended
IA the production OF alcohol for IN
ptrial and medicinal purposes that
until this time there has been no
Of determining the exact amounts
Wever since the manufactures %
erAge alcohol has ceased the new
fations will give SINE light or the
ount of grain that heretofore has
u wasted.
here are various estimates "a IN
number of bushels OF grain that
. gone into some form or other %
,hol. The figure of eco 900 bush
annually seems To he we'll ac-
ted. Not less than 20 per cent Of
has gone into distilled beverages
1t is estimated by some that as
BE as 10 per cent has been used for
purpose.
approximately $4,000 0eo gallons
Fhiskey has been produced each
by American 'distilleries. Fro-
ion OF alcohol by the same distil-
II for commercial and medicinal
approximates ~ coo 600 gallons
riil thus be seeJa thar proportion
II takes more * ain 10 msnufaC-
whiskev than commercial alcohol,
manufacture OF alcohol for leEltt.
purposes Will continue as usua,
baby In greater Y, un1e.
he class Of distiileries which VIII
but who'll. out of business is com
ID almost entirely Of small plants
rated by from one 20 a half dozen
in California, Ohio and New Jer
and producing brandy from
u. apple and peaches The out
nnualiy is 2.0np 600 gallons, The
y in California il is Thought. VIII
hue to operate in part for the
lfacture OF spirits for fortlfying
wines, So far as car be
led there are few distElleries that
not continue 10 30 operated along
Innate lines, SO that capital w3ll
be idle nor Will men be out OF
VIII Not tsit Revenues
stopping of wsiskey ananufac-
instead OF curtailing The govern
revenues probably VIII IN
them for the next two year,,.
ed with the operation OF the
& revenue bill, the withdrawal
A4key from the stock already ac4
lated probably will treble the
nes within the next year as the
Mt law imposes n tax Of $40 and
avenue bin contemplates tax OF
4 gallon. stock of approx
" 230 900. 900 gallons has accum
In the bonded warehouses and
b shelves of wholesale and retail
dealers, Approximately lao.-
IN - ffan~ ~, II u
that quantity the government
Dllect taxes'as il is Withdrawal.
the small fruit brandy plants
n comparatively little capital in
The capital invested in the
oducing plants mounts high into
filfons. 1t is believed that such
a. a. will occur by stopping the
'acture of beverage spirits will
IRE than wiped out by the greatly
aAed price distillers will obtain
eir products already manufae-
In the opinion of some di<til.
htskey will he selling at SIS a
within year. aGording distil-
normous profits. Al the same
be plants will continue to oper-
approximately 50 per cent pro-
basis making commercial al
A tremendous growth in the
commercial alcohol is antic.-
which In time may result in the
a for quantity of alcohol at
ID large as the present output
purposes. few distiileries
into the manufacture of vine
SON drinks. fruit juices and
Z products. Not only will the
y OF what to do with the dis
under prohibition he solved
storilv to all concerned, but the
70 themselves will find ire
ns financial benefit from the
OF legitimate products.
May Cut Drinking.
\ course the law does not carry
Il prohibition of the sale OF
nv and brandy. but the highly in
ed prices, the stopping OF innpor-
and the enforcement of the
/ bene-dry law. which prevents
nG of liquor into dry states,
Ns AZ down consumption. There is
diversity of opinion as to how
under present conditions and
. pt any communicating on the
BE- the government the supply of
i ev on hand VIII last Some men
II Will last three years, others
Ind others not more than one
The probabilities are that there
Client whiskey TO meet all de-
N for the next eighteen or twenty
81 icago II IL said that perhaps
looms Whose whiskey trade has
lch larger than beer trade will
II to close because or the high
\ liquor. Manv wholesale lia-
A are preparing to sell their
~ ~ high figures as possible
dfu other lines. In 4 nun, bar