The daily times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1902-1936, 1919-07-03
WESTERN DISTRICT
LEADS TOBACCO
But Eastern District Collects
More Than Twice AS
Much Liquor Tax.
100 MILLION COLLECTED
CBv the Associated Press.)

The internal revenue collections
in the western district of North Car
olira for the year ending June ~,
exceed those of the eastern district
for the same period by approximately
forty-six million dollars. The grano
total of 73,4O9,O9S.05, announced
from the office of Collector Watts
at Statesville, are greater than the
total collection OF all Mr.. Watts
predecessors in office from the close
of the civil war until his induction
shortly after the beginning OF the
Wilson administration.
tions Of the two districts is due lar
The big difference in the collec-
gely to the greater amount Of to-
bacco tax collected from theWin-
sto n-Salef manufactures, this item
alone amounting to something close
to forty million dollars. Tobacco
and tobacco products also lead in
Collector Ba;iIey's district for the
year amounting to $13, S,7Sl.64.
The June collections in both dis
tricts were the heaviest for the year,
amounting to $15,34S, ,2OO.SS in the
western and $5,431,O44.13 in the
eastern.
The total eastern district collec-
tions for the year just ended am
cunts to s27,779, 9,S28.S6; making
grand total of $1O1, 1885, ,926.91
North Carolina paid into the United
States treasury for the last twelve
months of war.
Difference in Liquor License.
OF more than passing in terest
in the annual reports of the two
collectors in the difference in the
amount of liquor license and fines
collected in the respective districts.
In this way the Eastern district
has collested more than twice as
much money in eleven months as the
western district has for tyelve
months. Until May 31st., the fines
and licenses in the eastern district
amounted to $25,592.2O against
11,97516 for the Ell tire fiscal year
ending June 3Oth., in the western
district.
The income and profits tax in rs
western district is also much larger
than the same tax in the eastern
district, Collector Watts showing
more than twelve million collected
in this way against a little more
than Six million collected in the cas-
tern district The difference is per-
haps more striking in this partic-
ular item because the distribution
of the collections in the eastern dis
trict for >he month of June are not
in luded in the totals shown be-
low
The Eastern district totals for
eleven months ending May 81 are
Income -$5, 914,O3216; estate, $50,
553.22, distilled spirits, $25, 5,2322O;
fC cmcnted liquor, $3.50; tobacco
and tobacco products $13,
oleGmargarin $2,315.S3; miscellan-
eoLs STAN, tax, $S,31621; trans
portation. so, 4,247.44; insurance,
2,667.39; excise tax, S1S,17294;
Manufacturers tax $556.O7; bev-
erages, non-alcoholic, $6,666.7O;
opium, $4,518,O9; special taxes,
$41, ,226.96; Admissions and dues,
$111,S95.05; Miscellaneous, SILL
1892
Including the one total of S5,431,-
044.13; the grand total of the east
ern district for the year is $27,772,-
0S995.
For the western district the totals
are:-Tobacco, $51,774,52O.51; in
come and profits, 2O,65O,7OO.64;
estete, $23S,579. 79; admissions and
dues, s199,643.6O; capital stock,
$13S, ,259.71; public utilities, $780,
246.23; manufacturers, $S6,S44,-
6S; documentary stamps, $51,91s.46
insurance policies, $45,07627; war
special S26265 GA. soft d,>;nlxS