The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1922-10-06

seSsiohs having concurrent laws governing Nauor
violations conservative estimate makes the total
nnes Approximately $40O00OO0.
Estimated amount of federal assessments and
penalties $5OOOOOOO; $1,000 special tax $500 600 :.
taxes on spirits, wines, and SO forth, $1,000 600
estimated total, S57, 100000
ESTIMATED seizures: Gallons of distilled spirIts
and wine, $4,000; estimated value of property
seized during the year, not including property
leVled Tor payment of taxes nor distiery appar-
atus or other property destroyed. S129O7 500 40
Number OF federal indictments, estimated 30
Ooo pleas of guilty 1900; number of convictions
21,OOO
During the year 1921 Withdrawals of whisky in
the United States amounted to less than 1000 600
gallons, while official records reveal that before
the eighteenth amendment became effective the
average American yearly consumption of whisky
was approximately 133,0OOOO0.
The first six months of present fiscal wear there
were Withdrawn, tax paid, 11962,322 gallons of
nonbeverage spirits. The quantity withdrawn dur
ing the first six months of last fiscal year
amounted to 2227l,1S0 gallons, a decrease during
this fiscal year of SO per cent.
The quantity Of nonbeverage spirits withdrawn
during the month of December 1921 on which the
tax was paid, amounted to 1929 206 gallons as
compared with 2,625,2S5 gallons withdrawn in De-
cember, 1920, decrease of approximately 100 Der
cent. The quantity withdrawn in December 1921.
when compared with the quantity withdrawn in
October, 1920, 4,372, 127 gallons shows decrease
of nearly 90 per cent.
During the year 1921 whisky brought into this
country from all foreign sources was valued at
S1,5413SS, while during 1920 whisky from all
sources was valued at $1013,091 representing
value of whisky brought into the country and
entered into warehouse
During the year 1921 whisky to the value of
s62S,60O withdrawn for consumption while
during the previous year whisky valued at S4S5 100
withdrawn for consumption, an increase Of
about 10000 gallons insignificant, and more than
accounted for by the forging of permits
At the end of the year 1927 the amount Of
2679 62 proof gallons of whisky. valued at s1,2l1.-
DID, was remaining In the custom warehouses.
The actual amount Of whisky withdrawn tax
paid from custom warehouses-or consumed
during the year 1921 amounted to 1396s9 proof
gallons. The value of such whisky, computed at
$3.50 per gallon, amounts TO $62S,GOO5O
In addition TO the above facts and figures"
the following may also he emphasized ndicat-
inc results of enforcement:
Disappearance Of the open saloon; abatement OF
omen drinking places in public dining rooms pass
ing of the treating evil, which was recognized az
the greatest contributing agency in the develop
uent of a liquor appetite; closing OF whisky cure
and similar institutions; increased saving nc
counts: mountaineering Christmas business; de
creased drunkenness.
Wholesale drug companies must now Nave a.
a minimum a $4,000 drug stock, must be bona
6de dealers and sales Of liquor must not exceed
10 par cent Of the amount Of their gross sales
as drug concern
All liouor permits authorized for legitimate uses
rrust now bear the signature Of the director OF
rho state In which the distIllery from which with
drawal is TO be made is located
los, wears importation was ane-half or per
osn, Of the total consumption Of liquor in America
tho wear before prohibition. arrests for drunken
,ess were decreased go per rent and liquor WIN
,rorroIs were reduced 20 per cent
OrIv . per cent of all liquor seized and exam
med today is fl 10 drink. -, -.
Nv Unshaw Incorporated into MS Speern
-ost,,,e nv Commissioner Haynes. which contains
the following: $780,, =. -. o,.o,
tn amendment is being enforced to an even
- axrenr than many devoted friends Ahtl'l-
- and predictions Of opponents ana ahtaIon
,no+ an army" would be required An'
-alo,,ion would occur in metropolitan 'en''rN'
,rroc,arly among the foreign element nave ho'
- ho-na out by actualites Instead OF an
-" results which below are ennmeraf'' nave
am occornnlIshed by less than 1000 agents