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The Licensed Liquor Business:

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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · May 30, 1878

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 4, No. 21.

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The Licensed Liquor Business:

The annual report of the United States Commissioner of Internal Revenue furnishes figures which should arrest attention: The following table will show the number in some of the States in the order of magnitude of the traffic:—
Dis-tilleries. Brew-eries. Liquor Dealers Sa-loons.
New York 111 379 741 23,854
Pennsylvania 140 361 483 16,105
Ohio 106 218 397 14,248
Illinois 75 148 247 10,648
California 401 182 269 8,408
Missouri 64 94 226 6,369
Massachusetts 39 36 251 6,389
New Jersey 158 59 40 5,513
Indiana 120 97 104 5,006
Michigan 1 153 80 4,906
Wisconsin 9 266 81 4,477
Maryland 32 77 176 4,320
Kentucky 754 37 240 4,224
Iowa 24 134 70 3,691
Louisiana 1 12 144 3,280
Texas 12 42 118 2,960
Tennessee 475 2 127 2,853
Virginia 516 6 49 2,578
Minnesota 117 34 2,044
Georgia 300 8 80 2,028
Connecticut 189 29 53 2,490
North Carolina 1,025 37 1,884
Dist. Columbia 15 37 1,105
These statistics are compiled from the number of licenses issued by the government, and of course do not include the thousands of places where liquor is sold illegitimately.
In Maine there are no distilleries or rectifying establishments; but four breweries, six wholesale liquor dealers, and only 402 saloons. In the State of Kentucky, which is about equal in population, there are 754 distilleries, fifty-four rectifying establishments, thirty-seven breweries, 240 wholesale liquor dealers, and 4,284 saloons. In Vermont there are only two breweries, one wholesale liquor dealer and only