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Show THE ENORMOUS MANUFACTURE OF MATCHES. Some idea of the size of the match trade may be gained by a glance at the figures paid for stumps. The Government exacts a revenue of one rent per 100 on matches manufactured. During the year ending May, 1881, one company paid for stamps $1,500,000. This year the amount paid will be increased $50,000. There are 200 matches in a box. The tax is two cents; they are sold to the grocer for three cents, and retailed at five. Four million five hundred thousand dollars represent 150,000,000 one-cent stamps. As each stamp represents 100 matches, the grand total manufactured is 15,500,000,000 matches or 277,900,000 five cent boxes.-St. Louis Post-Dispatch. |