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Show WHERE CIGARS ARE MADE. . For many years the competition between be-tween imported Havana cigars and hand-made Key West cigars has been going on actively, with a general belief probably that Key West was an important im-portant source of supply of cigars. Uncle Sam. who Is a lynx-eyed collector col-lector of revenue from cigar factories, takes account In a year of 7,000,000,000 cigars," that being the number of domestic do-mestic cigars smoked In a year. The number Imported from Cuba, the Philippines Phil-ippines and other places of supply Is relatively insignificant. Of this total the number of Key West cigars including with Key West the whole State of Florida of which Key West, through Its proximity to Havana Ha-vana and its large number of Cuban clgarmakers, Is the chief producing point is 230,000,000. In other words, one-twenty-eights of the total number of cigars made in the United States and smoked here are Key. West or Florida made and that number only. The great cigar-making State of the country, notwithstanding the Ignoble repute in many quarters of Pittsburg stogies, is Pennsylvania, which manufactures manu-factures In a year nearfy 2,000,000,000 cigars. New York makes 1,500,000,000 In a year, and Ohio, never very far behind In profitable and productive enterprises. 750.000,000. The other States of the country are practically trailers to these, with the exception of Virginia, which manufactures manufac-tures In a year 500.000,000 cigars and is, in fact, the only one of the big tobacco producing States which makes cigars In large numbers. About one-half of the-product the-product of Virginia factories Is In the form of cheroots. Kentucky which furnishes an enormous enor-mous amount of tobacco, makes few cigars, and New Jersey, which has no particular reputation In the cigar line, makes in a year nearly twice as many as Florida. |