Show WORLDS LEADING TOBACCO TOWN 1 following are extracts from an address delivered by col A D watts collector of intel nal revenue for the fifth district of north carolina at a smoker given by the atvin city I 1 club winston salem february ath 1916 SOME comparisons winston salem is supplying one fourth of all the chewing and smoking tobacco consumed in the united states besides exporting vast va 0 quantities to foreign lands this statement is taken talen from the report of tho the commissioner of internal revenue for the first quarter of the present fiscal year and from private advices from as to the second quarter which ended december lost last your city alt is making one ono seventh of all tobacco prod produces us che chewing wing and smoking tobacco cigars cigarette ei garett and manufactured in the united states your manufacturers manufacturer 3 arc are paying on an a about a diy daiy revenue taxes to the gov eminent ern ment and the amount is increasing hoin month to month when your building much the in the state was completa completed last july at a cost of your news newspapers made the statement tint the taxes paid in your city to undo uncle barn sam for thu first eight 63 deijs s of ita its occupancy wo id d pay for it since september it lias has asken only a fraction over savati average das collections here to equal its cost so far this week mr cranford lias has taken in 50 1 I predict t that hat before 1916 shall have ended y your our average weekly payments to government on tobacco will more than pay for this magnificent building leaving the collections for the other fafty tifty one weeks as clear profit to the government TOBACCO SHIPMENTS 11 winston j inston salem is shipping on an average each ench week day to all party of thi thia country and to foreign lands at least of tobacco pro ducts in conclusion winston gilem manufactures more tobacco all t bacco products pio ducts are taken into this statement than any other city nn n earth little or big industrially she is easily easil hist in north carilna Car Ca oLaa rolna population considered first in america and I 1 believe in the world so socially nally a never failing delight to her friends |