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Show MM SALOONS 10 Iff CLOSED Michigan Goes Dry at Midnight, Mid-night, April 30, and 3,285 Bars and 62 Breweries Quit Business. DETROIT. Mich., April IS. When Michigan goes dry at midnight on April 30. a total of 3.285 saloons in the state must go out of business and 62 breweries are prohibited from manu -factunng beer or any intoxicating liquor. li-quor. At tho election in November, 1916. the amendment providing for "bone dry" state prohibition, was adopted by a majority of nearly 70,000. Manufacturers and dealers of liquor In Michigan have had IS months to I dispose of their stock and wind up their business affairs. Michigan breweries brew-eries employed 2.060 men. while saloons sa-loons had a total of 6.387 persons For! soveral weeks, saloon men have been 'aking up other trades, but the movement move-ment of labor from the breweries has not been pronoune. -d Some of the breweries will manufacture manu-facture "soft" drinks and others, it is understood, will turn out distilled products pro-ducts not prohibited by law A few beer plants will be converted into ice factories. Anti-Saloon League Statistics. According to claims made by the intiSaloon leaue organization in -Michigan, approximately 2.338 000 bushels of grain have been used in the yearly output of Michigan breweries. brew-eries. The intprnal revenue report for the yl(d Jun' l3' vm- showed that w. I barrpls of beer were brewed m Michigan that year. Bath barrel contained SI gallons and II bai b estimated that a bushel of grain .:-usd .:-usd to make a barrel of beer The latest fibres from thp censu department concerning the liquor In- d"umr?ll1C.h!6tn giVe the follwing uetaiis. Capital invested, $12,384,000- b MmrM' f55f'000: ges paid'. yV0iM, cost of materials. $2 421 - I up iT , L product. 59.840.000; llloOO y raanufacr. $7.: Much Coal Used. One of the Anti -Saloon league arguments argu-ments against tho iquor industry in Michigan has been the amount of coal consumed Last winter when Michigan Michi-gan industries were operated under stringent coal conservation rules, many schools throughout the state had to close. It has been ciaimed that Michigan breweries used more than a quarter of a million tons of coal during the last year covered by the internal revenue reve-nue report. This estimate is partly based on a statement credited to E. D. Leach, assistant state fuel administrator administra-tor of Ohio, who was quoted as saying say-ing that reports indicated Ohio brew -eiiee consumed practically a pound of coal to brew a pint of beer. If it is correct Michigan brewers would have consumed about 280,000 tons oi eoal to turn out 561,245.040 pints of beer in the year 1916-17. oo |