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COUNTY DISPENSARIES ARE MAKING MONEY PROFITS WILL LIKELY EXCEED THOSE OF LAST YEAR. If Earnings Continue at Present Ratio Excess Over Last Year will be $100,000 or More-Inter esting Statement Com piled by Auditor West. News and Courier. Columbia. July 28.-During the year 1906, the South Carolina state dispensary declared a total net profit of $575.975.94. During the quarter ending June 30, 1907, the county dis pensaries have declared and distribut ed a total net profit of $166,792.02. A this rate the county dispensaries' total profits for a year will exceed the total net profits of the state dis pensary by at least $100,000. Inas much as the largest ypurchases of li quors are made in the fall, it is ex tremely probable that the business of the county dispensaries will be larger in the next six months than in the six months just passed and in that case the county dispensaries' total net pro fits will exceed the total net profits of the state dispensary by much more than $100,000. The figures on which these calcula tions are based are taken from, a statement prepared by Mr. W. B. West, the dispensary auditor under the new law. The county dispensary boards are required by the law to make both monthly and quarterly re port6 to the auditor, and after a good deal of work by Mr. West and his'. assistant, Mr. Hunt, the quarterly statement by counties has been made. The comparison with the old state dispensary figures are made by this correspondent from the official re port of the board of directors to Gov ernor Heyward for the year 1906. There are twenty-five counties out of the forty-one in .the state, which have dispensaries and yet the twen ty-five county dispensary sy4tems are M& as much or perhaps more aoney than the state dispensary made with its branches in thiriy-nthe cout ties, There were no dispensaries in thirty.nine counties in 1906, but in that year the profits were about as large as before thie enactment of the Erice law. ' ,.. # n Aeeording to the state board's re port for 1906, the net profits divided -oetween the towns and cities. amount ed to $552,092.80, and the profits paid the school fuinT .were $23,883,14, mak-1 ing a, total of $$57.4 A larger sinount was distributed to the schools last yearlat it was ait earnied in that s.ea siid is ei-edited to the 1905 aeoub Se taking this whole amanilit, *165,650.44, into the calcula-, tion, the total net profits reached only the sum of $717,742.24, on a to tal business of $2,585,137.16. This represents the sales of 138 sub-dis pensaries. The figures compiled by Mr. West represent the business of only ninety three dispensaries, the number now in operation in thit st,ate,. The gross sales for the quarter are $647,477.91, or at the rate of $2,589,911.64 for the -* year, which is slightly in excess of the state dispensary sales. The pro fits for the quarter, net, are $166, 792.02, or at the rate of $667,168.08 for the year, which is in excess of the state dispensary profits of 1906 by the sum of $91,212.14. The statement prepared by Mr. West gives the number of dispen saries in each county, the gross sales, the net profit. the per centage of pro ift on sales, the leakage and1 the per e entage of breakage on sales. It fol- ' lows: Abbeville-Gross sales $21.755.57;' - breakage $70.20; net profit $6.210.18, gain 40 per cent; breakage 100 per cent; number dispensaries 1. Aiken-Gross sales $24,603.91;, 'breakage $234.62; net profit $7,883. 89; gain 47 per cent; breakage 300 per cent; number of dispensaries 5. Bamberg-Gross sales $18,468; breakage $123.70; net profit $3,841. 77; gain 26 per cent; breakage 208 * per cent; number of dispensaries 5. Barnwell-ross sales $29,137.71; breakage $344.39: net profit $4,950. 39; gain 24 per cent; breakage 370 per cent; number of dispensaries 10. Beaufort-Gross sa4es $18,334.52; breakage $178.83; net profit $2,870. 95; gain 18 per cent; breakage 303 per cent; number of dispensaries 5. Berkeley-Gross sales $7,683.02; breakage $65.10; net profit $1.461.88; gaini 23 per cent; breakage 260: per cent; number of dispensaries 4. Charleston-Gross sales $47,505.26; breakage $191.45; net profit $11.187. 86: gain 30 per cent: breakage 126 per cent; number of dispensaries 11. C::ester--Gross sales $22.956.69: breakage $118.14: net profit .$6.366. 87: gain 38 per cent: breakage 162 per cent: number of dispensaries 1. Chesterfield--Glross sales 823.79: breakage $29:1.70; net profit $3.939. .3: gaim 20 per cent: jreakage .0 per cent;: number of dispensaries 2. Clarendon--Gross sales $10.527.63; breakage $62.05; net profit $2,006.80; gain 24 per cent; breakage 184 per cent; number of dispensaries 1. Colleton-Gross sales $12,071.OS; breakage $75.94; net profit $2,298. 54; gain 22 per cent; breakage 189 per cent; number of dispensaries 3. Dorchester-Gross sales $14,543. 44; breakage $124.94; net profit $4, 46S.90; gain 44 per cent; breakage 270 per cent; number of dispensaries 3. Fairfield-Gross sales $13,342.98; breakage $124.94; net profit $4,468. 90; gain 44 per cent; breakage 270 per cent; number of dispensaries 3 Florence-Gross sales $3S,990.94; breakage $236.23; net profit $12,510. 71; gain 48 per cent; breakage 193 per cent; number of dispensaries 2. Georgetown-Gross sales $36,803. 45; breakage $112.33; net profit $9, 951.32; gain 37 per cent; breakage 95 per cent; number of dispensaries 1. Hampton-Gross sales $10,526.65; breakage $63.80; net profit $2,511.45; gain 31 per cent; breakage 189 per cent; number of dispensaries 5. Kershaw-Gros sales $28,972.49; breakage $162.58; net profit $7,049. 48; gain 32 per cent; breakage 174 per cent; number of dispensaries 2. Laurens-Gross sales $29,339.96; breakage $263.65; net profit $6,330.76 gain 27 per cent; breakage 280 per: cent: number of dispensaries 2. Lee-Gross sales $12,430.92; breakage $86.04; net profit $3,494. 06; gain 39 per cent; breakage 215 per cent; number of dispensaries 1. Lexington-Gross sales $8,4S7.29; breakage -; net profit $1,585.45; gain 23 per cent; breakage -; num ber of dispensaries 3. Orangeburg-Gross - sales, $42,077. 77; breakage $225.74; net profit $8,-i 053.58; gain 24 per cent.; breakage 167 per cent; number of dispensaries 6. Richland-Gross sales $126,936.25; breakage $929.25; net profit $38,691. 64; gain43 per cent; breakage 191 per cent; number of dispensaries 12. Sumter-Gross sales $35,463.03; breakage $126.55; net profit $13,067. R2; gain 58 per cent; breakage 111 per cent; number of dispensaes 3.1 WilliamsburgGross sales $13,538. 56; breakage $77.59; net profit $3, /.44; gain 29 per cent; breakage 160; number of dispensaries 3. Total--Gross sales $647,477.91; breakage $4,314.44; net profit $166, 792.02; number of dispensaries 93. Average gain per cent on all busi ness one in the state, 34.6 per cent. The above statement has b'een corn pha1 from figures snbmitted and wonto by the respective county dispensary boards or their authoriz ed clerks. Howevr,it mnight be well to state in regard to the breakage ac-I count that the coparos~ inade are not altogether just, inasmuch as some boards have returned railroad short age as breakages, thus swelling the breakage account. In many instances claims were filed for the shortage and have been paid, which would mater ially lessen this account. The account1 is in the main correct. In order to make this comparison it was neces sary -to take some county as a stand ard by which the others might be compared. In this .ease Abbeville, whieh came first alphabetically, was used. Its percentage of breakage was takenl as 100. A county having a per cent of 184 means that its break are was 1.84 times as great as that of the county with which it was com pared. Abbeville. It might be well also to state that the profit made by some of the coun ties is somewhat larger than has been reported, inasmuch as they have hared up fixtures, bottling outfits. etc. to the expense account and these were not taken in as assets in making up the statement. The item of breakage is very im portant. as it may be used to cover a multitude of sins. It will be well for county boards to watch this item very carefully. Dispensaries Working Smoothly. Auditor West finds the county dis pensary system working very smooth ly in all the 25 counties which have whiskey shops. The boards of control are, as a rule, composed of capable and careful business men and the sys tem is being run on business primei ples. During thd next two quarters the expenses incident to starting the new system will be eliminated-With an increased trade, the profits should be larger, but it is a question wheth er they can be made large enough to keep the state from going prohibi tion at the first opportunity. The 16 ounties in which there are now no dispensaries are among the most pros perous in the state. even since they have permitted the other 25 tn have a ifopolv in s ending two and a half million dollars a y-ear for whiskey and It will be noted. of core that the d1pensay sales in Char'leston for. the [Iilan uGieiallf as QTeat a8 liIt. -ales I I iebla nd, $ 126.)8ti.25. a!itl are only f slightly in excess of Orangeburg, $42.- t 077.77. Charleston's profits, $11,- C 1.7.86, are less than the profits of F Sumier, $13,067.32, and of Florence, e ;12,570.71. and are less than one- n third of Richland's profits, $38,691.- ( 34. Littleton Fen Splendid location. Health resort. Hol mnoderm improvements. 240oboarding pupi ;hip, culture and social life. Conservatory in Art and Elocution. Business College, Bip Health record not surpassed. Close pei :e.elopment of each ppuil. Uniform worn CHARGES VERY LOW. 26th Annual Session will begin on Sept( REV. J. 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