The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, August 02, 1907, Page TWO, Image 2
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?Interesting
Statement Compiled
by Auditor
West.
News and Courier.
Columbia, July 28.? During' tbe
year 1900, I lie South Carolina state
dispensary declared a total net profit
of $.->75,075.04. During I lie quarter
ending June 30, 1907, the county dispensaries
have declared and distributed
a total net profit of .$1 (JO;71)2.02.
At this rate the county dispensaries'
total profits for a year will exceed
the total net profits of the state dispensary
by at least $10(1,000. Inasmuch
as the largest ypurchases of liquors
are made in the fall, il is extremely
probable that I lie business of
the county dispensaries will he. larger
in the next six months than in Die six
months just passed and in that case
the county dispensaries' total net profits
will exceed the total net profits
of the state dispensary by much i
more than $100,000.
The figures on which these calculations
are based are taken from a 1
statement prepared by Mr. W. B. I
West, (he dispensary auditor under
the new law. The county dispensary!
boards are required by the law to
make both monthly and quarlcrlv reports
lo the auditor, ami after a good
deal of work hv Mr. West, and his
assistant, Mr. Ilnnl. the quarterly
statement by counties lias been made.
The comparison with the old state
dispensary figures are made by this
correspondent from the official report
of the hoard of directors to Governor
Hey ward for the year 1000.
There are twenty-five counties out.
of the forty-one in the state, which
have dispensaries and vet the twen- 1
iv-five county dispensary systems are 1
making as much or perhaps more
.money than the state dispensary made 1
with its branches in thirty-nine contP \
1icR, There were no dispensaries in ]
thirty.nine counties in 1000, hut in
thnt year the profits were about as I
large as# before (ho enactment of the '
Brice law. , * ,.
' According to (lie state board's report
for 1000, the net profits divided
between the towns and cities amounted
to $ >; >2.092.80, and the profits paid
the school fund were $2^,883,14, making
a total of $505,075.04. A larger
amount was distributed to the schools
last venr but il was )n.?l earned in thai
year ami is credited to I ho 1005
accountt I'.Veh taking this whole
rtWrtilHI. ^1 05,050.44, into the calculation,
the total net profits reached
only the sum of $717,742.24, on a total
business of $2,5Sf>, 137.1(5. This
represents the sales of 13S sub-dispensaries.
The figures compiled by "Mr. West
represent the business of only ninetythree
dispensaries, the number now
in operation in this state. The gross
sales for the quarter are $047,477.91,
or at the rate of $2,580,911.04 for the
year, which is slightly in excess of
ihe state dispensary sales. The profits
for the quarter, net, are $160,792.02.
or at the rate of $007,10.8.08
for the year, which is in excess of
the slate dispensary profits of 1!H)0
by the sum of $91,212.14.
The statement prepared by Mr,
W es| uives the number of dispensaries
in each county, the gross sales,
the net prolit. the per rentage of prolit
on sales, lhe leakage and the pcr-j
eeniaue of break a ye on .-ales, li fol-|
low*:
A bbe\ i11e- (!rn<s sales $21 ,75.">..*f7 ',
breakage $<0.20; net prol it $0,210,18,1
gain l<> per cent: breakage 100 per'
cent; number dispensaries I. ?
Aiken Gross sales $21,003.01 : j
breakage $234.02; nei profit $7.^S:?.- j
89: jgain l< per cent; breakage .'{00
per\eent : number of dispensaries 5.
Ijlamberg- Cross sales $18,408;
breakage $123.70; net profit $3,841.77;
gain 20 per cent; breakage 208
per cent; number of dispensaries 5.
Harnwell?-Gross sales $20,1:17.71;
breakage $344.39; net profit $4,050.
'0; gain 24 per cent; breakage .'170
per cent ; number of dispensaries 10.
Benuforl? Gross sajles $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 $7,083.02;!
breakage $05.10; net profit $1,401.88; I
gain 23 per cent: breakage 200 per
cent; number of dispensaries 4.
Charleston?Gross sales $47,505.20;
breakage $191.45; net profit $11,187.80;
gain 30 per cent; breakage 120
per cent; number of dispensaries II.
Chester?Gross sales $22.050.(50;
breakage $118.14; net profit $0,300.8<
; gain 38 per cent; breakage 102
per cent; number of dispensaries 1.
Chesterfield?Gross sales $23.3^0.79:
breakage $293.70; net profit $3,019.- J
I
I
5.'5; L?ai 11 20 per cent; breakage 390 i
per cent; number of dispensaries 2.
Clarendon?Gross sales $10,527.0:3; ,
breakage $02.05; net profit $2,000.80; j
gain 24 per cent; breakage 184 per
cent; number of dispensaries 1. ,
Colleton?-Cross sales $12,571.08; ;
breakage $75.04; net profit $2,208.- |
54; gain 22 per cent; breakage 180 (
per cent; number of dispensaries 3.
Dorchester?-dross sales $14,543.44;
breakage $124.94; net profit $4,408.90;
gain 44 per cent; breakage
270 per cent; number of dispensaries
3.
Fairfield?Gross sales $13,342.98; j
breakage $124.94; net profit $4,408.- s
90; gain 44 per cent; breakage 270 i
per cent; number oL' dispensaries 3
Florence- Gross sales $.'{8,090.94; ^
breakage $230.23; net profit $12,510.71;
gain 48 per cent; breakage 193
per cent ; number of dispensaries 2.
Georgetown?Gross sales $3(5,803.45;
breakage $112.33; net profit $9,951.32;
gain 37 per cent; break aye ,
95 per cent; number of dispensaries
1.
Hampton?Gross sales $10,520.05;
breakage $03.80; net profit $2,511.45;
gain 31 per cent; breakage .189 per,
cent ; number of dispensaries 5.
Kershaw?Gro^s sales $28,972.49;
breakage $102.58; net profit $7,049.- j
48; gain 32 per cent; breakage 174!
per cent ; number of dispensaries 2. J
Laurens?Gross sales $29,339.90; (
breakage $203.05; net profit $0,330.70 j
gain 27 per cent; breakage 280 per J J
cent; number of dispensaries 2. j
Lee -Gross sales $12.130.92; j J
breakage $80.04; net profit $3,494.- j
00; gain 39 per cent; breakage 215 <
per cent : number of dispensaries 1. j
Lexington- Gross sales $8,487.29;! ,
breakage ?; net profit $1,585.45;
gain 215 per tint; breakage ?; num- *
her of dispensaries 3. "
Orangeburg?Gross sales $42,077.- _
77; breakage $225.74; net profit $8,-; '
053.58; gain 24 per cent; breakage |
107 per cent ; number of dispensaries
(>.
liichland?Gross sales $120,936.25;
breakage $929.25; net profit $38,691.[54;
gain43 per cent; breakage 191 per
pent; number of dispensaries 12.
Sumter?Gross sales $35,403.03;
breakage $120.55; net profit $13,067.32;
gain 58 per cent; breakage 111 . _
per cent; number of dispensaries 3.
Williamsburg?Gross sales $13,538.3(5;
breakage $77,59;, net profit $3,337.44;
gain 29 per cent; breakage
180; number of dispensaries 3.
Total?Gross sales $04/,4/7.91;
breakage $4,314.44; net profit $166,792.02;
number of dispensaries 93. .
Average gain per cent on all busi- i I
ness done in the stale, 34.0 per cent.! '
The above statement has been compiled
from figures submitted and
nwolii lo by the respective county
dispensary boards or their authorized
clerks.' HowevPf, it might be well
to state in regard to the breakage ac- j
count that the comparisons made are, [
not altogether .just, inasmuch as some
boards have returned railroad short- <
age as breakages, thus swelling* tbe *
breakage account. In many instances
claims were filed for the shortage and
have been paid, which would mater-j
ially lessen this account. The account I
is in the main correct. Tn or.ler to
make this comparison it was neoes- 1
sary to take some county as a standard
by which the others might be
compared. Tn this case Abbeville,
which came first alphabetically, was j
used. Its percentage of breakage
was taken as 100. A county having a |
per cent of 184 means that its breakage
was 1.84 times as great as that
of tbe county with which it was compared.
Abbeville.
11 might be well also to slate thai
the profit made by some of the conn- i
ties is somewhat larger than has been
reported, inasmuch as they have,
charged up fixtures, battling outfits j
etc.. to the expense account ami these j
were not taken in as assets in making
up the statement.
The item of breakage is very imporlant.
as it may he used to cover a
multitude of sins. It will be well fori
county boards to watch this item very
carefully.
Dispensaries Working Smoothly.
Auditor West finds (he county dispensary
system working very smoothly
ii^ 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 ?ys'
tem is being run on business prineiI
pies. During the next two quarters
I the expenses incident to starting the
new system will be eliminated?with
I an increased trade, the profits should
be larger, but it is a question whether
they can be made large enough to
keep the state from going prohibition
at the first opportunity. The 16
counties in which there are now no
dispensaries are among the most prosperous
in the stale, even since they
have permitted the other 25 to have a
monopoly in spending two and a half
million dollars a year for whiskey and
beer.
ft will he noted, of course, that the
dispen?ar\ sales in Charleston for the i
quarter, $47,505.20, arc a little more j
/
lhan onelliird as great as the sales <>!'
Richland, $120,030.25, and are onlv
>1 Ily in excess of Orangeburg, $i'j..
177.77. Charleston's profits, $1)..
IS7.80. are less than the profits ..V
Sumter, $13,007.82, and of Florence,
?12,570.71. and are less than oneihird
of Highland's profits, $38,091.54.
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Health record not surpassed. Close
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26th Annual Session will begin on ,Sl
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