Current statistical data on the tobacco industry in Missouri have been 

 suppHed by the Agricultural Extension Service (University of Missouri), 

 the Division of Industrial Inspection (Dept. of Labor and Industrial 

 Relations), and the Division of Resources and Development (Dept. of 

 Business and Administration), all of Missouri. 



Other data have been derived from information published by the 

 Tobacco Tax Council ( Richmond, Virginia ) and various publications of 

 the federal government, including "Report on . . . Tobacco," J. B. Kille- 

 brew, in Report on the Productions of Agriculture . . . Tenth Census, 

 Washington, 1883. 



General works which provided valuable information were History of St. 

 Louis, J. T. Scharf (1863); A History of Missouri, Louis Houck (1908); 

 Missouri Historical Review (various volumes), and The Story of Tobacco 

 in America, J. C. Robert (1949). 



The passage quoted on page 8 is from an article by H. J. Waters in The 

 State of Missouri edited for The Missouri Commission to the Louisiana 

 Purchase Exposition by Walter Williams ( 1904 ) . That on page 10 is 

 from Missouri. Resources, Advantages, Opportunities, "Missouri Booster 

 Pamphlet" (1914)- (Prelude to the 35th Annual Report, Bureau of 

 Labor Statistics). 



Permission to quote directly from this patnpJilct is granted. 



Additional copies will be made availal^le without charge 



upon request to The Tobacco Institute, Inc., 



910 17th Street, N.W., Washington, D. C. 



