output-$l,240,000 as against $1,100,000. In 1860, $9 

 million worth of cigars and $21 million in chewing to- 

 bacco were made in the United States. Forty years later, 

 cigars were grossing more than $160 million yearly, and 

 pipe and chewing tobacco and snuff came to about $90 

 million. Although these latter amounts included a fed- 

 eral excise of about $50 million, the increases were still 

 staggering. 



Cigar manufacture was typically a northern industry. 

 In 1860 the ten leading cigar manufacturing areas were 

 Philadelphia; New York; Baltimore; Cincinnati; Hart- 

 ford; St. Louis; Hampton County, Massachusetts; 

 Newark; Albany and New Orleans. And when the Con- 

 federacy was organized in February of 1861, not a 

 single "tobacco state" was represented. But as the Civil 

 War progressed, tobacco was divided with Virginia, 

 North Carolina and Tennessee joining the South, and 

 Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri with the North. 



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