Salisbury, April 10—Federal officers operating in North Carolina captured during the month of March 77 distilleries and 161 stills, according toa report being forwarded to Washington today by A.B. Coltrane, federal prohibition director for North Carolina, with headquarters in this city.
In addition to the stills, 1,458 gallons of intoxicating liquors were taken, and 251,420 gallons of mash. Ten automobiles, six mules, three wagons and a gasoline engine were also among the property confiscated in raids.
Estimated value of property seized and destroyed was $95,395 and that taken and not destroyed was placed at $2,803. Arrests made numbered 101 and prosecutions returned total 246.
From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, April 11, 1925
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