Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1889 — Where Jersey Lightning Is Produced. [ARTICLE]

Where Jersey Lightning Is Produced.

The great applejack-producing belt of the country lies between the Hudson river on the east and Delaware river on the west, says a Middletown -iattiaF to "fKß7Ne«r__YhniL Sun, and is pretty much comprised within the bounds of Orange counties, New York, and Sussex and Warren counties, New Jersey. Within this district are some fifty distilleries devoted exclusively to the manufacture of the fiery spirit known upon the United States internal revenue returns as apple brandy, but commonly called applejack. Ordinarily, when the apple crop of the region is fair to good, the distilleries start up when the fruit begins to ripen early in September, and are kept running until the crop is exhausted, say about the Ist of January following. Some of the distilleries turn out a largo product The biggest apple-brandy distillery in the country is at Warwick, Orange county, and has turned out in the course of a good season 13,000 gallons. The product of the entire district in a prolific apple season will reach near 200,000 gallons, on which an internal revenue tax of SIBO,OOO is paid.