The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1877-02-17

q % January i, l5I1.........-.. gT69 1913
Consumption, 90, 52I, go
BEET sUGAR-Product Of Sequel Sugar Factory. 4o5 600
Product Of Sacramento Sugar FactO-
Tessnphic dispatches from New York Of ;ii. date 0G geDSgt
that there has been forwarded to San Francisco in 1876, 53,47O
bbls and "A 2Sl b fbbls, equal to $4,000 900 lbs Of refined sugar.
Instead Of san Francisco alone, il doubtless means all points
west Of the Rocky Mountains-suPplying. for consumption.
vsda. and California at points outside Of San francisco, and
San Francisco direct Gas will be seen by the foregoing table, to
10000 lbs, including some New Orleans from s. Louis and
other points, leaving about 100000 lbs for the other localities
An Of this trade in sugar west of the Rocky Mountains Ie-
for a number Of years eonseeu.iyely iii 1875, when the eur
the sale in that year, for The first time, Of a large portion Of
their prOdueI TO the San Francisco reaneries, thereby reducing
S 3 10000 !" lbs in Q i s. 5 e.s Sem Y 20 iGOG Gs ,SGO is h m as1s suS DO
with i,OOO,OO lbs, besides 10000 lbs which came direct to
this city. his year our large increase OF population has car
1864, 600 had not The New York sugar reaneries secured a
outside OF San Francisco, thus cutting our merchants Off from
that amount Of trade The explanation of this matter Is,
SIMPLY, that sugar consumers want 4 larger variety OF grades
than the San Francisco rehneres furnish, their products being
YeIIows; whereas the New York reaneries furnish a VARIETY sristy
Of grades, with a variety Of prices, almost as numerous as
meIado, but mOlasses, imported largely from the West Indies.
The Hawaiian Islands furnished the people Of The Pacific
1875. when n large portion of their product was diverted to
another channel, and consumers were compelled 10 look
II neither the Hawaiian Islands nor The San Francisco re-
hneries can supply these outlying communities west Of the
Rocky Mountains, and the large demand Of this city OF SOC, 900
hey require. they win doubtless continue to draw a potion Of
some extent, from the Hongkong refinery, as they have done
The large sale OF 1000, 900 lbs IN 1875, and $1,000 600 lbs in
people % the P4einc slope is 10 be much fegre abfs n5 lns
now secured 80 much Of our trade, they viii not readily reHn-
20 the treaty last summer may be rekindled next winter in an
effort to ger lie law repealed which makes il operative For
Congress, un IL expires March 4lh. viii be occupied with the
Chair sher that date. No legislation Of any moment is likely
% receive attention. When another yea. comes around, IL is
esed in this Important treaty will secure its perpetuity-
Iy doubled in ten years. and il being now about sO,OOO9 900 los.
an encouraging future opens for Hawaiian planters under The
during this century. II ever. az a large part of the gold Ieve-
nue. u derived from sugar. and The revenue is falling of on
Manufactured goods
There sppesrs 70 be sufficient warrant for the necessary
ton, for it l. not probable that the product will ever be suh-
eSa.t. Win a duty q about 50 per cent ad TaIOre@ on other
sugars, the Hawaiian planters have pothiag to fear from any
support Of the treaty. as the eastern sugar Interests cannot
In regard to the quality Of the Hawaiian sugars, IL Is I'M
que.ti9nasly for the interest Of The planters, II ,hs,r cane VIII
can be no question abOuI .ashed sugar.: being; eventually s9
whether it is good policy to make any a. white as some recent.
Y RECEIVED; such white snsaEs vii increase me n aU'TIts 2,
change Of circumstances, make enemies Of the san Francisco
As usual in the closing months Of the year. trade is dull in
AL descriptions of merchandise. In no article Of merchandise
Ihe coming year. Stocks throughout the world have not been
90 smaH a. now for many years. CuDa, WhlSn pIoduCGs q |
a severe drought. bad a diminished crop last year, with The
cheney In the yield Of The beet sugar product OF Europe is the
Beets furnish more than one-Ihird Of the sugar of the world,
and the crop Of beet sugar was a signal failure last year. The
some reaeioni but The permanent effect q a largely di%iip,
tons in ls7S-wii be felt, as the season advances, IN all cane
sugar producing countries.
its proSucs being 4ss,sss tons in is75. The following extract
mast season has been very disastrous. Out OF AIS faOtOIles IN
operation in 1875. only ls4 are now in existence. Beet juice
hecIOIrers. and in The hrst month of the season of 1876 only
o64,6IT heciolters. and the average density was 10 per cent
and In Sept 1870, 5y02S tons. Deterioration in the sugar
yielding quality Of the beeis has been going on for a number OF
!, The l.le.. I11aoa telegram relative 70 the : sugar y Ga n market a1s1c Of
has fully recovered the decline CT the last Of November.
than for many years. The reports from beet sugar countries
place the product below previously dimi9ished estimates"
as the Increased cost Of production. the deterioration of sugar
issds ma % szahail seem ? 10 . warrant he . expseta1ion If high
prices Of sugars, not for the present year only, but for years to
A 5ortnasst ago our reaners. fearing a renewal of shipments
Toe. and whites from 1874 to i2ic.; but The decline probably
win be temporary here, as doubtless it viii be in New York:
The produce Of the islands. has, fog several years, been nearly
gu b ~ u hen bTouSss from New YorK 10 implement the de-
dciencY. The long delay Of the law to carry the treaty into
5lsel' E n ih Rad to ! be i sussii,Gied. and hi. diminished the cen,
IsaPtion for 1916, probably nearly to the extent Of the STOCK
This unusually large stock, and the dulness Of trade, Incl
lent to the close Of the year, has depressed prices to an unrea-
IOnaby low Sggre. But with reference to the future product,
rice cultiTarOrs should consider that this coast does not re-
,uire more than 20OG,O 900 lbs choice rice annualyj and there
. no outlet for it in ihs Eastern states, Notwithstanding us
freedom from duty.
Our Chinese population viii not use il even at a lower cost
han Nc. 2 China II. however, the rice product Is Increased,
c will probably be well to secure seed from China, and pro-
lace the grades known a. Nos l and 2 China 90 be packed IN
Chinese mats Of z9 lbs each. : The Chinese on This coast con-
nearly 50,000oO0 lbs rice per aunum; and the islands
IAN never give Us an Oyer-supply IL they can produce a grade
accepfabIs 70 those people
EXPORTS.