The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1877-09-26
1HEsUGlR PRODUCTION oFTHE
WORLD.

which ARE producers ofcane sugar. Sup-
pleinealng these with the most recent data
bearing Oh The beet root industry, as we'll
as OH the cane crop OF Louisiana aid
Texas, we may arrive nj some interesting
fsc;s concerning the principal sources Of
this .imputant staple With this ex-
hibit, 1t will be Instructive to compare the
extent 10 which tiie United States have
become consumers OF lllc article.
The total production of raw sugar IN the
year 1875 il computed at about 3,5o0,00J
tons. 10 thisnggregate 2, 14O, ,uOO tons was
contributed hy lie cane crop Among the
puryeyors Of cane sugar We are not sur
prissd 10 find the island Of Ciiba credited
with 200, 900, or not far from two-iif,hs Of
the whole. Few persons, however, not
connected with the commerce III the
stap,e, would expect TO soc another island,
that Of Java, ranking next upon the list.
LIS yield Is sci ,lnwn down nc 20l.00a--
more than Brazil, which follows with l70-
900. and y Itself closely pressed by another
East Indian purveyor, by which lSO0,o
were supplied in the siline year. Nearly
tile same ainunnt, "r l9l,000, Ii assigned 70
Cnina, while about $4,000 tons were pro-
luced In British lndin and Penang, co,lne
tries In which great attention Is beginning
To le directed 10 cane planting. The conf
bined cane crop of tho British, Dutch, and
Darish West Indies including The Gui a.
mas. Is estimated At 100000, in which total,
We need not say. incorporation ofJnmaica
las vastly fallen oiiSince the abolition Of
slavery. In the same iahles We find the
yield of Pottn l;itn stated ut sO,000 tons,
aud tl,at Of Egypt, Peru, Mexico, aud
Central America togetherat 10000 We
cime, finally, to ihnsc four islands-two
in the American and two Ia the African
seas which In the last century weil-nigh
monoIoIizeii the French market. Ofthese,
the Mauritins still furnished hundred
thousand tons, aud Ia Reunion about
thirty. while Martinique and Guadalupe
are Jointly credited with another hundred.
We may add llla,. according TO a recent
writer n, the Rcrue des Dclr Monflcs. the
area assigned In the cane crop In Martini
que il now at least tenth smaller ii,an in
a.. day Of slave lailor.
Whn; Is tile position Of Louisiana in this
list? ? There was time wh"n she would
have hern namcd nest TO cul,a among the
puryeyors Of cane sugar. Precisely how
much Of this article may have been ex-
ported 10 foreign countries from New Or
leans IN tie prosperous decade before the
war we cannot ascertain; hut In 1870 the
ainnunl 81 domestic sugar consumed In the
United States was not less than 10000
tons. This quantity had swollen i'y 1853
60 lI2. 900. aud "a 1859, and again IN 1862,
touched the maximum Of 10000. What
| an abrupt and utter ruin then fell upon
our su gar industry may be measured by
the fact that the crop shrank in the very
next year 10 5O,OOO tons. This ngain fell
or in 1864 10 $4,000, and 10y 1863, the
closing yearof Tie rebellion, dwindled %
tile ,!eplorahle minimum of5,0OO tons.
Never perhaps, In the history Of the
world had IN industry of sucl malesii G
Il
proportions 50 swiftly aud completely
perished. That which was shattered IN
three years, has III twelve hut very slowly
aud very partially recovered. According
to the last annual report ofthe New York
! Chamber Of Commerce. the estimated
aggregate cropof Louisiana Texas. -a0d
other Southern States III 1876, most ~
which was distributed In 1876, did not
exceed 77,OOOtons.
j When we reflect that hcei-root sugar. NJ
an an article Of commerce, datcsno further
back Than the wars % the first Napoleon,
the development which this branch of
productlon has attained In threc-quarters
| n century ii astonishing, lIut of the
s.5OO.OOO tons which. aswo have seen,
summed the yield Of raw Sugars, through.
out the world ~ 1875, not less than ] ,Sl5-
600 tons were irnccable 10 this source. Nor
Il this Industry, hs Il popularity supposed,
10 n marked extent tmonopolized py France.
That country, :, Il true, still furnishes
moro than any other, namely, a82,VOO IN
tho year lust named But the German
Empiie. with $40, 900. wns not far behind,
while Austria Hungary, whichcamc later
into the field, could point 20 100000.
Even Belgium aud Holland iogethcrsnp.
plie,l about 100000 TONS. But the great
puryeyors Of this staple In the future viii
probably bc Russia and Poland. Already
IN these tables they are credited with
2ib, 900 tons, and q Is certain, according e
Mackenzie Wallace, tlIatthc planting ol
the sugar hcci n acquiring Immense Inn
peius in the midland provinces q W.
northern empire. How formldablea COM
pe,,,or this article has already become y
lie product of The cane may he measured
from the fact that III. q good year th.
countries men'loncd are almost conine'
,eut ia supply the whole demand Of Eu-