The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-01-19
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
Susar and Grain.

New York, 1s.-The Shipping List,
this city, publishes the annual statement
of the sugar trade Of the United States,
and says; ImportAtions OF foreign raw
sugar into the United States, inclusive of
that received at ports upon the Pacific
Coast, during the yesr '82, amounted to
S79,387 tons AGAINST Ut 900 tons in 81,
an increase Of 10l, 4s1 tone; and the con-
sumption of foreign for SO, deducting TIE
exports Of refined and raw, was sec, 5l7
tons, against 700, 928 in '61, an increase
of rs, $50 tons. Adding to the consump-
ton given, the product of the domestic
crop at south 1888 tons, together with
the quantity used for consumption on the
Pacific Coast, the Aum represents the
aggregate consumption Of cane sugar for
the year throughout the country Is $685.
493 tons, against 959, 9S3 tons in '81, an
increase of $40 tons or 3.49 per cent.
A new feature in the trade has been the
direc importation st New York ofseversl
cargoes from the Sandwich Islands, IN
der the terms Of the existing reciprocity
treaty with that kingdom admitting
sugar free. The customs authorities at
first sought to impose duty upon these
importations, claiming that the quality
was superior to that defined in the treaty,
but after several references to the trea-
sury department it was finally decided
that the csrgoes came within the proVi-
sion of the treaty, and ware accordingly
exempt. The Shipping List thinks that
aside from the consideration urged
By eastern reiners, and by the
oyer protected sugar industry of
the South, for the abrogation of the
treaty, there are important diplomatic
reasons that would make it unwise to
change or sbrogate it, and after all, it is
not working the injury that some would
make it appear.
The Times says the report sef the for
eign trade in breadstuffs for December,
tend to strengthen the opinion that ga
important change is in progress in the
method of marketing the wheat crop.
| We used to export more natural grain,
but lately exports OF -four have grown
astonishingly, and promise to soon take
the first place. Thus, last month the
exports of wheat show an increase OF
ITO, $50 bushels, compared with the same
month of the previous year, but the ex-
ports Of -four show the notable increase
comparing the same periods, Of 627, $50
barrels, or an equivalent of nearly 3d.
600, 900 bushels. The total was 10, 631, S76
barrels, and the value Sc, 376, 1853, being
an increase of about S4,000,000 Very
little spring wheat from the northwest
goes abroad. The Minneapolis millers
mOnopolize it and with a power cheap
as unfailing, water, they grind -four as
high in quality as comparatively low in
price, 30 while wheat sells for less than
it brought two or three years ago, our
-four is worth nearly 80 cents more per
barrel on sD average. The growth of
the direct trade between the interior and
foreign countries is another element in
this list. Flour now goes direct from
Minneapolis to Liverpool or London.
Though strange, it is true, that it costs
very little more to send such freight
across the ocean and half across the con-
tinent than it does to any of the sesp orts.