The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-06-23
HAWAIIAN PLANTERS.

the advance IN Manila and san francisco
equal the London advance, the rise would be
S2s per ton.
HAWAIIAN PLANTERS.
It costs to raise and sell delivered at San
Francisco from most Hawaiian plantations
5 per pound, or 500 per ton. Therefore
at So 80 there should be profit of $18 per
ton; or, should sugars advance here to equal
the present European value, the profit
would be S22 20 per ton. Should this ad-
! vance hold it will be of material advantage
to Hawaiian planters, many of whom are
Californians. Less than twenty years ago
the entire sugar crop Of the Islands was not
over 800 tons, and some years it was much
less. Now single plants tiOn-that of the
Hawaiian Commercial and Sugar Company
lis estimated to yield from 1850 to 10000
tons, while the entire product OF the Islands
is from $1,000 to $4,000 tons. During the
year 1884, the imports at San Francisco
from the Hawaiian Islands were 4,430 tons.
In the first four months of 1885 we received
1859 tons, against 25,175 tons for the same
time in 1884. The crop of the Hawaiian
Commercial and Sugar Company for the
season of 1884-5 is reported at $500 tons, of
which there was said to be $500 tons to ar
rive after June 1st. The growing crop of
the same company is expected to be much
larger, the estimates ranging from $500 to
10000 tons.
THEIR COMPLAINTS.
The Hawaiian planters have complained
of poor returns for the past two years, and
especially on the crop of 1sS4-s5, which has
thus far been marketed. The complaints
are no doubt well founded, as sugars have
| been unusually low. Perhaps it has not
yet been demonstrated how low sugar can
be raised without loss to the producer. The
estimate of cents per pound can probably
be reduced, and yet return the planter 3
profit. If the recent advance Of SIS in raw
| sugar can be main tanned, it means differ
ence of 81, 0S0, 600 in the profits of Ha-
waiian planters, if we place the crop simply
at $4,000 tons. Should the present Eu-
ropean parity of prices be realized here, the
increased profit on 10000 tons would be
| 81, 1862, OOo Such difference in the re-
tnrns would naturally put new phase to
I the situation of the Hawaiian planters.
CANE AND BEET.
The estimated product of cane and beet
sugar for 1882 and 1883 was as follows
1882 1888
! Cane, ,i92, SS4 2,Sia O72
Beet.......... s.....2,l51O S4 @:ooV'oII
Totals... ..................4,a49s SIS 1874 1899
The entire product of cane sugar is much
| larger, as in some countries only the ex-
| portable surplus has been taken in making
| up the above totals. The total for British
India is little over $4,000 tons, that being
| the quantity exported, while the lowest esti-
mate of British India product is 2. 00O, 900
! tons, and Mr.. Mylne of Beheea, Bengal, q
gentleman who is represented as a COM
petent authority on the subject, places the
| product at 5000, 900 tons. If that be true,
the worlds product of sugar is nearer TO-
| OOO, 900 tons than 1000, 900 tons. At cents
per pound, the former quantity represents q
value of 81, OOO, 100000.
CONSUMPTION PER CAPITA.
The consumption of sugar has increased
as the price has decreased. In 1901 Great
Britain, with population of 15,828,0O0,
consumed 1873, 639 tons, at an average cost in
bond of $685. sd. The average consumption
per capita for that year was 10 pounds
ounces, at a cost of lbs. Sd. The consump-
ton per capita during the first so years of
the present century, varied from 16 pounds
to upwards of 20 pounds. The average for
1921 was Is pounds ounces. The con-
sumption for that year was 1872, 844 tons, at
cost, duty paid, of Cos. 3D., the duty being
27s. Sd. per hundred. This made the 16
pounds ounces cost the consumer IS. 10d.
The consumption for 1881 is placed at
1 600 900 tons, at a cost of 19s. Sd. In 1884,
with a population of 35,952, 900, Great
Britain consumed 1,O76, 900 tons sugar, at a
cost of les. Sd. per hundred. This shows an
average consumption of 81 pounds ounce,
at cost of IS. Cd. Between 1911 and 1884
the population of the United Kingdom was
lust doubled, while the consumption Of
sugar was increased 500 per cent, under
decrease of IS per cent in the cost of the
same. Great Britain is now consuming at
the rate of 20 pounds sugar annually for
every man, woman and child, and leads all
other civilized countries in this respect. The
consumption per capita in other European
countries varies from 10 pounds to 80
pounds. Germany reports II pounds per
capita. 4
THE PRODUCERS PROFIT.
How cheap sugar can be sold, and yet
leave the producer profit, is the question
of the hour in this line Of industry. The
cost of producing beet sugar in Germany is
estimated at 81 70 to So per hundred. With