The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-09-12

lSiS- 0O,JlS,OiO Id 2S,UuU tOns raw sugar
1879 46.6S2 ,s0l ID 1000
1880 64,3Ol ,S65 ID 1000
1881 SS,43S, 5S1 ID 10000
1882 97,92O,670b 1000
1888 l03, S42 900 III $500
lSS4-12S. $50, 9G5 ib 12,5OO
That even the $4,000 tons pro-
duced last year were by no means
the limit of their capacity is demon
strated by the. fact that the next
Hawaiian crop will reach over S0,-
600 tons, according to the most
recent estimates.
If we may believe a statement
made by one of the foremost plant
ers of those happy isles, then there
is not anywhere in the world another
spot where sugar can be made so
inexpensively as there, and it is
decidedly untrue that the Hawaiian
sugar planters could not make liv-
ing without the treaty, which secures
to them bounty of 100 percent,
besides their legitimate profits, as
manufacturers and planters, of
which no one could deprive them.
According to the aforementioned
statement, 21,000 imperial gallons
of cane juice produced eighteen tons
of sugar, at total cost for skilled
and unskilled labor not exceeding
SIG per day, or $3.50 per ton of
sugar, to which must be added
$1.10, the pro rata expenditure on
5000 tons for the salaries of the
head sugar maker and engineer.
Leaving out the cost of the cane,
which yielded very high percen-.
tage of sugar, and comparing only
the manufacturing expenses in
Louisiana, we find the latter nearly
ten times as heavy, or about $1.25
at least, on place where twenty
tons of cane are required to make a
ton of sugar.
AS the Hawaiian sugars neverthe-'
less obtain higher prices in San
Francisco than the Louisiana planter
is able to realize for his, the enor-
nous growth of the sugar crops of
the former ceases to be a matter for
surprise. Since the population of
the Pacific States does not exceed
100000 souls, it would require a
consumption of 100 pounds per
capital double what it is for the rest
of the country, merely to consume
the annual production of the Ha-
waiian Kingdom. But it is not
at all likely that the people of
California should consume more
sugar than the people of any
other State, as they are COM
PEELED to pay much higher prices
for this commodity than the rest of
the country. 1t seems, therefore,
certain that the consumption on the
Pacific coast does not increase fast
enough, and certainly not as fast as
the importations of Hawaiian sugar,
which must be quietly passed out of
sight, not to create the impression
of a heavy overproduction of free
sugars.
On the Sandwich Islands a ton of
cane costs 81, including handsome
profit to the planter, and it
yields sugar enough to bring its
price, with the low manufacturing
expenses we have seen, down to
about &c. per ID. Against such odds
as these the beet-root sugar industry
of California, which otherwise would
possess all the elements for success,
its beets being almost as rich as in
Germany, has not the remotest hope
or prospect of further development.
According to the last report OF
the Bureau of Agriculture, however,
there are many million acres of the
best land, admirably adapted to
beet cultivation, which might be-
come more permanent source of
wealth to California than all her
gold and silver mines, if this great
field for an important home industry
had not been permitted to be laid
waste by privileges and monopolies
conceded to foreign industry I'M
der false pretenses.
AS far as California is concerned
she has all the disadvantages of free
trade in sugar, with none of its adj
vantages-a masterpiece of contra
dictory legislation. More wonderful
still than all this is the fact that
Notwithstanding the superintendent
introduction of free sugars into
California, the importation of for
eign duty paid sugar has also com.
menced to increase again.
From $4,000 tons in 1878 these
importations had fallen to 1900
tons in 1882, but since then they
have risen to 5000 and $500 tons
in 1883-1884. To understand this
astonishing phenomenon it must be
remembered that the American re-