The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-07-29
COMMERCE WITH HAWAII.
About Two-Thirds of It's Imports
Are from the United States-This
Country Has Also Had the Lions
Share Since the Reciprocity Treaty
of 1915
From the Washington Star.

of 1876.
From the Washington Star.
The Hawaiian Islands, their COM
merce, productions and population,
form the subject of series of tables
which appear in the summary of fin
ance and commerce issued by the bu-
reau of statistics. From these it ap-
pears that the United States has, since
the reciprocity treaty of 1876 had a
large share of the commerce of these
islands. Prior to 1876 our annual
sales to the Hawaiian Islands had
never, save in two exceptional cases,
reached 100000. With 1877, however,
the million-dollar line was perman-
emily passed, and since that date our
exports to the islands have steadily
grown, passing the two-million-dolla
line in 1879, exceeding $4,000, 900 in 1888,
Si0OO,OOc in 1890, passing the S5,OOO,O0O
line in 1891, and promising to reach
nearly s6,00o,00o this year. OF the total
imports by the Hawaiian Islands in
1915 a little over one-thrd was from
the United States.
IN 1876 the reciprocity treaty went
into operation, and in 1877 the United
States supplied one-half of the i'm
ports into the Hawaiian Islands,
which then amounted to S2,500,000. BY
1850 the imports had increased to over
S35G0,o00, of which ever 81, 900 00G worth
came from The United States: in 1884
they were over S4,500000, of which
more than 100000 were from the
United States; in 1890 Sc, 962 900, Of
which SAIL. 900 came from the United
States, and in 1896 Sc, ,O63,000, of which
about 100000 came from the United
States.
OF the exports from the Hawaiian Is
lands the United States has also had
the lions share since the reciprocity
treaty of 1916 In 1875 only about 81
per cent of the exports from the Ha.
waiian Islands came to the United
States. In 1877, the year following the
treaty, over 90 per cent came to the
United States, and has since continued
in about the same proportion. OF the
5000 100000 worth of exports from the
Hawaiian Islands since the reciprocity
treaty of 1876. more than $780, 900. 900
have come to the United States. and OF
the $100 1000, geo worth of imports into
the Hawaiian Islands during that time
| about $70,0C9 900 were from the United
States.
CHIEFLY SUGAR EXPORTED.
| Sugar of course appears as the chief
| article of expectation from the islands,
though rice has been for years an item
| Of considerable value and of late coffee,
| pineapples and bananas have taken i'm
| portant rank in the expectations of the
| islands. OF the sl5, 100000 worth of ex-
ports in 1896 almost $l5,000,000 worth
of sugar, though in addition to this
| there was exported over 5000, 900
| pounds of rice, 225,000 pounds of coffee,
| 10000 punches of bananas and l47,-
900 pineapples. The increase in sugar
and coffee has been rapid in the past
few years, coffee increasing from $500
| pounds in 1887 to 255,000 in 1885, and
sugar from $4,000, 900 pounds in 1887 to
443, 100000 pounds in 1896. The ten
| dency in the past twenty years has
| apparently been to a reduction in the
number of articles produced. In 1876
the list of exported articles included
| besides sugar and rice, WOOL tallow,
molasses. peanuts, hides, goat skins,
sheep skins, whale oil, whalebone,
ivory, salt. sperm oil and many other
articles, but now sugar, rice, coffee, ba-
| HdHdS ana plHtdppieS are the Cllltl th-
ports, though the total value in 1896
was six times that of 1876, when the
articles were much more numerous.
IMPORTS TO HAWAII.
The imports, as above indicated are
mostly from the United States, those
OF 1876 being divided among the great
nations as follows: United States,
s., 464,O Great Britain, Sj5,OO0; Chi
ma, s299, 900: Japan, s276,OOO; Germany,
sI4S, COO: Australia. $4,000. The larg-
est items in the list of imports are gro
ceries and provisions, s520,sS5; mach
inery, $S43,l05; fertilizers, s332,2S9; cot
ton goods, S3l1, ,S9l clothing. 1892, $50 :
hardware and agricultural implements,
s27S, ,267: grain and feed, 1888; lum-
her. s255,242; tobacco, Sl9i,SS6; -four,
sl6e 900; building materials, s1o2 639.
and besides these scores of articles,
ranging in value from 100000 down
ward. The population at the latest
census was, in round numbers. 100000,