Arizona republican., 1898-06-24
HAWAII IN FIGURES.
They Tell a Story of Interest to
 This Country.

Washington, June 23.-(Special)- The Hawaiian islands, their commerce finance, productions and population form the subject of a series of tables which will appear in the next number Of the Summary of Finance and Com neTce issued by the bureau of sta tistics. From these it appears that -he United States has, since the reel 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 $1,O00,- 003 With 1877, however, the million dollar line was permanently passed and since that date our exports to the is lands have steadily grown, passing the two million dollar line in 1879 exceed ing S3.000,00 in 1883, $4,000,000 in 1890. passing the $5,0G0,000 line in 1891, and promising to reach nearly $6000, ,000 this year
 Of the total imports by the Hawaiian islands in 1875 little over one-third
 was from the United States In 1876 the reciprocity treaty went into opera tioG. and in 1877 the United States sup piled one-half of the imports into the Hawaiian islands, which then amount cd Jo S2,500,000 By 1880 the imports mad increased to over S3,500,0 900, of which over $2,000,000 worth came from the United States, in 1884 they were over 4.500, 600, of which more than 5 e00 G00 were from the United States; n 1890. $6,962, 900, Of which S4,711, GOO came from the United States.
 Of the exports from the Hawaiian
 islands the United States has also had
 me lions share since the reciprocity treaty of 1876. In 1875 only about 57
 Der cent of the exports from the Ha-
 Waiian islands came to the United
 States. In 1877, the year following the treaty, over 30 per cent came to
 the United States, and has since con
 cinued in about the same proportion.
 If the S200000, ,000 worth of exports from the Hawaiian islands since the reciprocity treaty of 1876 more than sI&0 900 eco have come to the United States, and of the S100 GOO, 900 worth Of imports into the Hawaiian islands dur
 ing that time, about S70,000,000 were from the United States.
 Sugar. of course, appears as the chief article of eXportatiOn from the islands, though. rice has been for years an item of considerable value, and of late cof- flee, pineapples and bananas have taken important rank in the expectations Of the islands. Of the s15,500,000 worth Of exports in 1896 almost S15,000,0 ,000
 worth was sugar, though in addition to this there was exported over 5,0G0,- 001 pounds of rice, 225,000 pounds of coffee, 126, 900 punches of bananas and 14I,000 pineapples. The increase in sugar and coffee has been rapid in the past few years, coffee increasing from 530o pounds in 1887 to 225,000 in 1896, and sugar from 212,000,000 pounds in 1887 to 443,000,000 pounds in 1896. The tendency 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, whale bone, ivory, salt, sperm oil and many other articles, but now sugar, rice, cof- fee. bananas and pineapples are the chief exports, though the total value in 1896 was six times that of 1876