The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1899-02-08
SUGAR STATISTICS Of '9S
WILLETT & GRAN'S SUMMING UP
OF THE YEAR.
Total Consumption of the United
States 24,O69 Tons Less Than 1t
Was i'm 1897.

"The total consumption of sugar,
foreign and domestic in the entire
country. including the Pacific Coast,
in 1898 was 2,047 ,344 tons, against p
OIL ,413 tons in 1897, decrease of Pa,
069 tons, or, say, 1.16 per cent de-
crease" says Willett d Gray's circu
lar. "The consumption of 1898 con-
sisted of 31T All tons of domestic cane
sugar $4,000 tons domestic beet
sugar, 5000 tons maple, 300 tons sor-
ghum, LOO tons molasses sugar. a
total of 1854 tons domestic produc-
ton, and 1,432,S47 tons foreign cane
| sugar, 179, 465 tons of foreign raw beet
sugar, 26.625 tons of foreign refined,
total of 1,63S,93T tons of foreign
production. The amount of refined
sugar which went into consumption
in 1895 was 1.S55.533 tons. of which
the American Sugar Refining Com
pany manufactured 1,26O.24S tons, or
| 61.2 per cent; the Independent refn-
ers 540,7OO tons. or 29.2 per cent; the
beet sugar factories which make re-
! fined sugars. 27,96O tons. or Is per
cent, and foreign refners 2G,625 tons,
or is per cent; 141,Sl1 tons were con
stunned in the raw or plantation con-
! dition. The undistributed stock of
refined sugar we estimate $4,000 tons,
against $4,000 tons last year. We esti-
mate 10000 tons less invisible stock
in the hands of the grocers than last
! year.
THE difference between raw and
refined averaged 10 cent per pound,
! against .946 cent per pound i'm 1897.
! The reduction in 1895 was after Sep
TENDER, and owing directly to the in
creased competition for trade.
"In 1897 the total amount of refined
sugar which went into consumption
was .05S.343 tons. of which the
American Refining Sugar Company
manufactured 1,397,94O tons, or 71.3S
per cent: the Independent rehners
455,O5s tons, or 1928 per cent;
the beet sugar factories which make
refined sugar 2S.05l tons, or 1.43 per
cent, and foreign refiners 17.2SS tons,
or 3.9j cent: 1890 tons were con-
sumed in the raw or plantation con-
! ditiOn.
"Thc importation of sugar from
Europe in 1898 was 206,OS1 tons,
against G37,246 tons in 1897. With
125,35S tons less sugar in stock Janu-
airy 1. 1899. than at the beginning of
last wear. but with 100 900 tons more
available from Cuba, it does not APP
pear from our estimates of the cane
crops of the world that the United
States will require any very large
1 amount of sugar from the beet grow
ing countries in 1899. Our counter
vailing duties prevent these sugars
being sought for so long as cane sue
ars are available for this country
without such extra duty. How much
longer will beet raising countries
stand in the way of their own advance
in sugar production? As far as our
own domestic beet and cane industry
is concerned, it is to be hoped those
countries will always remain blind to
the situation.
The domestic beet sugar industry
of the United States shows some very
noble features. which are quite sur
prising when considered from some
points of view. The result of the cam
paign in tons is below last year, but
the gain in factories built and propOs-
ed is quite important. The object
lesson of few well managed facto-
ries paying a dividend of 20 per cent
to stockholders and dividing 100000
among farmers near by. as in Utah, is
having IA wonderful effect upon both
capitalists and farmers in neighbOr-
ing states and localities, and the year
1899 bids fair to see much greater ac-
tivity and advance in this industry,
regardless of any objection or fears
from without. The industry itself is
expected to be strong enough i'm its
position to take care of itself against
all opposition politically or otherwise
by the time that any important ac-
ton may be required.
Certainly the progress made
this year is phenomenal and uneX-
pected generally, not as to sugars
produced, but as to factories built
and contemplated, and as to progress
made by farmers in experimental
work. We shall continue to give the
details of new enterprises as fast as
they reach us, but, as heretofore, we
shall avoid publishing mere rumOrs
without authentic information"