Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-05-06

RiO Juueiro. BruIn, AIfN . lf''-
] have spent day among the coffee
shippers Of Rio Jnnciro. This Il, next
to Santos. the great coffee port N the
world. Millions Of bags are here ship
ped every year and the chief busincss
Of IIfazli's vast coffee crop u done
here. Rio Jsneiro lives upon coffee.
For that matter II il the malnsiay OF
nrasn In 1895 the total exports NJ the
country amounted 10 tiso.oOo.ooO aud
Of this fiiocoo.coo came from coffee.
The rise Of cent n pound means pros
perlty or the reverse TO these people.
and the enormous fall the past few
years has made things tight In Brazil.
Just how much the fall has been few
people know. The truth h that coffee
has been steadily dropping for the past
ak years, and today II h not worth
much more than onc-third what IL was
IN 1923. with our new poascsslons In
Cuba. Porto Rico. Hawaii and the
Philippines II In likely to Htiii lower.
for II In expected that the Yankees will
establish large coffee plantations. and
n 40 the 1irazilinns VIII have 10 look
elsewhere for market.
BRAZIL AND THE UNITED STATES.
II Ii an outrage that Brazil has not
done more for the United states. She
should give IN the bulk u her trade
and all her fat contracts. for We have
been practically supporting the country
for years. We are the greatest conce
drinkers Of the world. In 1891 we used
y. alIIl .4aa
i0.oO0poO pounds mofv than was con-
numod IN all Europe. We have In
creased our consumption during the
past year at the rate ~ more than a
pound per person, and We now use
about NIFTY pounds annually for each
person IN the United States. The
amount spent for this coffee IN enur-
nous During tn. past ten years We
have paid sssb.O00.Oo0. or 81. 100000 pet
annum. for coffee alone The bulk ~
this money has gone to ilrazii. Come ~
II has found Its way into the pockctH
OF the coffee planters, a large part has
gone into the hands OF the shippers and
dealers. and II per cent Of the export
price has been paid 10 the government.
iiraxll charges an export duty u II
per cent ON every pound Of coffee that
IN shipped. This II. Of course. paid by
the consumer. and such of our people
M engage In coffee raising VIII have the
advnntng" OF II per GENT over Brazil
10 start with. Tor they viii ~ course
not have TO pay duty. Some years ago
there was talk of taxing coffec. but
the demagoguc- OF our conaresn set ny
a holy howl about taxing "a poor mans
iuxurica. and coffee was admitted nom-
inally free. n was not allowed 10 be
free. however, for Brazil at once put ON
the extra export duty and the poor
mans luxury was taxed lust the same.
The only difference was that the IRA.
lillian government got the money and
not Uncle Sam.
BRAZIL THE LAND OF COFFEE
Coffee IN raised In nearly every one
OF the provinces ~ lruzll The coun-
try produces the bulk Of the worlds
crop. II raised i0.0oo.ooo bass last year,
and II In planting new fields now. | de-
ncribed IN q former letter my travels
through the state of Aan Paulo. the
richest concc-rainlng region OK the
world. The states north 81 San paulO
also produce vast amounts, and Rio
Janelro back ~ the capital II one OF ne
chief coffee ccnterr. The kinds of coffee
produced here are known IN the United
States as Rio and Santos coffee. These
names come from the ports at which
the coffee Ia SHIPPED, The Santos cof-
fee IL grown almost entirely In south
central iinzii II II carried over the
railroads TO Santos and exported from
tfltft " tNinfN lhiIl "a hknNfN hNNiiNNAN
than does the coffee which Il raised
further north, and IN generally consld-
erred 10 have mildcr ana finer iayor
than that shipped from Rio. II h eatl-
mated thnt We take about 20 per cent
81 the Santos crop and about 20 pet
cent N all shipped frum Rio. va that
the bulk 81 IN. coffee used In our
country II Rio coffee.
AZ both Rio aud Santos the great
coffee houses Of the United states have
their agents. who buy the coffee ~ the
dealers and ship II direct to their houses
IN New York, baltimore and Chicago.
They hav. large establishments for pre-
pairing the coffee for ahipment.nnd some
of the brightest coffee men OF the Unit
cd states are here watching the mar
ketr and buying by the thousands ~
bags
HOW COFFEE ~ BoudHT.
Coffee la handled In different ways at
the two pren, ports, During my stay
In Santos | spent some time among the
dealers and watched them shipping tho
vnr, quantities ~ COTE. which come
10 that port. The coffoo N put NJ In
bags ~ i92 pounds each, aud IN this
shape II II sold TO the exporter, The
buyers In Santos deal directly with the
planters agents. taking the c0ffcc as u
usual thing In lots.
In Rio the coffee FIRST comes 10 COM
mission men They dispose of II 10 the
wholesale coffee dealers. who grade Ii
and put II into the bags for the cN-
porter, In this ease the coffee has
passed through three hands before Ii
starts for New York.
Since the remarkable fall In the pHcca
~ c0ffee. however, the big exporters
have sent agents out among the plant
era, and they are now buying their ruf-
fee direct. As II has been the con-
humer has had 10 pny a half dozen nr
more profits on every pound ~ eofee.
In the first place he has had 10 keep
the planter. then the commission mer-
chant In llio, then the wholesale dralor
IN Rio aud the New York managers
agent here. lie has had 10 pay the
cost ~ shipment TO New York the
wholesale dealer or rooster there the
commercial drummer. the railroads. and
lastly his retail dealer at home With
all this he N able To buy coffee Tor 10
cents and less u pound, the same coffee
costing here not more than q cents,
and delivered In New York at Gh cents
pound.
n he IL particular about his coffee
he Will pay from 80 10 40 cents for
some Of this same coffee which here
soils for triile over tho amounts
above mentioned. the only difference be-
ing that the beans are OF a little differ
ent shape or larger size and that thov
have been graded into certain So-oallod
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