El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-01-25

A G. FOSTER,
THE CUP THAT CHEERS"
Statistics of Consumption of Tea and
Coffee in Great Britain.

| A board of trade report issued yes
| terday states that the production OF
tea has largely increased in late years,
and the tea industry has become year
] by year of more Importance to this
country, to which more than half the
tea exports of the chief producing
countries are now sent. Last year
British India exported 159 SOC. 900 lbs.
an increase of upwards of 5000, 900 lbs,
as compared with 1897; Ceylon 129 ,662.-
900 lbs. asa against ia, 466. 900 lbs, or
an increase of over 100000 lbs. !;
China PIT ,467 900, an increse of over
13 900 900. The consumption per head
Of tea is in the United Kingdom 5.97
lbs. as against TO lbs in Australia.
4.72 lbs in Canada. 0.05 in France. and
OIL pounds in Germany. The f1uct-
JatioEs in the declared value per pound
Of the tea at the time of lading in this
country are worthy of remarks. In
1854 the value of the tea landed in this
country averaged 11Id per pound; in
1899 it averaged Cd per pound. The
landing value of the tea imported from
British Tidia was In 1884. 141hd. The
value of that imported from Ceylon
was 17Ad per pound in 1884: in 1899
it was sgd Chinese tea in 1884 aver
aged 101ad; in 1899 it averaged I'D.
1t is of interest, moreover, to compare
these landing values in the United
Kingdom with the declared values of
the tea exported from the various pro-
ducing countries; though it must al
ways be borne in mind that these latter
values relate to exports to all coun-
tries. and not to the United Kingdom
only. Thus the exports of tea from
British India in 1884 were valued at
1880 per pound, in 1899 their value
was 7.S2d at the point of export. Sim
ilarly the exports of tea from Ceylon
in 1884 were 11.63d per pound; in 1899.
6.40d per pound. China tea in 1884
averaged in value at the point Of ex-
port 7Ad pr pound; in 1899, SID per
pound. The production of coffee like
that of tea, is largely increasing.
The United States holds very SIM
liar place in the coffee trade of that
fild by ourselves in the tea trade, the
relative consumption in each exceed
ing that of all the ether countries of
the civilized world put together. The
coffee trade of the United States,
therefore. may be said virtually to
control the trade, as well as to GER
tani extent the prices of coffee through
out the world. The great bulk of the
coffee imported comes from the largest
coffee producing country, namely,
Brazil, the second largest quantity
coming from Venezuela The guam
tity of coffee consumed by the United
States has risen from 1000 900 lbs,
in 1SS4-1SS5 to over 500 0O0, 900 in 1898
1898. the consumtion per head having
risen at the same time from over 9 lbs
to over 11lbs. Whether this large in
crease is due to the fall in the price
of the Brazilian product and its con-
sequent increased cheapness, or wheth-
er it is due to that decrease N the
of alcoholic beverages
which has taken place in the United
States of late years is a moot point.
Probably it is due in some measure to
both these causes In the United King
dom the consumption is approximately
90 of a pound per head. Indeed. in
the United Kingdom the consumption
of coffee is rather decreasing than in
creasing. having been rather over than
under 0.90 of a pound per head of the
in the years 1884 and 1855.
The European country in which coffee
is most taken is Germany. where at
the present time over 300 000. 00o lbs,
go into consumption annually. which
is equivalent to over pounds per
head of the population. France con-
sumes Az pounds per head, Canada l
pound and Australasia y pound
Guardian.