The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-08-08
DRoUTH AND EXPORTS.

bureau of Statistics has just completed
its preliminary figures on the exports OF
breadstuffs and provisions and, as they
show about 81 per cent OF the total
lexports. a reasonably accurate meas
lurement of the expectation of articles
affected by the drouth of last year can
now be made. The tables snow the
exports of quantities and value OF corn
and corn meal. oats and oatmeal, wneat
flour and other breadstuffs, also 1--we
cattle. fresh beef and other beef prod
/ ucts as well as other provisions me
direct and most marked reduction OF
lcorrse is in corn which was most large
IIv affected by the drouth of 1901. The
lexno-tatIon of corn at the principal
ports. shown by the preliminary report
of the Bureau of Statistics. amounts to
! 26. 600 900 bushels in the fiscal year end
ing June 80 1902, against 176,0OO.OOV at
the same ports in the preceding year,
the value for 1902 being $3.50 NOoO
against sS2.000.000 in the preceding
year, a reduction of sec, 100000; the COM
plete figures will probably show the
total exports at about o. 600. 900 bushels
against 1s1,oOo.Ooo in the preceding
year. Expectations of corn meal have
also fallen from 100000 in 1901 TO ST. |
COO. 900 in 1902, making the total reduc- /
ton in corn exports IN round terms. as /
shown by the preliminary figures. $67,-
900 co., Compared with the fiscal year
1900 the reduction is still greater; the
corn exports for the fiscal year 1900
IN, he history nf
export trade, having amounted to 215,-
l2S.412 bushels while for the year just
ended the complete figures will amount
to about 27.ooo.Ooo bushels.
But the effect of the drouth upon the
export trade did not stop with corn.
though in this item it is most largely
apparent The reduction in the guam
tity CT corn available for live stock nat
rralIy increased the consumption of
pats and. as a result. the expectation
Of oats fell off from 81. goo, 900 bushels In
-he fiscal year 1901 to 100000 bushels
n 1902 and the value from about $12,- {
zoo, 900 in 1901 to 81 LOCO 06o in 1902 In {
expectations fell from 9o.000.-
60 pounds in 1901 to SO, COO. 600 pounds s
n 1892, while the value fell from $780, z
90 in 1901 to little over 81. 500. 900 in &
902. Thus the reduction in value of
'readstuffs. clearly traceable to the '
90. 900: oats and oatmeal, 50, 0oo, 900; to-
al. s75.o00,oOO
Two other marked reductions in the
xportatfon of products of agriculture p
re beef. including live cattle. and cot
On. The expectation of live cattle has c
allen from 461, 900 in 1901 to $4,000 in ;,
BOZ; the expectation of fresh beef from S
50, 600, 600 pounds in 1901 to 800, 600. 900
ounds in 1902, and the total value of I
attic and beef products has fallen from -
30 Gee. 900 In 1901 to SIS, 900, 900 in 1902, a
'ss of S11, 100000 In cotton the reduc- a
on is wholly due TO the reduced prices. p
lie quantity exported for the year be- II
lg 16O,o00.C0o pounds greater than in I,
lie preceding year. while the value was q
.. o00,0o less than the preceding year
One other item of exports which will
low a marked reduction during the S;
st year is iron and steel. While the q
'tal figures of exports have not been ~
.ceived by the Bureau of Statistics, P
Efficient have been received to justify d
I estimate that the reduction in ex- q
orts OF iron and steel will amount in -
'und terms, to 900, due in a l.
rye measure to increase in the home d.
emand upon our manufacturers, and IN
part to the decreased demand
'road- The principal reduction in the ce
port trade of the year will then at
and: Corn and corn mea. and oats "a "a
Id oatmeal. s75.ooo.o 600, due chiefly to P,
e drouth of 1901; beef and beef cattle. ST,
!, 100000, due TO increased home de- "a
and and shortage in material for feed II
stock: cotton, $4,000. 600 due to re- ar
ction in prices; manufactures of iron Rs
d Steel s2o,OOo.0OO, due to increased !.
me demand and decreased foreign Go
nand. an
Thus in the four items of exports in
rn and oats, beef and beef cattle, ~
" Soleon' anu manufactures or iron da
d steel. the reduction for the fiscal in
ar will amount to about $3.50, 900, 900. Lii
Tile the total reduction in all exports
but about $50, 000, 900. thus Indicating z
It the general exports aside from pu
.se four classes, in which conditions L
re abnormal, viii show a satisfac- . :.
y growth when the complete figures L
the fiscal year are presented