Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-11-25
SUGAR FROM The WEST.
TBoston Herald

we auuueu Ine QUIET udy W a utW
move in the sugar business. This was
the sending of cargo of beet sugar
| from San Francisco to New York. The
cargo consists of about a thousand
tons, and II is due to arrive in New
York about the first of the new year.
According to report the freight
charges for carrying this sugar from
the Pacific to the Atlantic Is to be
about one-half a cent pound. Besides
this shipload, further report states |
that arrangements have been made to |
send beet sugar from San Francisco |
to New York via the Southern Pacific |
Railroad. and this sugar of the Ameri. |
can Beet Sugar Company is due to ar
rive about the middle Of next month.
This sugar, it should be remembered,
is made from American grown beets,
and is sent to New York because the
Eastern market seems to offer bet
ter opportunity for its sale than is
found in the West. According to the
last issue of the Sugar Trade Journal,
October 23, the price of standard gran.
ulated in New York is quoted at 4.65
cents per pound. There are certain
reductions to be made from this price.
however which bring the net cash
price for granulated In New York down
: to AL cents per pound. The quota
ton for the San Francisco market on
October II was beet graduated $50
cents per pound net. This would
seem to show that there was but a
small profit to be derived from paying
9 half a cent pound freight from San
D Francisco to New York when the diff
ference in price was only 81 cent in
favor of the New York market.
There are, doubtless, other reasons
which enter into this movement that
, are not as plain to the outside observer
as would be a great difference In price.
California naturally receives the sugar
, grown in the Hawaiian Islands, which
amounted last year to more than $780,.
900 tons, and all of which can be
brought into this country without the
!. payment of duty. California is also
e one of the largest beet sugar produc-
, ing States in the Union. or the forty.
one beet sugar factories operated In
~ the United States last year, no less
s than eight, practically a fifth OF the
o whole number, were in California.
t Their daily slicing capacity was $3.50
II tons Of beets. while tn. slicing capac.
ity of the forty-one factories in the
y United States was only 26,200 tons
L. daily. The factories of California had
& therefore a capacity equal to more
z than q third of the total capacity Of all
;. the factories in the country. Besides
those within the Stae Of California II.
- self, there are six factories In Utah
r one in Oregon, four in Colorado and
h one in Washington; so that one.half
r. of the beet sugar factories OF the Unit.
!. ed States may be said to be practically
west Of the Rocky Mountains, al.
though one-half OF Colorado lies on
the eastern slope of this chain. From
this 1t is reasonable to argue that the
sugar market of San Francisco is food
ed to a greater extent In proportion to
opportunity for sales than Is the mar
ket of New York.
There Is also, doubtless, to be an at
tempt made by the Western sugar men
Il to attack the Sugar Trust in It's strong
u hold, the Eastern section OF the Unit
> ed States. The interesting point In
!. all this to the consumer is, however,
g. the fact that the profit In producing
!; beet sugar in the Western part OF this
l. country is so great that there would
s. seem to be a chance for profit in ship.
ping Western sugar to New York, eth
j. err across the continent by rail or
D. around Cape Horn or through the
n Straits of Magellan by vessel. Ac
IS cording to the latest report on this
matter this shipment Is not merely
!: made as trial one, but is to mark the
o. beginning Of continual shipments Of
ID refined sugar from the Pacific to the
s, Atlantic ports. Sending their sugar
n, to New York will doubtless make the
n, Westerners all the more anxious L
Is prevent the free entry of raw sugal
D; from Cuba while the Eastern refineri
a, will be even more enthusiastic in ia
lie vor OF a reduction in the duty on Gu
OF ban sugar, as they could. In this way
" get their sugar for refining at lowe
OF prices and so better meet the competi
10 ton from the Pacific Coast.
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