The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-11-07
FISHES Of.
HAWA||S
WATERS
DR.. Evermann's
Fine Collection
of Them.
LIFE IN OCEANS
GREATEST DEPTHS
. Thousand Varieties of Fish
Taken at a Depth Of
Two Miles.
Especial to the Advertiser.

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WASHINGTON, October 25.-United
States Consul Haynes, at Rouen,
France, sends the following informa-
ton to the State Department regarding
beet root culture and sugar yield in !
France:
The culture of beets is one of the :
greatest industries of northern France. !
The law of 1884 permitted it to flourish ,
in spite of keen foreign competition
But at present, the industry is threat
ened. The International Congress !
held at Brussels, to the terms of which !.
France has agreed, will destroy all the ,
benefits of the law of 1884. Foreign :
markets will be closed to French sugar. |
The only market will be a home one.
The consumption of sugar in France !
at present is annually about 45O, 900 !
tons. The production, which is more
than 1,000,0 900 tons, will be cut down
more than so per cent-that is, the
land utilized for raising beet roots
must De u One-half. |
Sugar producers and manufacturers
say that the market would be better /,
if the heavy taxes upon this aliment
were taken off. If this is done, the
buyer, instead of paying from so to so
confines (9.65 to 11.5S cents) the livre
III pounds, will find it everywhere !
for 25 to 80 confines (4.S25 to SIG
cents)-the only condition, which will
save the culture Of the beet root. This ,
solution is advocated not only by the
agricultural associations in the regions
directly interested, but in all others.
The project presented some time ago
by M. Caillaux, which will doubtless be ,
taken up when the Chambers reassem-
Bile in October, provides that all boun-
ties, without any distinction, be sup
pressed; that the manufacture of sugar
become the same as that of any other !
product; that all accessory taxes be
abolished; and that the principal taxes
be reduced from 60 confines to 40 cen
times Q1.5S cents to 7.72 cents). Very
few believe, however, that this will be
done.
The Journal Officiel publishes the re-
suits of the sugar harvest ended Sep-
TENDER l, 1902. The number of factories
in activity was 332, and they used
9,350,S51 ,795 Kilograms GO, GA, 1877, 1857
pounds) of beet roots, against S.717.-
439,2l6 Kilograms Us, 21S, 466, 1876 !
pounds) for 334 manufactures in 1900
1901. The average for each factory is
thus shown to be %, ICE, PIG Kilograms
(62, O93,0 35 pounds), against &c, 100, III
t57,54O,S1S pounds) for 1900-1S01. The
total output of refined sugar has been
I'LL, 069 ,922 Kilograms (2,449, 564, $50
pounds), which is greater by 1903, 054
Kilograms ((39, 1857, 0S2 pounds) than
that OF the Immediately preceding har-
vest. The yield of refined sugar is
l1.SS per cent of beet root, against
1858 per cen in 1900-1901.
DR.. Barton w. Evermann, icthyolo-
gist of the United States Fish Commits
sion is on his way east from San
francisco with the collection of fishes
made by the Albatross expedition in
the Hawaiian Islands during the past
summer. DR.. Evermann is spending a
few days with his relatives in Indiana.
n Will arrive in this city the last part
of October.
The collection he brings with him :
contains many new and rare speci-
mems, and there are many specimens
of the species discovered in the expe-
dition of last year. Many of these are
remarkable curiosities, and the color
ing of the entire collection is more
brilliant and more varied than tn t of
the birds of the world combined. The
specimens themselves do not retain
their colors in the alcohol in which
they are preserved, but drawings have
been made. which show the beautiful
and y~ariegated colorings.
Some of the varieties we're founi at
the bottom of the sea, at a depth at
which any land animal or fresh-water
fish would be crushed to death Nv the
pressure of the water. At a depth OF
four miles the pressure of the water
is 5000 pounds to the square inch. and
the Albatross made some discoveries
at that depth. A fish ten feet long at
that depth would support nearly 5000
The water at that depth is darkl
and ice-cold.
Many of the fishes have porous