The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-12-18
BRADSTREET'S ON SUGAR
PRODUCTION IN HAWAII

Bradseets weekly of November 28h following
interesting article Sugar Production of Hawaii:
The the Hawaiian sugar crop of 1908
100000 pounds lends special interest
figures recently presented by Department
Labor covering growth sugar production
close commercial relations with the United States established by the
reciprocity treaty in 1876 and further developed by annexation
$685. These figures show that sugar production of Hawaii
1908 practically thyve great that of the period
Immediately preceding the reciprocity treaty to the
reciprocity treaty 1876 the sugar production
Hawaii averaged about pounds Within
following the reciprocity treaty the production had doubled
by another two years it had quadruped By the end of the first
decade under nearly times and the
growth during the entire period has at very rapid rate
The rapdy growth in sugar production in Hawaii during the
period under consideration shown by the following figures OF
production at decennial periods:
1873 1873 2a 1921
; 1888 SAL 1 aSaSs
in 1873 1855
nearly pounds from 1888 to 1893
pounds and from 1893 1908 5oooooooo pounds The
development of production during the first decade
bringing under cultivation lands capable producing without
irrigation; during irrigation applied
least difficult secons during the third decade the development OF
irrigation and application OF modern machinery prod
ucion greatly developed The irrigation system applied
Hawaii of Importance and has brought under cultivation
large which absolutely vaueless production
without the application of by artificial methods More than
lands
In this development Hawaiian sugar production American
capital and American energy have been the chief factors
ment recently received from high authority in Hawaii by the
Bureau of Statistics indicates that about of capital from
the United States invested Hawaii the reciprocity
treaty of 1876 large of this having been invested since
creased Investments capital the United States and its apple
alton to irrigation highest forms has resulted in OF
than the production the islands, the
production of 1897 being 2ooooo pounds that of 100000
600 pounds
The Hawaiian Islands third in the list of sections
producing for Curiou all OF the
exporting spots world islands Cuba stands
the head OF the list with annual under normal
dltons OF pounds with
annual production of pounds while the Hawaiian ISL
ands have nearly reached the mark China and
India also large producers of but practically
all OF their production, their expectation being small
Sugar production the Hawaiian Islands has developed much
rapidly during the thirty than other
producing section OF the world The production Java from
42oooo pounds in 1875 to 8SSooooo pounds in less
than five times much 1903 1875 Cuba has increased its
production from 3ooooooo pounds 1873 to 2I8oooooo in
1905 while that of Hawaii already indicated has from
pounds 1873 Thus Java' prod
ucton less than five times that 1873 that of Cuba has
creased less than while that OF Hawaii about thirty
five times great 1873 Meantime the production
OF the world has from 1873 1Sooo tons
having about trebed during that period The beugar
production the world grown 1873
1903 being about four and onea times much