Arizona republican., 1904-01-11
Some Figures Regarding
 Hawaiian islands
THE RECENT PROPffRITY
The Population and How It Is Made Up-The Products and the Means Being Employed to Enlarge Their Volume and Variety.

Washington, Jan. 10.--Some interest ing facts abaut present conditions in Hawaii are presented by the depart ment of commerce and labor through its bureau of statistics. These facts reached that bureau in the Hawaiian Annual for 1904.
 Regarding population the figures show a steady decrease in the number of natives and a steady increase in the number of persons of foreign births, especially Japanese and Chi ne3e. In 1872 the number of natives was, in round numbers, 5OOOO and in 1900, 30000. In 1872 the number of Chi nese was, in round numbers. 2,0OO and in 1900, 25,000. The rec ord of Japanese among the population only begins with 1884, when the number was lts persons, but in 1900 the num3er was over 61,00O. The total population of 1872 is given a 5s,Ss7 and in 1900 at I54, ,OOi The relation of nationality to planta- tion labor is indicated by a table which shows the nationality and num- Der of sugar plantation laborers, the number of Japanese being 31 ,O29 out Of total Of all natfonalities of 42,242, these figures being for the year 1882 | The Japanese plantation laborers in | creased from 13,SS4 in 1894 to 31,O29 in | 1902 while the Chinese laborers on stI- gar plantations fell in numbers from S,114 in 1897 to 3.937 in 1902 Portuguese are next in rank in the number of su- gar plantation laborers, the number of l Portuguese being 2,6e9, the next fol- | lowing this being Porto Ricans, 2OS6 while native Hawaiians are cnIy 4s3 | in number.
 Sugar, of course, continues to be the | principal crop of Hawaii, though number of other tropical products are now receiving careful attention, in- | cluding coffee, tobacco, sissI fiber ma | nila hemp, vanilla beans, and pine ap- l. pies. The experiments with sisal grass. | begun within the last two years, have given great encouragement and lead those engaged in the experiments to the | belief that Hawaii may become an eX- | tensive producer of that valua ble fiber. | of which the importations into the | United States amount to more than | SIS, COOL 900 per annum in value and | steadily increasing. The Hawaiian ! Fiber company reports out of it's first cror an exportatiSn ef about $s,O0O in
 value of sisal in the year 1903, this pro- duct being obtained from an> area of
 about 12o acres. While no recent ex- periments have been made with manila
 hemp. the report states that samples ! of the plant from which manila hemp
 IS produced, introduced several years | ago in various parts Of the Hawaiian
 islands, justify by their present con- | dition the belief that the Hawaiian is-
 lands may become producers of manila | hemp as well as sisaI. A
 Another valuable production 6f the
 far east introduced experimentally is
 Sumatra tobacco, and the experiments ] thus far indicate that it's cultivation
 in the Hawaiian islands may prove ex- tremely successful. Vanilla beans, also
 recently introduced, give encorrag- ing results and indicate returns of
 from s1, 900 to s5.C00 per acre from their cultivation. Coffee production. while
 adversely affected in recent years by the low prices prevailing in the worlds
 markets, has developed to such an
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