Arizona republican., 1904-11-21
The Consumption of It in
 This Country
THRFE-FOURTHS IMPORT
The Rest, Exclusive of the Homs Made Cane and Beet Sugar. Comes From the EOn-CoRfigaoas Islands of the United States.

Washington. Nov. 2o.-The sugar consumption of the United States iu the current year seems likely to ex- ceed that of any previous year. both ln quantity and per capita The total quantity of sugar brought into the United States in tte nine months end ing with September. Iso4. Is sls billion pounds, against Ssa billion pounds in 1903. the high record Importation or sugar in the coIresp -ndIng period Iu earlier years. O. this enormous quaa- tity of sugar brought into the United States during the nine months pTac- tically One-fourth came from the non contiguous territory Of the United | States-Hawaii, Porto RicC. and th- Philippine Islands, more than one-half came from Cuba, and the remaiuder chiefly from other islands Of Ibe Ea=t and West Indies
 The reports issued by the depart ! ment of commerce and labor. through { its bureau of statistics. covering the imports of the nine months ending with September. 1S9s. show thar the total quantity of sugar brought Into the United States from various p-r-s , of the world was 4.e66. 536l1s pounds , against 8, 764, ,S29. .6SS pounds tn the cor 1 responding Pericd of 1908 and 1-sI.- | 492.5T9 pounds in the correspondiuE months of 1901. the high record years
 in earlier impOrtauons- or this grand 1 total Of A. billion pounds oF sugar ] brought into the UniCed Slates during the nine months Of the present year. 6S7,S11.9 92S pounds was from the HaWa-
 ian islands. 265.175.443 pounds from Porto Rico. and 24- -201 .5SS pounds from ! the Philippine islands From Cubl rke
 total for the nine months period was
 2.527. .1S2.559 pounds. against q s5s. .l-a I-- pounds in the. .ccrrespOndiug months uf
 1903, and 1.53S- -011-Sz9 pounds in Lhe cor ! responding months Of lslz From tha British West Indies and E3ermuda-
 107.06S 642 pounds from the Elst-Iss- dies other than the Philipplne Islands
 259. .T74-T77 pounds. and from South America. 62.0S0055 pounds An or the above is cane sugar Tn addition e. this there was 225.21.IeS pounds of beet sugar, which came chiefly from Ger
 many. and with it a small quantity
 from Belgium and sJiI smaller quau-
 tity from Aus1ria-d Hungary This ru-
 tai for the nine months ending with September. 1904-4 -366. .536.719 pouutz-
 exceeds by more than 800 million
 pounds the total for the corrssp- p-utiug g
 peTloQ or any eaLE-atr year
 The value of the sugar brought iuto
 the United States during The nine
 months ending with September. lsa4.
 is S10l. 116.717. of which S52213 0-5 was
 from the island territories Of the Uui--
 ed States. S23. .1s9. PIP being from Hawai-
 S9.0S3.S63 from Porte Rico. and Se4e tfa
 from the PEilippin= islands
 One especially Interesting fact shown , by a study of the figures Of the inn ports of sugar is that the second llrg-
 est importation (omitting from the consideration the sugar brought from } the nCncontiguous territories of the ] United States) was from the Elst In- dies. chiefly Java. the largest beng. az already indicated. Cu0a- The total
 imports of sugar into the United
 States under the title Of East Iu- dies" during the nine months endinE ' with September. 19Js. amounted 1o 259.774.ITI pounds, valued at Sf.1Is if1 and this is chiefly from Java The im- ports of sugar into the United Stares ] from the Dutch East Indies have lu-
 creased very greatly during recent
 years. the total iH the fiscal year lSs1
 being 1S34 4e2. .432 pounds. and an the fls-
 cal year 1903. S9I. .C91 pounds.