Arizona republican., 1905-03-06
GROWING HABIT
Coffee Consumed in This
 Country Last Year
EIGHTY MILLION DOLLARS
Dollar for Each Inhabitant-EsArIy Half the Coffee Produced in the World for Export Went Into AEneri- can Coffee Pots.

Washington. March 5-More than one billion pounds of coffee. valued at SS million dollars. came into the Unit ed States last year. practically all for the use of the people of the United States. The total quaptity of coffee imported from foreign countries during the year. as shown by figures recently issued by the department of commerce and labor through its bureau Of sta tistics. was LIP. .7Os.5s6 pounds, valu- ed at SS7 427 .O99. and from Porto Rico. 2,391.524 pounds. and from the Ha- waiian Islands. 1.S27.4S1 pounds The total value of the coffee from these States being S515.S52, bringing the to- tai quantity of coffee brought into the country up to 1,117 million pounds. and the value Of SS million dollars. Dur ing the same period Cthe calendar year 190D there was exported from the United States 64.256.947 pounds or coffee of foreign production. valued at S6,46S,592, so that the consumption of coffee during the year was approNi- mately 1.053 million pounds. valued at about S1 million dollars.
 The figures Of the worlds production of coffee in the coffee year 1so3-4 which has just reached the bureau of statistics. show that the coffee ex- ported from the various producing countries of tho world. and therefore the quantity entering the worlds mar kets during that year. was. in round terms. 2,269 million pounds. or barely double the quantity brought into the United States alone during the calen- dar year 1904. It may therefore be ! said, in general terms that the United States consumes practically one-half of the coffee entering the worlds mar kets. since our impOrtatiOns of coffee in 1904 amounted to practically one half of the coffee exported by all the coffee-producing countries of the world. ard more than 94 Der cent of | that importation was retained In the l United States for consumption by her people.
 ] That the United States exceeds by far any other nation as a consumer of coffee is apparent from the fact al- ready stated that it consumes practi- cally one-half the coffee of the world | Some figures just received by the bur eau of statistics gives some details ! however. of the consumption by Ihe [ principal countries which are Of addi- tional interest. though the latest per iod covered in this statement Is the calendar year 1902. This SHOWS for that year a consumption by the Unit ed States of S52,272. 900 pounds of cof- fee; Germany. 3S0. .S20.000 pounds. | France, 1SS. .76O.OOO pounds: Austria Hungary. 96,360. 900 pounds; Holland.
 S2.5OO.OOO pounds; Belgium. 7e.sO0. .00o
 pounds; Sweden. 5T.420.0e0 pounds.
 Russia. 99.6GO.O0O pounds: Italy. 35.- 640,000 pounds. and Great Britain. g.
 340.000 pounds.
 Coffee consumption in the United States has increased rapidly during
 recent years. The impOrt..tiOns in the calendar year 1904. as already indicat-
 ed. were 1.117 million pounds. and
 were larger than those of any earlier
 year. and the per capita consumption
 was also larger than that of any ear
 Her year with the single exception of
 1902. in which year the per capita con
 sumption exceeded that of 1904 by
 two tenths of 1 pound. The bureau of
 statistics in it's statements upon this
 subject shows the quantity of coffee
 imported, exported. and the consump-
 ton per capita in each of the decen-
 nial years from 1880 tO 1850. and an nually from 1850 to 1904. Summariz-
 ing this table. it may be said that the
 consumption of coffee in the United 8
 per capita; in 1S40. 3 pounds per
 capita; in 1850. 5.6 pounds per capita.
 in 1860, 5.S pounds per capita: in 1S1o. ! 6 pounds per capita; in 1SS0. S-9
 pounds per capita. and in 1880. 7-S
 pounds per capita
 In 1897. the consumption for the , first time exceeded 10 pounds Der ; capita, the figure being. for that year. ? 10.12 pounds per capita; in 1898. 1I6 l pounds per capita; in 1909. 13-Se pounds per capita, and in 1904. 13.et pounds per capita It is proper 10 add | that the figures for all of the years . above mentioned relate to the fiscal l year ending Dec. q. 1904. thus bring ing tine statement down to the very } latest possible date
 The table which follows shows the
 quantity of coffee imported into the
 United States and the per capita con-
 sumption at decenniaI years from lSfo
 to 1900. and annually from 1900 to
 1904. the figures as above indicated.
 being in all cases those for fiscal years. except as relates to 1904. which are for the calendar year ending Dee. 7 31.