Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1905-09-25

Notable Increase in Their
Production and Use
Interesting and Instructive Data in
Respect of the Worlds NOnalcO-
hOIic Stimulants.

Washington, Sept. Special -
The coffee, tea and cacao trade of the
world is the subject of a monograph
just prepared by the department of
commerce and labor through its bur-
eau of statistics which will be publish
eu in the forthcoming issue of the
Monthly Summary of Commerce and
Finance. This report shows the enor-
nous increase both I'm the cultivation
and consumption of these stimuIants
which is one of the characteristic fea-
lures of the last quarter of a century.
In the case of coffee, which is an in
digenous plant of Africa, the center of
production may be said to have been
transferred to South and Central
America about three -foUrths of the
worlds consumption being furnished
at present by Brazil. The terms ia
va" and Mocha" which in olden times
indicated the source of origin, have
now become mere characteristics of
the spread of culture precedes. in point
of time, that of coffee. China, which
may be said to have been the center
of the tea trade in the earlier parts
of the last century, has been super
seded now by India and Ceylon, so far
at least as imports into the United
Kingdom are concerned.
The cultivation of these two articles
Of popular consumption may be said
to be restricted to certain well-limited
areas. the bulk of coffee being raised
at present in the central and southern
part of the American continent, and tea
being produced on the Asiatic main
land and adjacent islands. On the
other hand, the consumption of these
products in the leading European and
American countries at least is far from
being equally distributed. Roughly
speaking, between two-fi6ths and one
half of the marketed coffee product Of
the world is taken by the United States
while one-haIf of the tea product en-
tering the worlds markets is taken by
the United Kingdom. Another fact
worth mentioning is that the rate of
consumption of these two articles,
wherever they have become part Of the
popular diet. tends to increase con-
tinually. Taking only those countries
the statistics of which show consider
able consumption of coffee. Sucn as the
! United States, Germany, United King
dom, Holland, Belgium, France and
Austria Hungary, we find that the
combined consumption in these coun-
tries has increased almost so per cent
from 1,14O, 100000 pounds in 1884 to l..
/ S16,447,000 pounds in 1904, as cOmpar-
ed with an increase of population of
about 80 percent in the countries
named during the same period. In the
/ United States the total consumption
! has almost doubled in quantity, while
! the per capita consumption has in
/ creased about 26.9 per cent, from 9.26
! pounds per head to 11.75 pounds per
! head during the period under consid-
/ Grafton. About the same remarks ap-
ply to the more important tea -cOnsum-
I ing countries for which detailed statis-
! tics are presented, i. e.. the United
! Kingdom, Russia, United States Ger
many Holland and France, in which
! the tea consumption has increased $50
per cent, from 317. .9S2, 900 pounds in
1884 to sos, ,233, 900 pounds in 1904, while
the population in these countries has
! increased only p per cent during the
same period. The consumption per
head in those countries at least Where
/ tea is as popular a beverage as coffee
! in this country, shows therefore about
| the same rate of increase. In the
| United Kingdom the per capita tea
| consumption has increased from 4.90
pounds to pounds or 22.5 per cent,
between the year 1884 and 1904.
Parallel with the increase in con-
| sumption goes an increase of prOduc =
! tion of both tea and coffee in the mea- =
sure that new countries and cultivat-
ed areas are drawn into the cycle of
international trade. Thus, the rapid