Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-03-02
COST $ss. 900, 900.
Value Of Our Coffee Imports Last Year

| 900. 100000 pounds OF coffee. valued ut
xSS. 900, 900, came into the United States
| last year, practically all for the use of
the people of the United States. The
total quantity 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 Statistics was
| ,112. 1885 pounds valued at $S.421,-
099. and from Porto Rico. o.3Sl,5o4
Iounds. and from the Hawaiian Is
lands. 1.s27,49l pounds. The total
| value Of the coffee from these two is
land divisions Of the United States be-
ing Sol5,S3.. bringing the total Quanti-
~ OF coffee brought into the country
up to 1,1l1,00O.O00 pounds. and the
value of $S8.OOO,000. During the same
period (the calendar year 1900 there
was exported from the United States
64.256,94: pounds of coffee OF foreign
production. valued at S6.4GS.,S2. so that
| he consumption of coffee during the
year was approximately 1853. 900. 900
pounds. valued at about ISL 200. 900
The figures of the worlds production
of coffee in the coffee year 1903 L.
which has just reached the Bureau OF
Statistics. show that the coffee export
ed from the various producing coun-
tries of the world. and therefore the
quantity entering the worlds markets
during that year was in round terms,
9.cGO, 100000 pounds. or barely double
the quantity brought into the United
states alone duriQg the calendar year
1904. 1t may therefore. be said, in
general terms, that the United States
consumes practically one-half of the
coffee entering the worlds markets.
since our impCrtations of coffee in 1904
amounted to practically one-haif of the
coffee exported by all the coffee-pro-
ducing countries of the world, and more
than ninety-four per cent. of that i'm
FOrtation was retained in the United
states for consumption by her people.
That the United States exceeds bv
lar any other nation AS Il consumer of
coffee is apparent from the fact al
eady stated that il consumes practi-
cally One-half the coffee of the world.
Some figures just received by the Blu
,e;tu OF Statistics gives some details.
however. OF the consumption BY the
principal countries which are Of addi-
tional interest. though the latest period
covered in this statement is the calen-
dar year 1902. This shows for that
year consumption by the United
States OF S52.272. 900 pounds Of coffee:
Germany. 3S0,S2000O pounds: France.
1sS,1GO.O0O pounds; Austria Hungary
sG,@60.0OO pounds: Holland. $500 900
pounds; Belgium. 72.6OO.O 600 pounds:
Sweden. 5'.42O.0O0 pounds: Russia. 49,
100000 pounds: Italy, 35G4O 900
pounds; and Great Britain, 1890 900
pounds.
Coffee consumption in the Unitei
States has increased rapidly during
recent years. The imLortatiOns in
the calendar year 1904. as already indi-
Gated. were .ll1,O00GO0 pounds, and
v,Te larger than those OF any earlier
year. and the per capita consumption
was also larger than that Of any earlier
year with the single exception OF 1902.
in which year IN" per capita consump-
ton exceeded tina, of 1904 by two
tenths of one pound. The Bureau of
Statistics in its statements upon this
:nbject shows the quantity OF coffee
imported. exported. and the cOnsump-
ton per capita in each of the decennal
years from 1880 10 1850. and annually
from 1850 to 1904. Summarizing this
table it may be said that the consump-
ton of coffee in the United States was.
in $50. less than pounds per capita:
in 1S46, poun Is per capita: in 1850.
5.6 pounds per capita: in 1860. 5.8
pounds per capita; in 1870. pounds
Per capita; ii 1880. 80 pounds per
capita: and in 1880. IS pounds per
capita.
In 1S9. the consumption for the first
Tine exceeded II rounds per capita. the |
figure being. for that year, 1912 pounds |
ner capita; in 1898. 1l.Gs pounds per |
capita: in 1902. 1889 pounds per capita. |
and in 1904. 1864 pounds per capita. 1t
is proper to add that the figures for al; |!
OF the years above mentioned relate to
the fiscal yel-. except those Of 1904,
which are for the calendar year end
ing Dec. 81. l%i. thus bringing the
statement down 10 tn. :ery latest pos
sible date.
The table which follows shows the /
quantity Of coffee imported into the |