The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1906-04-12
USES MOST COFFEE.
AMERICA DRINKS oNE-HALF OF
WORLDS CONSUMPTION.
More Than 1 900, 600 900 Pounds Of
the Bean Was Imported Into the
United States Last Year, Says
Commerce Report.

Washington. More than 1,0O0,000,000
pounds OF coffee, valued at $SS,O0O,O 600,
came into the United States last year.
practically all for the use of the people
of the states. The total quantity OF
coffee imported from foreign countries
during the year, as shown by figures
issued by the department Of commerce
and labor through Its bureau OF stats
tics. was Lip, $40 pounds, valued at
SS7 427 ,O99, and from Porto Rico 3d.
524 pounds and from the Hawaiian is
lands !, 1921 ,49l pounds.
During the same period, the calendar
year, 1904. there was exported from the
United States 81 256. 947 pounds Of cof-
zee of foreign production, valued at So
l6S,592, SO that the consumption of cof-
fee during the year was approximately
l,O53, 100000 pounds, valued at about
SSl 900, 900.
The figures of the worlds production
OF coffee in the coffee year 1903-l904 show
that the coffee exported from the various
producing countries of the world and,
therefore, the quantity entering the
worlds markets during that year was,
in round terms, 2,260 100000 pounds, or
barely double the quantity brought into
the United States alone during the year
1904. II may, therefore. be said, In gen
eral terms that the United States CON
sumes practically half the coffee enter
ing the worlds markets
Figures for 1892 show for that year a
consumption by the United States OF
S52 .272,000 pounds OF coffee: Germany,
1886. $4,000 pounds; France, SS,760,000
pounds; Austria Hungary, 96.360,000
pounds. Holland, S2.5o00O0 pounds;
Belgium, 72,eOO,0OO pounds; Sweden,
57,42O,OOO pounds; Russia, S9,600,0O0
pounds: Italy 35.64000O pounds. and
Great Britain, 32.340, 900 pounds.
Coffee consumption in the United
States has increased rapidly during re-
cent years. The importations in the
calendar year 1904, as already indicated
we're lllIoOO0OO pounds and were
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 the per capita consumption exceed
ed that of 1904 by two-tenths of one
pound.
The bureau Of statistics in its state
ments upon this subject shows the
quantity of coffee imported. exported
and the consumption per capita In each
of the decennial years from 1890 to 1851
and annually from 1850 to 1904. Sum
marking this table. II may be said thai
The consumption Of coffee in the United
states was. in 1880. less than thres
pounds per capita: in 1910. five pounds
ger capita in 1850. sc pounds per capita,
in 1860 5S pounds per capita; In 1870
6 pounds per capita; in 1880, SO pound:
per capita, and in 1890, rs pounds pei
capita.
In 1897 the consumption for the firs
time exceeded ten pounds per capita, tn,
figure being for that year 1912 pounds
per capita, IN 1898, llGS pounds pei
capita; in 1909, 1882 pounds per capita
and in 1904, 1854 pounds Per capita
The figures for all OF the years men
toned relate to the fiscal year, excep
those of 1894, which are for the calendar
year ended December 81, 1904