Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1907-08-30
Philippine SUGAR
GOING To NEW YORK
Sugar Industry
Various Parts OF
World

freighter Saint Patrick, says the Ma
Mia Bulletin. According to cabled
advices received by Macondray and
Company, the local agents for the
vessel, the Saint Patrick is now at
Iloilo and is taking on about 1000
tons of sugar, which is destined for
! the port of New York. The receipt
of this sugar on the Atlantic sea-
board of the United States may be ex-
pected to raise a calamitous howl
from the beet sugar barons and 9TH
ers who are interested in the indus
try throughout the U. s.
The Saint Patrick is expected to
arrive at Manila the last of the week.
The vessel will load about $500 bales
of hemp at this port, also destined for
New York.
The present condition of the sugar
industry of the tropical and semi
tropical coasts of Queensland is SO
promising that practical men must
Iause before concluding that the in
dustry will cease with the departure
from Eastern Australia of the Kama
ka, the South Sea Islanders who
are now being conveyed back to their
homes in the Pacific. This idea is
founded simply on the fact in the
West Indies and other parts where
sugar is grown on a large scale and
the plantation work is performed by
the cheap colored labor. Considering
the conditions under which sugar
cane is cultivated and harvested,
there seems to be good ground for
this view. In Queensland at the
present moment all the operations
required in cane cultivation are be-
ing performed by white men work.
ing in parties on contract, and in
1905 the output of sugar, $4,000
tons, was all but record. Queens
land planters are also experimenting
with the manufacture of sacchar-
inc cake, mixing four-fifths of mo-
lasses with one-fifth of ground me
gass," and one planter has marketed
this article.
There are 81 sugar factories In ac-
tive work in Queensland, and two re-
fineries. The 1906 sugar crop and
by-products were valued at G2,315,-
900. These particulars show how
important sugar-growing is to the
well-being of Queensland, and II 1t
could be proved that it is impossible
to carry on the industry without col.
cred labor, the colony would have to
face the ruin of one of the most
thriving industries.
The development of the beet sugar
industry in Italy has been almost as
rapid as the United States. While
seventy years ago some efforts were
made in that direction, nothing prac-
teal was accomplished and occasional
experimental factories built since that
time failed until the experiment sta
tons took the matter in hand and
demonstrated the sacchariDc value in
Italian beets and the actual production
was first made success in 1886, about
was making success in beet sugar
in California.
There are now in Italy some thirty
four beet sugar factories and about
100 acres of land cultivated in sugar
l.eets. The production reached some
1000 tons in 1897, 5000 tons in 1898,
so 900 tons in 1900, $4,000 tons in
1902 and 131 900 tons in 1908. AS the
total consumption of sugar III Italy Isl
placed at only about 1876 900 tons, the
home product is practically supplying
the entire market and some surplus
may have to be exported, and this es-
pecially so If the production continues
10 increase and the high domestic
prices for consumption continue re-
doubtless as they do, the in
crease of consumption, which should
really be the only foundation onl
which the industry can be securely
built up.
There will probably be crisis in
Lhe sugar industry at an iearly date,
Just the same as there is one now in
Trance, where sugar sells at about
; 1-3 cents per pound and the domes-