Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1907-08-02

Ireach the high water mark of $29,-
95S,543 in 1905 when the sugar
crop was large and the market price
high
Sugar is, of course, our great main
stay and amounts to 1923, S,005 Of
the twenty-five million total for the
1907 period. Our canned and ripe
fruit shipments, made up almost en-
tirely of pineapples amounted to
S372.270, an increase of nearly
100000 over last year The month
of May 1907, however, showed a de-
crease, the monthly total being
s6,S57, against $12,S02 for the same
month of 1906
Our coffee shipments for the 1907
eleven months were 1,072,117
pounds. valued at s125,410, The fig
ures for 1906 were 2,O99,439 pounds,
valued at $243,000. The value for
1906 was $161,217, showing eleven
months. of 1907 to have been the
least successful of three years in cof-
fee.
The manufactures of fibres ship
ped out were valued at $14,700 in
the eleven months Of 1907, $9,G49 in
1906, and $S,045 for 1905. The
monthly increase is evident in the
$2,074 for May 1907 against $G51
in May 1906.
Our purchases in the mainland
markets are impressive. Hawaii
bought animals valued at $107 1872
during the eleven month period. The
largest items under this head are
$22,649 for 2191 hogs, $60,520 for
314 mules, and $13,S50 for S.
horses.
Eleven months purchases of
breadstuffs, including grain, were
valued at $1,272,1S3 in 1907. This
is the lowest figure for the three
years given.
In the month of May we bought
5000 dozen of eggs valued at $767
and in eleven months 47,305 dozen,
valued at $13,443.
Purchases of fish of all kinds We're
valued at $13,99S for May and $685.
$50 for eleven months.
Hawaii bought $500 worth of
fruits, fresh and preserved, in one
month and s169,1S9 in eleven
months. OF the latter total, the larg-
est items were apples. $4,000 and
oranges, S39,616.
Our purchases of meat and dairy
products amounted to $556,755 in
eleven months OF this $112,5S4 was
spent for 369,665 pounds of butter.
The meat purchases are largely cured
and canned products.
Our eleven month liquor bill with
| the mainland was $494,S34. Cigars,
cigarettes and all forms of tobacco,
$507,S13.
We bought vegetables valued at
$177,950, the largest item being
$79,334 for S4,453 bushels of pota-
toes. Beans and peas amounted to
l12,632 bushels valued at $22,280;
onions, 17,645 bushels at $1,000.
American manufacturers of boots
and shoes do a good business here.
This item alone amounted in the
eleven months ended last May to
]172,S6S pairs valued at $290,19S.
Cold Alaska leads us in this item by
less than 100000.
| Hawaii is a good customer of the
manufacturers of cotton goods. Fur
chases OF cotton clothes amounted to
SLICES for May and $6S7,3SS for
the eleven months ending with May.
Cotton wearing apparel was valued
at $49,S16 for the month and $451,-
451 for the eleven months. Our tot
al purchases of cotton and it's manu-
! features for the eleven months was
$1,446,2O0 against $S04,674 in 1906,
an increase of nearly one hundred
per cent.
The record of the ports from which
these goods from the mainland were
shipped to Hawaii upholds our repu-
tation for doing business of
s1,000,000 a month through Pacific
Coast ports. San Francisco handled
! SO, 1910 worth of goods in elev-