The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-06-02
PROGRESS Or HAWAII.
lions Herald says:

lions Herald says:
The Importance of Hawaii as a mid
Pacific post for military and CONNER
cial purpose lends peculiar interest 20
report presented by Governor Frear
which shows that transpacific COM
merce Cloth freight and passenger)
by way of Hawaii is growing, while
the United States government is i'm
proving the harbors of the territory.
equipping the islands with lighthouses,
thoroughly fortifying the Island of
Oahu and providing for a naval sta
ton at Pearl Harbor. During its nine
years of territorial existence Hawaii
has paid into the federal Treasury
81, 6S3,3S0 in customs receipts and
$535, 79S in internal revenue, and un-
til the last few years very little has
been expended in return upon Ha-
wall. During 1909 the prosperity of
1908 was continued crops being large
and prices good. The exports and i'm
ports last year amounted to SCI $780,
4S4. The industries of Hawaii are be-
ing diversified and multiplied, parti-
curary along small proprietors, and
the cotton industry has been estab-
lished, with good prospect of success.
Four forest reserves, embracing 101,-
GA acres, were proclaimed last year.
The public health has been good, no
epidemics having occurred, and no
cases of plague or cholera being re-
ported. The school enrolment of
Hawaii is 24,SS9, which represented an
increase Of 1,444 for the past year.
G*E&S1=&E@ENE xE151E&SAStSW
in the nine months OF 1910; and ex-
ports of manufactures ready for con-
sumption, from $56,oOO,OOO in 1870 to
$133, 100000 in 1890, $332,OOO,OOO in
1900, and 1851 100000 in the nine
months of the fiscal year 1910 ending
with March. The nine months figures
already at hand seem to indicate for
the complete fiscal year 1910 a total
importation of manufacturers raw ma
terials of approximately $6S0,000, 900,
of partly manufactured materials
about $500, 1000 900 and of manufactures
ready for consumption about $685.
100000, and a total expectation of raw
materials for use in manufacturing Of
approximately $59O,OOO,OOO, of MANI
features in the partly finished state,
1857 900 and of manufactures ready
for consumption about $4S0,000,000.
Manufactures form a decreasing
proportion of the total imports and an
increasing proportion Of the total do
nestle exports of the United States.
The share which manufactures, includ-
ing both those ready for consumption
and those in partly finished state,
! form of the total imports has decreas-
ed from SO per cent in 1870 to Al per
cent in 1890, and AZ per cent in the
first nine months of the fiscal year
1910. Meantime the share which
manufactures of all classes form of
the domestic exports has increased
from 10 per cent in 1870 to 81 per
cent in the year 1900, and AZ per cent
in the first nine months of the cur
rent fiscal year. Considering only
manufactures ready for consumption
those imported have decreased from
40 per cent of the total imports in
1870 to "a per cent in 1910, while
those exported have increased from
Is per cent of the total domestic ex-
ports in 1870 to q per cent in 1919.
In other words, imports of finished
manufactures in 1870 were $174,00O,-
600 and exports of finished manufac-
lures $56,O00,000. In 1910, as shown
by nine months figures, imports Of
finished manufactures were $685.
100000 and exports of manufactures
$685., O0O, O0O,an excess of exports over
imports of this class of products a.
mounting to $7S,OOO OOO.-Bureau of
Statistics.