Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-01-03
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to 215 cents, with the years trade
showing an increase in value of over
two and half million dollars. The
market was largely shifted from China
and Hongkong to the United States,
and American purchases were 92,66S
tons of the total of 125, 500 tons eX-
ported during the year, or slightly
less than a third of the annual guam
tity granted free entry under the
free-trade limitation. Exports of Gig
ars increased from 115.977,000 to 1885,
10000 of which S3 931 900 or some
what more than half of the quantity
fixed for free admission, found an
American market The aggregate
trade of other countries renamed
practically the same. The low level
of hemp prices reached in 1909 con-
tinued. and the average for the year
was slightly lower, but new record
in the quantity apprehension tons
explains an increased export Value
of a million and half dollars. inc
British hemp trade remained about
the same and practically all Of the
increased output was shipped to the
United States whose purchases
amounted to ten million of a seven
teen million dollar total. In the coDra
| trade an increased quantity comblh-
| cd with rising prices resulted in a
two and a half million dollar increase
in the nine million dollar total. Lear
! tobacco was the only one Of the i've
/ Q eat export staples in which there
was a reduced trade. Leaf exports
were 771S4 pounds less, Dut were
sold at a higher price per pound
results clearly traceable to the great
" increased local demand in the cigar
| industry The American trade center
ed in the manufactured product, ana
with exports of Philippine cigars TO
! the United States, valued at S1,906,-
| ~. American purchases of Philippine
'aaf under free trade amounted to bu'
&2,176
ports Rico,
porto Rico has enjoyed an excep-
tionaly prosperous year, free on lhe
one hand from serious political agita'
ton and marked on the other by en-
co;lraging commercial and industrial
development
The administration during the pas
year has been a distinct success, 1ol
which the present Governor is emu
tied to much praise
That confidence has been establish
ed in the stability of the government
and the opportunities presented seems
evidenced by increased investment
and operations as well as by the IN
PRODUCTION of new capital. During the
wear there have been registered i
domestic and foreign corporations tol
sugar making, IS for raising canning
and packing fruit, and y to engage
in coffee and cattle raising, shipplns
and transportation. and other enter
prises OF these, % are foreign cor
porations with a capital stock OF Sill
11O,112 and 32 are domestic, with al
aggregate capital of $5,60S,OOO. Thl
makes a total of ISL domestic and 10
: foreign corporations with capital res
, pectively, of $27, $40 and SSlO,464,
551. That Notwithstanding this, onl.
!, about so per cent of the lands of Por
: to Rico are under cultivation shout
4 afford clearer impression Of its in
dustrial possibilities with sutiicien
capital interested and the extension
of modern agricultural methods.
| Based on an approximately 90 pc
cent valuation, the total assessed va
| lue of all property in 1909 was $l2l,
S66, 149. an increase of $4,249,524 owe
the previous year.
| The census just taken shows a pc
pulation of 1,11S,012, a substantial in
1 crease in number and density OF 81
\ per square mile, which is greater tina
that of any State in the Union eXcel
Rhode Island and Massachusetts
| whats the matter with Willougl
by?" Recovering from a hard cas-
of cider. Harvard Lampoon.