The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1911-01-20

age yearly consumption of sugar is
found to be about 81h pounds per
capita.
About one-half of the sugar consum-
ed in the United States is brought
from foreign countries, about one
fourth from our own islands, and the
remaining one-fourth produced in this
country. The total production of sugar
in the United States now amounts to
one and three-fourths billion pounds
a year, of which more than one billion
pounds is beet sugar and about three
quarters of billion cane sugar. 1t
is only recently that the production of
beet sugar in the United States has
come to exceed that of cane sugar. In
1900 domestic production of cane
sugar was twice as great as that of
beet sugar, and 20 years ago was more
than 60 times as great; but the growth
of beet sugar production has been very
rapid in recent years, and in 1907, for
the first time, exceeded in quantity that
produced from cane and has so con
tinued since that time.
| OF the sugar brought from other
countries, nearly all is made from cane.
While about half of the worlds sugar
| is made from beets, most of it is pro-
duced in Europe and consumed in the
country of production or in other parts
of that grand division, while most of
the world outside of Europe obtains
its sugar supply from cane, grown of
course, in the tropical and subtropical
sections. OF the cane sugar which we
consume, most of that coming from
/ foreign countries is drawn from Cuba,
the Dutch East Indies, and smaller
amounts from the West Indies, Mex
| leo, Central and South America. All
of that coming from our own islands
Porto Rico, Hawaii, and the Philip
pines-is cane sugar while of the do
nestle product about 40 per cent is
produced from cane. The beet sugar
of the United States is grown chiefly
in Colorado, California, and Michigan,
and some in Utah, Idaho, and Wiscon-
sin; while most of the cane sugar is
produced in louisiana with smaller
quantities in Texas, Florida. Georgia,
and South Carolina.
The sugar habit" is evidently a
growing one with the people of he
United States and probably with those
of other countries, since the total world
production of sugar, including all
countries for which statistics are avail
able, has increased so per cent in the
last decade and about doubled. in Is
years. In our own case the consump-
tion has shown rapid growth. the
per capita consumption having been,
in 1880, 40 pounds; in 1890, 81 pounds;
in 1900. SO pounds; and in 1910, ap-
proximately S1k pounds
What is the cost of this enormous
quantity of sugar consumed in the
United States? This is more difficult
to answer. The valuation of that
brought from foreign countries and our
islands is set down at about It's mil
lion dollars in 1910, and the stated
value of that produced in the United
States. at approximately rs million dol
lars; though this comparatively high
figure when considered by the price
per pound, is due to the fact that the
valuation is based upon the refined ar
ticle, while that of the sugar from
abroad is the value of the unrefined ar
ticle in the country of production. If,
however, we accept a general average
of &c per pound as the retail price paid
by our people for the 1-3 billion
pounds of sugar consumed by them in
1910, we should get total of s366.000,-
600, or an average Of approximately
81 ,000, 900 day paid for sugar by the
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