The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-02-16
SUGAR CONS TON
Is GRO G .6sIS &
In the United States Every
Year Official Figures
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Year Official Figures
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WASHINGTON, ID. G., FEB. 1e
Sugar consumption IN the United
States in the year 1911 exceeded
that of any earlier year. The total
quantity consumed in continental
Unltedsstates was. according to the
latest estimate Of the Bureau Of
Statistics, Department OF Commerce
land I7abgE, y $40 4illion, pounds,
or an average of:s1.7s pounds pei
capita, against the former high rec
ord of ,sI19 pounds per capita in
the fiscal year 1907.
These figures are offieIol SO far as
relates to tile quantity brought into
continental United States during
the calendar year from Hawaii,
Porto Rico, the philippines and from
foreign countries. To this the
bureau has added the latest esti-
mates of sugar produced in the
country during 1911, and by sub
tracing the official figures of exports
from the grand total of imports and
domestic production, obtains total
lof 1870 million pounds, or pTactic-
any 81. pounds per capita, as tie In
dested 5consuhption of the ealen-
dara year 1871. Ten years. ago, in
the fiscat}ysfa.8 9Y@q41,s the i indicated
consumption was s 411S2 billion
ipeShds; OR. q s::ponnds per-. sapitat
twenty years age. in 1891. 3 l3-4 bill
lion pounds, or. 81 pounds per cap
[itai Entity years. agopini;tsst 2. tt7f.
billion pounds, Or 40 pounds per
capitagn and forty years ago, in 1871.
1-2 billion pounds or S6 IL
pounds per capita.
This very large total consumption.
of sugar in the country in 1911 &C
companied an unusually heavy
production of both in continental
United States and Its sugar-pro-
dqcing islands, Hawaii, Porto Rico,
and the Philippines. The quantity
brought from Hawaii, Porto Rico
and the Philippines in 1911 exceeded
in each case that OF any earlier year,
and the estimated production object
sugar in the country in-1s1I was The
largest on recbrd, though that. pf
can, sugar was slightly below the av-
erage of recent years. while the
Quantity of sugar imported from
foreign countries in 1911 fell some=
what below the figures of 1910, the.
aggregate of production in, CONT
mental United States, production in
nopcoptiggops territories. and i'm
ports from foreign 2codptSiesi ex-
ceeds that of any earlier year, while
the quantity exported was smaller
than in the immediate preceding
year.
The import valuation of sugar
Brought from foreign countries in
1911 was, speaking in round terms
ninety million dollars; from the non
contiguous territories. seventy-elght
million; and the estimated value sofl
that produced in continental Unitadl
States, ninety million dollars. The
Bureau Of Statistics estimates the
duty paid on sugar imported from
foreign countries in 1911 at fifty mil
lion dollars.
One striking fact which comes to
the surface in this study of sugar
consumption in the United States is
found in comparison of production
and growth In production of cane and
of beet sugar.. respectively. While
exact figures off domestic aproductionl
I'm 19tl have notryet Tbeens completed,
The latest and best available estimate
puts the spTodpctigpf Fot beet sugar
Respectively. While exact figures. Of
domestic production in 1911. have not
yet been completed, the latest and
best available, estimate puts the pro-.
iddctionI q 81 BEET sugar At j, Jos t1ilfi51
pounds, and that of can esugar at 700
million pounds. the production OF beet
sugar thus exceeding that of cane by
more than fifty per cent. Prior to
1907 the production Of beet sugar was
never as great as that of cane sueir
In. 19Oy the quantity of beet sugar
produced was less than one-third thai
of cane; in 1906 it nearly equaled that
of cane; in 1907 1t exceeded that OF
cane, and has continued greater in
each year since that time, being in
the year Just ended, as above indi-
Gated, more than fifty per cent in ex-
cess of the cane sugar produced.