The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-01-11
PRODUCTION OF
HAWAIIAN ISLANDS


Islands under American guidance is
Illustrated by figures presented in
document just received by the Bureau
of Statistics, Department Of Commerce
and Labor The document, entitled
THE Hawaiian Annual, 1912" is is
sued annually by Mr. Thomas G.
Thrum, of Honolulu, and presents sta
tistics of the production, commerce.
finance, population, and education in
those islands during a term of years
down to 1911.
The figures Of growth since the an
nexation Of Hawaii to the United
States and, indeed, since the reciproe-
ity treaty of 1876 between the islands
and the United States, by which free
dom of commercial interchange with
this country was established and in
vestments of American capital thus
assured, are extremely interesting. A
table shows. for example, the produc-
tion of sugar, by far the most impor
tant product of the Hawaiian Islands,
from 1875 down to and including 1911.
The production of sugar in 1875, the
year Immediately prior to the adoption
of the reciprocity treaty, is given at %
million pounds, by 1881 it had grown
to "a million pounds; in 1891, 275 mill
! lion; in 1901, 691 million; in 1910,
l1,111 million; and in 1911, 1,O11 mil
lion pounds. or 40 times as much in
l1911 as in 1875. The value, which was
tstated at Ia million dollars in 1875,
WAS given at 36% million in 1911, or
80 times as much in 1911 as in 1875.
Thus the quantity of sugar produced
lin 1911 is 40 times as great as in the
lyear Immediately prior to the begin
lining of reciprocity, and the value 80
times as great, the relative difference
i'm increase between quantity and value
Ibeing due, of course, to reduction in
lprices of sugar meantime.
OF this increase of practically one
lbillion pounds in the sugar production
lof the Hawaiian Islands since the ad
loption of the reciprocity agreement
with the United States, more than one
lhalf has developed since annexation
(which occurred in the year 1898. The
jsugar production of 1897, the year i'm
lmediately prior to that of annexation
Twas, according to the table in ques
tion, $40 million pounds. as against
% million in 1873, the year immediate
lily preceding the reciprocity treaty
II, iii million pounds in 1910 and 10l1
million i'll 1911 Thus the increase
lin sugar production in the islands dur
ling the 20 years of reciprocity, 1876 tc
I1S9S, was 495 million pounds, and dur
ing the period since annexation, 1895
to 1910. was 592 million pounds.
Sugar, however, is not the only
product of the Hawaiian Islands. Tht
= statements show numerous other ar
ticles or products OF the islands, in
dicating that the recent attempts a
: diversifcation of production have beer
at least moderately successful Tht
value Of canned pineapples sent to th'
United States alone in the fiscal yea
1911 was over million dollars; o
rice, the quantity shipped to this coun
try from Hawaii in that year was 6 3
million pounds; of coffee, 2% million
pounds, of hides and skins, u milliol
pounds of bananas. III 900 lunches
while of manufactures Of wood tn
value of the shipments in 1911 wa
: about $40, 600 BY far the larges
item of shipment to the United State
is sugar, valued in the fiscal year, 1871
at 96% million dollars, and AZ 2-3 mil
lion in 1910, against IA million i
1876 the year of the reciprocity treaty
/. Practically all the imports into tn
Hawaiian Islands are from the Uni
' ed States, except a few articles, r.
4 quired by local conditions, which car
not be obtained in this country. Tn
imports of foreign merchandis
amounted to about S million dollars
made up chiefly of nitrates from tn
: western coast of South America, an
Japanese products imported from il
r pan to NEE the demands of the 1000
persons of Japanese birth or parentae
now living in the islands. The Gel
Il sus of 1910 shows the population
# the Hawaiian Islands at l91,907,
Il which 70,500 are classed as Japanes
e 26 900 as Hawaiian" $4,000 as Port
D. guese. and 21,500 as Chinese. Th
d number of persons born in the Unite
States residing in Hawaii in 1910 ha
y not yet been announced by the censr
: OF that year, the figures Of 1900 ha
= inf heen stated at 4069. The tot