Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-09-10
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PERU AS BLUFF?
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May Be Scheme to Stand Off
" Concessions Hawaiian
Planters Want

" J. nat the western part Of the United
States should require the Importation
ofTaW sugar from Perm t. supp IS the
wants Of that region, as intIm3 ted 10
ne the case in a ts.egTan TO the Star
Bulletin ON Monday. sounds rather
strange to some people here CONVEX
SAINT with the sugar situation. In the
same issue a Washington letter ampli-
fed the information previously given
in this paper, relative to the victory
for the western refneries and carriers
over eastern refneries and carriers"
won in the recent decision OF the Inter-
state Commerce Commission on rates
10 Missouri river points from the
Pacific coast. .=... .-....-."
In the letter Of the StartBulletin's
Washington correspondent i is stated
that the report of the commission
freely discusses the desire Of the Calf
. foTnia refiners TO attract Hawaiian raw
sugar, which now goes to New York
and Philadelphia via the isthmus, II
their melting pots They told the
commission that $50, 600 tons OF sugar
are produced or refined in the western
states which will be affected by the
order This is enough to supply TO-
000,060 persons, while in the eleven
western states Immediately concerned
there were in 1910 only G,825,0 200 per
sons. Therefore, they must find a
market east of Colorado and the only.
way they could think of was to have.
the railroads meet the competition via
the isthmus. .:".=@.
/ One Honolulu businessman who is
familiar with the facts Just related,
which had been previously reproduced
from the proceedings of the commits
sion at San Francisco in this paper
along with the special cab.egram an
nouncing the ruling, yesterday ex-
pressed his surprise at the news re-
garding the proposal to import sugar
from Peru, saying:
.It is a. mysse cry to me how San
Francisco refiners can say that, with
| the lowering of transcontinental
| freight rates on refined sugar, more
sugar will be required by them than
California and Hawaii can produce,
when last year 275,000 tons Of Ha-
vivian sugar was shipped to New York.
Besides the sugar shipped last year
| to its own refinery at Crockett, Calf,
| the Sugar Factors Company sold 50,-.
600 tons to the Western refinery. From
what hear the Factors are trying to.
make better terms for their sugar with
| the coast refners, and to stand them
off the latter are making it appear
that they can go elsewhere for their
supplies.
@Under the old railroad rates the re-
finers deducted S. a ton from the Gu
Fan basis to offset the disadvantage OF
freight charges to Missouri river
points. Now, am Informed, since the
/ transccntinental rates decision, the
Sugar Factors Company is trying to
have that discount reduced to $3.50 a
1 ton. while the refiners are holding out
/ against the concession. >:..:.
4 t.In these circumstances, it may not
| be unfair to suspect that the talk OF
/ looking to Peru for raw sugar is only
a bluff. / don't know how much sugar
i Peru produces, or where it is exported.
| Possibly it goes to Europe and the eX-
port in that case would be stopped by
the war. r.
Reference to u. S. government sta
ltistics shows that Peru produced 49,
| 440 short tons of sugar in 1911, and
There was no data for 1912. Peru is
given / per cent of the world sugar
crop for 1911-12 OF its 1912 crop the
1 United States took only 6579 tons,
therefore. allowing that the crop has
mot diminished since 1911, Peru, If cir
cumstances MAKE it desirable, can in
crease its shipments to the United
Estates by about $4,000 tons, less what
lever may be its home consumption:
This fact would make the Peru duh
4 of coast refners a serious matter.