Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-05-13

number and capacity Of sugar mills, It
is not improbable that the beet fields
may produce 25 per cent of the con-
sumption Of 1917 against 20 per cent in
! 1916. and 10 per cent in 1906. This esti-
mate az to the higher percentage which
beet sugar may form OF the consump-
ton Of 1917 is based in part upon the
assumption that the quantity consum-
| ed will, as a result of high prices,
show fall when compared with years
in which prices were materially lower.
The average consumption in the Unit
ed States in 1914 with prices at the
normal was 80 pounds per capita, and
with the advance in prices. fell to So
pounds per capita in 1915, and II
pounds per capita in 1916.
The events of the war have advanced
the rank of the United States among
the worlds beet sugar producers.
Prior to the war, beets produced about
one-half Of the sugar supply of the
world, but the rank of the United
States which had but recently become
producer Of beet sugar, was extreme
ly low. With the events of the war, the
output Of beet sugar produced in Eu-
rope has fallen nearly one half, the ed
timated output of the sly crop year
being but 4.s14,00O tons against s,341,.
600 in the crop year 1928. The crop
Of Germany for 1851 Is estimated, at
100000 tons, Russia 100000, Aus
tria $4,000, Holland 100000, France
$4,000. and Belgium 100000, while the
beet sugar production of the United
States in the crop year 1851 is now
estimated at $4,000 tons, thus giving
the United States fourth rank at pre-
sent among the worlds producers OF
beet sugar.
The per capita consumption Of the
principal countries of the world has
been greatly disarranged by the war.
The consumption in the year inImed-
lately preceding the war is estimated
at SO pounds per capita in the United
States. 80 pounds per capita in England,
70 pounds in Germany, and 90 pounds
per capita in Denmark. No figures
are of course obtainable as to present
per capita consumption in the coun-
tries at war, but the reduction is pre-
sumably much greater than in the case
of the United States, in which, as
shown above, the consumption has
fallen from SO pounds per capita in
1914 to II pounds per capita in 1916,
this fall of nearly IA per cent being
presumably due to higher prices. while
present indications are that the per
capita consumption in 1917 will be still
less than that of 1915.
The great reduction in beet sugar
production in Europe has resulted in
large expectations Of sugar from the
United States to Europe, though this
has been entirely in cane sugar, chief
ly that imported from Cuba, refined in
American factories, and then exported
to the countries at war, especially to
Great britain and France. The total
expectation in the calendar year 1916
was 1,577,000.00o pounds against $685.
$4,000 in 1915, 39O, 409, 900 in 1914, and
51,772,000 in 1913. The value of tile
refined sugar exports from the United
States in 1915 was ss0,676, 900, in 1915
s42,762000, in 1914 s1S,233,o00, and in
1913 $1,s74,000. having thus been in
1915 nearly so times as much as in
1913, while the quantity was approx
mately 80 times as much.
WAR TAXES.
The Chamber of Commerce of the
United States of which Boise Com