Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1917-09-12
SUGAR PREDICTION, IMPORTS and EXPORTS
Some ne Interesting FIGURES on a Subject in
Which we are all Interested.

Onlteo states amounted to 7.472,-
1859 pounds valued at S347,-
664,625 in the fiscal year ended
'une 80, 1917, against 1920 Os5,-
'oS pounds valued at $3O8. $780,
|9S in 1916, the high record year
md 6,S22 S25 102 pounds valued
d: Sl55,O0,l26 in 1914. While
the quantity received in 1917
'hows an increase of 9h% over
1914, the value increased 124%
he bureau of Foreign and Do
nestle Commerce, Department of
Commerce, announces.
OF the total arrivals of sugar
n 1917, 5,332,745, 1854 pounds
|alued at $3.50. 945, ,694 came from
foreign countries, 1852, sos, ,O5o
pounds valued at $62,74l, ,1o4
rou1 Hawaii and 1881, 1896
pounds valued at $50, 3,9S7,767
rom Porto Rico. OF the SIS
'''"n pounds imported in 1917
lin tu1elgn countries 4,669. .OY7.-
5'5 pound, Game from Cube, 1l4,-
'n' '''' i',u ,lo irDn the Domini-
;dn Republic, llS, iO7, 100 pounds
, r,'jj ) "a! /. Avn rican countries.
-tI, 81! jJ+ p>un'ls IRON the
'hi'Ipinuc Islands, 26 4U6, ITO
pounds from our recently pur.
chased territory Of the Virgin
Islands formerly Danish West
Indies, 2I,8S5, 900 pounds from
Japan and lesser amounts from
other countries.
l he imports from the Virs in
Islands and Japan show remark
able increases when compared
with previous years. There we're
no imports of sugar from the
Virgin Islands in 1916, and the
total imports from these islands
in the five fiscal years 19l2-l9l6
amounted to 25.9l2,546 pounds,
! million pounds less than the
quantity for 1917. In 1916 the
imports of sugar from Japan were
o,4lO pounds, and only 26,4lO
pounds for the five years 1912
1915, against 21, 1885, 900 pounds
in 1917 The imports of sugar
from the Dutch East Indies,
which, amounted to $40 ] million
pounds in 1912. fell to 21,818
pounds in 1917. The imports of
beet sugar for 1917 we're only
28,847 pounds.
The production of sugar in the
United States for the fiscal year
ended June 30, 1917, is estimated
at 2,267 PSI $40 pounds, of which
62!, ,799,3b) pounds were cane
and l,645, ,452,480 pounds beet
sugar. This production with
the imports from foreign coun-
tries and receipts from noncontig-
uous territories would make the
sugar available in the markets of
the United States amount to
9 1890 746 pounds. Of this
amount 248,840, 1886 pounds val
ued at S77 O96,608 were exported
as domestic refined sugar, SILL.
344 pounds valued at 1884 1875
were exports of sugar in the
condition in which imported. and
the shipments to noncontiguous
territories amounted to 1899,
532 pounds, valued at 81, 439, l41.
Deducting these shipments from
the receipts and production would
show 1886, ,o99, ,534 pounds as re-
tanned in the United States. an
averge of 81 pounds per capita,
against 1850 362,76 pounds, an
average of 78 pounds per ca pi,a
in 1916, and s,793, 794, 1928 pounds,
an average of 80 pounds per cap
ita in 1914. .--,>z =.
The average price of imported
sugar in 1914 was 2.o1 cents per
pound; in 1915: 80 cents per
pound; 1915, 3.s cents per pound,
and in 1917, 4.5 cents per pound,
an increase Of 1I2% in three
years. The average price of su.
gar from Hawaii was cents in
1917 aud 5.4 cents in 1917, from
Porto Rico the everage price was
3 cents in 1914. and 5.5 cents in
1Q17 Pafrod ..,,.e,r av,or<oJ