Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 125, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1904 — THE DEMANDS GROWING. [ARTICLE]

THE DEMANDS GROWING.

Tropical Products Brought to United States Show Increase. The growing demand of the people of the I'niicd States for tropical and sub*, tropical products in pointed out in the annual report of the chief of the bureau of statistics, issued by the Department of Commerce and Labor. It shows that the total Tahie of tropical and subtropical products brought into the United States during the fiscal year 1904 amounted to $430,556,775, including those brought from the Hawaiian Islands, Porto Rico and the Philippines. In nearly ali of the tropical anil sub-tropical products the importations of the fiscal year 3904 are materially larger than ip earlier years, while in quantity the increase is even greater than that in value, because of the declining prices of many of these articles. The total quantity of sugar, for example, brmtght into the United States in 1904 from the tropics, including that brought from Porto Rico and the Hawaiian Islands, is 4.675,027,813 pounds, against 3.305,037.790 pounds Til 1900; 2,232,820,896 pounds in 1890. 1,829,280,030 pounds in 1880, and 1.190,002.049 pounds in 1870. Coffee importations in 1901 amounted to 998.831,292 pounds, against 787,991,911 pounds in 1900, 499.159,120 pounds in 1890, and 235,250,574 pounds in 1870. Importations of raw silk in 1904 amounted to 10,722,017 pounds, including all classes of unmanufactured silk under this title, against 11.259,310 pounds in I!HX>, 5,934,300 pounds in 1890, 2,562,230 pounds in 1880, and 553.589 pouhds in 1870. Importations of fibers in 1004, including those from the Philippine Islands, amounted to 299.951 tons, against 249.300 tons in 1900, 193,332 tons in 1890, 111,751 tons in 1880, and 43,533 tons in 1870. Cocoa imported amounted to 72,277,000 pounds in 190-1, against 41,746,872 pounds in 1900, 18,200,177 pounds in IS9O, 7,403,043 pounds in 1880, and 3,640,845 pounds in 1870. Tea importations in 1904 amounted to 112,898,010 pounds, against 84,845,107 pounds in 1900, 83,880,129 pounds in 1890. 72,102,930 pounds in 1880, . and 47,408,481 pounds in 1870. Fruits also show a rapid increase in importation, the value of tropical anil sub-troipical fruits brought into the United States in 1904 being $24,990,800, against $19,203,592 in 1900, $14,028,90 Sin 1880, anil $7,410,592 in 1870.