EEPORT CI' THE STATISTICIAN. 



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Pacific coast, and tlie fluctuating proportions of domestic to foreign 

 supply : 



Years. 



Total con- 

 sumption. 



1860 

 1861 

 1862 

 1863 

 1864 

 1865 

 1866 

 1867 

 1868 

 1869 

 1870 

 1871 

 1872 

 1873 

 1874, 

 1875 

 1876 



Tons. 

 415, 2S1 

 363, 819 

 432, 411 

 284, 308 

 220, 660 

 350, 809 

 391, 678 

 400, 568 

 469, 533 

 492, 899 

 530, 692 

 633, 314 

 637, 373 

 652, 025 

 710, 369 

 685, 352 

 638, 369 



Imported. 



Tons. 

 296, 250 

 241, 420 

 241,411 

 231,398 

 192, ceo 

 345, 809 

 383, 173 

 378, 068 



446, 533 



447, 899 

 483, 892 

 553, 714 

 567, 573 

 592, 725 

 661, 869 

 621, 852 

 561, 369 



'S S 



5 o,- 

 P 



Per ct. 

 3.C8 

 12.39 



"'34.*25 



22.38 



3.52 

 6.85 



The foregoing figures do not include the cane-sugar consumed on the 

 Pacific coast, all of which is imported. The reported consumption, as 

 ascertained by commercial statistics at San Francisco, was a little above 

 30 tons in 1873 and 1874, and about 27 tons in 1875. 



The statistics for the consumption of cane-molasses in the same years 

 are as follows : 



SUaAB-PRODUCTION IN THE UNITED STATES. 



Sugar-cane is said to have been brought into Louisiana from San 

 Domingo by the Jesuits in 1751, and that sugar was first manufactured 

 about 17C4. Accounts of the progress of this industry under Spanish 

 rule are conflicting. After the cession of Louisiana by France, in 1803, 

 circumstances v^^e^e more favorable to the production of sugar, but the 

 annual product has fluctuated greatly, as shown in the fallowing table, 

 which has for its authority M. Boucherou, the sugar statistician of 



