[Found under: “HAWAII NEWS”]
Hawaii exported to San Francisco in the month of this past August, 1,311,200 pounds of rice at the price of $71,265; and China exported to the same market in that month, 1,977,412 pounds of rice at the price of $35,156.
[What a different world we live in where we import most of our food…]
(Ko Hawaii Pae Aina, 10/18/1890, p. 2)
That was before California started production of “scientific” rice crops in the 1920s. Whole market went bust because Hawaii’s shipping costs plus manual methods of growing rice (old fashioned).