CO129-364 - Public Offices & Others - 1909 — Page 102

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cocaine can be made by a comparatively simple process.

All the Java coca leaves are at present said to be worked

up in Holland for the manufacture of cocaine.

The statistics of export of coca leaves and cocaine from Peru and Java, so far as they are obtainable,

are given in the following table:

Java.

Peru.

Coca Leaves.

Coca Leaves.

Cocaine.

lb.

Kilos.

1904.

57,032

About 1000metric 1904.

tons of coca

7,527 (6,156

1905.

151,057

leaves are stated

1906. 274,259

1907. 533,765

from Peru at the

1907.

6,057

present time.

to be exported 1906. Lannually

kilós to Germany.)

6,778 (6,313

kilos. to Germany)

5,914 (5,184

kilos. to Germany)

1905.

1908.

1,026,022

The imports of coca leaves from Peru to the United States and to Hamburg in recent years are given

in the following tables:

Imports of Coca Leaves to United States.

Quantity.

lb.

Value (dollars).

1904-5.

342,518

1905-6

2,650,141

488,545

1906-7.

1,515,616

212,424

1907-8

633,121

76,109

Imports

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