The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1860-10-04
THE PACIFIC
Commercial Advertiser.
THURSDAY. !

. nifty. This Is the question which. expressed in
d some shape OF other, every man in the community
has prOpcunded and cogitated within himself, and
& there Is no mistaking the issue, that it Is an i'm
. pOrtant one in our political economy. There are
E two answers made. as the inquirer happens TO be
hopeful and intelligently conversant with the re-
sources Of the country, or Is otherwise Of the
/. opinion which may De- expressed as follows
r 81 The whaling fleet has diminished until a mere
Inoiety remains Of the ships which We had during
the decade just passed and the few which now
visit us are poor and feel poor and make narrow
disbursements. California, so far from taking
our poor potatoes, still poorer onions, grains and
hogs, is actually supplying Us with hay, oats,
potatoes and onions, cheaper than we can raise
them. The whalers and California were all
which created the golden era which, we may
truthiuIly say, IS now passed, and they failing.
with the deeayinG nation, an impoverished treasu-
~, the doubled tariff, and burdensome internal
taxes, what must we look for but failures and 4
chronic dullness for those who are forced 10 re-
main, and u general exodus Of those who are for
tunate enough to be able to =. make their arrange
ments for an early departure? % Another opin-
ion IL held by some who admit every fact advanced
by the gloomy prophets OF failure and disaster.
Hopefully surveying our circumstances. they see
only the necessity Tor 4 change of employment,
and that such change, whatever may be the causes
producing it. is not one of pecuniary loss, but of
seeurer profit and greater stability.
In the yicissitudes Of trade, it has come that the
island community must look elsewhere than to
supplying recruits and money to whaleships as
the main source OF wealth. And when we inquire
what is our chief resource, we believe the answer
will be- promptly made, in the production fsuch
oOrfortIrur,l S+arl.s .g ,"- IL, ILL o,.ll.,.
to raise with success. Our commerce and our
manufactures will be subsidiary to that interest.
This has been the tendency of investments for two
or three years back. The misfortune of the
:. blight has dampened and we'll nigh cxtin-
guished for the present the prospects and hopes
of coffee planters, great and small; but the inter-
ests of beef packing, hides, tallow. wool, and till
lately we might have added pulu, have advanced,
and especially has the main agricultural interest of
capitalists, sugar, progressed. In this direction
there is the fairest promise of continued and in
creasing prosperity, which is to more than COM
pensate us for the loss of our old business of inn
keepers.
In this connection, we cannot but notice the
prospects Of the new Haiku sugar plantation,
the business plans and arrangements of which
appear to be more complete and satisfactory than
those of any similar enterprise hitherto establish
cd here. The machinery for this plantation has
just been landed from the Raduga. We believe
its arrival will mark something like an era in
our industrial history, being the largest, the
most complete and improved sugar apparatus in
the kingdom. To compare it with the Lihue
plantation works, its capacity is double, though
only driven by a fifty-horse-power engine. All
the power and the sugar-boiIinG is done by steam.
In This raSpacr n differs from, all ,thar pracap+
plantations on these islands the Lihue being the
nearest to an exception, in being "a full steam
-r--i-.--- d. - 49, Hill .I~-.~.:~- IL
waste steam from the engine will clarity and
evapOrate the juice, and steam from the boiler
concentrates the sugar. And so powerful are the
rollers, that the bagasse as it leaves them, will
not need to be thrown out to dry before it is fit
for fuel, but is carried by machinery direct from /
the crushers to the furnaces, where it serves for !
fuel. This is a new feature in a sugar mill, and a
save the labor of several workmen. The 4
works are adequate to manufacture from four to '
six tons per day, or say from six hundred to eight t
tons per annum, the amount from a L
given quantity of cane depending upon its quail a
ty but with this improved and powerful appa- II
.atus. it is estimated that at least twenty-five Der L
,ent. more sugar will be produced from the same =
than by any other machinery. hitherto used ;,
the islands. The machinery was selected and :
rdered by Mr.. G. f.. Beckwith, and was made !,
y Messrs. Gage, Warner & Whitney, of Nashua, r.
Hampshire, and is furnished to the planta- 10
ion by Mr.. d.. NJ. Weston, who delivers it set tn
p on the plantation, on very favorable terms, rs liz
re learn. 70
While speaking of the hopeful prospects of this be
ew enterprise, another, once as hopeful as this,
nd quite as well backed by capital, which is s.,
ow a confessed failure, naturally recurs to our M
linds. The i'll success of the Lihue plantation or
FINISHES only one lesson in the olive and learn Wi
.hich must be conned by individuals and commu- oh
embarking in new enterprises. That lesson lyi
B, that the first requisite to a profitable planta- So
on is a tract of land where sugar-cane will grow of
ell without suffering a ruinous drought two un
out of each three, and that the most heroic OF
.crihee of capital, and all the appliances of first ciE
re machinery, and able managers and far fetch OF
water Will not mend such Il natural defect. "U
. all regret the mistake, and time may vet Gu,
Divide Il remedy. This failure was a damper All
son the sugar interests, and with several others
lesser notoriety, which went down for want of has
quisite capital o. skill, retarded our improve in
in this direction for several years. str
Public confidence appears now to be re-estab- Il
he'd in the disturbances of this mode of invest s"e
mt under favorable circumstances. 1t has been -,
mOnstrated that with sufficient capital, joined 49,.
tn practical knowledge and skill TO select suit 5or
lie ground in the beginning and carry out all the
operations with a wise economy and Il Co
licious liberality, success is as certain as in any strc
her business-nay, that failure Is less to lie APP
shended in this than in most other enterprises !
which mon embark cori,,I II has La.n fr-- ma,
.r demonstrated that smear limitations an 4.
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