The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1864-01-21

upon L quarter Of Z million. besides all expenses
There is also a Furnishing plantation at Hama,
upon the eastern end of the island, in successful
operation.
The Wung Fact and Hoon Sing plantations OF
Hilo, Hawaii, have each taken off go tons OF
sugar for their last crop.
The Metcalf plantation. about ten miles from
Hilo, has just yielded a crop of 40 tons to its
proprietor-the largest crop yet taken from q
single estate in q year.
Of plantations in the process of formation. we
know Of none upon Kauai at present, unless
it be Mr.. Charles Ti;comb's At Kailua. Upon
Oahu, John Montgomery. Esq. Messrs. Judd
and Wilder, and His Majesty the King, are COM
mencing plantations in the districts of Koolau
and Kaneohe, upon the northeastern side of the
island. Upon Maui, Messrs. c. Brewer i Co.
at Waikiki. Levers and Terbert at Waihee,
and Thomas Hebron, Esq, at Waiehu. are well
advanced in enterprises for producing sugar, and
these estates also have the advantage of unfail-
ing water for irrigation, which has to be used
through one-half or twO-thirds of the year.
On the Island of Hawaii, Messrs. j. W. and
;. L. Austin and E. III. Allen have commenced
a sugar plantation at Onomea, eight miles from
Hilo. Three hundred acres of cane have been
pat in and give promise of a heavy erup, which
will be ready for the mill or TO commenc taking
of in November next. The machinery is TO be
propelled by water chiefly, and has been manu-
featured in Glasgow by the house of D. Cook &
Co. and is now on its way to the islands, in the
ship Brechin Castle. TO arrive in all March.
The Kohala plantation is Il new enterprise.
commenced by a joint stock company called the
Rlhala Suya- Inup-on- - ~ - u
hala, upon the Island of Hawaii. The company
is chartered, with a capital of $4,000, in shares
of $500 each, and the subscribers 10 its stock
are only held liable for its debts to the amount
of their subscriptions. The plantation consists
of 30S8 acres Of very fine land, 500 Of which
is wooded, and leased for a term of years, l2S
acres more chiefly of very rich sugar land, con-
veniently located for plantation purposes. There
is a very good landing upon the plantation. and
the company have placed, for the convenience
OF vessels touching there, a good spar buoy,
by an anchor of about 900 lbs. There
is an excellent public road crossing the planta-
ton, and the whole products can be carted to
the mill from every part necessary, and chiefly
DOWN hill. The vegetation has never been known
to suffer for want of rain, and although the past
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has not suffered. There is an abund-
INT supply of running water for all steam and
purposes.
Two hundred acres of cane are already planted
md the ground in process Of cultivation for
.hree hundred more, to be put in the present
ear. The machinery, manufactured in Glas-
,ow. Scotland, by W. & A. McOnie, who took
he premium on machinery at the Worlds Fair
n London in 1862, is ON the way to the islands
n the Brechin Castle, before referred to. 4
also of Weston's best centrifugals and en-
have been ordered from Boston, as also
Eire fencing from Glasgow. This plantation is
nder the management of g. w. Wilfong, ESQ.,,
rho is a shareholder i'm it.
In addition to the plantations, we should men,
on the Honolulu Refinery, for manufacturing
lgar from molasses, which is now in successful
peration under the charge of /. Bartlett, Esq.
From the foregoing it seems clear that sugar
romises to be the prominent staple of the islands
nd invites all the fostering care which the
Government and people can bestow.
18th IL fertile soil, an unrivalled climate and
it'll from Is to 80 months for the cane to ma
We ought to compete with any other coun-
Y in the production of sugar, and we. doubtless
IN do so. The great lack at present is want of
ificient capital, and all reasonable inducements
ould be extended to countries having a surplus
capital to invest in the islands.
There was a period when we looked to coffee
a staple, for no country in the world produces
Ter but the blight has been SO destructive,
at our confidence in it as a permanent export
IS been much shaken, though doubtless con-
ierable will continue to be produced.
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