The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1866-02-10
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Remarks.


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Remarks.
Our list gives Il total of thirty-three mills
that are or will be in operation the present
year. Besides the eight named on Hawaii there
are two now being arranged for in kona, one
on Mr.. LOgans land, and the other on Paul
Emmert's. One two are also in
contemplation for Kohala and it is not inprob-
able that others will be commenced in other
parts of the island, many very fine localities
for cane are found there.
The Island of Maui takes the lead thus far,
and promises well for the future. The mills on
that island very superior and capable Of
grinding double the amount set down for her
this year. The land lying at the foot of the
Wailuku mountains has been found to be the
richest and most productive on the group. There
are five mills located in that neghborhOod, all
doing we'll
On the Island of Oahu the plantations are
mostly smaller and more recently set in opera
ton, but will enlarge their product gradually.
Some fine sugar lands found in various
tions of it. During the year there have been
four importatiOns of laborers,-three Of them
Chinese coolies, and the fourth natives Of Me-
GaskiIls Island, engaged mostly for five years.
The Chinese have never given much satisfaction
as labOrers, as they have always proved vicious,
and released from their contracts
refuse to reengage, preferring to roam over the
country rs peddlars or thieves, generally bring
ing up in the chain gang. If Polynesian Ia
borers can be induced to migrate hither, it is
believed that they will prove in the long run
to be the most serviceabe and reliable. Nothing
can be more gratifying than to witness the
change created in the neighbOrhood of sugar
mills and the busy thriving villages springing
up in various sections, giving employment to
natives, male and female, and to industrious
foreign artesans of every class. Great changes
are taking place in this way at Koloa, Hanaei,
Waikiki, Lahaina, MakawaO, and other points.
Cost of Sugar Manufacture.
The past year has been prosperous one with
our planters, owing to the high prices obtained
for sugar and molasses. The principal cause
that led to the advance in the price of sugar
in San Francisco is believed to have been pri-
marily the stoppage of its production in Louis
lana which created an extra demand on every
other sugar producing country, resulting in n
universal advance in the market price, even in
the great sources of supply-Manila, China and
Mauritius. From present indications, it will
be some years before Louisiana produces the
crops she did, or the price recedes to what it was
previous to the rebellion. In the meantime
great impetus has been given to its manufacture
in this group. and the fact demonstrated beyond
peradventure that it can be produced here as
chcaply in any country IN the world. The
average cost is believed TO be less than four cents
per pound, taking all the grades of sugar into
the estimate, and on plantations which have
brances, the cost is probably less. Each years
experience tends to reduce this cost, as larger
fields are brought into cultivation, and more
sugar is produced from the same machinery and
labor.
Steam and Water motive Power
It NAV interest our readers to knew TO what
extent water power is employed on these Islands.
Out of the thirty-three mills, in operation. nine
teen are driven by water, while five are driven
by steam and nine by horse or mule power.
We have no statistics to show the relative econo-
nv of water as compared with steam hut
large saving is no doubt made in using water
mower. In any future increase that may take
place in the number of our sugar mills, 1t Is
probable that the proportion Of mills driven by
water, steam or horse power, will be about the
same rs at present In some parts of the group
water power Is abundant, ana can De appIleu 10
woolen. cotton and saw mills, well as to sugar
mills.
The Mode of transportation
From the sugar mills to or from the ports OF
shipment is by OK carts, such rs are employed
in bringing cane from the plantations to the
mills. The roads generally good, or as good
as in other new countries and the plantations
are mostly from one to two miles from the land
ings. Carriages not used much in travelling
here, and are common only in the larger villages
on each island Between the islands the trans
portation is by schooners, varying from 50 to
$50 tons burthen, and by the steamer hiIaued,
a propeller of 400 tons burthen, which has been
in employ for five years, but in January last was
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