The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1867-08-10
Important I'm sugar
Making.


An invention Of great Importance IN the MANI
faeturr Of sugar Ims recently been made in Eng
land. which well dc-eTve- the attention Of ;hosc
interested ia this business. Ii succc~eiul, ~ is
nOx asserted u be the ease, il must, u a certain
extent, reyOlutiDnize the present expensive mode
IL making sugar. which requires - elaborate
machinery and =, LIrg. q capital as u em',arass
INST planters AMI to deter many from e~nSagin.
IA 1t who are PIzse-ei of limited n.eans and of
the requisite kill and enterprise. Under the
present system an estate capable Of producing.
i've hunIrci t,ns of sugar annually cannot b.:
got into operation at II cJ-t Of lc-- than forty 10
fifty Thousand dollars, while one of q thousand
tons capacity will co-t fully one hundred thou
-and dollars A. large capitalists, with the-c
sums awaiting investment, are not To b. found
here in abundance, the starting of Il plantation
necc-sitatcs q debt, in most casc-, involving
nearly or quite all it, capital.
The great drawback with our plantations has
been, besides the fact NAMED above. that in mos,
case- those engaging III them have done ~ with
cut a thorough knowledge Of the details required.
and with an idea that the liabilities could b.
paid off from the first crop or two. The ruling
idea has been, not 10 create a permanent busi-
nee, but 10 make u fortune ia five years and
then, perhaps, retire altogether and enjoy it.
Ina the sugar business, as in every other. plans
should be Laid for life. and no expectations of
clearing a fortune in even twenty years should
influence them in one iOta. Were all who en-
gage in business of any kind 10 lay their plans
for a permanent, lifelong service in it, and ex-
ercise the utmost prudence and thrift in cx-
penditure- and OUTLAWS of every kind, there would
D.. F..rar ~ 1. n,r .p..u, ont NTH
small gains. and u much surcr prospect of final
success.
Sugar manufacture at these Islands must be
set down as the most successful vocation that
any man of energy and industry can follow. The
recent unfortunate failures, or rather difficulties.
10y which six plantations have had 10 be disposed
of ut auction, forms no exception To our remarks,
and therefore we do not agree with those who
assert that sugar planting here il a failure. The
ease with which money was obtained, the many
inducements held out to planters to borrow and
spend, spend and borrow, rather than ecOnomizc
and pay of liabilities before mourning new ones
was one Of the evils attending the management of
the business, and by no means a part of it. The
bitter experience learned by many during the
past few years, Of the grinding. CALLING tyranny
of debt ami interest at IL To- Is Ter cent. per
annuIn, will serve as u lesson 10 others embark
ing on borrowed capital in sugar n well rs
other enterprises, To avoid burdensomc debts by
prudence and thrift.
On our first page will be found two very in
teresting articles, taken from n pamphlet pub
in England, and received by the last mail,
for which we are indebted u the courtesy Of His
the Minister Of Foreign Affairs. We
have carefully Tcruscd this very interesting pam
phlet, which Is an exposition of the advantages of
FEYEK's COSCRETOR, an apparatus lately invented
in England. Cor the improved manufacture of
refinery sugar. The process consists in taking
the cane juice ~ it leaves the mill. and. in fifteen
without separating the molaSscs, or even
by the application Of lime or any other substance,
the pure juice INTO a hard substance Ike
s,oHe, ,rLIeh IS oaHod CONCRETE.
The machinery by which this novel process Is
Elected il exceedingly simple and not expensive.
IL consists in the use of, for boiling, what Mr..
calls 1" trays" better known 20 all our
planters ~ the d. sorghum PAN" through which 4.
he juice in passing becomes most effectually {
,oiled without in the least iujuring il. Leaving {
he pan il l. elevated u a cylinder, driven by :
team. through which il il distributed and dried
y 4 steam fan and hot air. which eyapOrates all 1
he moisture from the juice. On leaving this I
.ylinicr il runs into containers IF any kind. a
.ither barrels, hosshelds. boxes or hays. and y
very son n hard ~ stone. in which J
it can be shipped around the world a
With little or NJ peroep;ible los in weight. The !
idyantages Of this Dew process are briefly .tatei :
n the pamphlet a. follows Il
Isr. That the whole juice from the cane a. it come o.