The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1869-05-01

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Shortly after the appearance Of the above in
tire Go-ene og Wednesday, a gentleman called
AMI desired 10 sec the cotton ginning establish
uent referred 70. After inspecting it and the
labores working like - many bees. he remarked
tLat the old ada-c was a. true here as elsewhere,
that a man might live for years il a city. a. he
had in Honolulu. and not know al tiul was
going on in &C..
~ many others are not aware what is being
done in a quiet way sor the lIawaiian> we viii
state Cat the risk of being accused of blowing a
horu.) t.ut we became interested in the cotton
business, solely l. afford the natives an easy way
- pay ior their newspaper. having offered 10 take
cotton in pay therefor, ami have continued 10
purchase it in whatever quantities rendered.
We employ about fifteen men and women in
CLAIMING cotton and there are one hundred Ter
sons engaged in various parts Of the group. in
growing il a. their chief means Of livelihood, who
raise from sixty to one hundred thousand pounds
annually. The more Industrious among them
earn in this way from two TO five hundred dollars
each per annuni. Some of them are becoming
quite skilled in its cultivation and find they can
realize more than double the amount for the
same labor from cotton than in any other way.
On Friday Of this week we paid several cotton
growers over four hundred dollars in gold. which
was only for a small part Of their crol
To give an idea of what has been done to help
this enterprise, we will add that during the last
IT. g - -
growers, mostly natives, between TWENTY-FIVE
and THIRTY THOUSAND DOLLARS in gold. and are
more than ever confident that our persistent
efforts to establish this branch Of industry, for
which the Iiawaiians are 80 well adapted, viii
prove a success. 81 far the cultivation is con-
fined almost wholly to natives.
Regarding the q1ahty of our cotton, we have n
letter from the Secretary OF the Board OF Cotton
Brokers of New Orleans, stating that the sample
sent 10 him, at his request, was pronounced to be
the finest ever exhibited before the Board and con-
sidered by expert dealers to be fully equal to the
best raised in the famous Sea Islands Of Georgia.
There is no reason why cultivation OF this fine
variety of cotton here should not pay well on a
scale. when under the management of for
The only drawback may be the fact that
tic Iduu ptSt dddltcu ~ us gtoNln- On MAUI anu
Hawaii. belongs to the Government or the Crown
Domain, and cannot be purchased, Mt all. nor
even leased on satisfactory terms. No cotton
planter can be expected to start an enterprise OF
kind on 1eaScd iand.
The Soares Plantation at Tahiti, which has
been successfully in operation ioI several years.
and employs over one thousand laborers, shipped
to England last year Geo bales of Sea Island Cot
ton. varying from 400 to 800 pounds each in
weight. y sample Of last wears growth now
before MS is by no means equal to ours either in
OF finencss. Yet the income of that estate
Tor lSGS, was about 500. 900, which amount
ought to leave a very large profit to the proPrie-
tors, ~ tine capital required FOR machinery is
the chief expenditure being for labor. We
land here quite US well adapted TO the
growth of this staple rs any in Tahiti, but a
planter would find difficulty in obtaining a ice
title and perhaps laborcrs.