The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1875-05-01

Subsequently Colonel Spalding went into the
market &c a buyer, on the same terms as were
offered in the proposed contracts, and within
a day or two he had pledged some six thousand
tons for shipment. This practice of sugar
dealers buying their cargOes at the place Of pro-
duction, (which, let Us hope, is now fairly inaugu-
rated) is by far the best for all concerned, as ex-
Perienee in other sugar growing countries has
amply demonstrated. At ali events, it il the best
for the planter, for very obvious reasons. By it
be is at once released from all bother and embar-
rassment Of cost Of transit, insurance, duties or
other " incidentals, 4" to say nothing Of the delays
and uncertainties in getting returns from foreign
markets. In reality, by this system the proper
and natural distinction is maintained between the
agriculturist and the merchant-the one whose
occupation it is to produce, and he whose trade it
Is to buy and sell the produce. With us the two
have often heretofore been appropriately (but
unavoidably) blended in one.
While on the subject Of sugar, let us append
here the following remarks on Hawaiian free-trade
and it's anticipated effect on beet-sugar and the
Re6neries Of California which we find in a recent
number Of the AHd
Three cents a pound is about the average duty
ANsI1 49, NAlN - IAg4N AHl III RAgAA 1AN
fore realized on making sugar from beets at Sacra-
mentO. 1t might appear that this would end beet
sugar making. But it may be assumed that any
serious increase Of demand in the Islands will increase
the cost Of production, and the sugar planters will no
doubt combine to get some of the advantage Of our
remission Of tax. At least half Of the three cents
will go in the way indicated.
"The San Francisco refneries have, for two years
past, worked for less than a satisfactory profit. They
have kept down the price of sugar. and they will of
course go for the same advantage. Between the pro-
Queer and the refner the advanced rates will proba-
bly, not seriously affect beet-sugars.
''The sugarie at Sacramento, by contracting with
farmers for all its roots, and combining itself to factory
management, will reduce the cost of sugar-making
materially. so that probably no material reduction Of
revenue will result.
But let US suppose that raw Sandwich Islands
sugar can be sold in San Francisco for less than it
costs to produce sugar from beets. Then the sugarie
at Sacramento can turn its works into a refinery
without cost or loss Of time. For, be it known, that
last year, by improved process, the factory refined
into lOaf-sugar 11-16ths Of all its production; and
this year the production will be larger. There would
be also a profit in the syrup from cane-sugar, which
is not made on molasses from beets, that is fit only for
distillation.
{" The process of refining is by using high steam for
publication. The juice is passed into the centrifugal
10 the usual way, after being boiled down to proper
consistency in the vacuum pan. A jet of steam is
thrown in, and the impurities are slung of through
the whirling screens, leaving the pure white loaf-su-
gar adherent to the inner part of the fine circular
revolving wire screen; whence it is taken in large
cakes to the breaker and pulverizer, as desired. The
process is the work 4 Of a moment.
"Should the Island sugar be refined there and sent
here duty free in that state, California would lose all
sugar making and refining. which would be a serious
detriment; unless the price Of sugar be so reduced to
consumers as to justify individual ~privation for the
bene6t If the nublico