The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1881-12-17
sPRECKELsvILLE.

Some additional particulars regarding
Spreckelsville may not be uninteresting to
your readers. All the buildings are framed
withthe best and heaviestN \. w. timbers,a and
braced whereverit is possible to put a brace.
The whole of each building, top, sides, and
ends is covered with corrugated iron, the
buildings are ) and 6 stories in height, n
are well ventilated. The works put up last
year are all under one root one might say,
that is, boiler-house, the five roller mill,
triple effect, 10 foot vacuum pan, centri-
fugal and sugar room, etc., etc. The
arrangement of the new sets OF works IS
however quite different. Three sets OF five
roller mills have been set in position.
Immediately in front of them, N some
distance off are three triple effect houses,
where the juice is evaporated at low tenn
perature, from there it goes through pipes
and is pumped into the two new vacuum
pans which are in the top story of build
ings Immediately in front of the triple
effect houses. One of these pans Is twelve
feet in diameter and will hold over twenty
five tons of sugar at a strike, it will be used
entirely for No. 1. The next one a
ten foot pan will be used for Nos. 2 and 3
sugars. After being boiled in vacuum the
sugar drops down from the pan into a large
iron trough that feeds the centrifugals, OF
which there are eight to each vacuum PAN.
From the centrifugals the sugar drops
through the bottom to the sugar room
where it is packed into bags and put on to
the Kahuluf railroad cars right at the door
Oh the SuEdI IDOlllS. II Nt1IA EOfFSA NhNb
drives the three sets of rollers, the triple
effects, vacuum pans and centrifugals, etc.,
etc, is generated by fourteen immense
double boilers in one large boiler house ana
the steam connections with all parts of the
works are laid underground in cemented
trenches covered over with corrugated IRON,
the trash from the different mills is carried
direct from them TO the furnaces on an end
less carrier, under cover, ana the cane Is
ground so dry, that it goes right into the
furnace as il comes from the rollers; al per
cent. of the weight Of cane is juice and 20
per cent. trash. The cane is hauled on cars
alongside of the long cane carrier and
thrown on to it; il then passes through the
heavy, f~ive-foot six, three roller mill, whose
rollers are not set quite so close as In ordl-
nary mills the trash then passes through
another set of two rollers that are worked
by a hydraulic pressure or over 2OO TONS.
The trash when il comes from these rollers,
is perfectly dry, and, as said before, goes
directly from here TO the furnaces Of the
total amount of sugar turned out or these
works last year, 76i per cent. was No.
l9I per cent, No. p, and IT per cent, NOS.
Every carload of cane is weighed before 1t
goes TO the mill, it takes just about y tons
of cane to make one ton of sugar. There
are on his estate over 20 miles OF tramway,
about l. miles of his is q permanent
double track laid through the main roads,
the balance is portable and Is put down IN
the different fields to connect with the main
tracks as fast as required, the gauge Is TWO
feet, two locomotives will be used, they are
now on the way here. The large reservoir
near Puunene, is full of water, the area Is
many acres, and has an average depth OF
twenty feet, all the water from the main
ditch i run into this lake at night and
drawn off for irrigation every day. The
large reservoir beyond Haiku will soon be
completed, the dam Is now about 200 feet
wide at the bottom, and about forty feet
high. IL is intended for the storage of water
that the ditch is unable to carry in winter,
and although not as large as the one at
uunen it will hold an immense body of
water. The best of the land has yet TO be
planted on this plantation, 1 e: the Wal
tuku the low lying land i'm
mediateIy in the rear OF Kahului. At pre-
sent the supply of water is not sufficient to
much more than is already planted
which is about 1000 acres, but an additional
supply of water will no doubt erelong be OBJ
either from beyond where the supply
comes from, or from the Waihee
Waiehu streams, where enough water
runs into the ocean to irrigate 1000 acres OF
cane. The Waihee mill is run by water
which could be utilized on the
Wailuku, or Waikapu commons. :