The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-09-25

Editors Herald:
by silence. no doubt, has been
extremely gratifying to your patrons
but as they have had a long season
for reIaxaiions | may venture another
blast, for the comet is still visible;
ESt0 pc petua.
my last communication gave a
description of wonders OF Hawai- in
which I intimated the possibility OF
the town of HID, the capital of the
island, being destroyed. The flow
ing lava was then a great many
miles from the town, but its steady
advance produced no particular fear
with the Inhabitants, hence they
have felt quite safe until just recently.
The visits of interested denvot pill
grims to the fountain flow nave been
unheeled by the 'Old Lady,. no
amount of offerings have sppeased
her anger, so she is still pushing her
couquests towards the beautiful tropi
cal town of Hiio. Her forces are
divided, throwing red-hot barriers on
either side OF toe town. The stream
on the north has entered the Wall.
uku river producing some fantasies
with its waters and may cause the
same to disappear or run in another
direction, Within a few days the
lovely bay and town of Hdo may be
entirely destroyed.
During the last few months Hon
dulu has passed through q severe
scoursge, occasioned by another visi-
tati0n Of that dreadful disease, the
smallpox, which proves so fatal With
HswsuaDs. Quarantine regulations
have been so strictly enforced out 10
the credit Of the Board of
Health be it said-that travel
was, for a time entirely prohibited
to and from other islands, which, no
doubt prevented the spread of that
disease; and hence it was confined
principally to Honolulu; but now
that travel has again commenced,
and business resumed, all things
move on as before. A few hundred
only of the poor natives were car
ried off by the smallpox.
Since January last we have been
more than busy erecting a new
sugar mill on the most improved
plan, and nOWithat it is in running
order [ breathe more freely. The
mill and machinery, all of which is
new, was manufactured at the
Honolulu Iron Works in Honolulu.
The buildings, mason work, reSer-
vOir and foundations, were all
put up by II. H. Cuff, J. H.
Dean, w. d. Alexander and II. a.
WOOlley, assisted at times by a
number of the elders now engaged
in the mission. The boiling house
stands on the site of the old mill,
which we were forcel to move en-
tire, in consequence Of the dilapida-
ton of the stone walls, which were
laid up with clay mortar.
The engine house is a frame
building l6X25 feet, and contains
one 20-hOrSe power engine and gear
ing attached to the mill, which is
under a shed roof at the side Of the
engine house. This building, in
Guiding the mill, is elevated thirteen
feet above the floor Of the boiling
house, and stands twenty feet from
the same. The boiling house is also a
frame building, in the form of the
letter L, one wing being fifty-eight
and the other sixty feet long, and
twenty-eight feet in width each, the
wall to the square being eighteen
feet. This building contains two
furnaces, one at each end of the
south wing, which are fed from the
outside. The flames, or heat, passing
from the furnace at the east end OF
the south wing under the open pans
or reGucers, conueck with the heat
from the other furnace and pass
together through a tubuIer boiler six
feet in diameter aud sixteen feet
long, containing eighty four Iour
inch tubes, and passes up the iron
smoke stack which is seventy feet
high. There are two 500 gallon
CHARTERS into which the juice enters
direct frem the mill ,Iwhere it is clsri-
fed by steam. after which it passes
into the reducing pans which are
thirty-eight feet long, where it is re-
duced 20 a density of twenty-five by
the saccbsromiter. 1t is then run into
a large iron tank, from which it Is
carried up into the vacuum pan.
These CHARTERS are situated in the
east end and opposite 10 the reducers,
being elevated above them sufficient
to admit of the passage of Juice into
the reducers. l. the centre; of the
building is located the vacuum pan
Standing on frame fifteen feet
above the floor level, at the eide OF
this stands the mixer, beneath
which the ceptriiux revolve. The
sugsr, when dry. drops out Of toe
bottom of the centripigsls into n
truck and is wheeled into the sugar
bin. Then there are four pumps
driven by steam and ali engine which
drives the centrifugals, che pump !,
connected with the vacuum pan,
one pumps water into the steam
boiler from the hot well. Ali the
exhsust steam passes into the bot
well. which, with adding cool water
from a tank close by, furnishes suffi-
Gent for the boiler: one numn is