The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1881-12-17
THE PACIFIC
Commercial AbOertlser.
MAUI T

. The Alexander and Baldwin mill is
grinding some very fine plant a n that is
yielding, they say, seven tons to the acre.
"A field Of thirty acres, that was ground off
some time ago yielded PIG ton or an
average Of seven three-tenths tons 10 the
acre. Everything I'm connection with the
works and management Of this plantation
j. well and most economically managed.
Most Of the cane l. fiumed 10 the mill and
goes right on to the cane carrier to the mill
which griuds the cane very very dry, in
fact il j. the best three roller mill in these
Islands. From the rollers the trash Is put into
ears which are run on a tramway to the
trash houses. This is the only plantation
on the islands where they do not use wood or
coal to run their works the trash being
more than sufficient for their steam power,
for both their grinding and boiling. They
have no open train in these works the
juice being evaporated in a fine double
effect, from there it goes to the vacuum
pan. The average weeks work is a turn
out Of sixty tons of sugar. The total num-
Der OF persons employed about the works,
when grinding, is all told but t~wenty-four.
Apparently not an ounce of steam is
wasted, none can be seen escaping any
where. 1t costs to cut, haul n grind the
cane II make the same into sugar about
ST 90 per ton.
The Grove Ranch Plantation Company
nave abandoned their works and will q
their cane ground at Alexander and Bald
wins for the next seven years, y contract
having been made for that length of time.
Grove Ranc receives nine-fifteenths of the
sugar, Alexander and Baldwin six-hfteenths
for grinding the same. The reason for
having their cane ground at Alexander
and Baldwin's is that 1000 lbs q n was
weighed and put through the mill and
found to yield II percent. more juice than at
the old Grove Ranch mill. 1t was not
thought advisable at present to pat up new
works, hence the contract with Alexander
and Baldwin. Grove Ranch is putting
new land under cane quite near the Alex
ander and Baldwin mill, all their cane will
be fiumed; the water used for James
AleXander's cane and lowland cane of Alex
ander and Baldwin, is what will be used for
iuming the cane of w. o. Atwater, Grove
Ranch, and upper cane OF Alexander and
Baldwin.
The East Maui Plantation, under the
management of Mr.. Hoffman, is in a very
prosperous condition, in three or four weeks
from now, they will have a stream of water
on the place that will irrigate, ii is expected
across the main gulches, and if weather
permits, the water will be down in the time
specified. A large reservoir is being con-
structed for the storage of winter water, and
OF freshets that may occur in the summer
months. All the plantations here IN Ma
kawao are now provided with reservoirs to
store their night water, irrigation being
carried on in the day time only. East
Maui has just finished grinding some good
Medium zane of Messrs. Brewer n
~Crowingberg, who are now about as much
or more interested in cattle raising as they
are in cane, and they make both pay pretty
well.
Hamakuapoko is busy grinding some
good cane. This mill was built in the
wrong place, about two-thirds of the cane
having to be hauled up the hill to the mill.
The Haiku Sugar Company, to whom this
place belongs, contemplates putting down
a tramway in the form of the letter s and
through the cane fields; il is unquestionably
4 great saving of labor and expense to do
so wherever. feasible, and it Is found to be
capable of taking off the entire crops of
both Haiku and Hamakuapoko, had they
been built in the proper place. The bottom
of Maliko gulch appears to be the proper
places could then have been hauled dot0n
TO the mill, instead of as now most of it up
to both mills.