The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1883-03-03


line will soon be here, and it is well to
consider some of the opportunities they
may afford the business enterprise of
the country. Sugar and rice we need say
nothing about, but about the OPP
portunities afforded for a variety of
minor productions and enterprises? We
are assured that the new vessels will
have special accommodations for the
transportation of fruit. To insure the
regular and safe transportation of ba-
nanas, will contribute a large item to
the of the country. Our ba-
mana production is unfailing and may
be made as extensive as the market Of
the Coast may require. All this, no
doubt, is receiving due consideration,
and the banana production will be
pushed and cared for. But there is one
of our super-abundant fruits that gen.
orally goes to waste, the mango, which
ought to become, we think, an article
of valuable export. Let that fruit be
carefully picked at a proper time, then
carefully packed and slowed away in a
wel[cooled fruit compartment of a
swift new ship, and we doubt not, that
this favorite of the tropics can be de-
liYered in choice, edible condition in
San Francisco. 1t will be necessary, to
make such an export successful, that
experienced fruit packers should SUI
pervise the shipment and induce pro-
ducers to bring their fruit into the
market in an u~pexceptional condition.
Natives having groves of such fruit
trees, would soon learn that fruits drop
ped on the ground or rudely knocked
out of the trees, would be valueless and
that special care, with the assistance of
ladders and platforms is necessary for
the proper collection of the fruit; that
it must be subsequently handled and
carried with continual care until de-
livered into the hands of the fruit
packer, shipper, and purchaser. We
cannot donbt that choice ripe mangoes
would prove a valuable Hawaiian
product in the market of San Fran
cisco. We have another hitherto un-
cared for product, that ought to pay
as an article of export-our capsicume,
or chill peppers, that grow every
where luxuriantly, and are found grow
ing in abundance even without cul-
tiVation in the fields. These pep
pers are of superior quaEty-superior
to those preserved OH the Coast-and
if attention could be given to this
article, the growth is such, yielding
enormously without cultivation, that a
large export of peppers could be fur
nished for about the cost of collection.
The same may be said of the castor
oil bean. 1t does not require oultiva-
ton here as in America. We have
seen hundreds of acres of land in our
Islands covered with the castor oil
bushes loaded with the castor oil bean.
The beans, we think, could be abun-
collected, and exported at a cost
of between two and three cents per
Of course these are sugges-
We have not entered into an
products of this country available for
export, but we deem it important to
turn attention to them, and shall be
glad to receive information from our
island residents in regard to various
products, fruits, plants, barks, roots,
herbs, grain, or whatever else our
lands produce, that may be
desirable articles in markets abroad.
The information we shall be glad to
publish and comment upon, and we
think that a general concurrence of
in relation to our various
home productions will begin to attract
attention abroad and induce the small
e%ultivator, with modest means, to ven
-ure to our islands, as well a the spec
llator with his large capital.