The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1886-01-06
WAlMANAL0 PLANTATION AND MILL.

WAlMANAl0 PLANTATION AND MILL.
II may interest some of your
numerous readers to see descrip-
ton of a sugar plantation and mill
by non-expert, who simply viewed
things with an eye to the pleasure
and instruction derived from them.
1t is with this view that l present
the following account of Waimanalo
Sugar Plantation and Mill to you.
Leaving the foot of the Pail the
road proceeds more and more south
erly over succession of hills and
dales sufficiently picturesque to
please the eye, but ratherIaggravat-
ing to the traveller who desires to
speed his horse and make good time
Oh his journey. Very soon the
peculiar peak of Olomana shows up
and gives the wayfarer something
to exercise his ingenuity in con-
occurring how it came there. Every
few yards the journey seems to be
nearly at an end, but yet another
hill has to be surmounted and
another gulch crossed, till at last
you stand on the top of Keaniani
(The glass;, and the beautiful
panorama of Waimanalo bursts
suddenly upon the view. To the
right the most perpendicular noun
tain on this island ending in a group
of rock islands out to sea, and to
the left the twin peaks of Olomana
terminated by the island of Moku-
LEILA, celebrated as the only breeding
place for plover in the group. To
the center, almost at the foot of the
observer, lies Pua Ali (the royal
fower), the residence of Mr.. j. A..
Cummins and the seat of the sugar
mill, surrounded by cluster of
neat houses, and acre on acre of
waving sugar cane, stretching down
to the white sandy beach on which
the Pacific breaks with its never
ending roar.
Going gently down the pail which
lies at the spectators feet one
reaches the old residence of Mr..
Cummins, in which he spent over
80 years of his life, while managing
the estate as cattle ranch. Here
no less than five of the Hawaiian
monarchs have been entertained
from time to time. Another stretch
of about half mile brings us to the
mill and the homestead. After
partaking of refreshments and pro-
viding for the animals, we are in.
vited to step through the mill and
see the process of sugar manufac.
ture. First are to be seen leng line:
of cars laden with sugar cane
standing on the rails ready to BIZ
run up to the feeder of the mill q:
fast as required. The feeder of the
mill is an endless band covered
horizontally with wooden stats ant
passing between two wooden slat:
so as to form an oblong box witt
a continually travelling floor. Beside
it stand several hands, chOpping the
cane so as to make it lie snugly ant
feed evenly to the rollers, of which
there are three, the upper a four
ton and the lower ones three tons
each. These rollers crush the stalks
of the cane so finely and thoroughly
that nothing is left but fine string.
substance in small Jumps, technic
ally known as trash, and the juice
The trash passes up on another end
less band direct to the furnaces ant
the trash house; while the pail
green colored frothing liquid know
as the juice passes on to straine
and then is pumped up to the clari
fiers, and then to the cleansing pa
where it is constantly skinned ant
then through another strainer. Al
of these processes are needed to re
move such constituent parts an
foreign substances as would inter
fere with its conversion into tn
finest sugar. From the strainer
passes to the double effect, which
the name given to two large boiler
having steam tubes inside where tn
juice is boiled first time. Fror
these it passes down to the cooler
large tanks-where it is coole
off, and then again goes up to tn
vacuum pan-another large boile
having three steam coils inside, an
from thence to the mixer. Th
juice has now become dark, BLACK
granny and very adhesive. Here
after being thoroughly turned owe
by revolving set of spokes in I'll
mixer, it is run off into the centr
fugals-a set of four rapidly revol'
ing tubs having their axle in I'll
centre-and in a very short viii
the beautiful pale amber No.