The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1888-02-08
COAST J0TTINGS.


The death of Walter Murray Glib
son, on Saturday the 21st instant,
did not cause a ripple on the sur
face of our city life. The hurry
and push of business went on as
usual, and only few personal
friends and newspaper reporters
paid any attention to the matter.
His body was embalmed, and the
remains go down by steamer to-day
for interment in the Islands. A
gentleman who was with him during
his closing moments, says that ''Ha-
wall" was the last ineligible word
he uttered. 1t is past peradven-
ture that the Islands we're upper
most in his mind, and although he
was undoubtedly mistaken in his
methods and purpose, the fact re-
mains that he gave to their service
his best thoughts. Speak kindly
therefore of the dead, for you too
will mingle with the clods of the
valley and be as dust and ashes.
The beet sugar "boom" promises
TO be quite as important and more
lasting than the land "boom" of
Southern and Central California.
Colonel Spreckels has been to
Chico, in Butte county, to select the
site for second beet factory, the
first one in jacksonville being we'll
underway. A third will probably
be erected at one of the landings at
q navigable point on the Sacramento
river, fifty-acre lot, with water
rights and wharf being offered in fee
as an inducement by the proprietor.
The adjoining country is suitable
| for beet culture.
These are only samples of what is
going on. learn that inquiries by
hundreds have been received from
points East of Missouri River and
from the South, asking for informa-
ton and inviting Colonel Spreckels
to visit and address them. He is of
course too busy a man to 60 all
around the Continent to satisfy the
craving for information on this SUBJ
ject, but he manages nevertheless
to reply to all reasonable queries.
The coming season will see three,
if not more, of these factories in
full operation. 1t is estimated that
the farmer will get about $3.50 an
acre for his beets while the factory
will make large dividends.
1t is reported that Mr.. Steele,
manager of the American Refinery,
has set off to Germany to get beet
sugar machinery. He is on wild
goose chase, however. Col. Spreck-
els has the exclusive right to the use
of the latest patents for the United
States. Old fashioned machinery
has no show with it. The American
declared a dividend, but whether
from capital or profit is uncertain.
The point is puzzling experts here.
The American Sugar Trust is get
ting in its work. The organization
East, representing the New York,
Brooklyn and Portland refineries
and two South, having been CON-
pleted, production is regulated by
only operating stated number and
closing the others. AS result,
prices of raws dropped from 4Bc. to
44c. in few days, while granu-
lated sugar advanced from 5 1l-16c.
to TIC. and crushed from 53c. tc
S1c. per pound. The New York
"World" calculates that on raise
of 19c. per pound of sugar the
Sugar Trust will add an annual pro
fit of SAG, 800, 900 on the years con-
sumption. This will affect Island
sugar the price of which is regulated
by New York. While the Trus
last raws will be cheap and refined
dear.
There is a growing feeling thai
, the sugar duty will be reduced
Many San Francisco merchants favo
its abolition. If the duty be takeI
off sugar the Hawaiian Islands will
be worse off with the Treaty thar
' without it. And they will not b.
able to get rid of it and impos
duties on American goods.
The loss of the Clause Spreckel
outside the bar on a reef was onl,
serious inasmuch as it prevented tn
sugar supply from accommodating
But the Zealandia the same ola
brought several hundred tons, whic
s the Australia supplemented largely
!, Vessel and cargo were covered b
insurance.
5 Your people need not build upo
: an opposition steamer line. Non
a is likely because none is possible
!, Instead Of quarrelling with the &C
d mirable service you have got 20
!, should unite In making it profitable
: This is the true way to ensure q