The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-10-01
OUR SAN FRANCISCO LETTER.
Per s. S. Zealandia, San Francisco.
September FL, 1889.
(From our special correspondent


OF the place is growing beets. A
large quantity of machinery to be
placed In the new sugaries which
are to be erected. All over the state
experiments are being made with
beets. Some twenty localities are
already suggested for the sites of
these sugaries and as but ten are
to be chosen, some will have to be
left out, Salinas, Orange, San ia
cinto, Chico, Chino, Santa Anna and
other places are suggested. Three
hundred tons beets daily are being
taken in at jacksonville.
The monster refinery of Dick &
Meyer which was located at Will
liamsburg, n. Y, has been burned
with 5000 barrels of sugar The
loss is about $1,5OO,OOO which will
fall on the Sugar Trust, the firm be-
ing connected with that organiza-
ton. It is not considered probable
that the refinery will be rebuilt. It
has been the policy of the Trust to
reduce the number of it's refneries,
for it has discovered that the capa-
city of few of them can be doubled
or tripled and made to supply the
whole market. This reduction of
the number of refneries means a
great saving to the Trust.
A movement is on foot looking to
the revival of the Baltimore sugar
trade. Many prominent business
men of Baltimore are now about to
carry out the plan. A meeting of
the subscribers to the capital stock of
the new sugar refining company has
been held. It is stated that of the
capital stock of $1,000,000 required,
$777,000 is already subscribed. A
company is now organized.
w. l.. Nosler of Del Mar, San
Diego County has taken up the pro-
duction of sorghum and he will, if
possible, experiment with the manu-
facture of sugar from this cane. He
has eight acres planted, and he es-
Inmates that it will make $50 gallons
of syrup, worth seventy cents per
gallon.
Saccharine, which, as known, is
three hundred times sweeter than
sugar, is beginning to be felt by the
beet sugar manufacturers as a very
dangerous enemy. It is stated that
in Germany, already, so much sac
charine has been made as to render
$500 tons of beet sugar superfuous.
It is principally employed in the pre-
paration of fruits and the production
of sweet liquors. It is not food
stuff. Indeed, it has been condemn
ed by eminent medical authorities
as directly preiudical to health. The
sugar manufacturers are of the opin-
ion that saccharine should only be
sold by chemists. France, Italy and
Portugal are already contemplating
imposing tax upon it.
The imports Of all merchandise
from Honolulu and ali island ports
from January LIST, to September LIST,
were valued at 12,543,623.
A6AAhS OiuDSs
It is proposed by the supervisors
to impose an annual tax of $4,000
on all athletic clubs which give
slogging matches. The object is to
break up the many score of alleged
clubs in which fighters and
roughs of the worst description
and to drive this element
out of town. The Olympic, Cali
fornia and Golden Gate clubs all
heartily favor the idea.
Storage of Brandy at Honolulu.
A scheme has been developed by
the San Francisco handlers of Cali !
fornia brandy to have bonded ware
house for the storage of brandy |
erected in Honolulu, where goods |
can be kept until ready for consump-
lion. At present all spirits distilled |
N America, which remain in the
country, must be taken out of bond
inside of three years and the internal
'evenue tax of 80 cents a gallon
paid. The whiskey distillers escape
he immediate payment of the 80
cents tax by shipping the liquor out
# the country in bond, and letting
t remain until wanted. They thus
ave the interest on the tax money.
'ften for many years. The whiskey
nen as rule ship to Bremen. The
'randy men are thinking of shipping
o Honolulu.
The Chronicle of the 18th inst.
obtained the following regarding
he project: "Several weeks ago.
Vhen the Chronicle correspondent
alked with several wholesale wine
1erchants concerning the prospects
f the California wine industry, the
digestion was made that the wine
hould be turned into brandy, as an
1ferior grade of wine would with
ge make good quality of brandy.
he objection was then made that
lch scheme involved throwing
le 5randy-making business into the ,
ands of capitalists to an even
reater extent than was the case with
lie wine industry at present, for to
&c brandy it must be kept in store !,
,yeral years, and only a few men
IN afford to pay 80 cents a gallon :
4 several thousand gallons of wine
nd keep that amount of capital
cked up for several years.
This surely looked an insurmount-
Die obstacle at the time, but
heme has now been developed. Q
hich, If carried out as is pro =