The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1890-02-17
OUR SAN FRANCISCO LETTER
San Francisco, February 8, 1890, Per
:. 5. Hariposa.

The Sugar Market and Trade.
New York February Sth Cuban
centrifugal SO deg. 5 9-16c., granu-
lated &c.
The local market for sugar has no
features worthy of note. The de-
mand is slack and the receipts OF
Hawaiian are rather heavy. Prices
were marked down &c. on the 9Th.
The situation in the East is rather
firm. Advices from Havana dated
the 5th says: 1t is generally con-
ceded that the sugar yield will be
smaller than was at first anticipated.
This is due to two cause.-the pro-
longed drought, which consider
ably decreased the yield of the cane,
and frequent fires on the planta-
tons, which destroyed much cane.
At Sagua some estates will scarcely
produce 80 per cent of the quantity
of sugar they expected. Fires have
destroyed about five million arrobas
of cane.
A canard has again been floating
around in the East to the effect that
Claus Spreckels and the Trust have
been endeavoring to come to an
agreement regarding the portioning
out of the business. The New York
World had it that all attempts at
compromise had failed and it would
be nip and tuck as to who got the
business. The Spreckels of course
deny that any compromise was ever
contemplated.
The exports of merchandise to Ha-
vail during January were valued at
$39S. 100 as against $500, 100 in Jan
uary. 1889. The export to trans
Pacific countries and other Pacific
islands in January were as follows
Australia $3.50, New Z ,aland $1,000.
Navigator Islands 500. Philippine
Islands $4,000, Fiji Islands $500.
Will of Mrs. Dimond.
The will of Ellen Gray Dimond.
the deceased wife of General W. H.
Dimond. has been filed for probate.
William H. Dimond has been named
as the executor The will bequeaths
her estate, valued at Sol, 900, to her
, husband, with the exception of
$500 TO each of her three children.
and $500 to her friend, Mary Dugan
The will is dated December 20. 1887.
and is witnessed by H. Ct. Plat and
? George H. Rice.
Blockade and Storms.
q The blockade on the Central Paci
, fic is a thing of the past. The trains
are running on the schedule time
I once more, the letters have all been
j distributed and the railroad officials
y have no fear but what they will be
able to cope with any difficulty which
now presents itself.
The storms in the valley are ovel
5 and the water is receding Much
, damage was done by floods, partic
ularly in the upper course Of the
Sacramento valley.
On the California 4 Oregon road
things are in a deplorable state
: There have been no through train:
to or from Portland since the 15tL
ult One hundred and fifty miles OF
track is covered by snow or LAND
: slides The road will not be open
J, for week yet at least
D Dispatches from Portland say that
. the lower part of that city is flooded
the Willamette river being ont of it:
banks on account of the heavy rains
e The damage will run high in the
i thousands. The particulars thus ia
r are meagre, the first word coming 10y
!, way of Chicago, which shows how
badly communication has been inter
rupted.
Y Personal.
v The Mariposa has on board TIVE
noted passengers both OF whom ar,
; bound for the Colonies.
The first of these gentlemen i
# Henry George, famous the worlt
J. over as the author of Progress ant
\ Poverty" as a Single Tax agita,o
), and as one of the leading pohtica
l. economists of the day Mr.. Georg
t is an old Californian. aud in 1871. b
e and William NJ Hinton founded tn
r Evening Post of San Francisco. MI
: George continuing as editor Unit