The Hawaiian gazette., 1891-11-03
EVA PLANTATION.
Visited by a Number Of Representa-
tive Sugar Men.
4 BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF
THE NEW MILL.
Excursion over the oahu Railway and
Land Co.'S Line.

AT quarter 70 nine on Saturday
morning a party of about five and
twenty gentlemen started by train
for EVA Plantation and Mill, at the
invitation of Mr.. ]. y. :. Williams,
manager of the Union Iron Works, to
whom was assigned the contract for
the whole machinery of the mill.
Amongst the invited guests Were
Senior Canavarro, the Portuguese
commissioner, Messrs. w. G. Irwin,
Jos. Msrsden, II. NJ. Whitney, II. t.
Waterhouse, f. 4. Schaefer, f. NJ.
Swanzy, Austin, Chas. Cooke, Bowen,
W. O. Smith, Holdsworth, Mist,
May, Evans, Frear, ]. o. Carter,
Kluegel, and the Bulletin and ADvER-
TISER representatives, all interested
in the sugar business of the country.
Mr.. Robert More, the superintendent
| of the Union Iron Works, was there
too, and neither last nor least Mr..
Dillingham;, whose indefatigable en-
/ ergy has rendered possible such an
undertaking as this which the party
went TO see.
Stopping for minute At Moanalua
the group was Joined by Hon. ). NJ.
Damon, and the train ran on to the
Peninsula junction of the Pearl City
station, where few minutes were
spent looking at the work going on
for an ornamental fish pond for the
coming city.
Thence the train ran on to the Eva
station, where the company alighted
and, passing through the large gen.
eral store of the plantation, entered
the mill building, large business
like erection, walls and roof being all
of corrugated iron, and here they
were met by Mr.. Lowrie, the man.
ager, and Messrs. Kopke and Hughes,
engineers, who showed the visitors
through the works and answered the
numerous questions put by observers
in search of information.
To go through the mill and describe
briefly the processes from the field to
the sugar room, we begin with the
spot where the cane is brought from
the fields and passed direct into the
cutting or slicing engine, which was
running at full speed.
From here the cane now reduced to
shreds is carried by an endless chain
of rakes up an incline to the upper
story of the building, where it is dis
tributed by 4 series of hoppers into
the diffusion battery of IS huge
vertical cells each of which will
take , tons of sliced cane. Here it
is treated with hot water and the
Y,rnrorfinIl of limo onn
passed on 10 the quadruple effect and
thence to the vacuum pans, one of 10
tons capacity with coils of steam
pipes, the other with 20 tons capacity
and 8 coils. After this the sugar des-
cends to the l6 centrifugals where it
is dried, the residuum being led into
a tank from whence it is passed away
as fertilizer.
Meanwhile the chips or slices of cane
deprived of 81 per cent. of their sac
charine qualities, are dropped through
the opening base of each diffusion
cell on to another moving platform or
endless chain, which takes them to a
4-roller mill which was running on
Saturday where the water they may
contain is thoroughly expressed and
they become fit for fuel for the fur |
naces.
There are 6 boilers all leading into !
the same steam pipe whence the |
whole machinery is worked.
a chimney 40 feet high which |
took 1850 bricks in its construction |
affords ample draught.
This, though it may be a mere
sketch of a great industrial undertake
ing. may serve to show the work in
outline of one of the newest as well /
as the greatest of the enterprises of
our sugar men. Barons if you like
we hope that they may soon vindi-
cate their title.
From the upper windows of the
mill one lonks over hundreds of acres
Of waving cane and other hundreds of
acres all of virgin soil only awaiting
the pillow and the planter to be turned
to like account.
The red volcanic soil enriched by
centuries Of neglected vegetation only
needs invitation to produce whatever
The ingenuity of man can demand
rom it. The three well-stations of
he company will yield, it is esti-
mated, g, 900, 600 of gallons of water a
lay, and it is not in hands which will
waste it.
After viewing the mill in self
escorted groups, the visitors sat down
o a pleasant lunch of salads and
coffee and effervescent
thinks, at tables presided over by
dessrs. Dillingham;, Williams and
JOwrie, while Messrs. More and
Hughes kept the walters up to the
mark and saw that their guests want
d for nothing.
Soon after noon the party started
from Eva, and
topping for a time at Pearl City
station were able to be present at the
pening of the first store in Pearl City
tself.
Thence the train ran on to Homo ,
ulu, reaching it in time TO clear the
:l5 P. NJ. passenger train just ready
o start out
Many hearty handshakings did Mr..
Williams receive as his guests left the
rain with earnest congratulations on
be admirable way in which he and
is coadjutors. Mr.. More and their /
taft, had carried to success one of the
reatest enterprises ever undertaken
D these islands. +
All of which would have been i'm
racticable but for Dillingham; and l
is railway
The weather was delightful and the
hole excursion most enjoyable.
For Nervousness