The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1891-08-27
EWA'S PUMPS.
graphically Described, Giving
Their Cost and Canacifv


Yesterday morning party of business
men were enabled through the kindness
OF the y. L. & L. Co. and the plantation
agents, to take run down tothe Eva
plantation. The mill which was made
the first objective point, has already
been described in these columns. 1t is
being rapidly pushed on to completion,
and will be ready long before the cane
is. The party yesterday devoted itself
principally to the examinations OF the
pumps which are to put the water on
the fields.
There are twenty-five ten-inch wells
on the Eva plantation, and three large
pumping stations. The smallest Of
these pumps is used to raise the water
from two finely flowing wells and is now
watering 100 acres of cane. The pump
If worked twenty-five hours day will
raise from four to five million gallons of
water sixty-eight feet. This is fifty per
cent more than the average daily water
consumption OF Honolulu The whole
plant cost $4,000 which includes build
ing and foundation, piping and small
reservoir. The furnace consumes about
two long tons of coal for each day of
twenty-five hours, and the coal can be
laid down at the furnace doors for about
81 per ton. If this single pump-the
smallest in the plantation were trans
planted from Eva to Honolulu, the
water famine would be over, and people
might water their gardens twenty-five
hours in the day.
The above pump like all those on the
Eva plantation is the product OF the
Blake Manufacturing Co. 1t runs very
smoothly, so smoothly that even the
engineer one day forgot in a mo,
meat of Observation-Disclosures, that the
powerful and noiseless engine was In
motion. He got in the way-just with
one inger-and did not notice the eel
lision until he saw his tinger-lying IN
the dripping pan!
Pumping Station No. 8 is now in pro-
cess of construction, and, when COM
plete, will be one OF the g sights " OF this
island There will be nothing to beat it
on this side of the Rocky Mountains.
Two large pumps will lit the water from
twelve artesian wells-one to a height of
1877 feet, the other to height of 1877 feet
above sea level. Deductlng 80 feet, the
height of the natural flow, we have
| 1876 feet respectively. The ordinary
capacity of these pumps is, together,
twenty million gallons per day, but they
! have maximum capacity OF about ten
millions more. Yet the ordinary daily
consumption of coal will probably not
| exceed seven tons. This very moderate
| consumption of coal will be due IN
great part to the use of tubular boilers
| which. it is claimed will furnish about
twice as much steam per pound of coal
as the best boilers of any other pattern.
These climax tubular boilers were made
at the Clombrok Steam Boiler Works IN
| BROOKLYN, n. Y. The whole work OF
preparing the foundation and erecting
| the pumps is under the personal super
vision of MIR. Bunge, a courteous gentle
man as we'll as skilful mechanic, who
has been sent here by the Blake Manu-
featuring Company for this special pur-
pose.
The total cost of this great pumping
station, including the wells and the pip
ing will be in the neighbourhood Of
100000.
The total capacity OF the twenty-five
artesian wells, with the four pumps
working at their maximum capacity, VII
probably be not far from fifty million
gallons per day. This is an astonishing
, figure, but it gives only correct idea o.
the power of these splendid pumps
There will be water enough to irrigate,, l
} necessary, 1000 acres of cane, and at thu
] ordinary working capacity OF the pumps
o there will be abundance OF water 10
5000 acres. Enough water will how II
= the once thirsty deserts of Honolulu t
l. supply a city of 100000 people.
a After doing more than justice to a.
K exceedingly bountiful and generous re
/, past, the party rode through the can
a fields to convince themselves by persona
inspection of the magnificent condltlo
" OF the crop:
o The condition of the plantation Is
s highly gratifying one and its prospec'
J. bright. even with sugar at the presef
!. low price. Everything which a faVo
of able situation, surprisingly fertile SO
,e and appliances of the most approve
Ye efficiency can do for any plantation nj
Id ture and man have done for EVA. II
IS wells have not been in the smallest u
gree affected by the severe drought
IN the passing summer.
of The plantation has passed the expe'
ne mental stage, and the stockholders ma
to Law, as a fattering JUNCTION to their soul
err the observation of one OF Honoulluil
an leading business men-an ooserVati'
made after careful personal Inspector
is, "The plantation appears to be very car
er fully managed. Everything seems
he have been thought out beforehand"