The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1891-07-07
OUR SAN FRANCISCO LETTER.
Per R. M. 8. S. Mariposa, San Francisco,
june 90, 1891.
tFrom our special correspondence
Sugar Notes.

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There is nothing new in the sugar sit
uation, except the action of the Cana
dian government in submitting a budget
in which raw sugar is to be admitted free
of duty, which will mean the remission
of 100000 to consumers. On the
strength of this budget it is announced
that the refinery at Vancouver, British
Columbia, has declared war on the
Spreckels refinery, and will compete for
the market in British Columbia and the
Puget Sound country. In connection
with this subject dispatch from Van
couver says: The cause of the war is the
action of Spreckels in sending sugar into
the British Columbia market at prices
not only way below those at which sugar
is sold to United States points, but act
ually below the cost of production, the
object being to swamp the Canadian re-
fnery and close it up. This action shuts
the Vancouver refinery out OF it's own
market, and in retaliation Mr.. Rogers is
making shipments to Seattle and Puget
sound points, where the Canadian sugar
is sold at figure much below that at
which Spreckels is willing to sell.
The Arizona Sugar Company has
just been formed with headquar-
tiers at Phoenix for the purpose
of erecting a beet-sugar factory in that
section. The capital stock of the COM
pany is to be 100000 shares with a par.
value of $40 per share. 1t is claimed that
land in Arizona will produce twenty tons
of sugar-beets to the acre, and that all
the other conditions, such as a good sup
ply of coal for fuel, water, transportation
facilities, etc., are favorable to the sue
cess of the enterprise.
The Gable Survey.
> The Thetis which was named for
making the survey for the proposed
cable to Honolulu, has been sent to
Behring sea, and Il is expected at Wash
ington that she will return in time to
take up the work in September or
October. t
The Navy Department has resurrected
the memoranda of Admiral Belknap and
Commander Erben's old surveys of a
cable route between here and Honolulu
for use when the appropriation for a
fresh survey become available in July
next. Belknap surveyed from San
Diego to Honolulu, and Commander
Erben from this port. The former
officer found submarine peak with
coral deposits at depth of 828 fathoms
in latitude 32.51 north, longitude 1921
west, and nearing the islands found
coral deposits at sixty three and seventy
fathoms. The greatest depth he en-
countered was ,054 fathoms.
The lightest shadows found by Com
mander Erben were 435 and Alb fatn-
oms, and the deepest 1882 fathoms,
with no bottom. Lava was found at
1854 fathoms. It was during this sur
vey in 1874 that Admiral Belknap plat
ted and accepted Page Pago harbor,
Samoa, and afterwards ascertained that
the remarkable depth of five and one
quarter miles in the Japan current would
necessitate a DETECTION from the pro-
posed direct cable route to Yokohama
from San Francisco. The same surveys
indicated that the most feasible route to
Australia would be via Hawaii and the
Fiji and Phoenix islands, with the BONN
group for a sWitch-off to the Orient.
a New Steamer Line.
There is now loading in New York the
American steamer Keweena for San
Diego, San Francisco and Seattle. This
is the first of feet of steam clippers to
ply between New York anG the three
Pacific coast ports mentioned. Four
steamships will be put on at once, and
the bulk of the heavy trade will be soli-
cited by the new line.
American News.
Senator Cullom of Illinois is out as can
didate for the Republican Presidential
nomination in 1892.
Rev. Heber Newton of New York, one
of the greatest divines of the day, is on
trial for heresy, in being too liberal in his
views of Christianity.
A Philadelphia inventor has completed
balloon which he expects will cross the
Atlantic in thirty hours by means of an
upper current of air. The balloon will
carry no passengers, but if the trip is
successfully made monster air ship
will follow soon, carrying at least two
passengers.
Rudyard Kipling, the noted author, is
In this country in search of health.
The crew of the wrecked bark Exile,
of st. Johns, N. B., were rescued by
the daring tars OF the steamer Sophie.
The rescue was made liz heavy storm,
when the bark was expected to sink
every moment.
General-in-Chief John NJ. Schofeld of
the United States army was married on
June 18th to Miss Georgia Kilbourne of
Keokuk, Iowa. The groom was 81 and
the bride 26.
Miss Elaine Goodale of New York was
married in high style on the 18th inst.
to DR.. Charles A. w. Eastman, a full
blooded Sioux Indian. Miss Goodale is
Educational Inspector of the Indian re-
servations of the Dakotas, and talented
and highly educated woman who has
won considerable reputation as writer
of verse.
VIM. Mckinley, father of the McKin-
ley bill, was nominated by reclamation
by the Republicans of Ohio as their can
didate for governor.
The Court of Appeals at New York has
affirmed the sentence against Johann
Most, the fiery Anarchist. Most was
sentenced three years ago to serve year
in state prison for his incendiary remarks
concerning the execution of the Chicago
Anarchists, but has been out on bail. He
will now get his deserts
Dixon, the man who once walked over
Niagara Falls on a wire, proposes to
tempt fate again by walking over one
wire in the dark.
Merry" Fritz Emmett, the noted
German comedian, is dead.