The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1891-11-02
EVA PLANTATION.
Visited by a Number Of Representa-
tive Sugar Men.
A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF
TIE NEW MILL.
Excursion Over the Oahu Railway and
Land Co.'S Line.

AT quarter to nine on Saturday
morning party of about five and
twenty gentlemen started by train
Tor EVA Plantation and Mill, AFT the
invitation of Mr.. J. n. S. 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. Marsden, II. NJ. Whitney, HI. r.
Warehouse, F. A. Schaefer, +. M.
Swanzy, Austin, Chas. Cooke, Bowen.
W. .. Smith, Holdsworth, Mist,
May, Evans, Frear, j. 0. Carter,
Kluegel, land the Bulletin and ADvER-
TISER representatives, all interested
IN the sugar business of the country.
MI, 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.
| SCOppILlS 1OI q IlllluUc dG NOdldlua
the group was joined by Hon. S. M.
Damon, and the train ran on to the
Peninsula junction of the Pearl City
station, where q 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, n 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 q series of hOppers into
the diffusion battery of % huge
| vertical cells each of which will
take 2 tons of sliced cane. Here it
is treated with hot water and the
necessary proportion Of lime and
passed on to the quadruple effect and
thence to the vacuum pans, one of 10
tons capacity with Z coils of steam
pipes, the other with 20 tons capacity
and 9 coils. After this the sugar des-
cends to the Is centrifugals where it
is dried, the residuum being led into
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 boilers all leading into
the same steam pipe whence the
whole machinery is worked.
A chimney 40 feet high which
| took 125, 900 bricks in it's construction
affords ample draught.
This, though it may be a mere
sketch of great industrial undertake
ing, may serve to show the work in
outline of one of the newest as we'll
as the greatest of the enterprises of
our sugar men. Barons if you like
we hope that they may soon Vindl-
cate their title.
From the upper windows of the
mill one looks 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 u like account.
The red volcanic soil enriched by
centuries of neglected vegetation only
needs invitation to produce whatever
the ingenuity of man can demand
from it. The three we!lstations OF
the company will yield, it is estl-
mated, $4,000, 900 of gallons of water a
day. and it is not in hands which will
waste it.
After viewing the mill in self
assorted groups, the visitors sat down
to a pleasant lunch of salads and
sandwiches. coffee and effervescent
drinks, at tables presided over by
Messrs. Dillingham;, Williams and
LoWrie, while Messrs. More and
Hughes kept the walters up to the
mark and saw that their guests want
ed for nothing.
Soon after noon the party started
homeward-boun from Eva, and
stopping for time at Pearl City
Station were able to be present at the
opening of the first store in Pearl City
itself.
Thence the train ran on to Homo
lulu, reaching it in time to clear the
2:15 P. NJ. passenger train just ready
to start out.
Many hearty handshakings did MI
Williams receive as his guests left the
train with earnest congratulations on
the admirable way in which he ano
his coadiutors, Mr.. More and then
staff, had carried to success one or the
greatest enterprises ever undertaken
in these islands.
All of which would have been i'm.
practicable but for Dillingham; and
his railway!
The weather was delightful and the
whole excursion most enjoyable.
, A ProjectiIe From Mars.