The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-03-16

/ Two ClJlGS Is 50 SLOW
chat seven days are required for the
Soyage. But five or eight islands are
important: Hawaii, Maui, Oahu, Kauai,
and Molokai The other three, Lanai,
Niihau, and Kahoolawe, are Indifferent
and are devoted principally to sheep
grazing. The aggregate area is about
1000, 900 acres, Of which Hawaii en-
braces five eights. In point of popu-
lation, however, Oahu ranks first, con-
! tanning more than a third of the popu-
lation of the kingdom. The second
city on the islands is Hilo on the island
of Hawaii, which has a population of
| 10000.
The climate is unsurpassed. The
summary of observations taken by
! Prof. Lyons of Oahu College from July,
! 1890, to June, 1891, shows an average
temperature of 1906 degrees, the
highest average of any month being
77.55 and the lowest 6s.92. Frost is
never known and the heat is seldom
| excessive, and while people here dress
for and expect hot weather they suffer
less than do you in American cities
during the summer The rainfall on
the east or windward side of the islands,
Is plentiful, and in some sections eX-
,essive, but on the leeward side il is
ordinarily very dry, and for purpose Of
agriculture artesian wells or irrigation
from the noun tains must be resorted to.
The principal industry of the islands
is sugar. The largest plantation is at
Spreckelsvillc, on the island of Maui;
the Hawaii Commercial Company,
otherwise Claus Spreclssls, is the pro-
prfetor. This enormous plsntatiop is
located on ap arable plain at the foot
Of the mountain slopes close 20 the sea,
and was formerly an arid waste, but
by the outlay Of great sums of money
In irrigation ana of energy and labor
IL has been brought into fertility. The
capital stock Of the company is Slo,-
Ooo,0 In bringing the water from
the mountains for distribution over the
1900 acres of land constantly under
cultivation thirty gulches are crossed,
some of them more than 1000 feet wide
and 400 feet deep and $1,000 feet Of
forty-two inch pipe is required TO span
those places alone. The water is con-
Quoted to the plantation through fumes
and bitches, Of which in all there are
Sixty-one miles, capable of delivering
5000, 900 cubic feet per day. There are
also five reservoirs located at different
points on the premises convenient for
storage, the largest having a capacity
Of 46, 900, 900 cubic feet.
The company owns over 10000 acres
of land in this one tract; 25 900 acres Of
1t is suitable for growing cane. One
can travel for fifteen miles through the
waving plumes of candy in embryo
without passing the limits of the plan
tation. The mill on the premises is
capable of producing 100 tons Of sugar
per day. There are thirty-eight in
companies engaged in sugar
production and thirty companies that
are not Incorporated. The total capi-
tai stock exceeds S32 900, 900, of which
S25, 600, 600 in American. The labor Of
the plantation is Chinese, Japanese,
and Portuguese, the latter command
ing the best wages The natives do
not love work well enough TO figure ex-
in any of the details of sugar
production.
The island of Maui contains a rare
,om bination of wonderful opposites.
The picturesque valley of lao nestles
like stray Bit of Swiss scenery here
in the tropics, and the mighty extinct
crater of Haleakala, which, like an
awful black he'll, lies sunk deep in the
crown of tie mountain 10000 feet
above it. This is by far the largest
crater in the world-seven
miles across, twenty miles around.
The special attraction of the
island of Hawaii is Kilauea,
the largest active volcano in
.hc known world, the boiling pit of
lire which IL contains being nearly n