The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-07-31

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stocks ......... ........ e 25l, 25i 1873, S63
Total ......... 1881 40, 157
These amounts, with the quantity
taken for local consumption added
and the stock of old sugar on Janu-
ary lst deducted, show the receipts for
the first six months OF the year TO
have been 92i $3.50 tons and 169, 657 tons
respectively.
Mr.. j. G.. Kilgard, the Philadelphia
capitalist, is at Cincinnati, Ohio, fur
thering arrangements to locate near
CovingtOn, Ky, two thousand acre
beet sugar plant and factory. Some
five hundred thousand dollars will be
invested in the project.
The situation at the jacksonville
beet sugarie is thus described by a
writer: 1--WE have this season around
jacksonville $500 acres planted in
UgaT-beets-the largest acreage yet.
Last season we had about 1900 acres
The plants are growing nicely.
Within the past week they have been
pushing along wonderfully. Last
year we began crushing on August
3Ist, and it will probably be about the
same date this year. The outlook is
good, although we can't tell until the
time comes, for some men who plant
don't always harvest their crop. Last
season we harvested in the Pajaro
valley $1,000 tons of beets, and the
factory turned out 5000 tons of crude
sugar. We now pay farmers So ton
straight for all beets delivered. We
don't test for polarization now before
fixing the price, for we know the
average polarization will run about
Is per cent. When we first started in,
live years ago, we agreed to pay 81 a
ton for all beets that reached II per
cent. polarization, and 30 cents addi-
tiOnal for each additional de-
gree of polarization. There is
no longer need of making tests of
all beets, for they run much richer in
sugar than we first expected. 1t is
not at all uncommon to find crops
amounting to twenty tons an acre,
and all the beetS averaging Is per
cent. polarization. At 50 ton the
farmer gets from $50 to 500 an acre.
1t costs, we find on our Moro Cojo
ranch, about So to plant and harvest
an acre, that yields from ID to Is tons
of beets. AT this rate there is left at
the outside new profit to the farmer
of all the way from $50 to $50 an acre.
The yield of beets and the amount of
sugar they contain depends entirely
on the sort of season We have. Sugar
beets want warm, dry weather. Our
climate is greatly in our favor. y
German scientist told us at first we
could not raise profitable sugar-beets
because we had no rain in the sum-
mer. He bet SO hat on our first
crop. / got the hat. The fact of the
matter Is the Germans cannot teach
us anything about raising sugar beets
because our soil, and especially our
climatic conditions, are so different
from theirs. They use fertilizers and
we don't. We have no need OF them
as yet and their use has never been
discussed by our people. We get all
our seed from Germany. The same
sorts of beets here, without fertilizers
being used, will average fully per
cent. higher in sugar than the Ger
man product with fertilizers. We
use different varieties of beets on diff
fereut soils, planting four varieties in
ALL"
Annexation in Sfafu Quo.
There is nothing additional TO re-
port regarding the annexation ques-
ton. The announcement that the
Provisional government would seek
annexation with Great Britain has
caused a ripple of excitement in the
American press, but Cleveland still
hold his mouth shut.
The chamber Of commerce of this
city has passed resolutions favoring
immediate annexation.
a Lively Fake.
\ lively sensation was caused on
July 18th by the publication of the
following dispatch from Port Towns
end: Tine man-of-war Mohican was
fired upon and disabled June 18th, in
Boring Sea, by the Hawaiian steamer
Alexandria, which sailed from San
Francisco last April. The MOhican
discovered the Alexandria in the act
of raiding the seal rookeries and tried
to intercept her, firing two shots
across her bows. The Alexandria
returned the cannon fire, striking the
Mohican amidships and disabling her
engines. The MOhican went TO Una
laska for repairs, and the Alexandria
escaped
The story is generally discredited,
though the bringer of the report is
apparently reliable man. The Alex
andria is a fast steamer, and was for
merly under the Russian flag. She
fitted out under Captain Mclean for
just such work as she is now engaged
in.
Nicaragua Canal and Hawaii.
The board of directors of the Near
aqua Canal Construction Company
met at NJ FORK on July 18th to con-
slider plan whereby funds might be
raised 10 prosecute work on the canal.
President Warner Miller and Com
mander II. G. Taylor of the United
States navy, formerly vice-president
and general manager of the company,
submitted plan, the main feature of
which is that the company shall mar
ket $50, Co., 900 in bonds. The estimate
OF the cost of the canal is fixed at S56,-
100000. The difference between these
amounts is to be used to pay the in
terest while the canal is being built.
An active propaganda is to be estab-