The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-10-09
Business Men to Leave for Hawaii
Today.
SPECIAL TRIP OF THE CLAUDINE.
Directors 80 the Aloha Company Visit
tho Islands I'm Order to Report Upon
the Plantations In Cultivation ut
oiaa. on the Volcano Road

The Claudlne Will MAKE Il SpeClai
trip to Hilo, leaving today in order
to accommodate several business
men. who came down by the Aus
tralia and who wish to return to
the coast by the Alameda.
This trip is incidental to the in
hux of large sums of money, all of
which will go out to labor, which
will cultivate the coffee fields on
the Volcano road.
There arrived on the Australia
Messrs. A. Tn. Gruetter and C.Wit-
kowski, the former from Denver,
Col, the latter from Chicago. They
are directors in the Aloha coffee
plantation, and their visit to these
islands is in order to report the
progress made in the agricultural
pursuit.
There are now two corporations
in Chicago which are interested in
the raising of coffee on the island
of Hawaii-the Aloha and the
Kona. Mr.. p. Peck, of this city
was instrumental in starting both,
and it was at his request that the
gentlemen named came here on a
tour of investigation. The Aloha
Company started with a capital
stock of 100000.
In conversation last evening the
gentlemen interested in the Aloha
stated that they expected to export
most of the coffee to Europe, al
though a demand existed In the
United States, and would undoubt-
edly increase. Samples of coffee
raised on Hawaii have been shown
to commission merchants on State
street and Wabash avenue, Chicago,
and they have pronounced 1t as
good as any received by them, II
not better, and have agreed to take
all that can be given them when
the berries are ready for export.
Mr.. Higgins will also 60 by the
Claudine. He is president of the
Kona company.
The Aloha company at present
controls 800 acres and the Roma
company $40 acres.
SOUTH KONA PROSPECTUS.
A prospectus of the South kona
Coffee Company (Limited) has lately
been issued. Messrs. II. Hackfeld q
Co., are to be the agents OF the new
company. There are limited num-
Der of shares left, for sale. See
advertisement in this Issue. The
following is comment on the enter
prise taken from The Planters
Monthly" for September:
A new coffee enterprise is soon te
be started in Kons, Hawaii, under
the name of South Kona Coffee
Company" Its site Is located or
the land called Papa, some four OF
five miles from the dividing line be-
tween the districts of Kona and Kau
with Hoopuloa as its port or landing
which is only four miles from the
Government road, and easily aces
sible at all seasons of the year. The
land is owned by MIR. j. Nj
Nonsarrat of this city, and IS be
lieyed to be among the best fol-
coffee growing in Kona, as the sol
consists of very rich "a, and i!
easily worked. The Government
road traverses this land at an eleva-
ton of about 1900 feet above the sea
affording the best climate for coffee
to be found anywhere. 1t Is pro
posed to organize company with
capital of $4,000, with privilege tt
increase it to 100000. Under pro
per management this enterprise
promises to be one of the safest anc
best now open to capitalists here Of
abroad.