The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-07-31

or CSC. per pound, this would show
profit OF lie. per pound, or Sl32 per
acre, which Is sufficiently large 10
meet a considerable fall in the mar
ket. For supplying the home ana
American markets, however, SOou
profits could be secured with smaller
returns 10y manufacturing hlgn grace
teas only. All this goes to prove lhaI
the cost of labor is not the only lacIor
TO be considered, and that II SIX men
in America can raise as much WheaC
as sixty-six can in Europe, az sta Ido
tics show, six men IN Hawai- al oOc.
NAV possibly produce as much tea as
sixfv-six can in CeylOn, at Mr.. Mars
denis figure of six cents a day;
I trust that Mr.. Marsden VIII De aDIe
To find sufficient leisure to personally
verify these statements and, as ne
PROMISES in his letter, he one OF the
foremost TO encourage the industry.
When everything is in good WORKING
order, which will not be for some tlu'e
vet, have ne doubt but that an III
spectiOn of the work while In progress
will satisfy anyone, and tnat the OUT
turn will be beyond criticism.
With sisal on the Kula lands, coffee
nm to $500 feet, and tea on the up
lands. q large extent of country now
entirely unproductive, and that Is
nearly seven-eighths OF the two honaS'
NAV eventually be paying plantations.
Twill now consider the subject from a
different point of view, and answer
those directors who claim that the
cultivation of tea would be announcer
excuse for the introduction OF cheap
Eastern labor and another nail in the
coffin of the Hawaiian race, another
grip of the capitalist on the country,
and another bar to the small cultlva-
tor. think il is easy TO show thaI IL
NAV be made to lead to exactly oppo-
site results. When close planted ana
brought into full bearing tea Is
crop which would cost very little
for cultivation in Hawaii, and
one man could do nearly all the
field work necessary for about ten
acres, for, the ground being densely
covered, weeds would give little
trouble. BY the establishment OF
central factory, concentrating expert
knowledge and machinery, large
number of small growers, helped al
the outset and intelligently directed,
could be maintained. These, selling
to the factory the leaf on the bush,
would secure regular monthly IN
come. A plantation worked on these
lines would be to the benent OF all
parties, as the interests OF capitalist
and grower would be identical. The
one would be assured of cOntented
labor and no rush in harvesting,
while the other would not have twelve
months to wait for the recompense OF
his labor, as is the case with all yearly
crops when raised on this plan.
Mr.. Marsden is a gentleman who Is
doing important and valuable work
for the Islands, and assure him that
1 do not write in a spirit of antago-
nism to him, but to his error OF opIn-
ion. AS / view it, the principal duties
of his office are those of collecting and
dispensing reliable information, not
the assertion of personal, and perhaps
prejudicial, opinions L therefore take
this opportunity, through you, of sub
hitting to him the foregoing facts.
Undoubtedly Mr.. Marsden was alto
gether unaware of the fact that an ex-
pertinent in tea culture was in course
of progress, otherwise he would natur-
ally have awaited its results and
based his opinions and his advice to
investors, which he considers so essen
tial to success, on those results rather
than upon impressions received in the
course of a flying visit to the East,
while apparently in absolute ignor-
ance of the latent richness of these
districts.
WuICAI c.. WAIT.