The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1895-02-06
EWAS NEW MILL GOING.
THE THREE SETS OF TBRr E-RoL-
LER EACH FLATTENING OUT CANE.
Produce Dry Trash-Test of the New
Plant shows Great Merit Day
on the Estate.


here on account of the new mill.
The old maceration and diffusion
process OF cane treatment has been
replaced. There has Just been in
stalled a plant which is nothing
more nor less than three three-roller
mills. This mill is from the Full
ton Iron Works of St. Louis. l.. ID.
Tenney, Secretary of the Board of
Directors, placed the order person
ally. The machinery was brought
to the notice of the EVA Company
by II. p. Baldwin, who had seen it
in operation in Louisiana. The
plant was brought on fast as steam
and sail could carry it. The hurry
was to make use OF it for the pres
ent campaign. J. +. O'Neil, Super
intendent of the Fulton Works,
came on to place the mill. This he
accomplished without mishap in
two weeks from the hour the first
piece of metal was landed at the
Honolulu dock. Nothing was
broken and the purchasers were
not called upon to settle for "ex-
tras."
Each of the mill rollers is thirty
four inches i'll diameter and seventy
eight inches long. They are made
of steel alloy and finely grooved.
The pressure is derived form the
upper roller and is regulated by by
draulic power.
Two reports yesterday on the
force in tons of the first, second and
third top cylinders were as follows:
275, 2S5, 295; 26I, 2S6, 3o3. This
was working with a steady stream
of cane on carriers moving twenty
feet per minute. The cane does
not require any assistance whatever
into the rollers. On reaching the
trash carriers the debris is dry. 1t
is available at once as fuel and
reaches the furnaces without the
aid of hands. No coal at all is
burned at the mill now as against
5000 tons year with the forme,
system. AS driven Yesterday, after
test of several days, the journals
of the mills were cool. Mr.. O'Neil
declares that they will never become
heated.
The old boilers are still in use.
The new engine for the triple mill
is Hamilton Corliss 2Sx4S. 1t
has not yet been necessary to de-
velop its capacity of 500 horse
power. The engine, like the rollers,
runs with the regularity and alb
sence of friction noted in a fine
watch or the machinery of first.
class ocean liner.
The treatment of the juices COM
ing from the crushers is the same
as before. The separating tank,
the sand and mud filters, the null
tiple effects and the centrifugals
Invented in Hawaii), are still in
use. To better assemble the whole
plant all this machinery is to be
moved into or near the new build
ing occupied by the new mill.
w. ] I,owrie, manager of Eva,
is enthusiastic over the change. On
careful test runs of the past week
he has been getting II tons of
sugar per day of twenty-tour hours.
The average for last season was
thiIty-eight tons. Fewer men are
required and dollars no longer go
up the funnel. The mill has been
handling 227 cars of cane, two tons
and half each, daily.
Ewa's output last season was
8, 100 tons of sugar. 1t will be
about the same this year, but in
stead Of grinding ten months this
campaign, they will be at it per
haps less than half that time.
Analyses are made constantly by
Prof. II. Pohlmann. Some of his
| figures Oh production will be
earnestly scanned by all. There
are from results of the run OH last
Saturday, Feb. 2: Total sugar,
90. 9S per cent; sugar in trash,
|I.o4. These show pretty well the
work of the mill.
Mr.. Tenney and Mr.. Lowrie
took a party of city newspaper men
all over the big plantation yester
day. On this estate are 1900
acres of land fit for cane
growing. The present cane acreage
is 1883. Besides this land there is
$500 acres of pasture. In the dry
season Eva is irrigated largely
with artesian we'll water. There
are three pumping stations. At the
principal place are two Blake pumps
able to supply 10000, 600 gallons
of water in a day. To see Eva
properly would require a couple of
days. One may ride five or six
hours on the railways of the planta-
ton. From the time seed cane is
set out or ratoons sprout till sugar
bags are sewed up by Japanese
women is long journey.
One great feature Of Eva, now
well established, is proht-sharing
cane cultivation. There are about
100 acres of this. Eva employees
about 600 hands. A school has
been started for the children.
All the economic devices that
thoughtful ingenuity can provide
are in use at Eva. All the water
for the mill is from we'll in the
building. After use, the water
goes into irrigating courses. Heavy
tanks are taken from floor to floor
by hydraulic lift.
Eva plantation was established
q, I L. l.