The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-01-25
Agents, Honolulu, Il. L.

| OgnlZ6 them as Ine1T SOCIAL equdlS. a
| new man who comes here is not like
| ly to do so until he has been here a
| long time Some men, if they are
| thrown into social relations with the
! Hawaiians at once, DO so, but it is not
| the rule"
"People want to know what are the
resources of Hawaii. All they hear
about is sugar, and they don't hear
about anything else"
"Sugar has been the main industry
| because ii is business which is well
understood, and it has been profitable
Besides that there has been ranching
almost ever since any white people
began to live here; that has been a
prOftA BILE business also. Wool grow
ing has been a steady business for
fifty or sixty years, but limited in ex-
tent. Rice is an important product,
ranking next to sugar.
"There are a good many small
vegetable gardens. The market is so
small that these gardens are mainly
in the hands of Chinese. Fruit in
Hawaii is raised by natives. Coffee
has not been seriously cultivated I'M
til the last three years, but coffee has
grown wild in Kona, and the natives
have picked it. They may have plant
ed it in some cases to increase their
yield. In 1850 there were large coffee
plantations on the islands, but they
were low down near the sea, and the
blight was so severe that sugar CANE
was substituted. Now almost all the
coffee is raised on high ground. 1t is
more healthy at an elevation of from
1000 TO 5000 feet above the sea. About
1900 feet is the best elevation"
IF coffee proves to be success will
all the islands be adapted to it?"
A IL
not interfere with the sugar that
grows at lower elevation. A great
deal of the best coffee laud on all of
the islands is unused; the lower forest
islands. Probably the islands will
export more in coffee than in sugar;
there is nothing to hinder, as far as
land goes. There is good deal of
coffee land on this island, on Maui and
on Hawaii-in fact, on. all of the ISL
ands."
"Would not coffee production bring
in another class Of peopie?"
eyes. 1t would bring in small
farmers and white people, men who
work for themselves. They would
take care of their own farms. They
would have to hire some labor, espe-
cially at picking time.
Ideas on Coffee Growing.
"How large need a coffee plantation
be? At Riverside, CAL, ten acres are
enough for an orange grove"
"Ten acres upward would be enough
to start coffee"
"With an average crop what would
the profit be?"
"Systematic cultivation is so recent |
that hardly any of the new farms are
in full bearing, but as the promise |
of the young trees is great l !
do not see why they should not pro-
duce from ton 10 a ton and a half, |
some people say two tons an acre. /
That represents a great deal of money, |
because coffee is a very valuable crop !
1t would be $40 if an acre produced |
but one ton. Coffee sells at the coffee |
centers at 26 cents a pound, so there |
is large margin for increase of profit.
Probably the coffee growers will not |
sell to middlemen, but send their |
crops direct to the main market. !
twenty-five cents pound would be |
$500 an acre, or 5000 for ten acres.
With large yield, of course, the pos
sibilities are greater"
not?"
Eight large islands. The land at
the same elevation is pretty much
alike. Some of the small islands have
10 lOTeSIS because CH0y are 700 row.
"What do you do with them"
"They are used for ranching. The
small islands have no streams, no
'unning water, and so far ranchers
nave not experimental with artesian
wells. There is lot of fine arabic
oil that has never been cultivated"
How large population could all
hese islands sustain?"
"a Million
"And you have at present less than
90, OOO?5
Yes"
Touching the Organic Law