The Hawaiian gazette., 1897-01-15
TWO INDUSTRIES
Bee Sugar To California is as
Coffee to Hawaii
GROWTH OF THE wine INDUSTRY
Largest Tun in the World
Built Near Fresno.
Coffee May Do for Hawaii What
Grapes Have Done For
California.
GROWTH OF THE WINE INDUSTRY

i believe the coffee industry will be
a success, just as certain as the sugar
Industry has made men rich in Ha-
waii." said ]. C. Waibel TO an Adver-
user reporter yesterday. AS a jobber
in San Francisco, I have had oppor-
tunities for forming an opinion of the
tastes Of the people over there, and I
know that their preference is for Ha-I
waiian coffee. Your people have a
market for the product, and coffee is
just as much q staple as sugar. You
have demonstrated. too, that coffee
viii grow in abundance in almost any
district on the Islands, but like every
other new industry, il takes time and
little money.
Our house. J. c. Nobmann Of San
Francisco, handles all the Hawaiian
coffee that il is possible 10 buy, but We
have never been able TO get enough
OF it. We expect when the industry
grows to handle a great deal more Of
the product, but the growers here must
not give up. Just take the case Of the
California wine growers. Twenty odd
years ago the New York man who Of
fered California wine TO his guests
was given the cold shoulder because.
imported wines were given the prefer
ence. But the growers were not dis
couraged; they knew that inferior
wines made their way TO market just
as inferior coffee gets 10 San Francisco
and is sold as ''Kona." Inspectors
were appointed and today only the
best are shipped. The result has been
most gratifying to everyone and the
swells do not turn their noses up AZ
it. I believe this has had the effect
OF increasing the number OF vineyards
ana compelled the manufacturers 10
produce a better article.
The country around Fresno in Cali
fornia has q well earned reputation
for producing a standard grade OF
wine and you have no idea of the ex-
tent the industry has built up that
section OF the country. The St. George
vineyard Of which I am the Honolulu
agent Is world of itself II is owned
by George II. Matter and comprises
1880 acres OF the best vineyard land
in the world
This may sound boastful. but an in
yesJigation of the facts connected with
the great vineyards of France. Spain.
and Italy and a comparison with other
vineyards show that the expression is
based upon facts.
Even the product of 1850 acres in
this vineyard would supply but a
small fraction Of the raw material re-
quired TO keep the great winery and
disJilleTy running In addition 10 ths
winery there is q large general store
there. stocked with everything needed
by the employees or those owning small
vineyards who sell their product 10 Mr.
Matter. There are comfortable houses
on the place for the men. q printing
establishment and 2 post Office. So.
you can see that practically it is 2
world by itself I can see no rea-
son for doubling that he time viii
come when in district like KOna, for
instance. there viii be one central COT
fee curing establishment, which viii
necessitate the building around il Of
2 miniature world. This will come with
3 development OF the coffee industry.
but il viii not grow in a night Here
you have one infant industry striving
10 compete with one that has been es-
tsblished for years, and, by the way,
California seems TO be undergoing the
same ordeal. if the reports regarding
the beet sugar industry over there is
correct. I do not believe, however.
that the wine industry there will ever
take second place. Il is too well es-
tsblished, and the distilleries are too
well equipped with modern appliances
At the st. George there are three
great tuns in which the wine is blend
ed, either Of which is larger than the
wOrld-eelebrated great tun at Heidel-
berg Lately there has been added 4
gigantic wine cask, or tun. beside
which the great tun at Heidelberg
sinks into insignifcance. Everybody
has heard of the great tun al the cas-
tie, built in the thirteenth century.
The encyclopedias OF the world will
have 10 be corrected 10 chronicle the
dOings OF the up-to-date American who
has built larger vessel for holding
the wine. The one at Heidelberg holds
70 900 German or 1900 American gal
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$1,000 gallons, or almost twice as much
as the Uun which for $50 years figured
II history.
Just think Of the quantity OF ma
Jerial used in the construction: Two
carloads Of steel TO hoop it and enough
lumber (all REDWOOD TO construct :
mansion. Not one stick in 10. from
which the material was selected. would
answer; absolute freedom from flaws Of
any kind was required, and after II
was all selected it required almost Two
years 10 dry and undergo preparation
FOL the eask- Two complete railway
trains were required 10 haul the tim
Der from Humboldt County 10 Fresno,
and il viii contain so carloads cf
wine
The waste products of so large an
establishment represent a large sum
OF money, and. put to the proper use.
would return 2 legitimate rro=f 0-a