The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-07-01
SHOWS PROGRESS
Innovations in Hawaii
Cane Districts.
Prosperity in Mill and Plantation
Work More Rain is
Needed.

EDITOR GAZETTE: = A glance
through the sugar-cane districts OF
Hawaii shows that great progress has
been made in this industry, and no.
where is this improvement more in
evidence than on this Island. Indeed,
so vast have most of the plantations
grown and so great is the improve
ment that one wonders what magic
Influence could have wrought the
change. This improvement is not, we
are glad to say, confined to the plan
tation and mills, but extends to the
schools and roads, and, indeed, is seen
everywhere.
In respect to the roads, l would say
that if good roads are an evidence OF
nations prosperity, then HAWAII is
coming to the front most rapidly.
will also say that the Government and
those who have superintendent the
making of these roads, deserve great
credit for the excellent and substantial
manner in which the roads have Deen
constructed We might wish to see
little more progress made on the
work but even at the rate it is going
now, we hope soon to see, what ~
wears ago would have seemed 1mpos-
sible a carriage road from E1ilo to
Hamakua.
When this is completed it will be
red-letter day in the history or Ha-
wall. and then there will be no more
desirable places of residence than in
these two favored districts.
| The planters of this district, too,
have for many years been at the front
and up-to-date in all the best meth
| DDS of cultivation and manufacture,
and they have been quick to adopt all
the best inventions and labor-savlng
devices and Improvements pertaining
| to this industry.
! One of the latest and, perhaps the
best, is the stubble digger, which is
used, not as stubble digger, but as
fertilizer distributor, and it is said to
| be the best machine. ever used for the
| purpose In the sugar mills the I'M
provement is great, indeed. and their
| success splendid. There is PapaikOu
|
| Qualification and chemical control.
There is Wainaka with two sets of
! three-roller mills, two-roller and
| cane shredder, and many other i'm
provements. Pepeekeo, with two sets
| of three-roller mills and a K crusher.
! Hakalau also has two three-roller
mills and a cane shredder. Wa1akea,
with a three-roller mill, and two sets
| of two-ro1ler mills and Smiths cane
cutter. KaiwiIahilahi mill, with a
three-rolIer mill and two sets of two
roller mills, and all of these mills are
| well equipped in all other respects.
| The same progress is seen in the Ha-
| makua district. Indeed, one OF the
planters there has the credit OF pro-
ducing sugar at lower figure than has
ever been done on the Hawaiian ISL
ands before There are three seven-roll-
er mills. all having Smiths cane cutters
| attached and two five-roller mills, al
so with Smiths cane cutter, and one
six-roller mill with a shredder in the
district. Hamakua mill has chemical
| control
| Mr.. J. M Horner, of Kukaiau, has
also introduced a new style or method
of transporting the cane to the mill,
which has proven a decided success.
This new method consists of a wire
| rope that extends from the mill to the
| top of the cane field. The cane is
brought down on trolley wheels to
the mill, by gravitation alone. The
best days work so far is 33 CHARTERS
day of II hours; although more, it is
| thought, will be done in the future.
In the Kohala district great improve
ment is also seen in plantation and
mill work The Kohala mill leads
with a nine-roller mill and chemical
control.
The crop has been raised from three
to five thousand tons. Hawi has two
sets of three-roller mills and a cane
shredder. The Union MILL three
roller mill, and two two-roller mills,
| is worked under chemical control.
There are two other mills with five
roller mills and some good machinery
In the district There is one drawback
to this, and that is the dry weather.
1t is felt more in Hilo and more still
| in Hamakua, while at Kohala many
| of the fields of cane are quite burnt up
for want of rain. One new departure
in mill work here is a process of linn
ing the juice cold instead of hot. This
method precipitates a gum, or what is
called diXtran, which can be eliminat-
/ ed in no other way. Yours very truly,
o.
Hawaii, May "a, 1897.