Evening star., 1897-03-26
ever about 1900 tons of sugar cropped
annually from the moister windward up
lands of this ash bed.
Fertile Coffee Plantations.


annually from the moster windward up
lands of this ash bed.
Fertile Coffee Plantations.
The splendid new coffee district of Olaa
now opened by means of the Volcano road
appears to be located upon a similar ash
bed, the soil being a very uniform, soft,
mellow loan OF yellow color. several feet
deep. 1t was probably an. election from
the tall cone of Kulaina some fifteen miles
inland The immense rainfall of Olaa
averaging fourteen inches n month has
clothed this tract with, high, dense forest.
The coffee shrubs are now beginning to
produce first crops over several thousanc
acres, and the many planters seem to have
fortunes in near prospect.
The very productive EVA plantation near
this city is located upon what is evidently
a rather ancient election of ashes from
neighboring cinder cones The vitreous
structure of the ash has disa ppeared
through age and decomposition, but It's
stratification can still be observed. Its fer
tility remains. as shown by last years
average of seven tons to the acre, some
fields running up to eleven tons. Much of
the area of the Oahu sugar plantation now
starting has similar soil. Wherever tufa
or clnder cones are seen with an adjacent
rolling country produced by the burial in
ashes Of the rugged ravines and ridges
there the soil is certain to be productive
If moisture can be had.
l showed a friend over the great mill
works of Eva plantation last week An
hours ride on the railway covers the
roundabout eighteen miles, the last two
through some of the 1900 acres of cane
fields. This concern turned out last week
I95 tons of sugar, or over 13O tons a day.
Every night over 200 car loads of the vel
low stalks form string one-third of
mile long, accumulated as a supply for
the nights grinding. Through the whole
twentyfour hours there flows from the
great rollers stream of the sweet Juice
filling a siX-inch trough. Several barrels
OF Vancouver lime are used every day to
defecate the juice In the great ciarifcr
tanks, where it is first brought to boiling
heat. Thence it is pumped along to di-
versity of containers, where it is evap-
GRATED under vacuums maintained by heavy
pumps. 1t is finally grained at the low
temperature of 1870 degrees. If boiled at
greater heat. much would be wastefully
converted into molasses. Thence 1t passes
into the centrifugal separators. twenty five
whirling In row. and is dropped into jute
bags of 125 pounds each, while still over
blood warmth. The little Jap women deftly
stitch up the bags, and the men run them
into the cars. six or eight of which daily
after an hours run to the city wharf
dump their contents into the ships not
twenty-four hours after ii was standing in
the cane field
The entire power for the engines and
evaporators of these works is derived sole
ly from the combustion of about five-sixths
of the bagasse, or trash of the stalks after
the juice has been squeezed out of it. 1t
is not perceptibly damp to the feet. and
passes directly from the rollers to the fur
naces. What is left over is ploughed into
the fields as fertilizer Five years ago
fifty tons of coal were burned daily. The
nine huge rollers which crush and squeeze
the hard cane stalks into dry sawdust are
driven by ''bo-horsepower Coriiss engine.
= battery of Ar;esIan Wells.
This company is just opening 800 acres
of fco,y y,-b;c ;cI
1899 to increase their crop to 1909 tons.
For the purpose of rrigating the new land
they are adding a battery of twelve 1a-inch
artesan wells to the twenty already in
use "A pair of immense pumps will lift the
water. two-thirds of it to d height of 2o0
feet. This will bring the total daily supply
OF the plantation up to thirty-six million
gallons. which is more than Chicago uses
and pumped much higher I do not know
whether such pumping works for irrisa-
tion exist elsewhere The new Oahu plan
tation expects greatly to exceed these both
In quantity of water and height of lift.
Doubtless Hawaii is well in the lead If
not ahead.
One cannot but compassionate these poor
1ative Hawaiians, so many of whom con-
tinue to delude themselves with the idea
that they have the sole righ to run a coun-
try SO far ahead as this iii the methods of
civilization. 1t is SO obvious that they are
totally incapable of handling it's affairs
Yet they are constantly Set on by Interested
parties. especially Yankee phobist British
TO think themselves grievously robbed and
outraged. because the government of the
country is taken out of the hands of their
native queen, and their own race Is COM
PEELED to take subordinate place in the
management of what they conceive to be
exclusively their own country. When hun
Cleds OF white men are constantly and
Nenemently teaching the natives this folly
they are not much to be blamed. but rather
to be pitied for not seeing the truth.
AS sample of the political pabu]um
served up to these poor people I append
the following translation from the native
paper, Ke Aloha Alma (PatrioD of March
.. IL contains a large amount of very
serious ui'o mater on The Assassination of
i-iliuokalani.' 1t tells its readers that it
beileves the story that Mr.. Thurston left
the islands for the purpose of killing the
queen: that this was foretold in a dream.
when appeared in former number of the
paper 1t asserts that Mr.. Thurston still
intends to kill her. 1t adds that there is
little doubt that President Dole and the
people with him are accomplices in that
wicked conspiracy. The following extracts
are given from a letter written by one of
the ex-queen'S attendants:
ne wives and daughters of the senators
are about her all the time, except during
sleeping ..11e hours. just as our people do
We. and all the city of Washington, were
startled to receive a telephone from San
francisco, saying that Thurston had come
10 America to powa) take the life of the
aGeen; Washington was filled with the news
and expressed love and offered protection
Annexation is dead. It's ashes are scat
tered In front of the Capitol" f.
president Cleveland in the evening of
February II gave his last reception to the
representatives of foreign nations. and all
were present except the minister and sec
fetary OF the republic of Hawaii. | asked
some government officers, why is Hatch
not here? They replied that they had not
seen those two at any OF the Presidents
receptions"
Ihls talk is now reviving to some extent
among the natives the idea that America
Will probably soon restore the queen.
kAMEHAMEHA
A LIQUOR CASE.
Archibaid Donnelly Sentenced to