The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-06-04
ENTERPRISE NOW IN ACTIVE OP-
pERATION.
Product of Mill is Shipped Principally
to British Columbia-Capt. Walkers
Views on Kona Product.

Since the big coffee mill of II. Hack
field & Company was established Il
few weeks ago, another factory has
been put into operation at $50 King
street by Captain +. ID. Walker. The
Hawaiian Coffee Works, as it is
known. after a thorough trial, have
been pronounced a success. The mill
was opened for public inspection to-
day.
The coffee is pulped, cleaned and
prepared for the market. The mae
chinery consists of three-bar Phil
adelphia mill, supplied by the Pacific
Hardware Company, into which is
placed the coffee in the cherry. This
machine relieves the bean from the
cherry and its parchment. The out
put of the pulper is run into Racine
mill furnished by the Hawaiian Hard
ware Company. where the coffee beans
are cleaned and separated from the
pulp and parchment.
The clear coffee falls into trough
ready for sacking. \ roasting appar-
atus having two cylinders and two
mills for grinding the roasted coffee,
capable of turning out one thousand
pounds day is attached to the mill.
The prepared coffee is packed into
tins, with screw tops, of various sizes,
for the home and foreign markets.
The product of the mill is shipped
principally to the British Columbia
market. The last shipment by the
Aorangi consisted of 100 pounds of
roasted coffee and 500 pounds of
green coffee, all from the Kona field
The mill is operated by electricity.
Captain Walker has spent the past
few years in diligent study of the Ha-
waiian coffee. His thorough knowl-
edge and experience enables him to
SUCCESSFULLY treat the product in the
mill Tn speaking on the subject to-
day, he said:
"It is the consensus of opinion of
our people here that Kona coffee can
not be equaled. This is not true from
u manufacturers point of view.
'The Kona product possesses an in.
dividuality of its own and when used
pure has a most delicious flavor and
aroma. I doubt if it has a superior.
/ But it is not to be compared, in Il
commercial sense, either with Ja-
maica. Java. or so-called Mocha. which
is principally procured from the ISL
and of Tinar, shipped to Sourabaya,
| in Java. and thence to Singapore.
For manufacturing purposes, the
value of coffee depends solely upon
/ its strength Consequently, the coffee
that can stand the greatest amount of
adulteration and still appear as cof-
fee. will command the highest figure.
| When coffee is not fit for manufac-
turing purposes it has but very
small commercial value. Kona coffee
does not possess an equal amount OF
strength as either Jamaica, Java OF
MOtHd tOlltt.
'"There was a time when but a smal
amount of Kona coffee was shipped
from these points. Then it brought {
very high price in the market. IT has
sold for % cents a pound, but il was
owing to the small quantity grown
and it could not be manufactured. But
I Sb n.
ments are being made far in excess
of the demand of the consumers OF
the genuine article and must now bo
handed over to the manufacturers
who estimate its worth according tC
its strength"
"Do you know of any remedy?'
was asked the Captain.
"From my experiments | have
learned this much. Kona coffee as i
is now prepared, cleaned when green
tends to weaken its strength, but fo'
manufacturing purposes, that driet
in the cherry | find is more preferable
the strength being nearly double.
81 am not an authority TO stat'
where the seeds have come from, bu
! believe that they have nearly al
come from Guatemala and other Cen
tral American countries, whereas, i
plants had been brought from ia
maica. Timar. or even Java. thinl
we would have "A better commercial
article. | would strongly advise thos,
who are putting in new plantations
, not to overlook that suggestion.
81 have shipped large quantities o
Kona coffee to one of the principa
manufacturers in Victoria PAYNE
high prices. Our coffee failed to COM
up TO their highest expectations fo
manufacturing purposes. However
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