Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1897-08-31
GOOD FOR HhWAlI'S SUGAR
OPPOSITION RteiStnN 10 at
OPENED Amour JANUARY.
Located ~ Port Csssa On csrsWsaes
straits s.w'h-r. rscias said 60
be Backlog the Project.

] IIoCdi sugar uieu are luDlIHn
today over the news brought b,
the Peru to the effect that an CD
position refinery to the one con
trolled by the sugar trust will b,
in operation about January l
Everyone has heard of the grea
Starr -four mills at Port Costa anC
George W. McNear, the hou,
king of California, their owner
As near as can be learned cor
poretion has been formed by
George w. McNear. G. p. Hunt
ington, II. p. Rithet and other
big capitalists under the name OF
the California Beet sugar and
Refinery Company. Ostensibly
formed as a beet sugar corpora
ton it is learned that the compa-
ny intend also to engage in the
refining of cane sugar, although
this latter intention has been kept
in the dark for obvious reasons.
While G. p. Huntington, as pres
ident of the Company, has been
making contracts for beets for the
new refinery another agent, gen
orally supposed to be o. L. Sewall,
has been here to secure contracts
for all the Hawaiian sugars not
controlled by the firms of Irwin Il
Co. and Davies & Co.
A late Chronicle has the fol.
lowing in regard to the new re-.
finery.
THE Crockett refinery is to be
outside of the trust and will
naturally come into competition,
IL not in opposition, to that great
aggregation of capital. Those
interested in the project are ex-
tremely reticent regarding it, as
they say the details have yet to be
worked out, but there is reason to
believe that the principal cause
for silence is just this intention to
take hold of the Hawaiian sugar
crop not controlled by the trust.
The capital behind it ls large, and
in addition to such local moneyed
men as George w. McNear, seve,
raj houses interested in the Sand
witch island trade, among Others
Welch Il Co., are actively pushing
the scheme in a manner that is tc
say the least significant. They
admit even that the factory will
be equipped to refine cane sugars
and that they expect to handle 9
portion of the Hawaiian output.
"They are more particularly
non-committal as to the quantity
evidently being industrious tc
attract too much attention from
their competitors in business
They say that Mr.. Huntington
the president of the company, il
busy making contracts for beets
and that the manufacture of tina
class of sugar will be the princi
pal object in view, but no doubt il
felt that when the refining of isl
and sugars on the Coast is once
begun outside of the trust, con
flict will be inaugurated, and tha
in the future that will be a grea,
branch of the work of the refinery
at Crockett"
The manager of one of the larg,
est sugar firms in the islands wal
seen by reporter this morning
in regard to the above. Will,
not in a position as yet to Civ,
further details he admitted tina
private advices from San Francis
CO agents confirmed the statements
above made and he had every rea
son to believe from the letters ht
had received this morning that al
opposition refinery was assured.
From other sources and the
significant fact that G. p. Hunt
ington, president of the Southern
Pacific, is president of the new
refinery company it is supposed
tina. that powerful! corpolation Ii
backing the new enterprise.