The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-11-01
Such Will Be Mark on Steam
PlOWS.
HERETOFORE ALL FROM ENGLAND
Business ACumen of a New Man
Gets Order From Oldest
American House.

One of the very heaviest items OF
expense in plantation conduct here has
been in the steam plow department.
The initial cost has been great and
maintenance is no small account. The
first price has at times been staggering
to some extent for the reason that ali
steam plOws used here are or have been
manufactured in Leeds. The Fowler
people make them. No other brand is
known in the group.
Upon number of occasions in es-
tablishing new sugar estates here there
has been most expensive. not TO say
annoying delay in getting the steam
plows out from England. When Oahu
plantation was started every effort was
made to secure the plows from the
United States, but without avail
Steam plows for Island plantations
are now to be produced in the States.
Brewer & Co, factors, have placed an
order for a set of plows with VIM. C.
Gregg, representing the o. S. Kelly
Company of Springfield, o. Delivery
is TO be made in about ninety days
from this time. The price is entirely
satisfactory and a sufficient guarantee
has been given of the efficiency of the
tool, or implement.
VIM. c. Gregg, now a resident of Ho-
nolulu, occupying a recently purchased
residence on Beretania street and hav-
ing an Office on Fort, came to the ISL
ands early in July last. He had been
in the heavy hardware business many
years and was here looking for trade.
Very soon Mr.. Gregg noticed that all
the steam plows came from Leeds,
England, and had the marks of John
Fowler & Sons upon them. About
everything else in the plantation es-
Establishments bore American brands.
Mr.. Gregg began thinking and acting
at the same time. He talked with
some of the agents and plantation
owners and arrangements pleasing to
all were made. In a fortnight Mr..
Gregg was on his way back to the
Coast with the assurance that if he
could delivery good steam plows here
from the States the same would be or
dered. In the middle of last month
Mr. Gregg returned to Honolulu pre-
lowed by Thos. Wright, an expert ma
chinist and draughtsman from the
offices of the o. S. Kelly Company of
Springfield, o. Messrs. Gregg and
Wright leave today with their first or
der for a steam plOw to be built in the
United States for plantation of the
Hawaiian Islands.
The o. S. Kelly Company is a big
concern and the reason it is going into
the steam plow manufacturing business
is clear enough. The Company is do
ing business with owners of planta-
tions in Cuba. For about two years il
carried on the books an order for trac-
ton engines to amount in money $780,
900, f. o. b. This order was conditioned
on arrival or advent OF peace in Cuba.
Mr.. Gregg is advised that the company
is going ahead now with the traction
engine order and is certain that the
Kelly people viii offer steam pIows to
the Cuban sugar estate proprietors.
All the locomotives, rails, refining
machinery, etc, of the plantations
here, are made in America. Some OF
the mills are from the States, notably
Eva. But lately nearly all OF the mills
| have been constructed at the Honolulu
| Iron yVCrl-- bara This asra b1iShr, m
has Just delivered several six and nine
roller mills, and is now erecting the
nine-roller mill for Oahu plantation
Islands till Spreckelsviue gets a new
| plant.