The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-05-18
FROM VIM. cassie
Island Man Has His Alas
ka Mining Outfit.
Writes From DuIuth-Bound West.
Prospecting Drill and MeChan-
icaI Pans-InterView.

Hawaii's own Billie" formerly Of /
Kealia PIE ration, was the first week /
of this month at Duluth Mimi, the /
guest of Edward Z. Williams, owner /
and manager Of the Lyceum theater /
at that place. Mr.. Williams is well
known here. He is the brother of
Mrs. H w. Howard and has twice |
visited the Islands. The Lyceum
theater. by the way, is one of the
handsomest and most expensive play
houses OF the United States. The
architect and superintendent Of con-
struction for the theater was Mr.. Trap
hagen, now in business in this city.
Mr.. cassie. who is bound for Alaska
mining fields ultimately, writes to
friend that he stopped at Duluth on
the way back to San Francisco from
New York. He had also visited Wash
ington. Baltimore, Cleveland and Chi
cago.
Mr.. cassie is backed heavily in a
big undertaking by Island men. He
/ mas udu SOuIC IA pei 4C4ANC e1S AAiALAi-Ac
and was an excellent machinist and a
thorough engineer before he came to
take charge of sugar mills here eigh-
teen years ago. For his work in the
! gold fields he has had built boiler
! 12-h.p. that weighs only $50 pounds
and an engine of the same power
which he declares with enthusiasm to
be a little marvel. To complete this
outfit there is a placer prospecting
drill from which big results are ex-
i pected. The design is Mr.. cassie
own. This drill can be sent through
almost any sort of formation at the
rate of eight to ten feet per hour. 1t
brings up a core of four and one-halt
inches and in a day or two a depth
of fifty feet can be prospected. Now
as to the equipment for the actual
mining work Mr.. cassie has had
constructed two mechanical gold pans.
Each one is capable of doing the work
of fifty men with pick and shovel.
It will be seen that Mr.. cassie will
be quite furnished for business when
he gets into the gold territory. He Is
now in San Francisco, having reached
the Occidental hotel about the 10th.
Mr.. cassie sends aloha to all Homo
lulu and Island friends. Mrs. cassie
is now in New York City with rela-
tives of her husbands and is enjoying
her visit there very much. While IN
Duluth Mr.. cassie was interviewed foI
the Tribune, the leading newspaper OF
that place and among other things
said:
The war will have the effect OF
! Fastening the annexation of the ISL
? NrnfhiT9C
may be done at this time, for the
country is too much engaged, perhaps
but I think the eyes of the nation
will be opened to the desirability o.
the Islands for a naval station as wei
as for extending wealth and territory
1t was an awful foolish move on the
part of Cleveland to pull down the
American flag on the Islands after i
had once been raised. If LiliuOkalan
had been put back on the throne she
would not have been allowed to sta!
there long enough to warm it. | have
been an ardent annexatiOninst evel
since | set foot on those Islands, ant
1 am still of that mind. The people
of substance on the Islands, the PEG
pie that have the good of the Islands
at heart, are unanimous for anneXa
| ton America is our natural market
! and this country is preferred for an
nexation above all others. America i
recognized as the most progressive ma
ton, and there is also some sentimen
as we'll as business in the desire tt
become annexed to the United States
I also look to see the laying Of
cable between the United States anC
Honolulu at the earliest possible mo
ment after the war with Spain i
over