The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-10-29

and private schools public water works both reservoir and
pumping plant paid fire department equipped
modern steam and chemical engines; has r.. Post;
branches of the Societies of Sons and Daughters
American Revolution. numerous Masonic odd Fellows
and other similar Lodges
In other words, it has appliances convenences
of an uPtodae American city, with added a
Profuse tropical vegetation a climate unrivaed the
world over for midness and evenness
The city lies level strip land along the sea- about
mile wide and seven miles long, and extending
several miles into five valleys which deep into thicky
wooded Handicapped rising To an elevation of
nearly 1000 feet distance OF from the sea
No. GENERAL PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF
THE COUNTRY.
The islands high mountainous rising to height
of 1000 feet Oahu Maui 900 feet
and perpetual the island of Hawaii.
volcanic origin, beings
and two active volcanoes.
Each island consists with
valleys and with rolling plains lying between the
mountains and generally fnged with comparatively
belt along the shore.
Some portions of the protected by coral
while others sheer precpces rising
height of thousands of feet.
The SOIL consisting of decomposed lava is FERTILE but has
10 be irrigated in places the coming from the
streams, artesian and surface wells.
Fertilizers used in large quantities.
per annum being used the sugar plantations.
The climate is mild and being of average weekly
maximum of a in winter and So in There
heat cold. The lowest temperature
level in winter, is about sc and the hottest in the
about $50 temperature 90 shade
known elevations tempera
he found. On mountains there is perpetual
The cool northeast trade winds blow for nine months of
the year Except when the south winds blow humidity
of the air is low.
country elevations and throughout the year.
hpalt the death holm
small None of the feves and other typical diseases of rop
cal countries found there and the diseases the
ate usually of a mild character
The climate baimy delightful
that by acceptance Hawaii is known The Para
disc of the Pacific" Although spoken tropical
Try" it is barely the of the tropics
Arctic current that coos San Francisco gives Hawaii elm
many degrees in
anc 1t is climate well suited the physical mental
development of the AngoSaxon.
No. 5.-TIIE RAINFALL.
greatly ranging fifty
175 inches in others. Irrigation supplements
dryer sugar produced by
irrigation
PRODUCTS.-RESOURCES
principal products sugar rice coffee bananas pine
apples guavas other tropical many grow
No. G-SuGAR.
The cultivated with approximately So
900 The export in 1896 amounted 221 900
The available sugar cultivation 10y
rainfall irrigation use; but
developments shown proftaby
pumped elevation 40 probably higher for
irrigation of cane and plantations with probable out
of 1000 annually will within the coming
margin profit cultivation of sugar has been
reduced low point that the business only be profit
ably large scale. The plantations being
organized basis of from 100000 $2OOOOOO cash
capital each.
Nearly all sugar plantations carried by corpora
lions.
of these corporations be purchased
the Honolulu markets at fair prices.
The principal labor the plantations