The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-08-01
HlLO RAILROAD
IS ALL RIGHT
CarShOpS, Round Houses, and Found
ry for the Rainy City---RailS
Should Arrive this Month.

Referring to a rumor current in Hilo
last week to the effect that the Hilo
Railway Company had abandoned its
railroad project and it's engineers had
been ordered out of the field, Mr.. B. F.
Dillingham; said yesterday to an Ad-
vertiser man who questioned him:
The ink was hardly dry after the
signing of our charter before an order
went on for the necessary rails. Iron is
iron these days and gold, too, for that
matter" and here the railroad mag
nate heaved a sigh. THE rolling
mills are as Independent as a man with
a big block of Oahu stock, and we have
got to get our orders in early if we
want the goods. But to answer your
questions You can tell those Hilo peO-
pie who doubt whether the HilO Rail
road Company means business and is
able to fill its contracts that the first
shipment of rails for the road to Olaa
ought to reach HilO by the next yes
sci, due there in the MatsOn line, | |
forget the name-the one that is due
there in August-and the balance will
follow as fast as Captain Matson can
tiveS? Go and ask VIM. G. Irwin &
Co. about them. They are agents of
the Baldwin Locomotive Works, and
they will tell you that our order for
two of their best locomotives was
placed some time ago and that the la
test information to hand is that they
should arrive in September"
about the rolling stock, Mr.. Dill |
lingham?" ventured the reporter.
You newspaper men are never sat |
isfed,'' was the reply. You can tell |
the people of Hilo through the Adver-
tiser, if you want to, that the Hilo |
Railroad Company is going to build |
car shops, round-house and foundry |
and machine shop at the Hilo termi-
nus, and when [ say going TO build |
time in the future but right now. We
intend to have the rOund-hOuSe ready |
before the locomotives get to Hilo.
You can tell the Hilo people that every
freight car and every passenger car,
too, used on the road is going to be
built right in Hilo, and we are going
to start right away. Mr.. Hughes, the
foreman of our car-shop here, has just
a lot of cars for the Oahu
& Land Co. He is to have a
1,n h. /
he will purchase all the lumber and
other materials necessary for building
freight and passenger cars, which will
be shipped to HilO. AS soon as the
reaches that city Mr. Hughes
will be on hand to receive it and will
at once superintend the construction of
the necessary shops.
1t is reported, Mr. Dillingham;
said the reporter, that you have re-
Gently disposed of a big lot of HiIo
railway bonds.'
Who told you that?" was the an
swer. well, it's true, anyhow. Yes;
We have sold several hundred thousand |
dollars worth, and we could sell more. {
The bonds are in demand and We don't
nave to look for purchasers. You see
is just this: the Hilo road is going [
o be run exactly on the same lines as I
he Oahu road. Knowing that, the peo-
)le who have made money in the Oahu
ponds and stock realize that the HilO
Dad will, in time, be equally as good c
Why, the HilO railroad has a forty a
ears contract with the Olaa planta- L
ion which alone will bring in money =
enough to pay the interest on the
ponds, and the country traversed by
he road is bound to build up just as
t did along the Oahu line There is
10 reason why the Hilo railroad stock
hOuld not become equally as good an
Investment as the Oahu line. And
While l am about it, you can just let
he people in Hilo and Honolulu both
now that the Olaa plantation is going
head just the same whether the stock
S quoted at 5000 a share or two cents.