The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-04-24
Progress Of the 0laa and Puma
Plantations.
ENTERPRISES WELL UNDER WAY
Acquiring Land - Testing Cane and Soil =
Active Work on the New
Railway.
OLAA PLANTATION.


Alfred Carter left for Honolulu by
last nights Kinau, after about Two
weeks spent in Olaa and Puma. Mr..
Carter will return by the Wednesday
boat, at which time he will probably
bring with him the Hilo share of the
Olaa plantation stock, amounting to
about $350,000 which has already been
oversubScribed.
Up to the present time there are no
new developments of Importance with
reference to the proposed plantation,
with one exception, which is, indeed,
of great Importance and significance.
This is the result attained in the anal
ysis of Lahaina cane, grown at the
Zimmerman place near Mountain
View, at a height of fully 1900 feet.
This cane was analysed by Mr.. Hart
man, the chemist at Papaikou, and
gives results which are quite unex-
pected, the quantity and quality of
saccharine matter being exceptional
and superior to that exhibited by the
came variety of cane ON the low land
plantations of this district. The age
of the cane was eighteen months. This
result is a complete surprise to the
promoters, as lit will doubtless be TO
sugar men in general, it being she
original supposition. that highland
varieties would necessarily be cultivat-
ed on all the lands above 1900 feet If
such results can be attained with La
hama cane at 1900 feet, one can but
wonder what will be the product of
highland canes at $500 and 5000 feet
The variation in temperature be
tween the low and high elevations, -
says Mr.. Carter, lis slight compared
with that of the Kau side, and the low
er temperatures of the uplandS are
more than compensated by the super
ior richness OF the SOIL This being
the case, We may expect that the Oiaa
plantation throughout its whole area
will give crop results unparalleled in
the history of sugar cultivation in Ha-
wall
PUMA PLANTATION. -
H. r. Rycroft returned on Wednes-
day from visit of. several days TO the
Puma district with Mr. A. F. Carter
arranging further details with refer,
ence to the proposed sugar plantation
Advices received from Mr. Campbell of
Honolulu indicate that the proposition
will undoubtedly be fioated. About
twenty miles of railway will be re-
CURED for the carrying business of
the plantation, but as the country is
we'll adapted for railway building,
this will not entail so large an expense
as would ordinarily be the case. The
water supply of the plantation will be
from the Green Lake." near the Ly-
man homestead.
MORE CANE LAND.
The Tribune has every reason to be-
lieve that the negotiations for the
Wakefield tract on Keaau, covering an
area of nearly 1000 acres have come
to successful issue. The price paid
for this tract, as well as for the sec
ton covered by the Loebenstein OPP
ton, the two of which were pooled into
one proposition, is in the six figures.
The people who will take over these
lands are the same as those now pro-
noting Olaa. The course to be adopt
ed is, however, not yet settled; some
are in favor of consolidating the whole
area, 1owland and upland, into one gil
gantic plantation, with a single MILL
others believe a division into two cor
porations of more moderate size to be
more advantageous both for capitaliza-
ton and development
HILO RAILWAY.
Charles II. Kluegel, chief engineer
of the Oahu Railway e Land Co., ar
rived by the last Kinau to take charge
of the survey and construction OF The
railways on Hawaii. Mr.. Kluegel has
been ten years in Hawaii, where he