The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-08-22
SOME FACTS
ABOUT kIHEI
H. P. Baldwin Gives Some Interesting
Information Concerning This
New Plantation.

Senator II. p. Baldwin was seen by a
representative of this paper yesterday
with especial reference to the condition
of affairs on Kihei plantation. For sew
have been circulated to it's detriment
and Mr.. Baldwin, as an officer of the
company and one of its heaviest stock
holders, was asked to make an authori-
=, tative statement for the public benefit.
1T is not usual said Mr.. Baldwin
''to make public statements about
plantation matters. There is nothing
the matter with Kihei that 1 know of,
tation last week to show friend OF
mine. also plantation manager, over
the property. However, there is moth
ing to hide or be kept secret concern
ing it's affairs, and the truth can hurt
no one. What do you want to know?''
First, as to the water supply, Mr..
Baldwin,"
1--WE have abundance of water-mOre
/
requirements. In the first place, we
have developed the natural water
sources by sinking shafts and tunnel
ing This has been done at spot
about half a mile from the sea shore
on what is called the lower lands of the
plantation. Here we have sunk four
separate shafts, or wells, in the solid
rock, from all of which we have abun-
dance of water. These wells are all
within a distance of 500 feet and will
eventually be connected together, so
that the surplus water can be pumped
to a higher level.
From one of these circular shafts,
or holes, the No. 8, which is about
twelve feet across and about fifteen feet
deep. from which a tunnel has been
run about twenty feet long, there is
now flowing from the tunnel about
three and a half million gallons in
: twenty-fOur hours. 1t has been meas
ured exactly by Mr.. Pogue, but those
! are the figures in round numbers. For
every foot of further development
made we find that the flow of water
| still increases This No. hole, or
well. is only one of four similar ones.
These will be connected with the main
pumping plant and when this is done
we shall have a water supply OF twelve
million gallons per day from this
source alone.
About the pumps, Mr.. Baldwin, has
| there been any trouble on that ac-
| count?"
well. yes, some,'' was the answer
You see, we put in some Garrett
pumps to start with on the recommen-
ldation of Engineer Schussler These,
however, did not work as we'll as we
expected and we are now putting IN
two big Worthington pumps. Each OF
these will have a capacity for handing
six million gallons in the twenty-four
hours The first of these will be in
loperation about the first week in Sep
tember. or say, the middle, at the very
--latest. and the second about six weeks
later. With these two pumps Installed
the plantation will be able to handle
twelve million gallons of water per day
of twenty-four hours, or more than we
lean use to advantage this season.
'Now about the upper wells, MI.
Baldwin,"
'These are the wells being sunk by
McCandless Brothers. They are arte-
sian wells proper. They are being sunk
|about two miles from the shore ana
about mile and half further up
from the pumping station l have just
told you about. The land where these
wells are being sunk is just 200 feet
above sea level, but the wells are be-
ing sunk to a depth or about 25O feet,
really deeper than is necessary. Inc
McCandless people are now boring the
fourth of these wells, which yield from
four to five hundred thousand gallons
per day of twenty-four hours each. AS
soon as the fourth we'll is completed
we propose to connect the four togeth-
er and inaugurate a system OF deep
we'll pumps similar to that in use IN
the oil wells of Pennsylvania. Under
this system one engine will furnish the
power for the four pumps. This Will
be done in three or four weeks from
now The first cost of this pumping
outfit is far cheaper than any other
pumping machinery now in use in the
Islands for the duties required Of it,
and if they work as we'll as we have