The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-06-11
NEWS OF The BIG
ISLAND OF HAWAII
The Weeks Budget Of Happenings
and Criticism From the
Hilo Herald.

The following is from the columns of
Hawaii Herald:
The Hilo Railroad began operations on
Tuesday last and trains are now running
between HiIo and the Olaa mill site The
Dig engine will not run until the balance
of the ties can be laid, as not enough
have az yet arrived to be placed the stand
ard distance apart. There are $1,000 ties
on the dock in San Francisco waiting
shipment to Hilo, and wheR they can be
brought here the matter of putting the
necessary additional ties under the rails
already laid to the mill site will begin
Trains to Pohsiki.
A mile two of the Corey & SmitA
contract IS now in the hands Of the la
borerS and when the machinery arrives
the firm of contractors will so ahead with
| the werf, ard within eighteen months
| trains will be running to Pohoiki. Area
| dy the company Is carrying quite
| bulky lot of freight to Olaa and more will
follow the line progresses. The Puma
| extension must be finished before the first
| crop of cane is Off and there is no doubt
| it will be, for large quantities of freight
are being shipped to Puma almost every
| day Work on the plantation is progress
| ing satisfactorily under Mr.. Campbells
| management and he has already planted
portion of last week in Puma and he re-
ports everything favorable to splendid re-
| suits. The climate is warm in Puma and
essary qualifications to the profitable pro
| duction of sugar. This plantation will be
| one of the best paying on this Island.
olaa Big One.
In Olaa only about one-ninth of the to-
tai area of the sugar company's land has
been planted but that one-ninth Is nearly
as great an area as Vaiakea or Wainaku
| Is preparing additional land for cane every
day. 80 that by the time the mill Is up
Olaa will have seven or eight thousand
acres planted. This will make that plan
tation the biggest by far this Island
II not in the entire group. 1t may be I'M
agined. then, what the business of the
railroad company will be when both Olaa
and Puma Sugar Companies are in full
operation and shipping sugar to tidewa-
ter.
Line to Volcano House.
The company is not ready to say when
the line will be completed to the Volcano
House and down into Kau, but it is net
believed that it will be for some time.
b. +. Dillingham; has f1oated many thou
sands Of dollars in bonds in the States
and the demand for these securities is
said to be growing and bonds will con-
Il
tee the building and equipping of the
through line. The construction OF cars is
going ahead as fast as the facilities for
tho work will permit
Gshr Highly Pleased.
III. e. Gehr, president Of the KoRnla-
Hilo line. is highly pleased with tho pros
poets of his road. The plans submitted to
Governor Dole are in every way satisfac-
tory to the local Government, but before
approving them the Cabinet has stated
that they want to see the maps of the en-
tire line II they are as carefully pre-
pared as those of the first section already
| submitted they will be approved at once.
Additional time has been granted the COM
pany to prepare the maps and in order
that there may be no unnecessary delay
the company will put three engineering
corps into the field at once, and if posi-
bic have the maps ready to be submitted
within thirty days. In order to accom-
pliSh this Mr.. Gehr arranged with survey
ors while in Hilo and they will look after
the field work. The sale of the So, UO, 900
worth of bonds in New York is a guaran-
tee that the road will be built and operat-
ed by Mr.. Gehr and his associates, and
1t will be built on route that will guar
antee freight from the various sugar
plantations between Hilo and Kailua. The
delay In approving the plans means de-
lay in building the road, but this will not
be for long. Had the plans been approx
ed last week tenders would be asked for
the grading Of at least the first section.
| This cannot be done now until the Gov
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