The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1900-03-23
TWO REPORTS
Read at the Kihei
Meeting,
The Managers Estimates--The Treas.
urer's Report Pumps
And Water,

were submitted to the shareholders at
meeting held at the Chamber VI Com
merce rooms yesterday Both reports
were very well received by the stock
holders and they were approved.
In his report the treasurer, Mr.. j. Il.
Cooke, states that on the basis OF the
managers estimate but two more asr
sessments of 10 per cent will be requir-
ed during this year. With these two
assessments 100000 viii have been
called for 1900. The estimates of total
expenditures for 1900 is s5s9,325. The
months ending December 81, 1899, were
s143.6o2.51.
A synopsis Of the report of Manager
w. F. Pogue is as follows: Water be-
ing the most important FACTOR neces-
sary for the successful development OF
this estate the first work was its de-
velopment Development of water at
the Wor,hington pumping station was
commenced on the I'd day of October,
1898. A shalt was sunk about 700
feet from .he beach, and 20 feet above
mean tide levei. Ten weeks later a
6-inch centrifugal pump was in opera
ton. This shaft was carried down IL
feet below water level, and IL feet be-
low sea level, the wafer rising two
feet above sea level. At that depth two
tunnels were started, one south and
the other north. The south tunnel
was run SO feet, the north tunnel 100
feet, which shaft and tunnels develop
ed 100000 u. S. gallons per day
GA hours. A second shaft was sunk
600 feet north of the first shaft, the
proposition being to connect the two
shafts by tunnel at depth of from
13 to Is feet under water. This propo-
sition has been carried out to the ex-
tent that we now have only 100 feet
of tunneling more to do, and have de-
veloped about 100000 U. s. gallons
per "a hours. The remaining 100 feet
will take about six weeks TO excavate,
and should certainly develop 100000
gallons of water. The second shaft was
sunk II feet below water level and 10
feet be. ow sea level; the water in this
shaft raising four feet above sea level.
The water in this shaft analyses some
twenty grains of salt less than in the
first shaft.
crop should have been completed be-
fore last July, but owing to the total
collapse Of four developing pumps we
were detained. By October, however,
the water question was solved, there
being no question whatever but that,
with what water was developed, we
would have an ample supply of water
for our first crop. There Is no question
as to the supply of good water on this
estate: the amount is only limited by
the surface exposed, by shaft tunnel
or otherwise. Water in these shafts
analyses 40 to rs grains of salt per
u. S. gallon, and a combination Of all
the water developed analyses SO grains
per U. S. gallon. The borings of Nc
Candless Bros. at Camp No. 2 struck
water in every instance about one foot
above sea level, and of better quality
than that of our first shaft, but not as
good as that of our second, when ap-
pears strange, as the shafts are one
half mile from sea shore, and the bored
wells TWO mi. es.
Wells at Camp No. 3 Will be worked
by pumps with an aggregate capacity
of 1850, 900 gallons a day. Two bored
wells at this station establish the fact
that there is plenty of good water,
above mean tide level. The water from
this station will be used for the pro-
duction of the 1902 crop, to be planted
the coming summer. Water from this
station analyses 80 to 50 grains of salt
per U. S. gallon, according 10 the
depth from which samples were taken,
the best water being at the bottom of
the wells. These wells have moi yet
been pumped, but when pumped will,
OF course, give a more uniform quality
OF water. They are situated about
three miles from sea shore.
Planting for seed was commenced
the last week in December 1898, as
soon as sufficient water was Obtained
for irrigation, and pushed along as
water was developed, and pumps in
stalled for the delivery at the proper
elevation On account of delay in in
stallation of pumps, planting for the
1901 crop was not fairly commenced
before the latter part of last October,
and has been pushed as fast as posi-
BILE. We have, to date, $40 acres plant
ed, $50 acres of which will be the crop
of 1901. Six hundred acres were
planted up TO January list. Planting
Tor the first crop was completed Feb
ruary LIST.
Seed for planting 125 acres was
bought from the Hawaiian Commercial
& Sugar Co. and from the Paia PIanta- |
ton for &c acres. This gave us ISL |
acres of seed for planting the first
crop. but the delay in planting the |
crop, together with the rapid growth |
OF the cane. has Increased the yield OF |
our own seed above our estimates to |
such an extent that only about 80 !
acres of this cane will be cut for seed |
for this crop, and II acres for planting |
next summer for the 1902 crop, the
balance OF ITO acres going over for
grinding, this spring and next. None
OF the cane planted has, thus far, tas-
seled.
The first of the 2o-inch pipe lines
has been laid for about two miles to
the 200-teet contour. and the second
completed TO the 150-feet contour,
about three aud one-half miles con-
veying water from the Worthington
pumping station. The manager rec
ommends lining all fumes and water
ways to save water. The railroad as
far as Camp No. Is completed, or