The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-03-20
7 WO REPORTS.
Read at the Kihei
Meeting.
The Managers Estimates--The Treas
urer's Report Pumps
And Water.

The treasurer's report and the report
Of the manager Of Kihei plantation
were submitted 70 the shareholders at
a meeting held at the Chamber Of Com
merce rooms yesterday. Both reports
we're very well received by the stock
holders and they were approved.
In his report the treasurer, Mr.. J. p.
Cooke, states that on the basis Of the
managers estimate but two more as
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
operating expenses for the fifteen
months ending December 81. 1899, were
4 s143, 6O2.51.
i \ synopsis Of the report OF Manager
w. +. 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-
veIopment. Development OF water at
the WorthingtOn pumping station was
commenced on the I'd day Of October,
= 1898. \ shaft was sunk about 1900
, feet from the beach. and 20 feet above
} mean tide level. 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 water rising two
, feet above sea level. At that depth two
} tunnels were started, one south and
the other north. The south tunnel
? was run 80 feet the north tunnel 100
; feet. which shaft and tunnels develop
ed 5000. 900 L. :. 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 pTOpO-
sition has been carried out TO the ex-
Z tent that we now have only 100 feet
= of tunnellng more to do. and have de-
4 veloped about 10000 900 u. 5. gallons
= per "a hours. The remaining 100 feet
= will take about six weeks 10 eXcavate,
! and should certainly develop 2,OOO,OOO
= gallons OF water. The second SHAFT was
= sunk II feet below water level and Is
= feet below sea level; the water in TINS
y shaft raising four feet above sea leVel.
= The water in this shaft analyses some
y twenty grains VI Sti'' i''' '''' 50 -
8 first shaft.
= The water development for the first
= crop should have been completed be-
. fore last July, but owing to the total
collapse of four developing pumps we
Y were detained. BY October, however
- the water question was solved, there
being no question whatever but that
with what wate~ 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 thi;
estate; the amount is only limited by
the surface exposed, by smart tuhnei
or otherwise. Water IN these shdIO'
analyzes As to 70 grains of salt pc
II. s. gallon, and a combination OF al
the water developed analyses 90 grain
~ per II. s. gallon. The borings OF Nc
% Candless Bros. at Camp No. 2 strucl
Ve water in every instance about one TOO
above sea level, and OF better quallt
than that o. our first shaft, but not
good as that Of our second, when ap
Dears strange, as the shafts are one
half mile from sea shore, and the bore
wells two miles.
Wells at Camp No. Will be worke
by pumps with an aggregate capaclt
OF II, 100000 gallons day. Two pore
wells at this station establish the faC
which raises two feet seven inche
above mean tide level. The water frol
this station will be used for the pro
duction of the 1902 crop, 10 be plante
the coming summer. Water from tn
station analyses 80 to SO grains OF sa
per u. $. gallon, according TO u
depth from which samples were take
the best water being at the bottom
the wells. These wells have not -
been pumped, but when pumped WI
of course. give a more uniform quall'
OF water They are situated aoo'
three miles from sea shore.
Planting for seed was commence
the last week in December, 1898,
soon as sufficient water was oOIaln'
FOR irrigation, and pushed along
Tor water was developed, and pumps
stalled for the delivery at the prop
elevation. On account OF delay IN ]
stallation of pumps, planting Tor u
1901 crop was not fairly commence
before the latter part Of last Octobe
and has been pushed as fast as pos'
HE. we have. TO date, $40 acres plan
50 ed. $50 acres OF which will be the CT
~ OF 1901. Six hundred acres We
. pIanted up to January LIST. Plant
= for the first crop was completed ! Z
= ruary LIST. 49,
~
. bougbt from the Hawaiian Commerce
sugar Co. and from the Paia Plant
. ton FOR % acres. This gave US
. acres OF seed for planting the III
crop, but the delay in planting I
. crop. together with the rapid grow
. OF the cane, has increased the yield
our own seed above our estimates
such an extent that only about
acres OF this cane will be cut Tor sc
y FOR this crop, and II acres Tor piahIl
next summer for the 1917 crop, !
balance OF 10 acres going over
grinding. this spring and next. NO
OF the cane planted has, thus far, Z
, ~ seled. g.
The first OF the 2O-inch pipe in
has been laid for about two miles
- the 2OO-feet contour, and the secO
% completed to the 15O-feet conto'
y about three and one-half miles CO
l. HHmH