The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-07-15
GOOD WATER
At N BRYDE
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the younger cane, together with some of
the earth they were taken out of, were
brought to Honolulu and will be on
exhibition in the various brokers' office
windows. The uniformity of the soil
and its great depth were noticeable fea-
lures in the inspection of this field.
Robert Single of the firm of Water
house & Co. and one of the most prom
inent brokers in Honolulu, in Speaking
of the Investigations made on the Nc
Bryde estate said to an Advertiser re-
porter yesterday:
"Our attention was called to the anal
Uses made of this soil by DR. Maxwell,
former director of the experiment sta
ton here. at the time the plantation
was started. In his report he claimed
that the soil of Wahiawa. which COM
prises a large portion of the plantation
land. was the best soil he had ever
analysed for holding water. and we
were informed by the management that
in this respect DR.. Maxwelrs predictions
had been fully verified, their actual ex-
perience being that the soil retained
moisture and needed much less water
than had been anticipated"
Mr.. Single states that the new mill
is practically up. barring the pipe fit
tings that are now being put in In
number of respects the mill is quite
different from the standard mill of the
Islands. This was the mill ordered for
the American Sugar Company. Molokai,
and was, in fact, delivered at Kaunaka
kai and from there re-shipped to Ele-
ele. it having been purchased outright
by the McBryde company. The most
unique difference is in the buildings In
stead of one huge smokestack there are
four small ones which connect with a
porcupine boiler. which the manager
stated had been in use in Cuba. where
it is said to give satisfaction. The mill
is the largest in the Islands. barring
only the 50e-ton mill being erected at
Spreckelsville Maui. The buildings are
low, differing in that respect from those
erected on Oahu. The management
have no doubt that the mill will fully
meet the guarantee of $50 tons per day
and that the extraction and boiling ca
pacity will be up TO modern standards.
The buildings are mostly one-story
high and are built after the Cuban
style of sugar houses, the high wind
prevailing there making a low building
safer than a high one The mill build
ings were designed and furnished by
Milliken Brothers of New York. and
are being erected under the supervision
of one of their superintendent. The
plant consists of the following seven
buildings: Receiving shed. mill and
bagasse storage house. boiler house.
classification house. pan house, mixer
and centrifugal house and sugar store
house. The buildings are of steel frame
throughout with corrugated iron sides
and board roof. The Orders and beams
for the support of the floors and ma
chinery are also of steel The mill is
designed to have a capacity of 1.50o
tons of cane. The contractors expect
to have it ready by October / next.
The cane to be ground in October is
from q field planted very late and did
not tassel ct was carried past tas
selling time by fertilizing. After an
hour spent at the mill the party pro-
ceeded slowly through the fields of cane
and the plowed land where the laborers
were busy planting for the next season
There now remains from 500 to 1000
acres to be planted, which, together
with 600 acres of long ratoons and prob.
ably 400 of short ratoons. will make up
the crop that goes in next year to be
ground in 1903.
"The finest field we saw" continued
Mr.. Shingle. els 100 acres below the mill.
The samples brought back to Honolulu
were taken from cane planted in Sep
tember. At Laval Gulch, which is the
present terminus of the railroad. the
party left the train and walked down
to the valley where the Reidler pump
is being erected, having 10000 900 gal
Ions capacity daily. and which Will be
ready some time this month if there is
any occasion for it. As a matter of fact.
the supply of water from the two
pumps already completed and at work
In Hanapepe valley, adjoining Eleele
harbor together with the mountain wa
ter. is more than enough to keep going
the cane now under cultivation. and in
all probability, from what the mana
ger stated to me. the Reidler pump,
when completed will not be used, but
will be held until dry weather. The
party were especially interested IN IN
speeding this pump and its water sup
ply. as If was known that very serious
rumors had been af1oat for some time
that the supply was seriously affected
with salt The party found the man
ton and we were informed at the start
that at the Risdon pump in Hanapepe
the water had been found too salt to
be used without being diluted. At the
second pump we found that the water
from the wells was not too salt to be
used directly on the lands, yet it stood
very high, the last analysis showing 1O7
grains.
Manager Stoddart in making his ex-
PLANTATION of the water situation, stated
that he himself was a firm believer in
surface water as against artesian wa
ter when both were available, and that
as matter of fact he had developed a
large amount of the surface supply in
use at Spreckelsville, and on assuming
charge at McBryde he commenced a
search for surface water. Heretofore
the directors had been relying upon the
fact that the plantation for a pumping
concern was exceptionally favored In
the matter of mountain stream water,
and therefore there was an abundance
with which to dilute the saline water
1.-THE party found that the artesian
water at Laval has proved an excep-