Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1901-11-30

tween crops, and during the operation Of
the mill the water supply is used for the
vacuum pans. pumps and general use about
the mill.
In connection with the irrigation system
there has been installed about 10000 feet
Of from "a to 3O-inch steel riveted pipe.
while the length Of main bitches is some
sixty miles, connecting or leading water
from the mountains, pumping stations. etc..
and uniting the entire reservoir system.
On Fords Island, which is part of the
holdings Of the Oahu Sugar Company, and
situated in a part Of Pearl Harbor, are 800
acres Of Lahaina cane which is irrigated by
gravity from six flowing wells having q
joint capacity of 100000 gallons and con.
tanning about twenty grains of salt to an
imperial gallon. AS the highest average
elevation is only from seventeen to eight
cen feet, the problem of irrigation by gray.
ity becomes simple proposition.
From the above 800 acres the company
expects beyond a doubt that the yield will
be 1000 tons of cane, or an average Of
IL IL tons of sugar to the acre. or 100 tons
OF cane to the same area
In some fields on the Oahu Plantation, &C.
cording to the statement Of the manager,
the yield has been as high as 1lU tons of
cane to the acre. and II Is fully expected
that, as soon as everything In connection
with the pumping system is installed and
working to full capacity. the average
yield Of sugar should be twelve tons to the
acre.
Al the present time there are about 1900
skilled and unskilled laborers upon the plan.
tation the average pay of skilled labor be-
Ing $S5 per month, while the average pay
ior unskiiied labor, which includes field
hands, is 500 per month.
In the working and development of the
plantation about twothir.s Of the employees
are working under the cooperative or profit.
sharing system. the remaining one.third be-
ing day-laborers.
with the different laborers Is the same as
adopted by all the plantations on the Island
or oahu. After the cane Is harvested, and
all advances made during the period Of cul.
tivation and maturing Of the cane have
been deducted. the individual planters re-
ceive sums ranging from $40 to $3.50
clear. The laborer, as on other plantations,
Is given house room. water, fuel hospitai
and medical attendance free.
For ordinary field work, such as the plov.
Ing OF certain fields and the trenching fur.
rowing and checking up Of land prior to
planting. some 175 mules are found neces.
sary.
The general headquarters and mill are
situated at Waipahu, where has been erect.
ed one OF the most complete mills on the Isl.
and planned for capacity OF $50 tons of
raw sugar. but In reality 100 tons has been
the output under very favorable conditions,
In twenty-four hours.
The buildings are Of skeleton at eel struct.
TIA! work with corrugated galvanized iron
sides and roofs and iron floors, and were
the first contract taken and completed on
the Island Of Oahu bv the house of Mill
ker Brothers of New York.
Within this building have been installed
complete mechanical appliances, the special
lecture for the manufacturing Of sugar be-
ing capitalization in motion, securing, II Is
claimed, the largest possible percentage of
sugar from the molasses in tho shortest DOS.
sible period
The machinery so installed consists pri.
mar!ly OF Dening superhsati system,
Settling tanks, eight patent sard filters TAX.
Ing up very limited space. twelve Krooss
large-size filter presses. sixteen watoc driven
Watson q Laidlaw centrifugals, Deming sys.
TEN OF Qualification. one Sc and one 90ton
vacuum pans, connected with which are
the vacuum pumps. Of German make.