The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-08-05
NOW GRINDING OLAA CANE
CONTRACT MAD WITH wAIAKEA
MILL.
General State of the Crop, Planting and
Grinding, on Various Maui and Ha
wall Plantations-Crop output.

/ HILO, August Manager McStock-
/ er of the Olaa sugar Company complet-
/ ed arrangements last week with the
| Waiakea Mill Company for the grind
ing of about 10000 tons of cane. The
Waiakea companys cane cars will be
taken to Olaa on fiat cars of the HllO
Railway Company, where the cane will
be loaded and brought to Waiakea and
put on scOws to be transported to the
mill The cars of the Waiakea Com
pany being narrow-g gauge it Is not pos
sible to run them over the tracks of the
Hilo railway 1t is expected that about
$50 acres of cane will be transported
and that grinding will occupy about six
weeks. The work commenced this week.
The cane 50 far is good, resembling
! Waiakea cane in sacharrine and purity.
1t is said now that the Olaa mill will
not be ready before November.-Hawa
! Herald.
HILO, August 1.-The Waiakea and
/ HilO Sugar Companies are stin grinding
and Will be for two or three weeks more.
Waiakea has now taken off 10000 tons.
Hilo Sugar Company is to have a large
crop this year, an new machinery Is
/ ordered so as to do more work in the
| future and take off larger crops.
Onomea is through grinding and Pc
| peekeO and HOnomu. All Cf these places
! have done well this year and the crops
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| bic with labor whatever. The quantity
| of sugar from each place is much larger
! than the previous year and the pros
| poets for the next crop are fine. The
change of seed i'm the Hilo district ls
| doing well and is the saving of the dis
trict. Hilo Sugar Company and ono
mea Sugar Company have rot almost
all Caledonian seed cane in now instead
of Lahaina cane, and when the Lahaina
would not produce a fair crop, by put
ting in Caledonian seed cane the crops
are immense. The new seed cane has
done the deed of salvation to Hilo dis
trict. PepeekeO Waiakea, Honomu
and Hakalau are all putting in Gale
DOMAIN. Olaa has a good amount of it
in, especially on the upper lands, La
hama doing well on the lower Levels, be-
ing new and virgin soil SO good crops
follow and Will tor a long time to come.
Laupahoehoe is still grinding and
large crop is being harvested. This will
be their largest crop so Iar, coming up
In the nelgnDOrhOOd OF 1000 tons.
In the hllo district planting Is getting
near to an end tor TINS year. The
weather is still ury Tor hllo Iailly good
tor plantIng.-t1Ilo Tribune.
HILU, August l.-PuaKo Plantation,
when was started near kawainae
about fourteen months ago, is making
good showing unuer the management
OF Mr.. NTedenDerg. Samples or cane
brought from there this week show eX-
cellent growth, the sticks running lS
feet long and having SIX to eight inch
joints. The samples are of cane painted
year ago. The two pumps are doing
excellent work and the quality of the
water is fairly good.-HaWaii Herald.
WAlLUhU, August 3.-On Tuesday
OF this week, the Waikiki Plantation
finished its seasons run with a to,Sl
output of 500 tons, the largest season $
yield on record for tins plantation. Iue
yield would have been larger still, hau
labor been available Tor stripping cane.
The SpreckelsviIIe Mill is stin rum
ming and it Will probably take two
months longer to finish grinding this
years crop. The output to date is
about $4,000 tons, and there is yet about
8 900 tons to be run, making the total
output of Spreckelsvile for the sea-
son q, 900 tons. The yield would have
been larger. but for the heavy kona
storms of the past winter which des-
troyed or injured quite an area of cane
There is now no scarcity of labor on
Spreckelsville Plantation, and planting
for the new crop is well under head
way. Assistant Manager b. II. Bald
win has taken charge of the plantation
during the absence of Manager LOwrIe,
and Senator II. p. Baldwin will make
his home at Spreckelsvlle during Man
ager LOwrie's absence and generally
supervise the management of the plan
tatiOn.-Maui News.