The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1901-04-02
CUBAN SUGAR INTERESTS
PLANNING TO COMBINE
FIRST STEP TAKEN FOR PUg.
CHASE OF PLANTATIONS
BY AMERICANS.
chsppsrs Company Has Acquired
sisty-siS Thousand Acres Of Land
and Let Contracts for Two Million
Dollars Worth Of Improvements.

NEW YORK. March 23.-What may
be the first step in the consolidation
Of the various large sugar interests in
the island Of Cuba, or the purchase Of
these interests BY American capital
lists. has been taken
The ChappaFa Sugar Company Of
Cuba, with Offices in this city, has
placed contracts in this country aggre.
eating over sz.00o,000 for the equip
ment Of the largest sugar plant ever
built in Cuba
The company, OF which ex-Congress-
man HaTley OF Texas is president
and ia which H. H. Howell. Sons & Co.
and Theodore Havemeyer are largely
Interested, has acquired 5000 acres
Of land In the eastern portion OF Cuba
Nearly 10000 acres OF this land is IN
der cultivation. while on the rest the
work OF planting cane will be immedi.
stely begun. This enormous planting
is without precedent in the history If
Cuba.
With the exception OF 500 acres IN
the immediate vicinity OF the factory,
10000 acres under growth are being
divided among colonists, who cultivate
the fields and deliver the cane TO the
mill for a return OF per cent
A railroad thirty miles long viii be
constructed on the estate and grinding
operations are TO begin next December,
by which time it is believed some $50,
600 tons OF cane will be ready TO be
handled.
The mills will have daily capacity
for grinding 1900 tons OF cane. Power
will be derived from a steam plant of
5000 horsepower.
Augustus Smith OF this city has OBJ
tanned the order for the buildings,
which will mean the purchase of $780,
900 worth of structural steel. The
Babcock & Wilson Company is to
build the boilers of 5000 horse power
each. Eleven piston pattern pumps
and three rotary dry vacuum pumping
equipments viii be furnished by Hen
~ X. Worthington, while another
New York concern. the Morris Ma
chine Company. is to supply three
large pumps directly connected 20
vertical engines.
Fox Brothers 4 Co. have undertaken
the contract for the equipment of the
machine shops. The tools comprise
pipe-cutting machines. gap lathes, en-
CINE lathes. radial drill presses, bolt
cutters, twist drill grinders. etc. The
same firm has taken an order for 200
sugar cars.
The Whitney Iron Works of New
Orleans will build three immense g.
roller mills and crushers. They will
also make the necessary filter presses.
The clarifying apparatus is to be fur
nished by C. W. Deming OF New Or
leans. The Chattanooga Car Company
OF Chattanooga. Tenn. will build $50
cars. The Illinois Steel Company is
TO execute the rail contract, which
calls for 200 tons OF 40-pound rails.
The Sugar Apparatus Manufacture
ing Company of Philadelphia will
build the multiple effects. and the
vacuum pans are to be got from Jas.
Dat 4 Sons OF the same city.
Other contracts just determined In
clude orders for factory stacks and
steel tanks from the Riter-Conley Man
ufacturing Company of Pittsburg. Pa:
mill shafts from the Bethlehem Steel
Works OF Bethlehem. Pa. and blow
ers from the b. F. Sturtevant Com
pany of New York City.