The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-03-20

Starting with the largest on the ISL
ands, Eva, situated eighteen miles from
Honolulu on the Island of Oahu, this
may be taken as the highest type of
sugar estate in the world. Several 9TH
ers. notably Oahu and Waialua, on Ca
hu; Hawaiian Commercial and Sugar
Company, on Maui, and Lihue, on Ka-
uai are annually increasing their areas
and improving their methods, and may
ultimately enter into earnest competition
with Eva and each other.
EVA has 5000 acres OF land under a
lease for forty years. ten of which have
already expired. This estate is nine
miles long, and with maximum breadth
of four miles, $500 acres are available
for sugar, of which 5000 are already Gull
tivated, half of which is annually har-
vested. The elevation of its lands runs
from to 200 feet. 1t has an annual rain
fall of only twenty-five inches, and hence
uses irrigation. Several powerful pump
ing plants lift 60,000o00 gallons of water
daily from fifty-one artesian wells, rails
ing it to the height of $50 feet The COM
pany employs 100 skilled employees, en-
gineers. macninists, blacksmiths, arti-
sans chemists, etc, and 1900 to 1900
common laborers GOO of whom are culti-
waiting on the profit share system; the
latter take the crop after it is up and
has received its first irrigation, and car
~ ii on to harvest performing the irrga-
ton and traShing, and receiving as COM
pensation one-siXth of the profits from
the sale of cane. There are SO miles of
plantation railway, $50 cane cars and 3
locomotives IN the sugar house are 8
roller mills and crushers, both made by
Fulton Iron Works, St. Louis, Swenson
and Lille quadruple effects Capacity
$4,000 gallons) three vacuum pans, TWEEN
tY 30-inch Weston's belt-driven centrifu-
gals, and three 40-inch water-driven CEN
friflloaIS DpD1iD.r OF
The capacity of the mill is 1,200 tons of
cane, of the sugar house $50 tons of su-
gar. The mill extracts SO to "a per cent
of the sugar in the cane, and the house
secures So to 81 per cent of merchantable
sugar. The crop just gathered produced
$4,000 tonsNof sugar from 900 acres of
cane, or over eleven tons of sugar per
acre The lands are broken with three
sets of steam plows, rows laid off five
feet apart with enormous double mould
board plows, drawn by eight mules. The
capital of the company is now $1,000 Gn0,
on which a monthly dividend of $4,000 IS
regularly paid. AS before remarked,
there are two other magnificent estates
on the same island which are being rap
idly developed and will soon be competi-
tors Of Eva. These are Oahu and Wal
alua. The former adjoins Eva, and
last year ground $4,000 tons of cane. and
obtained 227 pounds of sugar to the ton
It's capital is s6,600,0O0. 1t, too, pays a
regular dividend of per cent per month
Waialua is almost duplicate of EVA
and is run by the same agents.
Lihue Planting Company, on Kauai
has a capital of s1,400000, 1900 acres o:
, land, of which 1000 are suitable for SUI
. gar. Its elevation is 40 to 400 feet. Rain
, fall As inches, and is irrigated from aI-
) tesian wells. -Four thousand acres are In
cane; crop, $1,000 tons of sugar 1t has
IS miles Of railway, 500 cane cars and
, locomotives, two mills, one Stroller anf
; one 12-roller, thirty-six 34-inch cenjIIfu
i gals. Daily capacity, 1,400 tons of cane
and 200 tons of sugar.
= Pioneer Company, of Maui, 1900 acres
| Uses rainfall, artesian wells and streams
!. six pumping plants from artesia1 lis
t 25,000,0o0 gallons daily and water lifted
q 400 feet. Six miles of railway and i
miles wire trolley cables; 200 cane cars
, three locomotives and three miles @
n fumes for moving cane from field TO mill
two sets of steam blows, Stroller mil
q with Krajewski crusher. twenty-five &c
f inch. centrifugals, "a per cent extraction
a 500 tons cane, and 120 tons sugar pc
. day: capital g. 100000.
s Olaa Sugar Company, started in 1s9
: by a conversion of large coffee pianIa
h tions into a sugar estate, has the prom
: Use Of being the largest estate on IN
: islands. 1t has a capital of 600
half of which has been paid up, and D
( the remainder 40 per cent has recent,
: been assessed. 1t has 1900 acres. 4
g mill is now being erected with capacit.
n of ITO tons sugar per day. The rainfall
n is $50 to 200 inches annually and is abun
n dant for crop purposes. 1t has Is mile
: of water fumes, and SO miles of planta
: ton fumes for conveying canes from
field to mill.
T The above will convey some definit
= ideas, I trust, of the sugar industry Il
o. Hawaii. 1t is operated mainly by cor
= porations, which run large estates an
+. cultivate exclusively sugar. no attention
o being given to other and secondary prod
g ucts, feed, food ETC., being imported an
= paid for IN current values.
g CTo be Continued.)