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

Haiku ditch, capacity 100000 gallons in
100000 gallons In "a hours; the Waihee
ditch, capacity 100000 gallons In -
hours; total, 165,O00,O00 gallons in twenty
four hours.
The socaled Haiku and Lowrie bitches
above mentioned are over twenty-five miles
Icing and conduct water from the streams
along the slope of the Haleakala mountain.
The Waihee ditch conducts water from
the Waihee valley on West Maui.
The plantation also has six pumping
plants. total capacity 42,O00,00O gallons per
twenty.four hours The plantation has res.
ervoirs for storing 7O1,50O,00O gallons OF
water. In a few months additional reser-
voirs will be constructed for storing 45O.-
OOO. 900 gallons. An additional pumping
plant will be installed that will furnish TO-.
100000 gallons Of water In twenty-four
hours.
which has not all been milled yet. will prob
ably reach $1,000 tons Of sugar.
The plantation has under cultivation ut
the present time, the balance Of the crop Ot
1901 now being milled, the crop OF 1902, and
a portion of the crop Of 1903 which Is no"
being planted-a total acreage aggregatins
about 1900 acres:
Transportation.--Cane is transported
from the fields to the sugar factory by rail.
A well-constructed railroad system has been
laid to all parts OF the plantation. and four
locomotives are In constant use.
Sugar Faetory.-The capacity Of the pres
ent sugar factory Ia about $50 tons OF sugar
in twenty-four hours. The factory. located
about one and one-half miles from one end
OF the plantation and about nine miles from
the other Is in very incOnvenient location.
especially for taking of the large crops n
10 proposed to raise. Portions OF the ma
chinery are old-fashioned and worn out
The directors OF the Hawaiian CONNER
cial and Sugar Company decided to erect a
new sugar factory to be called 'The Pun.
meme MIL" This immense undertaking is
designed to replace the factory now In oper-
alton at Spreckelsville which Is not large
enough to handle the crops projected for
the Immediate future by the directors Of
the Hawaiian Commercial and Sugar Com
pany.
The new works are situated near the cen.
ter of the cane lands, about q mile and
half directly inland from Kahului, and al
though this involves building small town
with its sewerage. water, lighting and rail
read systems In addition to the sugar fac
tory. there are SO many advantages to be-
gained that the expenditure Is fully war
ranted.
In the new location the factory Is prac'l-
cally central. and the average haul OF the
cane from the fields to the mills h. much re-
duced, and as the daily delivery of cane
will reach In the near future some 5000 tons.
the value Of the short average haul Is ut
once seen.
The factory Is SO situated that the water
used in the condensers during the processes
of manufacture. amounting to some nine
(9 million gallons every twenty-fOur hours.
Is available for irrigating purposes on the
land lying below the factory, these waste
waters from the mill carrying of most "
the by-products which are valuable as fer
TIMERS. which are thus deposited In the
burrows under the most favorable circuin'
stances and in the cheapest possible man.
ner.
At the old mill all the water and by-prod'
ucts are run into the sea and are consc-
quently lost to the plantation.
As the new works are at an elevation CT