The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-09-10
"A LARGE
| CONCERN
MiIIiken Brothers
| Enter Broader
Field.
BUILT SUGAR
MILLS IN ISLANDS
To Erect a Steel Constructing
| Plant at Mouth Of Railway
River, N. J.

Miiliken Brothers OF New York, who
lulu, and who have erected many Of the
Largest sugar mills in the Hawaiian ISL
ands, notably that at Spreckelsville,
which is the largest sugar mill in the
world, have branched out into steel pro-
duction on a large scale, and will locate
the new works at the mouth Of the Rah-
way River, New Jersey. The capitalza-
ton is 100000. C. E. Snyder, the Homo
| lulu representative of Milliken Brothers,
has just been apprised of the new move
of his company, and gives the following
Information concerning the new incor-
poration:
simultaneously with the fling of In
corporation papers by Milliken Brothers,
| incorporated, comes the news that the
riparian commission of the state of New
Jersey has granted to Milliken Brothers
the right to q large tract of land under
water. The property is located at the
intersection of the Railway river and
| Staten Island sound, and will give the
owners some 1000 feet of bulkhead. hav-
| ing q feet of water at low tide and,
as the papers show, the state lines run
to and are coincident with the lines
adopted by the war department few
adopted by the war department a few
weeks since upon the application of the
grantees. This property is below the
Nixon ship building yards and the new
car works of the John Stephenson Com
pany.
/ Milliken Brothers have been engaged
i in the iron and steel business for nearly
| 50 years, having been established in 1857.
Their manufactures comprise in particu-
lar all classes of structural and orna-
mental steel and iron work for buildings
and bridges.
| "Their present shops are located on
| tidewater in Brooklyn, and while -impos-
| sible to obtain precise information cover
! ing the reasons for the loss of this large
| industry to Brooklyn, 1t is understood
| that among them are to be found the
need for greatly increased room and the
natural desire to escape rent and the
ever increasing city taxes and municipal
restrictions.
I'm selecting. as these manufacturers
have done, a point Immediately accessi.
BILE to the great New York market yet
at the same time on a highway of for
eign commerce. they have evidently had
in mind the growing Importance of their
foreign trade, which already amounts to
several million dollars annually, and In
moving out of town they are at the same
time following the general tendency of
| manufacturers in their line, which has
| lately become so marked.
"As evidence of the Importance to
American manufacturers, and to this
company in particular, of foreign or ex-
port trade 1t is significant that this firm
has found it necessary to establish its
own offices in charge of Its resident en-
gineers in Honolulu, Mexico, Havana,
Capetown, London, Sydney and San
Francisco as well, having representatives
or engineers in Capetown, Stockholm,
Copenhagen, Christiana, Manila, and in
the far east, although these points by
no means represent all of the territory
to which their products are constantly
being sent
The tract in question Is admirably
adapted for the purpose intended, 1t be-
ing corner lot, two sides of which
afford berth-room for lighters and ocean
steamers of draught up to 21 feet The
tracks Of the Central Railroad of New
Jersey run through the property on the
northwest
THE bridge and structural plant when
completed will be one of the largest and
best equipped Of its kind in this country.
which means one of the best in the
whole world, containing two complete
oiiuSe SHopS ioF turning out the very
heaviest classes of railroad bridge work |
and will be as complete as money can |
make it.
In addition, other shops will be erected |
for turning out material for buildings, |
the whole representing an annual out |
put of between 100000 and 10000 tons |
of steel work, giving employment to over |
1900 men.
The incorporation is formed with ST. |
100000 capital, and so far as can be |
learned, the Incorporation is only formed |
for the greater convenience of carrying
on this large business"