The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-11-19

mittee on Handing ana lfdlSIOI
of Cane:
Dear Sir:-I forward the following;
HANDLING AND TRANSPORTATION
OF CANE.
This is comparatively an old subject
1t has been evolved in many brains by
intelligent practical men in these Islands
over 20 wears and many scores of years
in other parts of the world. Improve
ments have been made from time TO time
and new methods suggested and tried
Some adopted some rejected Not being
/ posted in many detail methods OF hand
| ling cane on many plantations the past
few years. we can only refer to our own
method of handling cane, and how we
have seen others do it. Carts. humes,
railroads and the wire trolley system are
our present methods of cane transporta-
ton on these Islands. All OF these meth
DDS have been well tested by actual use
| except the wire trolley system This is
the newest method of transporting cane
with which we are acquainted, and as
we have had considerable experience in
its use, perhaps we should briefly notice
It. 1t has been longest used on Kuka1au
Plantation than upon any other; IN Hact
if was first used there for transporting
cane There we had railroads or
fumes We got along fairly we'll de-
Iivering cane to the works with teams
while We were raising cane near the mill,
but when we e&tenuGV orr culLiNdtioi
into distant fields beyond the gulches we
encountered loss and hard work, particu-
larly in rainy times. There was still
beyond several hundred acres of good
cane land so far away it would not pay
to cultivate if the cane had TO be trans
ported to the mill by mule and horse
teams. So much thought was given to
transportation. Finally we heard that
coal, ore, wood and other things Were be-
ing transported by a wire cable system
over a rough country where no other
known contrivance would or could work |
So we decided to try 1000 feet of cable
Our ignorance made bungling work OF
it at the start but thought ourselves |
quite successful in its trial. Some prac-
teal men came to see it work and en-
couragingly declared: IF it worked 1000 !
feet il would work 10000 or any dis |
lance" We. believing the same, ordered |
for our next crop cables of sufficient
length to land our most distant cane at
the works without further handling. We
gradually learned how TO use it, and are !
now able to transport on the wire all |
our cane grown above the works. We !
We're much encouraged when we We're |
able TO send down from our most distant |
field ten CHARTERS per day. Now double !
that amount is our smallest days work, |
and on our most favorable lines four
CHARTERS per hour is net unusual TO be |
transported by one cable.
Comparisons as to the efficiency and |
cheapness of the different methods OF |
cane transportation is hardly worth nam !
ing. as all plantations differ in tie lay |
of their lands, the location OF Their |
works. A deficiency of water ana other |
causes forces some plantations to adopt
one method and others another method. |
Some plantations combine two OF the
above methods to good advantage. Where
a railroad runs along the lower part OF
the plantation 10 the works, cane from
all parts of the plantation can be drop
ped into the cars from wire CABLE, o.
from a fiume if water is available. This
is all that il seems prudent to say at THIS |
time upon cane transportation. <0w
comes
CANE HANDLING
Cane handling" I presume is intend
ed 10 include all labor required to move
the cane after it is cut to. and place ii
in, cars. wagons, fumes and upon the |
wire cables. which convey il 10 ,he |
works.
This is done altogether by man or horse |
power. We have had some experience |
loading cane upon cars, wagons. fumes |
and the wire cable. We have heard com |
plants made about the nard ana costly |
work, loading cane on cars wagons. wire |
cables, and packing cane to fumes At |
our last years meeting considerable Was |
SAID about the hard WORK complained 81 |
IN loading cane cars, almost Impossible |
70 have il done save by contract. NOT
having any hard work complained of in |
loading cane cars on our Island W. Sasd