The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-02-28
Porto Ricans Solve
Question of
Labor.
SO SAYS MANAGER
GEORGE F. RENTON
The Corporation Will Give Five
Thousand To Help
Employees.
-wA PLANTATION reports were

TWA PLANTATION reports were
read yesterday morning at the
annual meeting Of the stockhold-
ers of that company, indicating that
Oahu's largest plantation and heaviest
producer of sugar cane has just passed
through one of its most prosperous
seasons. No changes We're made in the
personnel of the directorate. The plan
! tation put itself on record, following
the example of local corporation, by
putting aside sum of money amount
| ing TO $1,000, for the social religious
and benevolent Improvement or the
| plantation laborers. A dividend of
per cent monthly has been paid dur
ing the past year. and surplus OF
1922, PA. 81 is carried forward.
The report of Manager George F.
| Renton was full of interesting data Of
tthe plantation, chief of which was the
number OF acres under cultivation, ana
the number of tons realized per acre
| He stated that 1854 acres OF cane were
harvested during 1900. from which
| %, 700 tons of sugar were taken, max
ing an average of 1857 tons per acre.
!
| be taken off of SOIL acres, and the
1902 crop, 1878 acres. In the past two
years ration cane gave a better yield
| than plant cane. Plant cane in 1900
| averaged 10. II tons per acre ratoons,
| 1875 tons. AT present the plantation
burns twenty-six tons of leaves per
acre, stripped from the cane, and the
mana ger hopes TO have machine
which will turn them into fertilizer,
| instead of burning them.
Manager Renton has great faith in
what the Porto Rican field laDorers
can do. and believes it viii solve the
Tabor problem to bring them in in
| great numbers. Otherwise cane must
| be loaded on cars by machinery to save
| expense. At present 1856 men are work
| ing on the plantation. The new num-
Der seven pumping plant. which will
a capacity of 100000 gallons per day
which with other pumps gives the plan
| tation a daily capacity of 81 100000 gal
| Ions.
| There can be no question of the alb
solute necessity for doubling the pres
ent milling capacity" says the mana
| ger. "At this place the one great OBJ
| ject. the overshadowing necessity for
the past two years, and for this com
ing one. has been and is to rush OFF the
crop as rapidly as possible. II is,
therefore, reasonable to expect thai
| OeII6T fflllf HoIh Will w etISciiPiiciito
4 when this pressure has been relieved
by additional machinery and from
the points concerning the fields given
above it is simple deduction 20 anr
ticipate that they will yield their best
1t will be a red-letter day when these
improvements are completed. for, when
all the land is under cultivation, ii
will mean an annual output of $4,000
tons of sugar.
/ The following were the officers re-
elected: j. B. Anterior, president; &
NJ Cooke, vice president; E. d. Ten
ney, secretary; w. A. Bowen. treasur-
er: j. B. Castle. auditor; George r
Renton. manager A vice president
and an assistant secretary, both to re-
side outside of the Territory of Ha-
waii, were provided for by an amend
} ment to the charter.