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

a series of long leases when gives the com
pany at the lowest stage OF me stream a
daily now OF iuily 15,vUU,OVV ganons. from
July, 1900, to jury, 1901, the rainIaii at NO.
lOa was 1853 inches, winch was greatly
exceeded at the higher mountain attitudes.
In connection with the mountain supply
OF wa,er the company has erecte.. at suit
able point a "Keidier duplex" 5,UOO,OOO-gal-
lon pumping system when raises the water
from the natural streams in a single lit OF
$50 feet and discharges into reservoirs hav-
ing capacity equal to 15.O0O,OOO gallons,
from whence 1t is distributed by q system
OF pipe lines and bitches to the different
cane fields.
About 2O,OOO,OOO gallons is the average
daily supply OF water at the present time
from all sources, but this does not by any
means represent the total available water,
as by the erection Of additional storage res
ervoirs the supply could be largely increas-
ed from the mountain sources. The COM
pany ia now boring for water at Mahau-
lepu and intends to erect another pumping
plant for the purpose of irrigating body
OF cane lying below the pumping system.
The method adopted to convey the cane
from field to mill Is a main railroad system
ten miles in length. which Is connected
with portable held track some two miles
in extent. The main line Is supplied with
$50 cane cars having an average capacity
Of Q 10 to 3 tons, which are hauled to the
mill by two Baldwin and two German loco
motives.
There are about 500 laborers upon the
plantation, probably onehalf OF the work
being performed by day labor and one-half
by company men or proht-sharers. Tne aver
age nay for unskilled labor Is 81 month.
with, besides, house room. fuel. water ana
medical attendance. the company MAINTAIN
ing its own hospital During the grinding
season of 1900 the total output OF the mill
6O0A tons while the season of 1901
Just closed shows an Increase OF 1000 tons.
For the 1908 crop there has been planted
some 800 acres, and the estimated output
Of sugar for that season, which VIII come
on 1900 ares, including lands o, Individual
planters. will be In excess OF the season
OF 1901 or 1902.
Up to the present time the average re-
turn OF sugar from the entire area devot.
ed to cane Is about four tons OF sugar 10
the acre, or ton OF sugar to eight tons
Of cane.
Upon the plantation have been erected
two three-roller and one tworoller mills the
cane being fed direct to the mill without
any special treatment. The mill Is supplied
with the Deming experimenting system,
open CHARTERS, one 3 and one 12ton vac
uum pans triple effect. thirteen Weston
make and three Hepworth centrifugals ana
sacking device, taking sugar direct from
centrifugals. etc. The three mills are driv-
en- by two Corliss engines, steam being gem
Grated by the use OF the bagasse, winch Is
fed automatically to the furnaces. The com.
pany manufactures one grade OF sugar. all
the lower grade sugars and molasses being
worked over into the NO. l grade; Inc ca
pacity OF the mill is eighty tons In twenty.
four hours, but as the mill Is only operated
during the daytime the output Is about one
half OF that amount.
The average mill extraction OF the SUI
crosse In cane is from ~ 70 W per cent de.