The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-10-18

chinery and In a few months has the
plant well equipped for the making of
good product of sugar
HAuLAGE
Hauling of products from point to point
I is accomplished by means OF cariboo
drag sleds. the latter being bamboo
| Wheeled vehicles are in service IN some
places. Often the only means of car
rage is by natives swinging sacks of the
product over pole balanced on the
shoulder The roads of the country are
ordinarily bad, but have been vastly i'm
proved In recent times, under American
rule, so that the sugar planters are now
able to get their products to the mar
ket5 Water buffalo vehicles with native
drivers can be hired for about twenty
I'VE cents per day.
BUILDINGS.
The regulation sugar mill is construct
ed of bamboo, but very many are made
of stone and rooted with sheet metal or
with nipa. There was great destruction
of the sugar mills by native troops dur
Ing the war and In most instances only
the roofing burned off, leaving the walls
standing. The nipa stun burned so
quickly that often the heat failed to be
severe enough to damage the machinery
greatly. Hundreds of these partly burn
ed mills have been restored for active
service by replacing the roof and clean
ing and overhauling the machinery. Quite
u number Of Americans have been able
to buy these deserted mills at ridiculous
iy low prices ana they are making O
good thing out of the Investment The
old animal traction machines are usually
exchanged for new devices, but even
with the old apparatus, money Is made. |
ihc American owner hires an expert !
enc"d Filipino or Spanish ovcrsoer to |
manage things and he usually does well. |
MARKETS
There is a very good domestic market /!
FOR the sugar crop of the islands Go |
whore you win and you will find an !
abundance of sugar carried in stock 10y |
the stores Perhaps the sugar Is ovcrrun |
with ants, but this does not concern the
natives very much. Ants are very nu-
meroGs in the islands and they get into
everything. The sugar Is put up in mats
ana carted. about in this form. The ma
tive retail vendor usually opens II few
OF the mats of the sugar and spreads
them on the ground In the market place
where thousands of housewives come to
buy every day, He sells all the way
from one cents worth to any amount
l II" candy works of the islands make |
considerable confectionery of the molas-
SEES candy order, but they do not whiten
the candy, and sell il in its deep brown
state. 80 that 1t is much like maple SUI
gar Prices are low, usually two or two
and one-half cents per pound, but the
cost of production Is also very small so
that profits are good. Nearly all of the
sugar planters. refiners and candy maxi
ers oil the Islands with whom ] met ap-
peared to flourish. know that many
OF the planters have their servants and
wheeled vehicles and their bank accounts.
l would not advise anyone to act hasti-
~, but from personal experience, ] can
state. that quite number of the dis
charged soldiers and others who pur-
chased sugar plantations and works In
the islands AT low values are making
money on Their investments, even with
the old types of machinery and crude i'm
PIGMENTS. They hire native labor, which
Is so cheap that the wage scale Is not
very costly at the end of the month
while often the product Is quite large
But American modern machinery for cui-
'Nhting the soil, grinding and refining
should he introduced. There Is a good
'uture for the sugar industry of the ISL
inds. RETURNED SOLDIER