The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-09-22
BUYING Up
BAGASSE
Paper Mill Plans
| Are Going
| Ahead.
IHILO PORTUGUESE
| ARE REPUBLICANS
Indorse Both the Platform and
Candidates Dillingham; Is
Visiting Plantations.

HILO, Sept 19.-Among the passen-
gers arriving in the Claudine yester-
day was S. NJ Mayer of Washington
who is in the Islands investigating theI
use of bagasse in the manufacture of
paper.
He has made tour Of Oahu and Ka-
uaf trying to make arrangements with
the plantations for their surplus ba
gasse and is here for the same purpose.
Understanding that there is much more
surplus bagasse on this island he will
spend several weeks making investiga-
tions; on Oahu where SO much of the
refuse is used as fuel it cannot be
handled al cheap enough rate in most
instances to pay in working it.
AS the bagasse is so full of moisture
that only about forty per cent of it can
be used it is the idea to establish a
reduction works on this Island to make
| the stuff ready for shipment to Homo
| lulu where the paper mill will be es-
| tdEllSlSd SLlOQAI l4iAhSS 81 AAStiAs IL
mill means an investment of about a
quarter of a million dollars and would
employ from three to fifteen hundred
hands as the business succeeded. In
terested with Mayer is George Cor
mack, the discoverer of the great Klon-
| dyke gold region and president of the
Tale-Asbestos Co, of Oregon.-Tribune.
HILO PORTUGUESE ARE REPUB-
| LICANS.
/ The Lincoln Club held an enthusiastic
meeting Wednesday night at the Fire
mans hall and discussed local political
conditions with a vim. There We're
! thirty-five members present. The Club
is composed of Portuguese-Americ
citizens. The following resolutions were
unanimously passed:
/. That the Lincoln Club of Hawaii
heartily endorse the platform of the Re-
publican party, adopted in Territorial
Convention at Honolulu, September 1st
1902, and
| 2. That the Lincoln Club of Hawaii
| fully ratify and support the Repub-
ilican ticket nominated at the District
1902-Tribune.
VOLCANO ACTIVE AGAIN.
The volcano is acting in a most ac-
commodating way this week. Sunday
morning fire broke through the cracks
of the lava which formed the surface
of the lake that appeared September
/. The old crust has evidently solidi
fed to such an extent that considerable
force must be exerted from below II
break it up.
Therefore the frequent upward move
ments of the lava produce a fine display
of geysers through the cracks. Jet
and fountains of lava shoot upward
with enchanting effect as the tide o
fire surges up'from below.
Tuesday night a small cone formed
in the center of the old lava lake where
the molten flood broke through. For {
considerable time there was a fine flow
of lava from this aperture and it spread
outward in waving lines of fire. A.
the volcano is now acting it is said t.
be more interesting than when tn
molten lake covered the bottom of tht
pit.
VISITING THE PLANTATIONS.
B. F. Dillingham; arrived in Hiio OIL
the Helene on Sunday and has spen
the week in Olaa and Puma. He wa!
accompanied by a Mr.. Mckay, repre-
senting ]. A. Folger & Co, the coffe,
men, and Mr.. Smith. These two gen
tlemen visited the Volcano as well a.
the Olaa and Puma sugar plantations
and expressed themselves as we'll pleas
ed with this section of the country Mr.
Dillingham; speaks hopefully of the out
look for sugar and says that with con
cessions in labor and the increased
production by plantations in these isl
ands prosperity will return.-Herald.
MORE HoMEsTEADERs.
Seventeen hundred and forty-on
acres of land passed from the owner
ship of the Territory last Saturday int
the hands of private parties. The land
were allotted by Agent E. D. Baldwin
after being advertised. There We're bu
thirteen allotments made. The larges
was tract of 999 acres, which wa
taken by an Hawaiian at fifty cent
an acre. The other tracts ranged fror
twenty to $50 acres in extent and wer
appraised at from seventy-five cent
to five dollars per acre.
The lands allotted are situated i
Puma.
REGISTRATION IN HILO.
! At the close of the Tuesday sessio
of the Board of Registration in Hill
this week the following number ha
] registered in the various precincts:
q 1st precinct /:
8 End precinct
q 3rd precinct Il
q 4th precinct . o
5th precinct
9Th precinct
s 7th precinct .
4 Total . Observation-Disclosures. 7: