The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-03-14
MANAGER McSTOCKER TELLS OF
OPERATIONS.
Water Development Meets All Re-
quirements-Flumes DO the Business.
Mill Works Well

/ Olaa Sugar Company convened at 2
O'Clock this afternoon in the assembly
room over Castle & Cookies on King
street.
Manager Frank 3. Mcstocker's re-
port contains the following:
The water supply of the company
has been largely developed during the
past year by the extension Of previous
tunnels and the digging of new ones.
| one thousand eight hundred and sixty
nine feet of tunnels have been construc-
ted to date. These tunnels all cOncen-
trate at one point into a main hume.
Extension of the tunnels is still going
on. The present supply of water appear
/ ODE sufficient to supply all the needs of
| the mill and for ttumIng but as tunnel
/ ling continuously develops more water.
/ thought it best to continue 50 as 70
| have an assurance against deficiency in
/ the driest weather.
THE main fume from the water head
to the cane fields. and across the plan
| tatiOn to the Volcano road, has been
! completed. 1t meets the Volcano road
/ just above the sO-Called Peck Road 3d.
at about eighteen miles, being a little
over a mile above Mountain Nieew, ap-
/ proXimately ten miles above the min
From this main supply hume, two
/ fumes for carrying cane have been con-
| struCted longltudinally through the
! fields to the mill, and a third one will
| be completed within a month. A
| fourth viii be constructed Immediately.
! These four, with cross fumes from one
I to the other, cover the entire territory
! for ten miles above the mill, and will
enable the humng of all cane lying be-
tween the mill and on elevation of L.
500 feet About 40 miles of fume are
| now constructed
"COnsiderable doubt having been ex-
| pressed by practical fluming men, as TO
0 IL. L.
! piled by cane fumes from the distances
required, and with the amount of water
available at Olaa, ! am glad tO,say that
nearly two months experience has
demonstrated the entire practiCability
Of this method of transportation, under
the conditions presented at Olaa. In
fact with Onlv one flume in operation,
using between four and five million gal
Ions per twenty-fOur hours a delivery
of over sixty tons of cane per hour has
| been accomplished, keeping the mill in
continuous operation to its full capacity
Fluming is now going on simultaneous
ly and with perfect success, from the
fields along the Puma Road one mile
| from the mill from Peter Lees at ele-
ven miles three miles from the mill,
and from the fields back of Mountain
View, ten miles from the mill.
The water from the fiume has been
ample for all mill purposes, although
the month of December was unusually
dry.
LAS there has not yet been need for
water at the twenty mile point on the
Volcano Road. where our reservoirs are
located no further development or in
crease OF the same has taken place.
They will be completed during the
coming summer and water stored there
with which to remove the cane lying
between that point and the main flume
at eighteen miles.
"A storage reservoir at the mill with
a capacity of 10000 gallons for mill use
is nearly completed, and it is intended
to build for the same purpose another
storage reseryOair of larger capacity
short distance above the mill from
which the mill can be supplied by
gravity instead of by pump as at pre-
sent.
q "TherCowere unexpected delays i'm the
completion Of the mill SO that ii was
not ready to begin grinding until De-
cember %, when the talking off Of the
crop began. With the exception of
few matters of detail easily rcmedied
the mill is an extremely satisfactory
piece of work and gives every iudiCa-
ton that it will fully comply with all
expectations and estimates as to its
power and capacity. The estimated
capacity is $50 tons per twenty-four
hours. Although no complete run of
twenty-four hours has yet been made
it is a practical certainty that the mill
has more than the estimated capacity.
believe that under favorable condt-
tions the mill will be able to turn out
200 tons per day.
1T is due to the contractors, the Ho-
nolulu Iron Works, and their efficient
foreman in charge of the erection work,
Mr.. James Scott, to say that the con-
tract has been carried out in the most
conscientious and satisfactory manner
and that your Company possesses one
of the most up to date, economical and
efficient sugar mills in the world.
with the exception of the car yard
at the mill and the connections with
the main tracks of the Hilo Railroad
CO., no plantation railroad has been IN
stalled during the past year. A large
part of the third crop will be planted
below the mill and railroad track Will
be necessary to harvest this crop. The
necessary rails are all here and Will be
installed in ample time for the harvest
ing of that crop.
"The Hilo Railroad has during the
past year extended its track from the
mill lOngitudinally through the planta-
ton as far up as Mountain View, or to-
approximately the Seventeen Mile point
on the. Volcano Road, 1t has also grad
de it's road approximately to the Twen-
ty-twO Mile point on the Volcano road.
THE Plantation has made arrange /
ments with the Railroad Company for |
the transportation to the mill of all cane
lying above the Plantation fumes, at |
rate which makes IT ineXpedient for the |
Plantation to construct tracks to such |
fields. The construction of the rail- |
road viii also bring into cultivation
with sugar cane for manufacture at
the Olaa mill a large area lying above |
the Plantation, held by private own
eTs
"In common with the entire planting |
interests of the country Olaa could |
have used to advantage a larger num- !
her of laboreTs during the past year, /
but has suffered as little as almost any |
plantation But for the fact that har- |
yesting rs now going on we would have |
about enough people; as IL is we could |
do better with several hundred more |
During the past year number of |
Porto Ricans have been added to the |
labor force We have on the plantation |
237 Porto Ricans, including women and /
C7AU 75Bd no ponuHuoO)