The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-02-27
ANNUAL MEETING is NOW IN
PROGRESS
Management Report FOR the Year is
Made by President n. p. Baldwin.
Plans for Bond Issue.

The annual meeting of kihpi adj
/ J0urnoi from January 81. was cOnyDu-
ed at no o'clock this morning and rec
cess taken TO 2 o'clock this afternoon
and it is now ln session
The annual report of the work ON ki-
hei was made by President n. T. Bald
win, w. r. Poguc the former manager
having resigned and the new manager
James Scott not being familiar with
the work of the past year This re-
port President Baldwin says:
"The weather during the year was
not, on the whole favorable to grow
ing crops In the months Of Novem-
Der, 1900 and February 1901, we had
two terrible storms from the south
which caused floods. filling every lit
Tie gully ON the plantation with tor
rents that washed out fumes and
bitches, considerable large cane buried
up several fields of young plant cane
that had just begun to start, and de-
stroyed a great deal Of plantation prop
erty. These two rain storms were the
most severe and destructive that had
visited Maui within the recollection Of
the Oldest inhabitants The floods
caused by these storms were especially
destructive to cane and property at XII
hei and Spreckelsville. 1t took several
weeks to repair the bitches and other
property on the Kihei Plantation, and
to renew the fumes that had been
carried away
During the summer a severe
| drought prevailed, more especially on
| the Windward side Of Maui. The cane
| fields at Kihei, however, did not suffer,
| as we have sufficient pump capacity to
! irrigate the cane properly, but owing
| to the continuous dry weather, which
| lasted till the first part of November,
| it was necessary to run the pumps
| constantly at great expense.
''An have fbrag UluUiup sta fioug "a
! KiheL Pumping Station No. 1 and No.
2 were completed in 1900, although fur
/ ther improvements We're made to the
/ deep wen pumps at Station No. the
| early part of 1901
In pumping Station No. 3, "A ~ mil
/ lion gallon pump from the Risdon Iron
| Works was installed the latter part of
/ 800 in a chamber al the bottom Of q
| 300-fOot shaft, and the latter part Of
1901, the installation Of a 1O-milliOn
/ gallon Riedler Pump was completed
| giving a total capacity Of 17Ia million
| gallons each twenty-fOur hours at this
! station
"The work Of developing sufficient
| water, however for these two pumps
| by tunnelling has not been completed.
/ The amount developed TO date is about
seven millions In the pumps and tun-
/ nels and about two millions I'm two ar
| tesian wells. It will probably be neces-
sary to eXcavate from ~ to 100 feet
! more Of tunnel to develop sufficient wa
| ter for the two pumps. We, however
/ have sufficient water now for present
requirements. The three pumping sta
| tions are now giving us about n mill
lion gallons I'm - hours. The pumping
! capacity Of the three pumping stations
is about 81 millions.
Five reservoirs have been completed
on the plantation, giving us a storage
| capacity Of about S. million gallons.
| This VIII be great help to the plan
tation for storing the freshet water
that occasionally flows down the slope
OF Haleakala, In the guches that run
through the plantation and for storing
up water that the Haiku, Paia and
Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar 60.
plantations, during the rainy weather.
are often able tO--send on TO Kihei
through the extension of the Hawaiian
Commercial & Sugar Co.'S new ditch,
mentioned in-the annual report last
year. The charge for this water Is less
} than the cost of pump water, and Il Is
also much fresher and better
For the crop of 1901 we cut about
535 acres OF cane from which we OBJ
tained 1886 tons Of sugar. About 100
, acres Of the best cane was left over TO
4 be ground in 1902.
r "The crop of 1901 was a disappoint-
ment for the following reasons: The
T land for this crop was not well pre-
pared, and the cane was planted late
: in the season. Then the storms Of No
vember, 1900 and February, 1901. wash
ed out and destroyed a good deal Of
the cane and checked the growth of
, nearly all the fields. The sugar con-
tents Of the cane was very low, due
largely to the heavy rains that fell dur
ing the storms above mentioned. il
. took S92 tons Of cane TO make a ton
Of sugar. Ordinarily on Maui, II re-
quires only about z to ~ tons Of cane
{ to make a ton Of sugar when the cane
3 is thoroughly ripe.
For the crop Of 1902 we have plant
ed 796 acres for this crop. OF this
I about 10 acres has been used for seed
| cane, leaving 78l for the mill which,
! with about $50 acres ratOOns and the
$50 acres plant cane left over from 1901
d makes a total Of 1891 acres for the
. crop Of 1902. 1t rs quite probable that
Z 10 acres of the above plant cane, plant
, cd late, will be left over to be milled
, iu 1903. Most Of the cane for 1902 rs
b fine, heavy cane, and we expect TO OBJ
tain fully 6 500 tons this year.
, For the crop of 1903, we have nearly
completed the planting of Gl9 acres
, and are cultivating about $50 acres rae
tDOns for this crop. a good deal of
this cane was planted late In the sea-
+ SON. owing 90 DELAYS i'm getting the
/ Reidler Pump installed, sUl the crop
. for 1902 which is heavy Cane was
, planted even later iu the season than
this crop and as the young cane Us
, looking WELL we fully believe n will
; yield well,
Last year was a very expensive
year for Kihei, due 10 heavy expenses
connected with improvements at
f Pump 3; the construction Of new re-
servolrs and bitches and other Inn
| provements, expensive repairs neCes-
! s.i
last winter, heavy expense Of running
the pumps constantly during the
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