The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-02-27
BIGGEST CROP on RECORD rs
REPORTED
Acreage and Product Per Acre Larger
Than Any Heretof0re-pIau for the
Fuwre-Diyidends Continue

The eleventh annual meeting Of Eva
Plantation Company was held at
O'Clock this morning at the Castle
Cooke assembly hall Directors for
the year were elected as follow ON the
motion OF j. b. Castle. j. p. Atherton
Clarence ~. Cooke, w. H. Allen, +. J'
LoWrey, vs.. A. Bowen
The annual reports We're submitted
and approved. There WAS "a general
discussion of the affairs of the planta-
ton, in the course Of which President
Atherton said that If stockholders
heard any rumOrs of a reduction In
dividends they were perfectly well
come to- come to him or other officers
for information which would be frank
lv given. There was no expectation
that dividends would be reduced. AS
far as could be seen there was moth
ing to make il necessary or eNpedlenL
The labor situation was improving ana
the permanent expenses would In tu-
ture be less.
Last year $4,000 was appropriated for
eleemosynary purposes including the
hospital This year the cost or MAIN
tanning the hospital will be transferred
to general expenses where IT rs lhouBnl
IL more properly belongs, as IL ought
to be maintained as a part of the man
agement of the estate. with this eX-
pense otherwise provided for $2,JOO was
appropriated for eleemosynary pur-
Manager George f. Rentons report
for the year is q very complete one ana
I'm the main is as follows:
THE product Of the past year mas
been taken from the largest area and
mas reached the greatest yield per acre
i'm the history Of the plantation. HAD
n baen possible to have manufactured
the whole into sugar before the end or
last August the average would certain
Iy have reached over eleven tons OF su-
gar Grinding was begun on January
3. and completed on November zOJh'
and i'm spite Of the attendant draw
backs at mill. which will be referred to
later. the factory output exceeded that
of any previous year, averaging 3l2t
tons per calendar month inclusive OF
holidays, breakdowns. or delays from
scarcity of labor. This showing is in
excess by 3Oj tons monthly Of any for
/ mer season.
! Crop Of 1902 The amount Of land
/ from which cane rs to be harvested dur
/ ing this coming year is greater by 45l
acres than that for 1901. owing, how
/ ever To the delays In grinding cOnse-
qucnt upon the scarcity Of labor during
/ 1900, a portion of the ratOOns had late
start on account of the same strin-
gency some Of the Plant Cane was not
set out until the winter season Of that
year had commenced Nevertheless, in
/ all but two of these backward fields.
| there has been no towering to speak Of
and the canes are still growing, which
Will Offset very materially the late
start Taking this into consideration,
/ together with the probability that the
/ crop of 1902 will be harvested earlier
| than that for the past season with a
| correspondingly lower depreciation Of
! canes, / have no hesitation i'm placing
the output of this year at 10000 tons.
| "CrOp of 1909 Reference to field sta
I tstics viii show this to be 1882 acres.
! OF this but COS acres is plant cane. With
/ two exceptions of fields ground during
the rainy season Of 1901 and necessarily
very much cut up by teams avery acre
of the plant cane Of 1901 was ratOOned
/ Ii is hardly necessary to revert to labor
conditions already sufficiently rciterat-
/ ed. There was but one thing TO do viz.
ratOOn. BY comparing cost of Cultiya-
ton Of plant cane with that Of ratOons
a table of which is given herewith, II
win be seen that the latter i'm 1901 cost
$4,000 per acre less than the former. So
that, while a few fields of ratoons fOI
1903 are here by virtue Of necessity. the
much greater number are here by vir-
tue Of themselves.
The second ratoons, which, for the
first time on this estate cover a fairly
large area We're carried on for precisely
the same reasons as the first ratOOus
Judging from present appearances they
will yield full ten tons per acre. In
fact, on account of the starting of the
second before the first ratoOns, which
counts for as much prOpOrtiOnately on
Eva Plantation as 1t does elsewhere
they are the best looking ratoons on the
estate
TT Is obviously premature to calcu-
late the probable yield Of this yOune
Fv4Tu
tion, Is growing we'll, and / shall prob
ably make the usual estimate on Il.
mill report: The heavy rains Of the
preceding winter retarded the ripeninf
Of cane so that, during the earlier
months Of grinding, the quantity re-
quired to make one ton Of sugar was
much greater than usual. This, Of
course, has a direct bearing on losses IN
manufacture. When. however, 10 Is re-
membered that the immense crop Of 3d.
$40 tons covered ten months I'm manu-,
facture; that the rollers Of the crushing
apparatus We're worn smooth before
grinding commenced; that there was
no interval between the seasons OF l90'
and 1901 for Overhauling machinery,
that upon the completion Of the croT
of 1901. the mill had been grinding in,
cessantly for two years; and that, tC
top n all, the new mill was being erect
cd with am the drawbacks ID outGiled
the fact that such n large quantity OF
material was daily delivered at the mil
and that the manufacturing losses were
not greater reflects great credit on ar
efficient STAFF. both I'm field and factory
"The actual expenditure TO produce
the crop of 1901 was $3494 per tOi No
only ala a higher rate for tabor cause
the greater cost. but also a CORRESPOND.
ingly high rate for general material
taxes, etc. An ltemized statement OF
cost Of production rs given herewith
10 which you are referred for details
The following Is merely a very condeseC
recaDitulatlOn;
Cost Of crop 1901 per ton Of sugar
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