The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-02-06
PROGRESS
Of HAWAII
F. 5. Peachy Talks
About Local
Concerns.
SPECIAL to the Adrertiser.o

a HTll-E III lAl- LUIS GO ---~N
the following TO say of a talk with
Peachy:
American business men have far less
idea of the commercial Importance of
Honolulu and the Hawaiian islands in 1
general, than they ought TO have, and /
when a business man from there hap
pens to drop in and tells some of the
things they are doing. his story reads
like fairy tale. Isolated in the midst |
of the Pacific, remote from all other
ports, cut OF from telegraph and cable
facilities, Honolulu is city where bus
mess men have learned TO depend |
largely upon their own resources. and
to take what they can get from Amer
lea or other countries, whenever posi-
BILE Since the annexation of the ISL
ands to the United States, 10 be sure.
all commercial lines have rapidly pro-
crossed, for there has been an assur-
condition of affairs that begets bust
ness. / had a talk yesterday with E
s. Peachy, who is visiting here for
brief time, and whose home is in Hon
oluIu. He is interested in insurance
and financial matters in the islands,
and has had opportunity 10 observe the
| advance of business there as we'll, per-
haps as any one in the islands. Homo
| lulu has progressed in every way IN the
past year. City and street improve
| ments have been undertaken upon
generous scale; new lines of industry
have been established; American com
mercial interests have been broadened
by the opening of branch houses in all
1 lines of the jobbing trade; new water
works and irrigating systems have been
/ put in. and in the various industries
! typical of the islands, particularly in
/ sugar great strides have been made
! The sugar interests are the largest in
| the islands and of these Mr.. Peachy
! speaks interestingly.
The aggregate imports from America
during 1901 have been published ana
show that the business done by mer-
chants in this country has more than
trebled within the year Purchases were
made in United States markets aggre-
eating more than $40, ZOO, GOO in coin, but
for the first time in her history HaWall
exported an excess in valuation to this
country having shipped upwards or
SIS 100000 worth of her products. Agrl-
/
vanced to a degree of perfection not
I found in many localities in California,
and a California rancher would meet
many surprises were he TO drop INTO
the Islands. For example, the greater
mart of the blowing on sugar planta-
! tions is done by steam. Immense tackle
plants, capable of plowing hundreds
of acres per day, are IN use all over
the Islands, and the best and most
perfect results are obtained We are
used TO gang plowlng here, Out the
great acreage that is yearly turned up
| by the steam machines in use in the
Islands would prove a revelation TO
CaIifunians. There are upwards OF
| forty of these steam plowing plants
now in use, and more are TO be IN
stalled.
Railroad construction in the Hawaii
an Islands is being rapidly advanced,
and there are now several lines and
branches doing a thriving passenger
land freight business. and there VIII De
! important extensions within the year
| The Hilo Railroad is now open from
Eilo TO Puma, and is also operating
| a branch line part way to the big vol
Icano and is doing a very satisfactory
/ business The road is equipped with
American made locomotives ana cars
The Oahu Railway is the principal line,
! however, and from Honolulu pasSen-
gers are carried along the picturesque
shores of the Island, through some OF
the most noted sugar plantations, IN
Guiding Waianae, Waialua, kahuku,
and the vast acreage of the Honolulu
Plantation Company The line is soon
1 TO be extended to Puuloa, recently
! established seaside resort, and other
branches will tap richly productive
! country in the interior of the Island
Wireless biography has been thorough
! " established in Oahu and between the
/ various islands of the group, so that
GIL . n
graphic communication from Honolulu
with almost any point on the Islands'
the messages being transmitted from
ports where stations are erected 10 IN
terror points by telephone. So, II would
appear. Honolulu although isolated
from the United states. is not so Tar
1 behind the times after all
] l stated above the amounts OF e1-
ports from Hawaii to this country for
1901 in round numbers. These M
iPeachy advises me, are not exact nS-
ures. but an approximate estimate As
no entry has been required. officially,
when shipping goods to or receiving
same from the United States. since the
/ admission of Hawaii into the Union
in June. 1900, the figures are not exact
| but comprise only such part or thS
volume as record has been found Tor
sugar has been found TO be the great
est paying industry of the lslanus,
acreage values being considered, anu
during the time that has elapsed since
/ admission. great strides have oeeh
made toward the advancement OF cue
business Extensive improvements
have been carried out throughout the
Islands. large amounts Of up 10 date
lsugar machinery have been purchased:
land this has added vast amount OF
money to the business OF mannIacIur-
&c in the United States. Plantation
ir,7nrnvanents are still being pushed.
and as rapidly as railway extensions
in the Islands warrant the breaking
in of new lands, so located that access
TO shipping ports may be had by ran
new plantations are Spr1ngIng up
4awaii's sugar production five years
hence. il Is asserted. viii aggregate
several times as much as its best past
season. which means a corresponding
increase in imports and exports
FREDERICK O'BRIEN-
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