The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-05-04
INCREASE
THE OUTPUT
Manager Baldwin
on h. c. & S.
Co. 'SEStateS.
Thirty Thousand Tons
sof Sugar for This
Year.
Big Maui Plantation Is Being
Widely DeveIoped-Reservoi
Z Supplies Enlarged.

The report of H. P. Baldwin, Presi-
dent and Manager OF the Hawaiian
Commercial and Sugar Company of Ma
nj. for the twelve months ending De-
cember 81, 1902, and published at San
Francisco. has just been received by
the Honolulu parties interested. The
Manager says that on. the whole, the
year 1902 was favorable for growing
crops, although stormy weather was
had the first part of the year and floods
did some damage The grinding COM
menced January 20, 1902. and finished
December 1. 1902. The report says:
I'VE were somewhat short of labor
throughout the year, and could not
push the sugar factory to its full capac-
ity. The first four months of the mill
ing season, however, We did very fair
work but after June 1 we went slower
in order to use the tops for planting.
The crop of 1902 consisted of plan
cane, 1929 acres; ration cane, 1896
acres; total, 1925 acres. Total sugar
manufactured from tn eabove acreage,
1S,19555S tons; sugar manufactured
from Kihei cane, 6,s64.632 tons. Aver
age yield per acre, II. C. & S. Co. cane,
81 tons.
Several of the feds, both Plant an
ratoons, yielded fro a 8 to tons per
acre. and one field ratoons yielded 9.1S
tons per acre. We have for this crop.
cane. 2157.55 acres; total, 4590.S9
acres. In my report to the stockhold-
ers last year 1 stated that we would
get from this crop $4,000 to $4,000 tons
of sugar About two months ago
made a conservative estimate of the
crop as follows: Plant cane, 1912
tons: ratoon cane. 1888 tons; total
2S.795 tons. l have reason to believe
that we will get close to 10000 tons.
I'VE commenced planting for the
crop of 1904 the middle of June and
finished the fourth of December, lit
tie over two months earlier than the
planting of the crop we are now mill
ing, was finished. The young cane Tor
the crop looks well all around, and
bids fair to yield over 10000 tons. we
have for this crop a total of 4S54.2O
acres"
Manager Baldwin says the cost per
ton of sugar for milling is $O.304- Inc
cost of manufacture in 1908 for turn
ing out sugar, he estimates, will be
less than $40 per ton, including cost
of bags and Irvine He reports having
more laborers than year ago ana
these are working much better that at
the former period Including the white
employees there are about $500 on the
payroll.
Four reservoirs, he says, had been
constructed at the head of the ditches
previous to his becoming manager, Out
the dams had not been built strong
enough. so that last winter section
of the dams was carried away oy
freshets. With repairs all made ina
following reservoirs are avaliaplea
KoIoa, 100000 gallons; Hoalua' g
600 900 gallons; Reservoir No H. o
OO0. 900 gallons; reservoir No. Z, 3O,OOV'-t
600 gallons; reservoir No 10, $4,000 :
gallons: a new reservoir, No. ., IN
course of construction, 15O,000.00O ga
Ions. The new aqueduct, planned by
engineer O'Shaughnessy, is to be com
pleted to carry water onto the planta
tons by July I. 1904. in time for next
years planting.
The installation of crude oil tanks sc
the humping station has been effected.
The manager finds it necessary to IN
stall six more 4O-inch centrifugals the
latter part of 1904; new pumps for sta
tons 1 and ?; one mile railroad exten-
sion