The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1903-05-21
TO BONDHOLDERS
OF WAIALUA
THE TRUSTEE UNDER THE BOND
ISSUE REPORTS ON CONDITIONS
AND PROPERTY OF PLANTATION

to the bondholders OF Waialua Agricul-
tural Company by the trustee under the
bond issue.
Honolulu, r. H., May IA. 1903.
| To the bondholders of the Waialua
Agricultural Company, Limited.
Dear Srs: on April 25th. 1903, visit
to and inspection Of Waialua Planta-
ton was made by your trustee. and
we beg to make the following. report:
| Quarters-There are PCS houses for
laborers divided into camps with from
one to twenty houses in each camp. AL
SO &c houses for superintendent and
skilled employees, all IN good condition.
Pumping Stations-There are eight
pumping stations, with total capacity
of pumping 6S,OOOOOO gallons of water
every twenty-four hours, all in good
condition.
Mill and Surroundings-The mill,
with with a capacity of grinding 125
tons per day, round houses, carpenter
shop, store and Office buildings. black
smith and machine shop, and five ware
houses, were all found to be in good
condition.
Track-There are twenty seven miles
of permanent track with sidings and
eight miles of portable track.
Locomotives and Steam Plows-There
are five Baldwin locomotives and five
sets of steam plow engines Ctwo en-
gines to each seD, with full supply of
plows, harTows, culhivatcrs, Snifers,
scrapers and stock of spares.
Coal-There are 1870 tons of coal or
hand.
Permanent Improvements - Since
April, 1901, the date of the bond issue
to April 1908, there has been expended
in permanent improvements seas, 112.26.
Fuel-It was some time ago decided
to use oil for fuel instead of coal. The
necessary alterations for this change
are being made including the erection
OF oil tanks. 1t is estimated that the
saving in the use of fuel oil in the
pumping expenses will be about 90 pei
cent
During 1900, 2O723 tons of coal were
used on the plantation, costing appro-
Ximately $1S0,OOO; had fuel oil been used
instead of coal the cost would have
been about $4,000, a saving of s54, 600.
Mountain Water Supply for Irriga-
ton. 1t seems to us that the future
success of the Waialua Plantation is
assured by the development of noun
tain water which has already beer
made and the further development
which will undoubtedly be made in the
near future.
Two guches, namely, Opaeula ant
Anahulu, have been followed up and tht
beds of these gulches, containing
| ST Of tot g,1
been tapped at an elevation of over !,
600 feet and the water has been con
veyed from the beds of the streams
by means of bitches to a storage re.
servoir which was completed on Apri
LIST, 1908, and will hold 236, 100000 gallon,
of water.
The plantation controls the heat
sources of this water supply. A rair
gauge kept during the present year al
the head of the Opaeula ditch shows {
rainfall of SO inches, quite evenly els.
tributed.
1t is estimated that from said reser.
voir there should be no difficulty il
maintaining an average flow of 10000.
600 gallons of water per day. Thi,
water, since April LIST, 1903, has beer
used for irrigating above the $50 foot
level and during the month of April
1908 by the use of this mountain water
from said reservoir, L saving in pump.
ing expenses was effected Of between
$4,000 and $4,000.
siphOn is now being constructed
which will deliver water from said re.
servoir across a deep gulch to an ele.
walton of about 900 feet above sea level
Between the 60O-foot and the 50O-foot
level Of this section there are severa
hundred acres of cane land suitable fOl
cultivation, which may be irrigated
with this same mountain water, pro-
vided the supply from these two gul.
ches, Opaeula and Anahulu, comes VI
to expectations.
A further plan in regard to using
mountain water for irrigation is under
contemplation and will in all Likelihood
be carried out, namely the instruction
of the Wahiawa dam.
The construction of this dam will
cost about 100000. 1t is estimated that
it will hold from a billion and a half to
two billion gallons of water II is
estimated that when this dam is COM
pleted, there will be sufficient mountain
water from all sources to- irrigate the
entire area of cane land belonging "a
the Waialua Plantation below the COO
foot level without any pumping.
This development of mountain water
for irrigation has already increased and
will continue to materially increase the
value of your security. Yours very
truly,
HAWAIIAN TRUST CO., ltd,
Trustee Under Bond Issue.
Per j. r. GAIT,