The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1903-03-27
REPORT ON I
M'BRYOE
The Estate Will Be
Increased 800
Acres.

The annual meeting of the McBryds
Sugar Co. was held yesterday morning
The following officers were elected:
President. u. p. X. Isenberg; vice.
president b. F. Dillingham;; treasurer.
f. NJ swanzy: secretary, T. Give Da-
vies: auditor. Donald NJ. Ross; directors
A. NJ. McBryde. Albert Wilcox, r. w. r.
Purvis, ]. NJ. Lydgate and T. II. Key
worth. The only change from last
year is the retirement from the direc-
torship OF w. d. McBryde. and the cleo
ton sin his place of T. r. Keyworth,
formerly auditor and the choice OF
Donald NJ. Ross as auditor.
The report of Manager Stoddart te1ls
of the improvements made during the
year and general progress of the plan
tation. The manager says:
AT this date we have 1900 acres 10
cultivation. and purpose taking In for
this year an additional area OF about
area In cane this fall about 5000 acres
In addition to this amount the planta-
ton holds 1,5OO to 1000 acres available
for cane.
"Of the area now in cane, 1000 acres
We're brought in this last year. ESQ acres
of which were reached by crossing the
Laval valley.
There was some considerable hesita-
ton about taking this step particularly
on the question of putting railroad
across Laval valley. The proposition
involved \the building of three large
reservoirs an expensive piece of rail
road work, some eight miles of bitches.
over 400 feet of tunnel, considerable
huming and stone clearing and other
wise the expense of bringing into cui-
tivation over 1000 acres of virgin soil
ITO accomplish this necessitated en-
croaching upon the reserve of bonds
held by the company beyond the origi-
nal plans of the Directors, but the re-
suit has more than justified the step
as 1t has fine expanse o'
wind showers and bringing into use the
waters of the Kekee and Aipo gulches
going to waste and connecting
up the rest of the plantation with the
Koloa lands where the McBryde Sugar
Company has been for some years Gull
tivatng over $50 acres of good land and
giving the Koloa Sugar Company two
ffths of the sugar for grinding the
same. Beginning with the next crop
this cane will ali come to our own mill
1.-The crop for 1902 yielded S,235 tons.
ground at the mill of the Koloa Sugar
for which service 1t was paid
out of the yield 371 tons, 1850 pounds.
THE crop of 1903 now being harvested
and consisting of 1,074.19 acres of plant,
1896 acres of long ratoons and 5603d
acres of short ratoons. is estimated at
l., 900 tons At this writing some $500
tons of this yield has been harvested
and as it has thus far overrun the esti
mate, 1t may be taken for granted that
the 1900 tons Will be realized.
THE crop of 1904 consists of LATE
acres of plant, ass acres of long ratoons.
and 470 acres of short ratoons-total
area 2,40O acres which at this date 10
to yield 1880 tons.
THE crop of 1905 and now being
planted win consist of about 1000 acres
Of plant, 1900 acres of long ratoons, and
probably about 800 acres of short
ratoons. With large percentage OF
long ratoons available for the first
time in this crop, 1t should show ma
terial increase over the preceding crops
where short ratoons have of necessity
(pending the development of an ex-
tensive acreage) figured so largely,
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