Ellsworth American., 1903-09-02

prepare the way. 10
ARA nreskfsst my friend h,tr,
his horse fnos ths msis, snd ". -. a'
Go psospsrous nssxhbor and s,rs-s
bin TO take me back 10 Halelx,
after nc have visited the pipssp,I. VET
sad see II se can Hod rire eor, -n sos
is doubtful. IL We can, II 4. ,a
SoS We are among the pinsspuL.
there are thousands of them zra-i, -oa
rows six or eight feet aps,t s,a ~
eighteen inches TO tso feet bs.r..-a IN
the rows. perhaps. 10
IL thrills me With delieh, "a
sores OF this luscious fruit, but Iet sns 3,
you se cannot nnd ripe pinesp1s. "a =
ali this big feid; ms little esriv
that too bsas And ] mad nv no,,1
made up for one.
Bat u / cspnof taste, can see 49,,
grow, and y hat an isdustry I, M,
come. II rightly handled, and nv 49,
very entefisiniDg With bis dvsrs. :,
profits, as he sees tbem-the r,os,.
rolling In, In the near future. boos y.
dreams viii he fully realized.
sm told by snos her thar pt,..
cannot he raised in hsphsxsrd xay. "a
that even . single ten-scre trsct vii, -
In II many patches or runs of so,, -.
viii grow siekiy plsnss, white ,hs -
beside Them will produce the finest. go
tn giancing over these fields, / see tbs..
statements mnst be correct.
ynu rur-f 49,.
mate and the right soil for ptpsspol.
growing. and thsy must be in the s.r.
iocziity at the same time, so a. TO wo,s
together to produce the best respn,
some OF our finest pinespples come from
Honolulu. and we npd them In our pssa.
dens markets.
The aforementioned neizhbor b,.
driven into the yard with his sui,i,sa
cot. itase q farewell leave OF ny friend.
and We are OF. Our eight miles hack ara
soon covered. Crossing a bridge th,t
spans BROOK or river near the school.
house | spoke of in the frs, part Of the
letter next preceding this, l see a 10, a,
boys and girls lpatives) in swimming
fney must have forgotten their ha,hinr.
suits and left them at home. Il Is @treea
schools.
We drive on to the hotel for lunch
Here We meet the little New Jersey 20.
man. She has come up from the city 10
visit the Waialus sugar mill, and so, ate,
lunch, we'll siI go together.
Later, now we're of to the sugar mill.
vi a
cane-growing. Now We reach ii.ile set.
tlement OF mill hat ds and come to the
Office of the uperintendent, who gives Us
note to the oyerseer, end SO we enter
the mill " here the cane goes in, and cur
exit Is where the product Is sacked,
the time Ia the process is about one hour.
Ii is very interesting and instructive
part Of our trip. / assure you, bat the
process of sugar-making Is too com
piicated for me to describe in detail in
this letter, so / viii mention Just & few
things or points.
Here at the foot of moving belt incline
are cars loaded with cane. They are COM
ing in on two tracks, one on each side Of
said incline. These tracks run direct
from the fields. Hung overhead are great
rakes run by steam which rake the cane
from the cars into the running boxes Of
the belt incline which carries The cane into
toe mill and deposits it in the second
story SO that IL Is caught by the first
roller and crushed, then passes on under
second roller and squeezed, then on under
third miller and suueezed dry. then il
passes on to the engine that runs the ms-
chinery OF the plant, aud all Of 1t that Is
required Is used for fuel; the surplus Is
carried to one side In spouts and falls to
the floor.
The streams of juice are carried from
tank TO tank and clarified (snd such flth
as comes from the liquid would almost
turn one against using sugar; ii Is used 10
fertiIize the cane fieids) and on to other
systems of tanks in the syrup stages until
granuiation succeeds, and then into
cylinders v here centrifugal force sepsr-
ates the sugar from the syrup which Is
carried into hopper, run Into !uIe bags
which are seweu up by Jap women, ana
80 tons OF sagar are produced every
W enty-foar hours, for the mills run day
aud night. l believe the plantations
pay a profit at three cents per pound ior
the raw sugar.
We sre AT a railroad station now. Ihe
train is coming; we get on board, and 60
home satisfied with our profits of the trip
Pc. WOOSTER.