The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-10-15

for immediate use. He caused 1s2 cane
cars which had been hauled to the mill
yard of the Olaa Plantation Co, Ltd,
to be brought TO the headquarters of
the Kapoho division, likewise collect
ed and housed the tools and imple-
ments about the plantation.
Mr.. Pfotenhauer reports in detail on
the fields under cultivation. Many Of
them need stripping or cultivating.
Given such attention as they need the
fields will yield from u to 40 tons of
cane per acre, most OF the figures rang
ing from % to So tons per acre
A summary of the acreage noted is
as follows:
Total crop 1905. Plant cane, 1856;
long rattoons, 5S661; short rattoons.
$3.50; total, 1072-z7 acres.
Total crop 1906. Plant cane, 172.s5;
long rattoons, 20; total. 1925 acres.
After such investigation and further
inquiry into local conditions" Mr. Pfo-
tenhauer says, the receiver decided to
expend the limited amount of money
allowed him by the court in caring for
the fields of cane above mentioned.
The receiver was guided in reaching his
conclusions by the limitations of the
courts order as to the preservation and
not development of the plantation; the
conditions of the fields; the fact that
Puma is strictly u season plantation,
the cane tasseling in November, and
how the funds available could be spent
with the greatest benefit to the cane
in it's various stages of growth. The
receiver deemed the expenditure of
funds on the 1925 acres of the 1906
crop justifable in order to supply seed
cane for prospective purchasers of the
plantation, without which cane the
proposition as a whole might prove less
attractive
Statements are made regarding many
fields which would have constituted
the 1906 crop, but which are lying neg
lected or abandoned. The total area
of such is S22.S4 acres. Something over
100 acers of land cleared but never cul-
tivated is described. Three areas
amounting to 2600 acres are described
as available for development, one of
which $3.50 acres) can be cleared for
SIS an acre. and two (total 2S00 acres)
for $50 an acre. Seven or eight miles
of railroad extension at a cost of $12,-
900 a mile would be required for de-
veloping these lands.
A site was selected for a mill by the
It's 1IllClAIIOll AidNAllS AWAY
been to have its own mill. The site is
on the south side of Green Lake Hill,
about IA miles from Kapoho or Puma
station, and the plantation railroad can
be extended to it for $500. 1t is a con-
venient location for the handling of
cane, as the grade gravitates to the
site Water could be easily obtained
from Green Lake, a body of about a mil
ofx to1, NV
NAL springs The water is fresh with
absolutely no trace of salt, and so re-
ported by DR.. Maxwell, chemist. The
site is on land leased from the Lyman
Estate, with the privilege to lessee of
buying twenty acres for a mill site, at
500 an acre.
THE value of the cane has been esti-
mated as follows: 10 tons per acre at
$3.50 per ton of cane, or $3.50 per acre.
One thousand and seventy-two acres
at $3.50 per acre would yield $93, 260.
Estimated cost of harvesting and plac-
ing cane in cars on main track at 1915
per acre, or a total of $16,0S0, plus
hauling 20,6SS tons cane at say 40c..
equals $S36z.20, or total expenditure
Of S24, 34120, leaving a balance of $685.
912.S
1.-The receiver discharged all help not
necessarily required on the plantation,
retained a bookkeper and general over
seer at s125 a month and laborers ag-
gregating a total fixed charge of $3.50
per month for the Kapoho division and
$50 per month on the Pahoa division.
A contract with a stripping gang was
drawn by the receivers attorney, and
the men Immediately placed in the
field. were also wedding gangs on
both the Kapoho and Pahoa divisions.
For the month of September the receiv-
er has expended the sum of $1906.7S''-
of which he gives an itemized account.
His receipts in cash on hand, rents,
horse-shoeing, team hire and store sales
from August q to September 30
amounted to $703.51. The receiver has
reduced the Insurance on the premises
from $5S,6O5 to $3.50, thereby saving
premium of $99S.15 Heretofore insur-
ance had been placed on the live stock
and many buildings which the receiver
has deemed advisable to cancel
THE following are among the more
important contracts made by the Puma
Sugar Company, Limited:
81 Contract dated July is, 1901, be-
tween Puma Sugar Co, Ltd, and B. f.
Dillingham; Co., Ltd, term Is years;
and purchase of supplies.
80 Cane hauling contract dated
October 20, 1902, between Puma Sugar
Co., Ltd, and Hilo Railroad Co.
IS. Contract dated October 90 Zl2,
between Puma Sugar Co., Ltd, and Olaa
Sugar Co, Ltd, same being grinding
contract, and providing guarantee of
payment of interest, rent and taxes by
Olaa Sugar Co., Ltd, for Puma Sugar
Co., Ltd. Relative to this latter con-
tract the receiver asks the court for in
structions as to whether suit should be
brought upon the same, and to that end
that this court appoint a day for hear
ing, with notice to all parties to this
suit as to the propriety and form of
such instructions.
Upon a reading of the pleadings in
this action and a view of the prem
ises, the receiver recommends that said