The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-12-01
AT M'BRyDE
PLANTATION
Senator D. PR. lsenberg
Entertains
There.

/ and Koloa, gathered at huKnuld, MI
Bryde Plantation, at the bidding OF Sen
ator Paul Isenberg, president OF Nc
Bryde Plantation Company, to spend the
dav in sight seeing on McBryde Planta-
ton. Senator Isenberg, Manager Stod-
art of McBryde's, and Head Luna Wein-
sheiner of Laval, were there to receive
the guests and conduct them to the
| train of cars which had been fitted up
/ specially for the excursion. 1t was ex-
planned that the train was subdlvlded
into palace cars and smoker and after
| the members of the party had comfort
| ably settled themselves in their choice,
the train slowly moved from Apo Gulch
Howard Koioa up through the Smith
| estate lands, which were covered with
large, heavy. long rattoon cane.
The railroad runs here for about a
mile through as fine cane as grows on
| the island, entirely unframed from leaf
| hopper or borer. This land is old cane
| land, comprising about $50 acres but 1t
certainly has lost none of its vigor.
From the heights of the Smith lands
most beautiful view of Koloa and the
| ocean was presented. The four old
craters of Mahaulepu doomed up in the
| distance and to the right jets of spray
shot into the air from the Spouting
Horn.
After passing over the Smith lands
the trains returned by the same route
| to Aipo Gulch and moved westward
over the East Laval lands for about a
mile and from there on to the East
Laval lands mauka covering stretch
of a mile and half. all covered with
fine growth of long rattoon, a good
deal of which will be taken off for the
1905 crop. This Laval land is all new
land with rich, deep soil and grows most
excellent cane Passing over the Laval
Gulch on very high and strongly
built bridge, we skirted Laval Gulch
for time over road bed in
many places blasted out of solid lava
rock and as we entered upon the West
Laval lands the train passed through
two tunnels cut through the corner of
the. cliff, one 800 feet long and the
other 500 feet long. This railroad from
West Laval to the Smith lands is the
most expensive road on the plantation
the stretch of three miles, including the
bridges, costing about $4,000.
In Laval Gulch is situated one of the
three large pumping stations of the
plantation, the other two being in Hama
pepe Valley. These pumps supply the
ri ,1,iI11n,, oro11o,,-
of water daily, when that amount is re-
quired for irrigating purposes. Besides
this water, which is used in quantities
required, the regular irrigating bitches
from the mountains, being eight million
gallons of water to the plantation daily,
and the plantation gets from the Maka-
we'll Plantation through the Hanaf<pe
Ditch, surplus water from that plan
tation amounting from three to ten
million gallons a day. This water is
not especially needed except in the
months OF June, July, August and Sep
TENDER, when all the surplus water Ma
kaweli Plantation can spare is used on
McBryde's.
Besides these sources of water supply
McBryde'ss has reservoir capacity of
eight hundred million gallons which is
collected in the rainy season and used
IN the dry season.
The West Laval lands. all new, are
about three miles wide, and contain the
strip of government land, about three
quarters of a mile wide, running fionl
the sea to the mountains, called K1ia-
heo, on which the lease will expire in
couple of years. This Kalaheo land
at the present time is covered with a
fine growth of cane, plentifully watered.
but the land has no water right. and
IL.
water can be secured for it in some way,
will become worthless.
Crossing the Kawaihaka Gulch from
West Laval we passed on to the Wa
hiawa lands. and took spin of mile,
through fields of heavy long ration. to
the new McBryde mill
This is one of the largest and most
finely equipped mills on the Hawaiian
Islands 1t is a nine roller Cuban mill
and was designed by O. B. Stillman,
the famous sugar mill man, and cost
erected and complete in every detail,
100000
1t takes ninety-six men all told. night
and day shifts. to operate the mill, and
it has a capacity from 100 to I25 tons
day. Manager Stodart plotted the
company through the mill explaining the
various nechanisns and devices. The
machinery Is being put IN readiness for
use, as McBryde will begin grinding on
December fifth
From the mill the expedition proceed
ed westward over the Wahiawa Gulch
on to the Eleele lands, which extend
for mile and half down to the Eieele
Landing These Eleele lands are old
lands and comprise the sugar lands
August Dreier formerly cultivated as the
old Eleele Plantation
AT Eleele Landing the excursion came |
to an end and the entire company was
whirled back over the route before !
travelled to the NcBryde Beach House /
at Laval where Mr. Walter AIcBryde
had prepared sumptuous luau for the
hungry pleasure party. On the way back
to Laval from Eleele Mr.. Stodart enter
tanned the party answering general ques- /
tons about the plantation. The excursion
party had passed over a stretch OF Nc
Bryde Plantation lands about II miles
wide, which IS the width OF the plan
tation. while it extends back to an
average depth OF two miles to the noun I