The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-12-02

to prepare this land for cultivation. Nc
Bryde's has four sets of Fowler steam
plows and tackle which are kept busy
blowing its cane land.
Although at various seasons OF the
year different work is going on, still on
a plantation there is steady employment
for its labor and McBryde's keeps four
teen hundred men busy. There are fif-
teen miles of permanent railroad on the
plantation and they have nine and hall
miles of portable track which they use
in cane cutting season. 1t takes three
Baldwin locomotives and four hundred
fifty cars to do the transportation work
on this gigantic estate.
The zoos crop, which Mr. Stodart
will begin taking off within a week or
so. comprises $500 acres of cane, 800
acres of which is plant, 400 acres is
short rattoon and 1850 acres is long
rattoon. Mr.. Stodart places the 1905
crop at 1900 tons OF sugar, and he be-
lieves this is a conservative estimate.
The 1905 crop covers 200 acres and
comprises $50 acres of plant cane, 1863
acres OF long rattoon and 1872 acres of
short rattoon.
The lands Of the McBtyde Plantation
are nearly all new lands and therefore
rich and strong and much more pro-
ductive than old lands and cheaper to
cultivate because they do not require
fertilizer, which is big item OF ex-
pense to older plantations.
The old lands on McBryde are the
Eleele lands containing about eight
hundred acres and the Smith lands con-
tanning about three hundred fifty acres,
while the plantation has about one
thousand acres OF good cane land yet
to be cleared for cultivation.
The magnihcence of McBryde's can
only be appreciated after thorough in
spection such as that given us by Mr.
Isenberg and Mr.. Stodart last We'd
nesday. The great stretches OF tasseled
cane, thousands OF acres of it, waving
from the sea to the mountains, miles
wide. impressed one with the great york
| the plantation is carrying on. The closer
view OF the cane from the cars, as it
stands on both sides, thick, heavy, long
| iointed and tall. almost entirely free
from leaf hopper, and damaged to a
SURPRISINGLY small extent by borer, six.
eight and ten ton acre cane, seems to
| indicate that this is one of the finest
and safest sugar properties on the is
| land. Certain it is that every one on
| that tour OF inspection felt enthusiastic
over the ever-present indications OF care
full level-headed, management which has
produced such fine results-cane good,
| healthy cane. everywhere.
At the NcBryde Beach House the
company sat down at two o'clock on the
| lawn under the shade of the cocoanut
trees to a delicious luau to which full
justice was done by all present The
drive to Kukuiula in the morning, the
train ride over the plantation, and the
keen, invigoratng air outdoors had
whetted appetites to keen edge. Mr..
Isenberg welcomed the guests in the
name of the McBryde Plantation Com
pany and said it was a great pleasure
for Manager Stodart and himself TO be
able to show them what the plantation
had ACCOMPLISHED. During the feast
toasts were made to the ladies. to SEN
ator Isenberg and to Manager Stodart
and native stringed band from Koloa
also assisted in the entertainment Alter
! the luncheon was over a social halt-hour
was spent in conversation when the com
pany once more boarded the train and
were taken to Kukuiula, whence they
departed for home about four o'clock
after one OF the most dellRntiul OF eN-
cursions, made most interesting and
pleasant by the thoughtfulness and gen
| iality of Mr.. lscnberg, Mr.. and Mrs.
Stodart and Mr. Walter McBryde.
Those comprising the party were Sen
ator and Mrs. s. w. Wilcox, Mr. and Mrs
Hans Isenberc, Mr.. and Mrs, r. w. 7.
Purvis and Silvine Purvis. Mr.. and Mrs.
John A. Palmer Mr.. and Mrs Charles
a. Rice. Mr.. and Mrs. w. II. Rice, Jr,,
Mr.. and Mrs. Sheriff Coney, Mr., and
Mr.. r. w. Wilcox, Mrs. c. H. Bishop,
Mr.. and Mrs. Stodart, Mrs. Christ, Mrs
A. s. Wilcox, the Misses Elsie and
Mabel Wilcox, Quinn, Rce,and Messrs
w. II. Rice, Sr., Dempster, ]. c. Davis,
w. Fisher, ]. X. Farley, Willard, Crop,
Senator Gandal, Senator Isenberg,
Walter McBryde and Head Luna Weinz-
heimer.