The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-08-05
OLONA FIBER
FOR FISH LINE
Island Product IS Test
ed By Ex.
perts.

WASHINGTON, d. c., July 21.-A
.~,r.f,i inr.stipatjon has been made by
A..
sne "a p''''''
Department oil agriculture as 10 "he'h-
-er olo,1a fiber can be worked by the ma
~,h,,,o,,, T., ,sa IN op, NJ our American
.,;rni,s ,,;us one Of the objects was.
sc ,,ssih,s to show that this fiber could
be made into fishing line. Some weeks
oao NJ charles clark took several
samnles of this fiber to the bureau of
miami industry Mr.. I.yster II, Dewey,
,,o,nn;st in charge of finer plants.
has made inquiry in several quarters.
.J took samnles of the fiber. person-
,,,y m ,ba barbour Flax Manufacture
5py Co,nnanv at Paterson. n. J.. to the
-,rravers Bros. Irvine Company, in New
worry Ci,v and tn the Lawrence Cord
ave Works. also of New York" Mr..
Dewev writes to Mr.. Clark In reporting
rfhe results of his investigation, 1.-THE
T.aurenca cordapa neople stated that
-tbey would he unable to prepare the
f3her aud snin II on their machinery.
-rrhev mako hard finer twines and cord
ago ,rravers Pros. make n large yari-
CIV of ,vine cordape from various kinds
Of sos, 6ber chiefly iute and Amerj-
.can Russian and Asiatic hemp. as we'll
90 manil, and sisaI rome and binder
Irvine Mr.. Trayers told me that by
having tho ,her baxIad so az to pro-
5uce Tho r;bhons m n 6brous condi-
-tion II could nrobabIv he snun unon
tbe;r ,nacbinerv but he thought II
,,,,ouh,fuI uhetber n could he made into
a satisfactory twine nv anv machines
that ne knew Of
at .ben cont s,mnlas IN nine different
misunderstanding comnanies forwarding
~tben with a letter have received
ren,;as from all excant one of these
-comnaoies regret that thew give lit
flo sepcourapement as To the possibil-
5tv of worrying tho fber on anv ma
..ch;nerv now used in American Irvine
sand cordasa ,o;l,s"
In his lattar forwarding the samnles
Mr. pawev axn,ained that oIona finer
20 pn,duced only in Hawaii that in
former Years II was extensively used by
the pa+ives there for fishing lines and
other cordape and that IT was much
sought after nv wbalers. for HARMON
lines Mr.. Dewey also explained that
o,ona is very Strong and light and re-
s;sts tho ;niurious action of salt wa
for He stated further that If if could
ba worked on machinery stems would
he ta,,en IN nroduca II in commercial
.ouant,,ies.
Comics of the letters received from
manufacturers have been forwarded to
Honolulu. one of these letters from the
Edwi, II Filter Connanv of PhiIadel
nb;a savs.
"Onr machinery Is intended for long
TERED hemp anywhere from three to
ten feet and the hemp. to work sue
cessfu,l,, should all be nronarIv CLEANED
and in a fibrous condition. on exam
lining your sample we find the length
satisfactory. the strength excellent hut
the hemp is of a ribbon character and
not hbIous: and never having tried to
use nehlp III that cohdltloh Wesare I'M
able to say what the result would De-
should we run II through our machln-
= cry, Out Tor me work we real IL would
be so lumpy and uneven that 1t would
not be merchantable article. III at
any time you should have 800 or 400
pounds and would like us to experiment
and report the results, we should be
Very glad TO do so.
The AshaWay Line d irvine Com
pany, OF Ashaway, X. l., suggested
that samples be forwarded TO some nm
zen thread manufacturers. we think'
said an official OF that company, that
they could put this hper through SINH
lar process as they do flax ana reduce
1t to fine thread, IN which shape we
could twist same into hshing lines OF
any desired diameter
The "A. ii. Hart CO., OF New York.
wrote: rms hber Is member or the
hard hoer fanlly, ana we are or the
opinion 1t can not be successfully work.
ed on soft fiber machinery, but 1t can
probably be spun to the desired size
by hand spinning, or to cordage by
manufacturers of hard fiber"
LISIANSKI ISLAND.
The renort of Cant O. G. Hamlet
1pbo commarded the ravenua cutter
'.rbetis ON her expedition to the island
of Iisianski where seventy-seven Ian
.apese subjects were taken off and car
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