Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1904-11-30
TOUR OVER h(BRYDE
PRESIDENT ISENBERd TAKES
PARTY OVER PLANTATION
GOOD FIELDS OF CANE AND WA
TER SUPPLY VIEWED BY THE
VISITORS GO OVER
THE MILL.

Lihue. Kauai, Nov. 2S.-Last Wed
nesday morning at 10 O'Clock a large
party of pleasure seekers from Lihue
and Koloa gathered at kukuiula. Nc
Bryde plantation, at the bidding of
Senator Paul Isenberg, president of
McBryde Plantation Company. to
spend the day in sight seeing on Nc
Bryde plantation. Senator lscnberg,
Manager Stodart Of McBryde's, and
Head Luna Weinsheimer 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. The train slowly NOV.
ed from Aipo Gulch toward Koloa up
through the Smith estate lands, which
were covered with large. heavy, long
ration 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
It certainly has lost none of its vigor.
After passing over the Smith lands
the train returned by the same route
to Aipo Guich and moved westward
over the East Laval lands for about a
mile and from there on to the East La.
wal lands marika. covering stretch OF
a mile and half, all covered with a
fine growth of long ration, a good deal
of which will be taken of for the 1905
crop. This Laval land Is all new land
with rich. deep soil and grows most
excellent cane. Passing over the La
val Gulch on a very high and strongly
built bridge. We sliirted Laval Gulch
for time over roadbed In many
places blasted out OF solid lava rock
lend as We entered upon the West La
val lands the trained passed through
/ two tunnels cut through the corner of
the elm. one 500 feet long and the 9th
er 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 10000.
In Laval Gulch Is situated one of
the three large pumping stations of
the plantation. the other two being in
Eanapepe Valley. These pumps sup.
ply the plantation with twenty million
gallon. OF water daily. when that
amount Is required for irrigating pur-
poses. Besides this water. which Is
used in quantities required, the reglI-
lar lrrlgating bitches from the noun
talns being eight million gallons Of
water to the plantation daily, and the
plantation gets from the Makaweli
plantation through the Hanapepe ditch
surplus water from that plantation
Amounting from three to ten million
lgallons day. This water Is not espe-
cially needed except in the months of
June. July, August and September,
when all the surplus water Makaweli
plantation can spare is used on Nc.
lBryde.
| Besides these sources of water sup.
ply, McBryde has reservoir capacity
of eight hundred million gallons which
10 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
from the sea 10 the mountains, called
kalaheo, on which the lease will eX.
pire in couple of years. This Kala-
heo land at the present time is covered
with a fine growth of cane, plentifully
watered, but the land has no water
right, and after reyersiOn to the Gov
eminent, unless water can be secured
for II in some way, will become worth.
less.
Crossing the Kawaihaka Gulch from
West Laval we passed on to the Wa.
hiawa lands and took a 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 in the Hawaiian
| Islands. 1t is a nine-roller Cuban mill
and was designed by o. y. Stillman,
the famous sugar mill man. and cost
erected and complete in every detail
100000.
IL takes ninety.siX men all told.
night and day shifts. to operate the
mill, and 1t has capacity from 100 to
l25 tons a day. Manager Stodart nj
loted the company through the mill ex.
planning the various mechanisms and
devices. The machinery is being put
In readiness for use, as McBryde will
begin grinding on December 9TH.