The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-10-03

forecasted. The raw truth is that the
sustained healthy condition of the SUI
gar market is remaking the business
world of the Islands. There is every
promise that sugar will continue to be
as good as it is now or better for the
next four or six years, in all human
probability for ten or fifteen or an in
definite number of years. This simply
spells the life and growth and up
| building of all Hawaii and her people.
| Sugar stocks are advancing all
along the line and we observe once
more the situation of buyers respond
! ing to the opportunities of rising
market. AS may be seen by the list
of transactions on the stock exchange,
trading is not confined to a couple of
! lines but is quite general from the
top to the bottom of the list. Eva is
perI1a ps the star member of the con-
stellation on account of the knowledge
] that her entire bonded debt OF So, 000,
900 is to be wiped out by the middle
of next year. C. Brewer & Co. is III
sharp demand again and W'aialua is
stronger than ever, while there is keen
seeking for Kihei
The recent newspaper talk growing
out of this reports comment On agen-
cy profits seems all directed towards
securing full reports from the planta-
ton managers or agents. This is per-
haps good enough in its way. but real
ly it is at best but a makeshift policy
not meeting the issue. The small
stockholders will never be satisfied
with literature in the way of reports.
What they want is that the idea OIL
economy in the management Of es-
tates be gone into in every direction
The item of commission and charges"
is too indefinite. 1t cannot as now pre-
sented be analyzed or understood by
the small stakeholder, hence dissatis-
faction
There has been an advance in pro-
visions. Smoked meats are up one
cent a pound and cheese the same.
Flour firm, lard, a trif1e lower. A
cement famine" is on but cannot last
long. Its continuance would Interfere
very much with important building
operations Good business is reported
by the Metropolitan Meat Companys
new tannery. There is now an over
production of beef in the islands. The
business community will greatly miss
the late Mr.. S. E. Damon, who was so
foully murdered on the 9th inst. A
purchase of Haiku bonds has been
made by the Bank of Hawaii. w.
Matlock Campbell, the cottage builder,
viii double the capacity of his mill Ii
moving it from the present site on
Beretania street to McCully ana
Young. The Waikiki plantation win
increase it's acreage by the construc-
ton of a ditch capable of carrying
AZ, 900 600 gallons of water a day. Mr..
C. N Cooke and Engineer Taylor are
now on Maui attending to the prelim-
inaries of the project. Judge HI. E.
Cooper is again the owner of his Ola
Manoa estate entire having bought it
N at foreclosure for $4,000. H. HACK
field & Co. are foreclosing mortgage on
w. c. Achi's large tract of land in
Kona, Hawaii Bishop & Co. are now
selling American Express Co, Travel
er's checks. The First National Bank
S putting a block of Olaa bonds under
The hammer. Mr.. C. w. Booth pro-
poses to still further improve Pacific
Heights. Hawaii has been invited TO
send delegates to the National Irriga-
ion Congress to meet at FL Pasc.
Texas, in November. The agency Of
he Dowsett company is now in the
hands of David Dowsett. Ali the prop