The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-01-01

C =. Eek ART in Governor Car
aYs arBsual report to the Secretary of
Sc Irauso.
The year 1876, when the reciprocity
;rezfv between the Kingdom of Hawaii
snd the United States OF America was
catered INTO, marked the advance of the
surar industry of the Hawaiian Islands;
tabor was plentiful and comparatively
ehcap. and prices of sugar were high
ard the conditions favored rapid in
crease N the sugar industry of the is
ENDS
In Izfe years, however, the prices of
<hor have risen and the prices of sugar
asve decreased, and periods of indus
fzzi depression have at times very
Mch affected the sugar industry. The
Mzufers have had their prosperous years
nd have also suffered from lack of la
Sor, dronghts, low prices Of sugar, and
etfaer conditions, during which times
<i,ey have manufactured their sugar at
kuch expense fhat there has been no
profit The unfavorable conditions, how
ever, have been met with the progress
I've spirTf of american farmers and
business men. and improved methods of
cultivation and manufacture have been
adopted
Twenty years ago the average yield
OF commercial sugar was about 10
sounds per 100 pounds of cane and the
average yield of cane per acre was about
- A. ~, -. ~.
Sragc yield of commercial sugar is about
II pounds per 100 pounds OF cane and
the average yield of cane per acre is
about 40 tons
There are now being operated 81 stu
gar plantations, with outputs varying
kuom $50 short tons of sugar per annum
50 s5,Oea The great majority of these
plantations are operated under their
separate management, while a few sell
their cane to neighborinss mills and
plantations. These 81 plantations are all
represented IN Honolulu by agents.
Most of the plantations are Joint
stock companies. There are a few,
aoWever, winch are owned by irldivid-
Eiass. Forty-fhree of the plantations
which are incorporated have $3.50 stock
holders
The sugar IS shipped TO San Francis
SS1f<, ana diODIfQ. N<dpe L1OLtlL BE
zssskrcz AID sailing vessels. From CAT
.EsrIaia II goes overland to the East.
Under the United States navigation
lEags il IS necessary that all sugar sent
rom here be shipped in American bot
toms. The planters have been unable
10 obtain suitable American tonnage
Sufficient to carry all their sugar to the
East around Cape Horn, and at least
One-fourtli of the crop of 100000 tons
produced last year had 10 go to San
francisco, Cal. and from thence over
land at rate very much greater than
By all wafer.
The time takes. in getting sugar to the
market IS from two to FIVE months, ow-
ing TO the great distance which it has
70 be transported
In some instances the sugar is shipped
S1irect frcan the port of plantation, but
IN most eases it comes TO Honolulu or
EiEo, Island OF Hawaii, or Kahului, and
ETcm there is shipped to the States. The
shipment from the various isiand ports
% Honolulu Is ACCOMPLISHED through
the ftEo Iuter-island steam navigation
companies, winch control about nineteen
EcsseIs, representing an American tom
mage of 6oIS
The island OF Hawaii produces more
Sugar than any OF the other islands,
Ehe island OF Oahu coming next, fol-
lowed by Matn and Kauai The an
nuaI output of the islands since 1894
cas- been as follows