The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-09-22
TO INVESTIGATE THE
KNOCKERS OF HAWAII
Promotion Committee Gets After Detractors
of tionoIuIu's Charms--Fred Smith Joins
Committee Art Contest

The Promotion Committee met yes
| terday afternoon, present being ]. A.
M johnson. j. McCandless, A. E. Cart
ley and E. I. Spalding and Secretary
Boyd.
Fred Smith of the Oahu R. & L. Co.,
was appointed a fifth member of the
committee.
1t was decided to forward the follow
ing communication:
Mr.. J. B. Jenson,
Box I'll, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Dear Sir: We have received the fol-
lowing from our Los Angeles agent:
The enclosed card is that of a man
who is here representing a large Utah
coal company, that are to build a short
branch to connect with the Salt Lake,
put in coal bunkers at San Pedro and
secure if possible the contract for COAL
ing the government vessels. He claims
that their coal is of superior grade for
this purpose as it contains less than
one-half per cent of sulphur, with high
per cent of carbon, about Sc. Owning the
mines, road and bunkers as we'll as
having capital for steamer line, he
is very anxious to know whether he
can do business with the islands. would
like to know where the government
gets their coal, price paid. quality. and
source of supply; as well as general
market for a good article at lowest pos
sible figure; please give your personal
opinion
Also are there any large freight
contracts on the islands that could be
secured for steamer line? He has
been advised that there are two sugar
firms, that are not in the Trust is
that true. His idea is to carry freight,
at low figure on account of having
their own coal, and cargoes from here;
adding passenger service at $100 round
trip, say twice a month; from San
Pedro. They claim to have a capital
of $3,0 900, 900, and fine backing"
In response thereto we beg to submit
to you a few facts and figures which
may be of service to you. You will
appreciate that we offer only our opin-
ions: that it is seldom that we go furth-
er than to give bare statistics on such
matters, urging that our correspondent
come down and look over the field in
person. to have that close and intimate
acquaintance with conditions which viii
result in complete satisfaction what
ever is done.
There exists no reason why any
steamship company should not come
into this port and do business with
Hawaiian merchants and shippers. This
of course n1Fst not be taken to include
the -lfgar f { ors. Under contract the
sugars are moved to San Francisco or
New York for refining. This would
seem to cut out business for San
Pedro
The u. S. Navy Department has
three sources of supply for |
coal, England, Pennsylvania and West
Virginia. The naval coal sheds are
fairly we'll stocked, the stocking go
ing on each alternate year. The army
gets it's coal from Nagasaki now, it
being brought over by returning trans
ports Time was when all coal was
purchased from local dealers, but this
was too expensive and so the order was
made to have returning transports
bring coal to this port. |
The stock carried is not large and the
draft upon the yards is not heavy. The
two trans-Pacific Steamship companies
keep supplies. as we'll as the local In
er-Island Steamship company 1t
would be very hard to guess just what
S the cost of these cargoes.
All these Goals are of a bitum1nous
nature Occasionally the Navy gets
some coal from England (Cardiff). and
his year will restock its bunkers with
bout II 900 tons The Australia coal,
more largely used than any other.
Iaid, cargo lots.