The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-04-13
DEAL WAS
NOT MADE
Tenney Says Crockett
Refinery Will be
Reopened.

81 went to California for the pur-
pose of making arrangements with the
Western Sugar Refinery for handling
our sugar. said E. -. Tenney, who ar
rived in the forenoon on the Sonoma,
''but we came to no agreement. 1t
means, however, that our sugar refinery
FWhen / went TO New York last
year I effected an agreement to dis
pose of all the sugar of the Hawaiian
Sugar Factors Association, reserving,
however, the privilege to dispose of up
to 100000 tons on the Pacific Coast. 1t
was that 100000 that / endeavored to
effect an agreement about with the
Western Sugar Refinery"
The San Francisco Chronicle of April
says of the new developments, es-
pecially with regard to the starting up
of the Crockett refinery:
The negotiations which have been in
progress for several weeks between
representatives of the various sugar
plantations of the Hawaiian Islands
and the American Sugar Refining
Company of New York relative 90
renewal of contract for the Island SUI
gar have come to an abrupt termina-
ton, with the result that the growers
intend rehning their own sugar in com
petition with the trust.
The conditions of the present con
tract call for the delivery of eighty per
cent of the sugar output of the Ha-
T1l, 10 " l.
designated Eastern port and the re-
naming twenty per cent at San Fran
cisco. The rebate allowed the Ameri-
can Sugar Refining Company, com
monty known as the sugar trust, for
the privilege of delivering the sugar
in any quantity upon arrival is $500
per ton IN New York and $3.50 per
ton in San Francisco, the disparity be-
tween the two representing the differ
ence in freight charges.
A short time ago, when the Hawaii
an plantation owners organized the
Sugar Factors Association, limited in
Honolulu, the authority to dispose of
crops of the Islands as a whole was
vested in a special committee. These
representatives of the growers then
with the American Sugar Refining
Company IN New York for period of
three years from the expiration of the
present contract, on September LIST
next, but with some notifications, chief
of which was to deliver any part of
the product of the Islands. The rea-
son for this was desire on the part
of the growers to participate in the
enormous profits accruing to the trust.
For this purpose the growers desired
to reserve the right to land $4,000
tons in San Francisco, to be disposed
of under more favorable conditions
than under the blanket contract which
has been IN existence heretofore.
To this proposition the representa-
tives of the Trust refused to consent
SO the Sugar Factors Association
stopped all further negotiations and
gave notice to the Trust that the pres
ent contract ends permanently on Sep
TENDER LIST of this year.
The explanation of this bold show |
of independence on the part of the |
plantation owners lies in the fact that |
the Trust has been getting the lion s !
share of the profits of the sugar bust |
ness and the growers are now deter |
mined to get not only their profits I'M |
der the contract, but also the profits |
on their sugar which heretofore has |
gone into the Golfers of the Trust.
Association purchased the big sugar
refinery at Crockett, Contra Costa
a short time ago and it is now
being remodeled and improved so that
when the next sugar season opens in
the refining of Hawaiian
sugar will begin on the shores of San
Francisco bay under the management
Of the growers. This move has been
advocated bv some of the largest
planters or the Islands for some years
past, the argument being that San
Francisco is the natural trade outlet
IF the Hawaiian Islands rather than
New York or other Eastern ports.
The next crOp of the Hawaiian Is
ands, as far as can be judged by pres
INT indications, Will be in the neigh
'orhood of 100000 tons, and all the
plantations will derive incalculable
benefit from the new business arrange
nent, while at the same time freeing
themselves from the expressions inn 4
,osed by the Trust. It Will also make /
AN Francisco a great distributing
ort for sugar and materially increase |
he volume of the yearly commerce of
his port.