The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1905-02-17


for labor.
Any one viii readily observe the
handsome net proceeds at the mill.
Further on. In the report, il a very
interesting table showing:
Average cost per ton Of sugar. crop 1901.
Preparing aud planting.
Clearing expense .sO.1s
Steam blowing ................ "a
Nuie proving CONGRATULATIONS. 81
'..'................. AZ
cutting seed NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. %
iiaunhs seed .................... is
Di'NhihB ...................... 10
AIMING ...................... "a
Cultivating:
"".eiHB ''..................... 5.64
''.''''............ 4.31
Pump expense 3.75
wedding and hoeing .............. LII
Stiippiis ...................... .3S
Delivery to mill:
Cutting cane OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 2o5
Loading cane ...............2.9 5
Hauling cane 90
Manufacture:
Mill expense .....,,.. 2A5
Mill repairs AZ
Shipment of sugar:
containers ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Lei
Sundry accounts:
Cleaning camps .......... .Os
Forestry OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. O1
Newoou .....'............... 10
u'lhs ....'............... .09
Hospital expense .. "a
Hawaiian Sugar Planters Asso-
citation dues .............. "a
incidental expenses ....... 10
''''................. .25
INSURANCE Observation-Disclosures. 0S
Immigration expense (Japanese) .27
Kindergarten ........ .01
Legal expense ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. .03
Medical expense .,.. 90
Quarantine expense ...... .O3
kent ...................2 39
Repairs buildings .......... .OC
i'ePaHs FENCES ................. .01
Repairs roads and bridges. .... .O1
Repairs telephones (nothing).. 49,. 90
stationery ACCOMPLISHMENTS. OF
Storm bitches ....... .O4
surveying ...................... .04
taxes ..................... 2.04
'''''''''''''''. ''..'........ 34.94
Depreciations az
-
Grand total 60
From the first table given above
1t Will appear that the cost of
production per ton was much
less in the year 1899, viz. ......$ 1926
Adding the same for depreciation. 1.6S
The cost per ton was. 2794
If 1 am correctly informed (and I
think am) the plantations paid higher
wages and employed more laborers in
1901 than for the year just passed 1904.
and more than they are paying now
when sugar is selling for more than
800 per ton.
From San Francisco to New York,
the freight per ton of sugar u.s.. 7.5O
From Hawaii to San Francisco,
IL does not exceed. 800
There is an arbitrary Rake off,
to the U. S. Sugar Trust Cor
ruption FUND.- ...... 200
p. C. Commission to the Honolulu
Agents Controlling the Chamber
OF Commerce) not including
their commission for purchases
of supplies 600
That accounts for
Cost of production lin round num-
pers) say ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 300
Total accounted for. $54.5O
Now If sugar is selling for 500 per
ton, what becomes OF the balance
$3.50?
In the Governors Report, dated Sep
TENDER 80, 1902. he states that the aver
age cost of production of sugar per
ton on several plantations on the island
or oahu for the crop of 1901 was $41.1s.
The same report shows that for the
year 1901 there We're sold 1853, 1873 tons
of sugar. Now figure up what that
means to the Sugar Ring at Honolulu
at hVe dollars per ton in the way of
commissions and you have the neat
sum of S1,795665) one million. seven
hundred, ninety-five thousand, six hun
dred, sixty five dollars.
Then figure Hawaiian Planters AS
ISOLATION dues at "a cents per ton las
shown in the Eva reporO and II
amounts to 62,1O5.22.
The system ought to be ION trial for
its life.''
Yours truly,
T. ]. RYAN.