The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-07-15
NEW ROAD TO
WAH|AWA
OPEN
Special Excursion Train
Sent Over Line
Yesterday.

A special train of three chair-cars
dent Dillingham;, went to Wahiawa yes
4erday, carrying number of the in
vited guests of the railroad to see the
reservoir, the pineapple fields and the
Dole cannery. 1t was a pleasant and
enIightening trip. The hour of depart
ure was LAO p. m. and return was
made in time for a late dinner Going
and coming and at Wahiawa, Mr.. Dill
bingham, Mr.. Smith and Mr.. Denison,
3he hosts. looked after everybody's COM
fort with unremitting care, providing a
tally-ho and carriages for use on the
pineapple belt and serving a lunch on
the train.
Quite number of the visitors to
W1ahiawa had never been on the tract
before and many had not seen it since
the small farmers came from California
to open the place up. These gentlemen,
teau, quickly sat up and took notice.
There, stretched out for miles, was a
rich, almost stoneless, prairie like vista,
with perhaps a couple of million pine
apples growing and hundreds of acres
being opened for more. And actually,
there was stalwart white man in sight
guiding plow just as if he had never
heard that white man could not work
landscape were thrifty homes; aven-
ues of well-kept trees were seen; peo-
pie went about with a business-like air
as if they were 5000 miles from the
ing heavy loads; busy cannery hove
in sight; and down in the long wind
ing canyon were the deepening back
waters of a reservoir, the impounding
The train stopped at Kaukonohua
gulch and the passengers got out, at an
elevation of 938 feet above the tide,
TO see the progress of work on the
point is 20 feet deep and the water
there is expected to attain depth of
fifty feet A tally-ho and carriages
at the gulch took the party and Mana |
ger Goodale of Waialua plantation, who
Joined it there, to the Dole cannery. |
This place was a surprise. Its the
busiest place / have seen in this coun-
try said Frank Hoogs, and indeed it |
was busy enough to suit the most pro-
gressive Feeding it with the raw ma
terial were 500 acres of the 1900 acre
tract of the Hawaiian Pineapple COM
pany, of which c. S. Dole is president
and manager. Inside the structure
were 105 people and any amount of
novel, buzzing machinery engaged in
preparing 1000 cases of canned pine
apples per day. In each case are
twenty-four cans of 21a pounds each,
Or twelve cans of one gallon capacity
Or forty-eight cans of one pound each
From 10000 to $4,000 cans of pine
apples are handled every working day.
The Dole cannery uses sugar from
he Honolulu plantation, over one-third
If a pound to one grade of tin and
rifle less than that to another. Be
ides the sliced product with the core
emoved, there is a grated pineapple
Produced. This, however, is harder to
ell than the whole-piece variety. The :
mailer cans are made in Honolulu now
nd are labeled to suit various markets {
San Francisco, Denver and Boston
The famous S. W. brand also covers
,ineapples from Wahiawa. After this
eason's IS crop has been taken off the
annery will be removed TO Honolulu.
There are two other canneries at
Vahiawa which there was no time to
isit-that of Byron o. Clark, who is
utting up fruit in glass and that of 2
Ir. Eames, which has lately started.
The Honolulu party watched the c
rogress of the pine from the dellv-
rv cart to the warehouse with much
,terest and caught enough of the 5
-uit for eating purposes, as 1t SID o
on, convenient fumes, to cut down 7
le day's dividends at least three per IL
mt. There seemed to be more than
ere pineapple juice in the quality of a
le parting cheer for Mr.. Dole as the
.ocession started for the dam. u
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