The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-02-27
EVA HOLDS HER
ANNUAL MEETING
THE BIG PLANTATION RECEIVES
REPORTS, ELECTS OFFICERS
AND DISCUSSES MATTERS.

The annual meeting of Eva Planta-
tion Company was held this morning at
the offices of Castle & Cooke. Directors
for the year were elected as follows:
r. d, Tenney, G. NJ. Cooke, c. II. AtheT-
ton, w. A. Bowen and j, b. Castle
r d Tenney presided and i'm res
ponse to inquiries made an interesting
explanation of some charts showing
the course of prices, the relation be-
tween the London price for beets and
the New York price for raws, and the
relation Of the price in New York to
| the advantage given by the reciprocity
! treaty to Cuban sugars 1t was shown
! that at most times. the New York price
absorbs the whole of the advantage
supposed to be given by the Cuban Re
! ciprocity to the Cuban planter, and
! sometimes more.
! Manager Reuton said that UP to the
present time the advantage between
! the Wilson-W bster cane leaders and
| the Kennedy cane loader seemed to
! be with the former.
President Tenney stated that the
! Crockett refinery would come into the
complete possession of the Sugar Fac
tors Company March /, and would be
startled as soon afterwards as possible
probably about the middle of the
month.
Manager Renton in his report, among
other things said:
Gentlemen: l herewith submit an
nual report of Eva Plantation Com
pany for year ending December 31st,
1905:
Crop 1906 This overran the estimate
given in my last annual report by 1,6OC
tons 1t consisted of the following
areas
3,4S2. Sc acres Eva Plantation Com.
pany, which yielded 3O751 5O75 tons OF
sugar, and As. so acres ground for Apo
kaa Sugar Co. which produced asa 245C
tons sugar. In all there were manu-
featured at the mill of your company
from this crop 81, POS 1925 tons of sugar
For details of it's subdivision into plan
cane and rattoons. with their yields
you are respectfully referred to table
No. l attached to this report.
Grinding was begun on January 5tl
and completed on August 9Th. Their
was practically no delay from baC
, weather, and the run at the mill wa
not married by any serious breakdowns
= Whatever slowness there was in har
vesting may be set down entirely t
the shortage of labor prevailing on thi
- island during last season which never
o theless. showed a great improvement
: over 1904.
f The average suCrOse in the cane wa
= IA .O5 per cent as against 1922 pr cen
e of the year previous, and the increas
n in yield per acre was $4,000 of a ton G
e sugar. Cost of operation was 81 04 pc
r. ton of sugar less than the previous GRO
AS usual the ratoons were more profit
able than the plant cane.
Crop 1906: The area to be ground, vi
3,605. so acres, exceeds that of 1905 b
1913 "a acres. 1t will, however, yiel
L less in sugar per acre, and l do not al
ticipate as large a crop in 1906 as ther
was i'm 1905. The temperature durin
the growth of the crop for 1906 aver
aged lower by 6-1O degrees per mont
= than that for 1905; the ravages of leaf
70 hopper were very generally distribute
a over the plantation; and the exceeding
" cool months of January Februar
q ana MaGCn, 1910, are easily IelnellDele'
= place the output for 1906 at $4,000 ton
4 sugar.
II Crop 1907: This is looking very well a
l, date of writing, and is of good sizC
n 1t has had an earlier start and a
earlier fertilization than any crop fo
4 several years, and, other things bein
o. equal, should show good returns. Fo
"a details of area you are referred to TIA
4 BILE No. 1. 1t will consist of 3,542 =
d, acres
Three Wilson Webster cane lOadin
machines were purchased during tn
year. While these machines have thei
drawbacks they are to my thinking,
,r profitable investment for the reaso
n that tl-v do not require picked me
u for the laburtous work of loading, an
p they need less men to handle give
10 quantity of cane. At the beginning c
the season their cost of operation wa
excessive; but after the workmen wer
broken in" to their use this eXpend
At ture was reduced to very satisfactor
n degree. The main drawback to tn
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