The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-03-23
TO CARRY POWER
ACROSS AN ISLAND
MANAGER STODART AND MANA
GER GARTLEY TELL OF THE
PROGRESS OF GREAT WORK.

The following report on the progress
o, the Kauai Electric Company which
! is to provide electric power for pump
! ing on McBryde Plantation was sub
mitted to the annual meeting of Nc
! Bryde Sugar Company yesterday:
| The installation of the Kauai Elec-
trio Company power plant referred to
! in my last report is well along toward
a satisfactory completion. At this writ
| ing about 1000 feet of tunnel line and
1850 feet of the ditch line have been
! finished, leaving only 1850 feet of tun-
lei and $3.50 feet of ditch still to do.
In order to hasten the work on GER
tain tunnels where the rick is uncom-
monty hard, the contractor is about to
install power drills which will insure
the timely completion of the contract.
| The power furnished by this plant will
enable us very largely to dispense with
the use of coal which has heretofore
! been one of our largest items of cur
rent expense.
The following is an extract from a
report by Mr. A. Gartley. general man
! ager of the Hawaiian Electric Com
pany, Limited with regard to the cleo
trio power plant now being ordered for
the Kauai Electric Co.:
! "The Hawaiian Electric Company
Limited, have undertaken the installa-
ton of the plant from the fore-bay to
the point of delivery of the electric cur
rent to McBryde Sugar Company. The
whole undertaking has presented many
difficulties, but I believe the work is
now well in hand and that it will be
completed during the month of June.
The Progress of the work can be best
expressed by giving the progress of the
different items:
THE Fore Bay-No work has been
done
Pipe Line-Al the material is in
Honolulu and work is progressing on
the excavation for the pipe line The
lower end is completed and the men
are on the ground ready to begin the
laying of the pipe.
! Power House-The foundations are
nearing completion The building is
at McBryde ready for shipment as soon
as the foundations are ready; the ira
yelling crane for the building has al
the large transformers. the switch
board and eXciters are in Honolulu
awaiting shipments the first main gem
orator is due within two weeks and the
second one a month later. An erecting
electric engineer is now on the ground
at Wainiha and is capable of rapidly
prosecuting the work.
The poles, cross-arms, braces. tele-
phone brackets and insulators are
erected from McBryde Plantation to
the top of the Divide, a distance of APP
prOXimately q miles. on the Hanalei
side, approximately six miles are COM
pleted. This is well under way and all
the material including the wire is on
hand except about 5000 main line in
sulators. We expect these to arrive
within two weeks. The balance of the
insulators and a large part of the wire
have been distributed and we expect to
begin stringing the wire next week.
! while the bitches and tunnels are
not under my supervision, l under
stand from the superintendent, Mr.
Rowell, that the work is well in hand
and that rapid progress is being made
on such tunnels as would delay the
work and he anticipates that these tun-
rels and bitches will be completed dur
ing the month of June.
This plant represents, in my opin-
ion, a very valuable asset of McBryde
plantation. 1t will have been Install
ed at a comparatively small expense
considering the large amount of power
available. The plant can be increased
One-half at a comparatively small ex-
penditure.
when the present plant is complet-
ed, it is calculated to furnish 2iOO
horsepower at McBryde and with the
one-half increase would give $500 II.
p. available.
"In the designing and laying out Of
this plant we have aimed to furnish
the best machinery which could be OBJ
tanned and all material which has en-
tered into it has been first class in ev-
cry particular. We have aimed at sim
plicity in construction and the result
will be efficient and simple operation"