The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-02-15
JUDGE DOLE TALKS
ABOUT PINEAPPLES
Tells the People of ffiIo What May Be Done
With This Most Luscious Fruit.

The HiIo Herald says:-During a
| conversation with a Ello resident the
other day Judge Dole spoke of the
success Of the people at Wahiawa in
the cultivation Of pineaprles and re-
marked that he could see no reason
why HiIo people cid not get in and DO
something on the same lines.
Two years ago. possibly three he
said, my cousin shipped his first lot
Of pineapples from the eoiony lands
and the encouragement he received
prompted him TO extend MS operations
| and buy more land. Last season he
shipped fifty thousand cases of two
| dozen tins each, growing much OF the
| fruit on his own land besides paying
| the farmers on the adjoining LANDS
| twenty thousand dollars for what he
| bought from them. The business of
| canning fruits on Oahu has turned out
50 wei that the farmers ne bought
from last year are putting up two can
neries on their own account.
1t seems TO ne that there should
be hundred people here with sutfi-
cient money, who would be willing 10
go in on d cannery enterprise and
make it just as good a paying business
here. You have all OF the facilities
The sour land at Wahiawa seems 10
be just what is needed to produce
5000 1rult and suppose you have
SONS o. tbs same sort here.
My cousin viii be n Hi,o within
the next few weeks and ] would not
BE- surprised if a little encouragem
was gwen him if he would start
branch cannery here. Hunt Brothers,
OF san Francisco, who are in touch
with the market over there. are in
terested with him in the enterprise and
they find il profitable. 7 am sorry %
learn Of the trouble in dispusing Of the
Hilo bananas at the coas and it seems
10 me that an sntomClogist should be
asked to pass on the question as to
whether the cause Of the fruit turning
black Is a blight / an o. the opinion
that the manner of shipping has sone-
thing 10 do with it. You can grow fruit
enough here to send away (, steamer
load every week.
/ would be a. good thing il the grow
ers could own the cannery but I am
not sure that that should be the sole
consideration;-you want the canneYy
and it should not make any difference
whether il is the properly of the far
ners or of someone on the outside.
What your farmer wants is 10 sell his
fruit and that he be paid for it is his
principal thought. For that reason |
would say get the capital for your cam
merry so thar the growers viii feel en- |
couTaged to go ahead, and if you can /
not get your money from your own |
people go away for it-but get it
MR. ANDREWS SCHEME.
[. A. Andrews. who has been work !
ing On a chene TO establish a cannery |
in Hio, has in mind a plan whereby |
owners Of land viii contribute portions |
OF il as purchase price Of capital stock
OF the company and the company will
then cultivate the land and the profits
from the company's work viii be shar-
ed by the person contributing the lano
in proportion to the area so contrib
uted.
This plan is not altogether in accord
with the views Of Judge Dole; he
believes il would result in endless mix
ing for the reason that the company |
would be made up of 50 many different
races OF people and many OF them lg-
Eorant o. business principles, and con-
unable to understand the
why's and wher eIores \of the cause OF
EonpayTrent OF dividends At regular in
rerTals. In this view there are others
n Hllo VINO are in perfect harmony.
0ne gentleman representing large f.
nanciaI interests says there win be Nc
trouble 70 raise the money necessary,
!. is already here and the people only
ask for The evidence that their money
vii n Is INV 4 I
n the project.
There viii be no trouble 10 raise
the money" ne said 70 reporter for
his paper. and I do not think il worth
y Ill-e trying 10 interest the landowners
n the project Let them raise the
s.nes and sell them TO the cannery
usr as The independent planters grow
-aGe and sell il to the mill It looks ]
Q me as though the bananas are going :
. fail and there viii be then plenty /
u land for the people 10 grow pines.
I understand The caBneries on Maui
nd Oahu are paying from twenty 10 {
lir-y dollars ton. a good price where
u landowner puts il d good crop :
md il should be a paying business II !
would Be the birth o. another industry ]
i could be started and i seems 10 I
re that il Is new Industries We want. {
There : a lot Of land under lease 70 I
liens, Japanese ard Chinese, and il c
oes not seem 70 me- advisable 10 in 1
crest those people IN the project fur I
ler Ehan as growers. I believe the1 :
sould be better satisfied in that way n
han g have an interest as proprietoTz- :
II course there are almost as many I
panions On the subject Of a canner!- :
5 there are men willing 10 go into II e
nj M Tav- II r I q
-norew-s to make a thorough canvass o
rst and then start on the plan advo- p
ated b. the na5o-ity-provided he can 7
btain the financial support in that a
-ay. We certainly want the cannery t
y We can grow the fruit and when | y
roperly canned would have a place X
2 ne markets OF the mainland above Il
~ other brand L seems 10 me that :
le n-an u hu-.-- shollE be On ! 2