The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1907-10-01
GOOD PROSPECT
FUR LIME CD.

The work of erecting the kiln for
the Waianae Lime Company. the ma
chinery for which arrived here this
week on the s. S. Sierra, is already
well under way on the land OF the
company at Iwilei, and the plans of
the new company are to go right ahead
with the installation of their plant,
the quarrying of their limestone and
the burning of lime just as fast as
The capacity Of the Iwilei plant will
enable the company to turn out two
hundred barrels of lime every twenty
four hours, and the officers of the
company are not worrying about their
market
AS the consumption of lime for fer
tiIizing purposes in the Territory Is
extensive, and as the tests of the lime
prepared from the company's quarry
show it TO be of a superior quality.
there seems no reason why the back
ers of the concern should worry about
the .disposing of their turnout. The
market is ready for them at their very
kilns mouth.
The quarry owned in fee simple by
the company at waianae, not leased
as has been stated, has a supply of
the raw material in sight to last with
/ steady burning for many years, the
deposit of stone being sixty feet in
thickness and covering all the many
acres of the property This land runs
right up to the right-of-way of the
o. r. & I. Co., making the loading
/ Of the quarried rock a question only
of a short aerial tram line. The rail-
road company will install a spur at
the quarry.
The consumption of lime in Hawaii
is considerable. During the past two
years. according to the figures publish
ed by the Department of Commerce
and Labor, there were imported into
the Territory 135,61S barrels of the
product. valued at $14O,7s3. This is
approximately two hundred barrels
day. just the proposed output of the
Waisnae Company's kiln. On the local
market lime has been rising in price.
Until short time ago, before the
steamships had practically crowded
the windjammers out of the sugar
trade. the sailing. ships brought lime
here from the Sound at a compare
lively nominal freight rate. The rate
by steamer is considerably higher, with
a consequent higher cost to the Ha-
waiian consumer.
In addition TO the manufacture OF
| lime. the company proposes within
short time to go extensively into the
manufacture of Portland cement. The
| material which will be used by the
company has been exhaustively tested
and the result has been that the MEM
bers of the company are satisfied that
they will be able to turn out supe>
rior article at cost which will allow
them a good margin of profit Cement
made from samples of the clay the
company will use were tested recent
+ lv at the works of the Henry S. Spack-
man Engineering Company, Philadel-
phia. showing the tensile strength of
! the briquettes, per square inch, to be
/ from SIS to $40 pounds. This was the
pure cement. When mixed with sand,
in the proportions of one of cement
10 three of sand, the briquettes show
ed a tensile strength of from sos to
SO pounds, results designated as ex-
cellent by the experts of the Phila-
delphia company.
With the number of proposed gov
eminent works now in sight, includ-
ing the installation of docks and dry
dock at Pearl Harbor, it would seem
! that a local cement manufacturing in
dustry would be dividend-payer from
the very start.