The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-02-25
Hawaiian SUGAR
HAS A SURPLUS
ANNUAL MEETIN GHELD TO-DAY
OVER 100000 SURPLUS.

| The annual meeting of the HawiIan
Sugar Company was held this morning.
The most interesting feature of the
| proceedings was the reading of the an
! nual report of Manager b. D. Baldwin
relative to what had been accomplished
with Makaweli Plantation for the year
ending December g. 1906
/ His report was as follows:
"The past year at Makawe1i has been
exceptionally dry and the total deliv-
| cries of water from our two bitches
reached a mark as low as forty-fve
million gallons per day. Our cane fields
have suffered greatly for the lack of
water and we were especially hard
Ipressed during the summer months,
when matters We're made worse by
demand for water by the rice planters
in Hanapepe valley, whicr we We're OBJ
liged to give them. The 1eaf-hopper
pest did considerable damage to some
of our fields of plant cane in the be-
ginning of the year. but the severity
of the attack was for a short period
and we have not been bothered to any
extent by this pest since
CROP OF 1906
Il am glad to report that this crop
just harvested has overrun the esti-
mate and has yielded total, including
the Gay e. Robinson sugars, of 2O,S44
tons of sugar. The total yield of this
crop although the area was a little
larger, was not as high as the 1905
| crop, which was due to the severe at
tacks of the leaf-hoppers as they never
left the fields during it's entire growth
IMPROVEMENTS
The expenditures for permanent i'm
provements for the past year were $685.
229. OF this $4,000 was spent for the
construction of new railroads and the
material for the same and the balance
was spent, of which the most important
items are as follows: the construction
of laborers' quarters one 20 ton Bald
win locomotive live stock, construc-
ton of new fences and the material
for a 4OXl2O foot warehouse at the
Makawel Landing.
AT a meeting held in Honolulu Octo-
Der Bard, 1906, and also at a meeting
held September 21st by the Directors of
Hawaiian Sugar Co., it was decided
that a dynamo be installed near the
Mill, to be operated by a Pelton wheel
to furnish lightingfor the Mill etc as
the present plant was entirely too
small. 1t was also decided to euuin our
lighterage outfit at the Makaweli Land
ing so that we could handle from 500
to 100 tons sugar per day, as it Is nee
essary to handle this amount in order
to make direct shipment OF sugar from
Maxwell Landing by American-Ha-
waian steamers via the Tehuantepec
route. We have ordered a So H P.
gasolepe launch from San Francisco
and are having three boats made in
Honolulu. 1t is hoped that the above
equipment will be here in time so that
we can handle the first American-Ha-
Waiian steamer to arrive here in Feb
ruary, 1907.
Outside of the above new dynamo
and improved lighterage equipment
and possibly the extension of our rail-
roads, there will be very little spent on
improvements for the coming year.
SUGAR FACTORY
The crop just harvested is the first
we have taken off by the roller system
at Maxwell 1t is gratifying to report
mat the results have been very salts
factory and hte cost of MANUFACTURES
has been reduced greatly. We are welt
pleased with our twelve roller Mill
which has proved itself to be strong
and well made in ever yinstance The
new copper coils which We're installed
IN our l8-foot vacuum pan have made
this pan now a uqick boiler and a
steam saver. The automatic feeders in
the fire room are giving good satsfac-
| ton and have enabled us to reduce the
! expense in this department Altogeth-
/ er our factory is now in better shape
and I think the cost of manufacture
/ for the crop now being harvested, will
! be less than it was last year
THE following is the total rainfall
at the different stations for the year
1906:
Station Inches
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Camp VII ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 1924