The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-09-28
GOOD PROSPECT
FOR LIME co.
New Kiln Going Up in lWiIei
With Capacity of Two
Hundred Barrels.

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 work can be Systematically done
The capacity of the Iwi1ei plant will
enable the company to turn out two
hundred barrels of lime every twenty
four hours, and the officers of the
market.
AS the consumption of lime for fer
tilizing 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
the disposing of their turnout. The
market is ready for them at their very
kiln's 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. Il L. Co., making the loading
of the quarried rock a question only
of short aerial tram line. The rail-
road company will install 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 1868 barrels of the
product, valued at $140.793. This is
approximately two hundred barrels q I
day, just the proposed output of the
Waianae CoInpany's kiln. On the local
market lime has been rising in price.
Until a short time age, 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-
wafian consumer.
In addition to the manufacture OF
jme, the company proposes within a
short time to go extensively into the
nanufa cture of Portland cement. The
which will be used by the
has been exhaustively tested
md the result has been that the mem
1ers of the company are satisfied that
hey will be able to turn out a supe>
.ior article at a cost which will allow
hem a good margin of profit. Cement
made from samples of the clay the
company will use We're tested recent. |
V at the works of the Henry S. Spack- i
nan Engineering Company, Philadel- j
,hia. showing the tensile strength of
he brinucttes. per square inch. to be
rom SIS to $40 pounds. This was the
,ure cement. When mixed with sand, I
n the proportions of one of cement 6
o three of sand, the briquettes show /,
d a tensile strength of from sos to
10 pounds, results designated as ex-
client by the experts of the Phila- J
elphia company.
With the number of proposed gov l
works now in sight. includ- !
1g the installation of docks and dry Q
ock at Pearl Harbor. it would seem
hat a local cement manufacturing IN
ustry would be a dividend-payer from
ne very start. u