The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-10-20

| III. P. Wood, secretary of the Promo.
tion Committee, returned Friday from
a tour through Kona. He was accom-
panied by his wife, and both come
/ back delighted with the country there
and enthusiastic over it's progress and
possibilities.
ITO one who has not been through
the Konas,'' said Mr.. Wood yesterday,
the trip is revelation. Admirable
as fhe climate of these islands general
~ is. I think that of Kona surpasses
thas climate, of any other portion of
group. There is splendid road
running right through the district and
trails leading everywhere. There are
here the largest areas of any part of
the group available for small farms
and varied agriculture. The West Ha-
wafi Railroad, built as a road for haul
ing cane and now having several miles
of track, eontemplates very consider
lands within the sphere of it's sugar
mill, and it will run a spur down to
the landing at Kaawaloa, the best
landing in Kealakekua Bay. When
this is done there will be a railroad
giving access to tide water to a very
considerable strip of fertile and ad-
lnirable country.
1.-The people of Kona are very much
encouraged by J. B. Castles enter
prise and efforts to develop the coun-
try. The Kona Development Company
owns and operates the sugar mill, but
plants no cane. 1t, however, encour-
ages the holders of land accessible to
its mill and railroad to plant cane and
buys it of them. Considerable land
is being put in cane On this basis. In
some cases it advances money on the
security of the crop to enable the
planter to mature his crop.
Notwithstanding the depression in
coffee Kona has continued to produce
principal coffee plantations, besides a
very large number of Independent |
growers. These are the Captain Cook |
Coffee Company of which Mr.. Bruner |
is manager. Robert Wallace. the Hind |
Estate and Kynnersley. Japanese and |
are leasing land from the |
Bishop Estate and Paris and other |
arge landholders and are planting cof
fee and other products. On the Hind
Estate there is a large pulping plant
which will buy the coffee of the in
dependent growers in the cherry, thus
enabling them to realize on their crop
having to wait until it is pre-
Jared or marketed. The Captain Cook
coffee Company is also putting in a
,ulping plant in connection with their
pineapple cannery. Mr.. Bruner has
brought from Cuba and Porto Rico a
pineapple that weighs about six
pounds and is admirable for canning,
hough not so good for the green fruit
market as varieties grown elsewhere
n the islands. and this is doing ex-
ellently in Kona-
THE coffee crop of the KoTas this
eason was about $4,000 bags and the
ext crop will probably exceed 10000
ags. The Kona Development Com :
any is also encouraging the eultiva-
ion of pineapples and will supply a
annery the moment one is needed.
"eThe pure food law will be of great {
enefit to the Konas. Heretofore pure
ans and jellfes had no show in the !
larket against the manufactured COM
nations of gelatin, colored and fla
ored A Mr.. Woods is putting up
lrge quantities of poha jam and guava {
allies, and expects to find profitable ,
larket for it. The Captain Cook Cof-
ee Company and the Kona Develop
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