The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-09-15
COMM ERCIAL NEWS
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Plantation CO. viii refine the sugar
CT the Hutchinson plantation on Ha-
wall.
Following are quotations. bid and
asked, on the San Francisco Stock
Exchange for Sept. 8: Fl. c. & S. Co.
IS, SO S-s and 100: Honolulu Rapid
Transit 6's, los IL bid; Fl. C. & S. Co,
80 and 81; Honokaa Sugar Co., 10 bid;
Hutchinson Sugar Plantation Co.,
IA rs and Is Ia: Kilauea Sugar Co., 8
asked; Makaweli, 80 bid; Onomea, "a
bid; Paauhau, Is and 15 Is; Union
Mill Co, As asked H. C. & s. Co.
and Paauhau are advances on the pre-
vious day.
PROMOTION AND PROGRESS.
Articles of association were filed
yesterday for the Hawaiian Copra Co,
with a capital of $4,000 in shares of
$40 par value each, with privilege of
extension to 100000. 1t will cultivate
cocoanuts in Koolaupoko district, Is
land of Oahu, from which to make
copra. The article is selling in San
Francisco at $95 a ton, the price hav-
ing been on the rise for several years.
A Chicago dispatch of Sept. an
nounces the arrival there, after jour-
ney of eighteen days from the fields
in Hawaii, of the carload of fruit TAX
en- thither by J. E. Higgins, hortieul-
turist of the Hawaii agricultural ex-
pertinent station. While the car had
not then been opened, Mr.. Higgins be-
lieved the fruit had stood the trip
well. One of the first results of this
experiment comes back to Jared G..
Smith, special agent in charge of the
station, in a letter from a wholesale
fruit company in salt Lake City soli-
citing a trial consignment of our
fruits.
The Haiku (MauD Fruit & Packing
Co. has increased it's output nearly
hundred per cent. Last year it's rec
ord was 1900 cases of canned pine
apples. This year $4,000 cases is the
estimate. with a winter crop OF 10000
cases additional.
A scheme has been adopted by the
Chamber of Commerce to gather in
dustrial information throughout the
islands fer the purpose of answering
outside inquiries into the chances of
investment and settlement.
Fred w. Carter, formerly head over
seer of the Parker ranch, Hawaii, has
brought here in the steamer Hilonian
a herd of thirty-three thoroughbred
bulls from the best herds of Oregon
and Washington, for the Parker ranch,
the American Sugar Co.'S ranch on
Molokai and John Hind in Kona. Most
of the animals are Herefords, but
there are three Shorthorns and two
Devons.
THE IJoua;iop Nabopaoy T.r1naher
Co. expects to close a contract short
ly to supply railroad companies on the
mainland with 100000 ohia railroad
ties This follows a shipment by the
schooner Robert Levers recently OF
$1,000 ohia ties to the Southern Pa
cific and Santa Fe companies. Ties
are worth dollar each and upward.
GENERAL ITEMS.
Agreements have been recorded
whereby Honokaa and Pacific Mill
companies grant q portion oc the wa
ter to which they are entitled from
the Hamakua ditch to Paauhau plan +
tation. An extension Of time for be- I
ginning the lower ditch of the water
is at the same time granted
to January /, 1912. The reason Of /
these arrangements is that the bonds +!
to provide money for building the low
er ditch have not yet been foated. .
Holders of the bonds sold to pay for
the upper ditch, now in service. as +
well as the plantations interested In
the irrigation enterprise, consent to T
the extension
The Su San Kabushih Kaisha, Ltd. 4
is the name Of a Japanese company t
just Incorporated under the general +
law of corporations to conduct fish /
cry at Waiakea, Island Of Hawaii. +
It's capital stock is $4,000, with the .
privilege of increase to $4,000.
A deed has been recorded from John .
Trtterstrom and wife TO Ttsu Yoshioka, !
Of a lot of land at Ponahawai, South +
HiIo. for $1,000 A release OF chattei /
mortgage from Bank of Hawaii 10 \. .
d. Scroggy for $4,000 and a mortgage /
of land at Waikiki by Lam Wo Sing .
& co. to Bank of Hawaii for $4,000 /
have been recorded.
Reports in probate have been filed i
showing that the Bishop Estate has I
increased the value Of its real and per- /