The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-11-13
RATTAN SEEDS
FOR TESTING
The Promotion Committee Will
Encourage New
Industry.

one, only routine business being done
and the regular monthly appropriations
made. A number of very interesting
letters were passed around, however,
letters from every part of the Union
making requests for information ami lit
erature and many announcing the plans
of the writers to spend a part of the
winter here.
The secretary weekly letter was as
follows:
"Gentlemen: BY the S. s. Asia, we
received from the government nurseries
at Buitenzorg, Java, eight small bags
of seed of selected varieties of the
rattan of commerce, which we have
handed over to DR.. Wilcox, who will
give the seeds careful trial at the
local Agricultural Experiment Station.
owe have now written for informa-
ton as to the cost of the seed in guam
titles large enough to admit of extern
sive planting. The demand for rattan
for manufacturing purposes is grow
| ing one in the United States and if it
/ is found that the right soil and climatic
conditions exist here, the committee
will have been instrumental in calling
attention to a new and profitable in
| dustry.
"Within a short time, we should be
in receipt of supply of seeds of the
| Erythroxylon Coca, the plant from the
leaves of which cocaine is extracted.
These are coming from Peru and will
also be given in charge of DR.. Wilcox
to try out.
''The demand for the Crossroads of
the Pacific map still keeps up.
"The American Consul at Mazatlan,
Mexico, writes under date of October
2nd, please accept my thanks for copy
of your map which | find very inter
esting. 1t has given me better idea
of your situation than l had. l have
given the map the most conspicuous
place in the consulate
"'Our consul at La Paz, Mexico, asks
for two additional copies.
''The district passenger agent of the
Canadian Pacific Railway at st. John,
n. B., wants two extra copies while
the general agent of this railway at
Halifax, n. B., asks for six copies which
he promised to display to our advan-
tage.
F'By the S. s. China, sailing the 10th
inst, we sent a large supply of our
general folder Hawaii to Manila, Yo-
kohama and Hongkong. The Pacific
Mail Steamship Company agents In
the Orient have promised to give these
folders a wide distribution. We also
sent folders to Batavia, Java, and to
Colombo, Ceylon.
''The secretary of the Commercial
Club at Grand Forks, North Dakota,
writes under date of October 29th, You
may rest assured that the publicity
work being carried on by your organ
ization is attracting attention. l hear
from it from time to time from differ
ent sources.
"Mr III. K. Gregory, assistant gen.
eral passenger agent of the Santa Fe
Railway Company at San Francisco,
writes under date of October %, THE
publicity work being carried on by
your committee will, / am sure, meet
with good results. We are having quite
good many inquiries about rates to
Honolulu and the present prospect is
very fiattering for more business for
you this fall and winter.
Letters of similar purport are to !
hand from other commercial associa
lions and railway companies.
'The former American Consul at
Vancouver, who is now in business in |
that city, writes that we have interest |
ed him in Hawaii and he will see what |
can be done in working up an exeur.
sion from Vancouver to Honolulu.
tom Richardson, the able manager |
of the Portland Commercial Club writes |
under date of October 81, in part as
follows: 1t will be late in November /
before L can decide whether it will be |
to run an excursion to Ho>
nolulu. / do not want to attempt il
unless assured absolutely that it is go,
ing to be a success. [ don't believe
you realize what a great work you
have done in attracting attention to
Hawaii over all sections of the Pacific
Coast and the Rocky Mountain coun-
try.
con the 9th of October, we wrote
to c. s. Hammond and Company, New
York, suggesting that in future editions
of their large wall map of the world,
that they incorporate the lines s@wn
in our map of the Crossroads of the
Pacific Following is their reply:
Your valued favor of the 9th inst.
was duly received. We think your sug-
gestiOn very good one. However, we
are having no difficulty in selling our
large map of the world on the equiva-
lent projection with the regular colors
and without the special plate you sug.
gest. We would be willing to engrave
special plate and overprint maps al
ready on hand, supplying these mounted
on cloth, with common rollers, the same
as sample sent you. at $500 per copy,
providing we could be assured of an
order for 100 copies or more from Ho,
nolulu. Such an order will not cover
the expense of making the special plate
but, if your people care to support it
to this extent, we would get it up and
use it on all editions printed, taking
our chances on its aiding us sufficiently
to cover the balance of the expense. !
This map has already had a sale of
nearly 100000 copies and. while we do
not especially feel the need of improv-
ing it, we shall be glad to act on the
you make if you can get
is the support mentioned.
Thanking YOU for bringing the
matter to our attention, we remain. , -