Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1908-02-27


open ditch.
From the lower end of the Hele-
mano ditch the extension is $500
feet long to a point at an elevation
of 1850 feet, where the water can
be taken into the Wahiawa ditch and
reservoir system, or, later on. may
be used on 3.00O-acre tract of cane
land lying between the 1850 and
| 1OO-foot levels.
The following shows the amount
| of water delivered to us by the Wa
niawa Water Co, Ltd:
Gallons elivered--During 1906 to
Dec. 81, 5.152,475, 200; during 1907
to Dec. 81. ,451,491,5iS; total to
Dec. 81. 1907, 13,6O3,9G6,74S gal
Ions.
Rainfall at head Of ditch-During
1906 to Dec. 81. 11Oi2; during 1901
to Dec. 81, 1851.
Rainfall at eservoir-During 1906
to Dec. 81. 3j.17; during 1907 TO
Dec. 81, 49,.
During the past year the leaf-hop.
per has given very little trouble, and
with the large number and variety of
parasites that we now have they do
not cause any further anxiety.
Cane-borers have appeared again
in large numbers, and 1t has become
necessary to collect and destroy the
beetles. The damage done to the
crop of 1906 was slight on a large
part of the area, but some fields were
badly affected.
The areas under cultivation on cor
responding dates were:
Growing Cane--Jan. |, 1907, S,GII
acres; Jan. /, 1908, 5000 acres.
We took off, during 1907, 1,Gil
tons more sugar than during 1906
and added 992 acres of cane land &c
the area of growing crops.
Enough land has been cleared and
b put under cultivation to allow for al
annual crop of over 5000 acres, com
b menclng with the year 1903. Thi'
c may be expectc! to produce an aver
I age crop of 10000 tons of sugar, viii
d an average yield Of 6 tons per acre
D This Is conservative estimate, a
i six tons per acre is less than the av
J. crage yield of the last seven crops.
= All the difficult and expensive lant
X clearing is finished, and so much o
+ the railroad, ditch and reservoir sys
tens have been completed that bu
i little more remains to be done.
L The additional three-roller mil
y will give the crushing department o
u the mill enough capacity to take car
d OF crop of over 10000 tons of suga
. and do good work.
The boiling-house department ha
not yet been tested with the mill
running at high speed on cane q
. high sucrose content.
:" On December 81, 1907, there wer
" 1852 tons of sugar of the crop {
80 1907, for which We had not receive
- credit on account, 574 tons of II
j.. crop of 1908 manufactured and shil
:. ped from Honolulu and $40 tons O
hand ready for shipment. These 81
90 CARS have a net value of 100000, {
against the amount of our accouI
=. with Castle & Cooke, Ltd. of 1896
34S.O2. We have paid OFF Sl2,0O
mn of our bonds during the year, an
M had S1G,674.4j In cash on Decen
no Der 3lst.
The plantation has been at grei
,r. expense during the year for the co
,r. of bringing Portuguese and SPANS
rs laborers to the country has built
et large number of new cottages Il
It's them. has built new camps for labo
n ers on the new lands. and has reno
eled the japanese camps.
can make no accurate estimate
in the expenditures that may be nece
er sary for immigration purposes AZ
ne Tor building houses for immigrnn
I'd and their families.
,r. by the use of the Helemano dit
ms there will be an additional saving
~, the cost of water for irrigation; d
ct l2-roller mill will take off the cr'
more rapidly and at less cost; the
are no lands to clear of lantana
cd stone for this years planting, AM
40 ether permanent improvements
q. great cost are to be made.
no With the larger area of cane la
ms that we now control. ] can promi
90 the company reduced cost of produ
for ton and larger crops.
During the past years we ha
been so situated that crops of abo
II" 10000 tons have been the limit
''e production on all OF the availal
pa lands controlled by the compar
'iS Crops of that tonnage on place
o'r this size, with its peculiar difiicl
ties, have barely paid the fixed char
ne os and expenses A large part Of
increase in OUTPUT from our prese
'se area will be profit.
The old board OF officers was
elected for the ensuing year, with