The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-03-01
COMMERCIAL NEWS.
, Continued from PAGE Fouro
REPORTS OF PLANTATIONS

T Many sugar plantation companies
have held their annual meeting during
the past week. Ar abstract of the
more important facts in the reports of
managers is given herewith.
Eva Plantation Co. had NET profits
/ Of s770,07S.26 fer the year 1907, yielding
/ 800, oe0 in dividends, or Ii per cent on
/ the capital stock. Manager Renton. in
a comparative statement covering five
/ years, showed that in the last four
years 1854 tons of sugar had been lost
through the action of the leaf-hopper.
A gain of about $500 tons last year
F.. over 1906 he attributes to a check that
| had been put upon that pest. There
/ had been no labor troubles during the
year. The total acreage for the 1907
/, crop, which was 80, 4S1.61 tons of sugar,
was 3770.82 acres. For the 1908 crop
the total acreage is 1922. As acres. These
/ figures include the small plantation of
Apokaa Sugar Co, whose cane is
ground at Eva mill. The 1909 crop
Will be from 366766 acres, exclusive of
Apokaa.
Manager Weinzheimer's report TO
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1907 of about 5614 tons of sugar from
1547 acres For this years crop there
is an acreage CT 1885 acres. and for
that of next year 1900 acres, from
which 1000 tons of sugar - expected.
Large improvements have been made
in the water supply and the mill plant
has had added to it fine new centrifu-
gals and one new filter press.
Manager Fassoth's report that last
years crop was 1916 tons of sugar from
249 acres of cane. This year 1900 tons
is expected off 24O acres, and the same
amount next year off 265 acres.
Maxwell plantation was shown, at
the annual meeting of Hawaiian Sugar
Co., to have made profits of $500, 304.16
last year, of which $4,000 was paid
out in dividends. Including the Gay
& Robinson sugars, the crop was 22,666
tons, being an average return of SOS
tons of sugar an acre. Manager B. D.
Baldwin's estimate had been exceeded
by 1882 tons. This years. crop is esti-
mated at q ,091.S7 tons of sugar. For
the 1909 crop the area is the largest
yet carried and is expected to reach
from $4,000 to $4,000 tons. Little or no
damage was done last year by the
1eaf-hopper, it having been kept in
subsection by the Australian parasite
and local enemies.
For Kihei Plantation Co., Manager
A. j. Mcleod reported a crop of 1917
L. tons, which was under the estimate
owing to excessive rains. Next crop
is estimated at 4400 tons. The sale of
the plantation, approved at special
meeting some time ago, is expected to
be effected soon.
Waialua Agricultural Co.. Manager
Goodale, had a yield of 22.521 tons of
sugar for 1907, or about 1900 tons below
the estimate. It was from 1880 acres
and the average yield was $50 tons of
sugar to the acre. The tonnage Of
cane per acre, so far as cropped, is
higher this year than last. For 1908 q
crop of $4,000 tons is estimated, there
! being an increased area of 1922 acres
as between 1907 and 1908 on January 1.
The company has leased a considerable
area of newly cleared land to pineap-
pie growers,
Maui Agricultural Co. showed a
profit for 1907 of 1924. 1862. of which
Haiku Sugar Co. received $29, 1907 and
Paia Plantation $44596.16 Manager H
Al Baldwin reported crop of 20,163
| tons of sugar, which should have been
exceeded if it had not been for poor
! juice the early part of the season due
to the warm, wet spring. From 1884
acres plant cane and 2043 acres ra-
! ICONS, the crop of 1908 is hoped to ex-
/ coed the former estimate of q, 900 tons.
/ For the 1909 crop are being cultivated
! 1925 acres of plant cane and 2205 acres
| of ratoons, and for the 1910 crop 1880
| acres of plant cane and 1900 acres of
! ratoons. They are burning all borer-
/ infected cane before cuttings Lime is
| being literally employed to check root
! disease. Besides furnishing the plan
| tation with beef, the companys ranch
| shipped forty-five head to Honolulu
and furnished number of working
/ oxen for the fields. Together with Ha-
waiian Commercial & Sugar Co., the
/ NJ A Co. has a f1ourishing rubber plan
tation at Nahiku of about 100 acres Of
Ceara trees. Something like the same
area will be planted this year, alter
! mating Hevea with Ceara.
Manager Ahrens of Kukuihaele plans
! tation (Pacific Sugar Mill Coz reported
! large mill improvements during the
year. With the water available from
| the Hamakua ditch the plantation will
| be able to lay out all it's lands, about
| 22s0 acres, below the thousand-foot
| level. For the 1910 crop it is expected
/ to have between 400 and 1900 acres
| of plant cane and 900 acres of ratoons,
/ which will be the record for the plan
| tation.
| Kohala Sugar Co., according to Man
| ager George Watts report, has found
! the kohala ditch supply scanty when
| most needed. Therefore it is proposed
| to contract for no more from that
source. Expenses of the year, $780,
| 66e. so, were nearly $1,000 more than
those of 1906, the principal cause of
| increase being $14,SO3 rent of water.
There was a decrease of about $4,000
in labor account. The 1907 crop was
| 24G2.23 tons of sugar crop of 400
tons is expected this year.
Honokaa Sugar Co. had crop of
6e25. 6S tons of sugar from 2725 acres.