The Hawaiian gazette., 1908-06-16
VARIED OUTPUT OF
HAWAI's FOREST

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HILO. June 11.-with manufactures
Of its lumber in sight. other than ties.
the Santa Fe contract is not looming
up In quite as large proportions as 1t
did before the Hawaiian Mahogany
Lumber company had begun to plan
for turning out flooring. paving blocks.
| telephone pins. telephone poles. piles,
fence posts. fannie acid and firewood
from its ohia trees, says the Hawaii
Herald. All of these are possible as
by-products. all have been discussed.
some have been planned and orders al
ready received. For the koa tree
product after the band mill has been
installed. there will be a veneering
plant. then the extraction of fannie
acid from the bark and sawdust. This
is as far as the company has gone
at present, but one line of manufacture
ing will suggest another till the forests
of the Island of Hawaii will be one
great hive of industry. each branch OF
which will require it's distinct ma
chinery.
1t was the scarcity OF hardwood
lumber in the United States that first
suggested expansion to the Hawaii
people. Samples of ohia have been
sent here and there on the mainland,
tests have been made and assurances
received that ohia possesses all the
qualities of the best hardwoods for the
purposes Indicated, and that 1t will
take readily in the mainland markets.
One such opinion was backed up by
an order for a million feet of ohia TO
be used as a substitute for oak and
ash. Flooring made from 1t has been
and grain. And the flooring will be
made in the forests of Hawaii, not
shipped from here in the rough
Even the sawdust has its marketable
value as Jared G. Smith. officer in
charge of the United States Expert
ment Station of the Department of
Agriculture, has testified for he has re-
ported that enough fannie acid can be
extracted from the sawdust of the ohia
TO guarantee its manufacture, at a
profit, as a business commodity. His
analysis shows that the ohia sawdust
contains a larger percentage of acid
than either oak or hemlock, the prod
ucts of which are now those mainly
in use on the mainland. Paving blocks
can be made from the cutoff of the
timber used for ties; firewood and tele-
phone pins will come from wood that
would otherwise be wasted. in fact the
company is planning to turn to mer-
charitable account every particle of
wood taken from the 100000 acres of
forest under its control. in the manu-
facture of which special machinery will
be needed for each different product
Operations at the koa mill were sus-
pended only temporarily to enable the
of a band mill with a daily
of 10000 feet. This was fund
necessary owing to the size of the logs
in the forest. as it is not unusual to
have logs that are six feet in diameter.
and eighteen to twenty feet in length.
The use of a band mill is preferred
owing tc the large saving it effect in
saw kerr which, owing to the high
grade OF the lumber. should be as fine
Is possible, not exceeding one-eighth
IF an inch. The market calls for high
grade manufactures from this lumber.
md this decided the company TO erect
, band mill.
For veneering purposes there will BE-
/ special plant erected in the koa for
st after the band mill, and this will
hortly be decided. The veneering
liant, il completed as now projected.
will turn out annually in the shape OF
umber or veneers. or both, about six
million feet which. at the present mar
let price, would be worth 100000 a
ear in it's rough condition without
-eneering. From the koa bark and
aw dust fannie acid can be extracted.
nd analyses that have been made
how that both contain from twenty to
hirty per cent. of tannin. with the
ompletion of the railroad line from
Ilenwood TO Keauhou the company has
irect communication from forest to
idewater. Shipments of koa are now
eing made. in the shape OF fitches
liable for veneering. to the principle
"a manufacturing cities in the United
tates. and the new steamer Lurline.
Ue here on Saturday. will take $4,000
set 1T k1a on her first trip consigned
D differ Mt par les in Chicago, San
francisco New York. Cincinnati,
irand Rapids AMI Boston.
Reports upon the Hawaiian koa. or
that have been received to
ate from parties on the mainland to
HON it has been sent, are highly sat
factory and in several instances II
rs been pronounced by experts as SUI
erior 70 Cuban mahogany. Tenn
orarily the koa is being stored in the
lilo boat landing for shipment, pend
IL negotiations now in progress re-
srding other wharfage ARA lgements.
The ohia tie mill now being erected
/ Puma will be completed within for
: five days, with shipments ready to
. made early in August 1t has
ally capacity Of 100000 feet Of sawn
imber, or 1000 ties each feet by by
inches The machinery was purchas-
from the Filler and StoWell Crm-
sny Of Milwaukee, one OF the largest
= nufacturers Of sawmilI machinery.
Id the Puma mill will be one Of the
reest in operation in the United
= tes- The mill building 81 located
zHt on the line Of the HilO Railroad
that the ties can be placed on tie
rs from the mill platform. a log
ng railroad line into the forest. two
Hes long. has been built by the con-
ny. A Shay locomotive has been
dered for this line and. upon its
rival. the twenty logging cars that