The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-12-01
Hilo Railway Business.

The business of the Hlo Railway
is reported to have INCREASED lately
beyond expectations. This is due not
only to the work of hauling stone for
the Hilo Breakwater and the business
of the Hawaiian Mahogany Lumber
Company, but to the general business
of the road as well. The development
of industries along the line of this road
is most promising The Olaa plantation
promises an exceedingly large crop this
year, and grinding will begin early in
December On Puma plantation where
cane planting was practically given up
in 1904, during the past two years the
abandoned areas have nearly all been
leased and planted with cane, the crop
contracted to Olaa MILL In addition
to this lands have been taken up in
Puma for pineapple and rubber plant
ing by concerns which have the finan-
cial backing to insure fair trial of the
climatic and other conditions there, and
it is believed that these will prove such
as to develop a considerable industry
there in these lines insuring increased
business to the railroad. There are
other numbering interests developing in
this region besides those of the Ha-
waiian Mahogany Lumber Company
though of course smaller, but still such
as to add something to the traffic re-
curing railroad.
Return from Japan.
The return of the representatives of
the Pacific Coast chambers of commerce
from their trip to Japan during the
early part of the week by the Tenyo
Maru was a matter of much interest
Mr.. c. M. Cooke and Mr.. John Water.
house represented the Honolulu Cham
Der of Commerce and they, with Mr..
Dohrmann of San Francisco, stopped
here. Mr.. Cooke has given a very in
teresting account of the trip in the
columns of the Advertiser.
The Automatic Telephone.
The project of the Hawaiian Tele-
graph and Telephone Company of put
ting in the automatic or home system
of telephones on this Island, which was
announced in the Sunday Advertiser
last week, has made progress. The
land at the corner of Bishop and Mer-
chant streets has been purchased for
its central Offices and plant, and it is
announced that the engineers to install
the plant are now on their way here.
The company proposes to install the
automatic system of telephones in all
parts of this Island. Its plans are now
for the complete installation of the
system from Waialae to Waipahu by
August next.
The Federal Building Site.
The announcement made by II. +.
Cooper on his return from the Coast
/ by the Hilonian, that the Treasury De-
partment had exchanged the Mahuka
site for the Irwin Palace Square site,
as location for the new Federal build
ing, and that all that was required to
eonsummate the deal was the approval
of Congress, created CONSERVATION
throughout the business community,
which supposed that the question had
been definitely settled, and was not
aware that efforts, carefully kept from
all public knowledge, were being made
to overturn the wishes of the commu-
nifty in the matter. Meetings of both
the Chamber of Commerce and the Mer-
chants Association were called, and
held on Friday. In both, the over
whelming sentiment was in protest of
what seemed the clandestine methods
by which the exchange had been
brought about. In each body the mat.
ter was referred to a committee to re-
port to meetings on Monday.
coastwise Navigation Laws.
The Chamber or Commerce has re.
seinded the resolution it adopted in
March, 1907, favoring the suspension of
the Coastwise navigation laws between
here and Coast points so far as passen-
gers are concerned, and now favors the
strict enforcement of these Coastwise
laws. This action was taken at the
request of the Matson Navigation Com
pany which now has two steamers ply.
ing between this port and San Fran
cisco, and one between Hilo and San
Francisco, and is preparing to bnild
another passenger steamship for this