The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-01-07
ENORMOUS PRODUCT OF !
PINEAPPLES AT WAHIAWA
CFrom a staff Correspondent

talks pineapples, plants pineapple
dreams pineapples; everything. in fac
but eat. pineapples. Since 1 arrive
here last night 1 have had pineapp
statistics poured into me until hay
developed the fever and want to bt
come a small farmer. There is might
little that is small about the pine
apple growers at Wahiawa, howeve
for they talk in four figures alway
and the spirit of expansion is preva
lent.
Thirteen thousand tons of pines i
the estimated crop of the district 70
the coming summer. Fifteen hundre
freight carloads for the new railroa
to handle, of fruit alone, and thre
hundred and fifty thousand cases o
canned fruits, to make freight for tn
steamships, will be Che output. Worl
during the season for seventeen hun
dred men, including women, for par
of the year, during the rush of tht
packing season, and steady work the
year around for three hundred field
hands-this is what the already devel-
oped pineapple industry is to the Is
land of Oahu. And this is the begin
ming.
This estimate is for the output of the
five canneries to operate-the Hawai-
ian Pineapple Company of Honolulu,
with a pack in sight of 175,0OO cases;
the Wahiawa Consolidated, with 65,-
OC0; the Pearl City Fruit Company,
with $4,000; the Hawaiian Isles Pack
ing Company, with 10000, and the new
cannery of w. B. Thomas, with 1900
cases TO put up. These are the COM
panies that will can this summer.
Later, TO come into the field will be
the Halemano Pine Company, which
has leased two hundred acres of pine
land from the Waialua Agricultural
Company between the Halemano and
Poamoha gulches, at the same eleva-
tion as Wahiawa, and which viii
plant this summer. BY the time the
pines are ready, the company will
have a cannery to handle them. Then
there is the Portuguese hui at Waia-
lua, which has leased a hundred acres
from the Waialua people and will be-
in to break their land next month
II. c. Brown is spreading out, too. He
has eight acres growing now and is
reaking an forty acres of virgin land
on the Leilehua plains. w. D. Nc
Wayne has also secured a twenty-acre
tract of this land and is getting ready
to plant. w. B. Mccormick already
has fifty acres in and is selling six tons
off every acre at an average of twenty
five dollars a ton. and there is pine
apple land here now awaiting men to
take it up and plant it.
This land is in the gulches and is
available rent free to the proper kind
of people. Il want to colonize this
section of our land with a steady class
of laborers, Portuguese preferred" is
what H. r. Grant tells me, "and if
they will come here 1 will see that /
patches of good land are staked off
for them where they can raise pines /
of their own to sell to us. The Japa- |
nese are good laborers, but we want |
the Portuguese, and our plans now in
clude the putting Up of a number of |
good houses if we can get Portuguese
to work for US and live in them. The
Portuguese is an ideal agriculturalist )
He comes from a land where intense
farming has been carried on and he /
knows more or less about raising pines.
There is work here for a good num-
ber. if they apply" (
Small patches of gulch land are also
being staked out now for the Japanese
laborers of the Wahiawa Consolidated,
Of which Mr.. Grant is the assistant T.
manager.
MUCH MACHINERY COMING.
The strides that the pineapple in
1ustry has taken is strikingly illus
lime new outfits of canning machinery
Are being purchased on the mainland
ior three of the canneries. The plant
If the Hawaiian Pineapple Company,
n Honolulu, is to be more than
doubled before the summer. James D.
Dole came up the line with me yes
erday and states that the work of
building in Iwilei will commence next
week. Manager ]. T. staff of the Wa
liawa Company is now on the main-
and picking out parers and rimmers
nd slicers and the other cunning bits [
f machinery that go to make up a q
annery The new machinery will give
lis 8nnery capacity of $4,000 cases G
uIlHS lue SedSOH w. D. 1HOludS,
vho has so far sold his crop to the I
honolulu cannery, will can for him
elf in future and is in the East now
1vesting in a plant. 1t is probable
hat he will install this at Pearl City, d
7hich will be accessible for his pines
rom his three patches, at Pupukea,
Ialemano and Wahiawa.
RAILROADS, GOOD SERVICE. q
1t is decidedly refreshing to hear the II
of railroad praise the ser W
ice given them, but the o. r. & L. b
Gems to be able to give general sat $,
'faction. The main reason for this, a
is because the company W
eeps just a trifie. ahead of the pine /,
pple grower in the service. Already, n
/ anticipation of the demand which il
ill be made upon them this summer b
'r rolling stock, the company has s,
egun to build new cars, especially o.
dapted for the transportation of
-esh pines. These cars will be open W
nd will keep the fruit in much better Il
Ondition than when they are slowed W
way in the closed-in freight carriers j.
From our experience with the rail- ii
bad company 1 can say that their Of u
cials are ready to do anything at all b
reason to help the producer and get u
lie fruit to Dur cannery in good c
lape. So far they have helped US in a.
very way" This is the statement of b.
Do1a of 10 uouol,11,, ~