The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-06-15

! The use of a band mill is preferred
owing to the large saving it effect in
saw kerr which. owing to the high
grade of the lumber, should be as fine
as possible, not exceeding one-eighth
of an inch. The market calls for high
grade manufactures from this lumber
and this decided the company to erect
band mill.
For veneer'ng purposes there will b.
a special plant erected in the koa for
est after the band mill, and this will
shortly be decided. The veneering
plant, if completed as now projected,
will turn out annually in the shape of
lumber or veneers, or both, about six
million feet which, at the present mar
ket price, would be worth 100000 a
year in its rough condition without
veneering From the koa bark and
saw dust fannie acid can be extracted,
and analyses that have been made
show that both contain from twenty to
thirty per cent. of tannin. With the
completion of the railroad line from
Glenwood to Keauhou the company has
direct communication from forest to
tidewater Shipments of koa are now
being made, in the shape of fitches
suitable for veneering, to the principle
manufacturing cities in the United
States, and the new steamer Lurline,
due here on Saturday, will take $4,000
feet of koa on her first trip consigned
to different parties in Chicago, San
Francisco, New York, Cincinnati,
Grand Rapids and Boston.
Reports upon the Hawaiian koa. or
mahogany, that have been received to
date from parties on the mainland to
whom it has been sent, are highly sat
isfactory and in several instances it
has been pronounced by experts as SUI
perior to Cuban mahogany. Tenn
porarily the koa is being stored in the
Hilo boat landing for shipment, pend
ing negotiations now in progress re-
garding other wharfage ARA lgements.
The ohia tie mill now being erected
al Puma will be completed within for
t. five days, with shipments ready to
be made early in August. 1t has a
daily capacity of 100000 feet of sawn
lumber, or 5000 ties each feet by by
inches. The machinery was purchas-
ed from the Filler and stowell C"m-
pany of Milwaukee, one of the largest
manufacturers of sawmill machinery,
and the Puma mill will be one of the
largest in operation in the United
States. The mill building is located
right on the line of the Hilo Railroad
SO that the ties can be placed on tie
cars from the mill platform. A log
ging railroad line into the forest two
miles long, has been built by the CON-
pany. A Shay locomotive has been
ordered for this line and upon its
arrival. the twenty logging cans that
are being completed at the Hilo rail-
road shops, will be used to. bring the
logs to the mill. Ariole Brothers have
begun their work of pulling the trees
and, in a few days, will be ready to
deliver to the mill.
After furnishing the foregoing facts
to the Herald, Manager Harris said:
''Ths company was organized tW"
years ago. It's capital is now s25O,OO0.
It has 10000 acres of ohia timber land
in Puma, 1880 acres of koa land ut
Keauhou, and timber licenses covering
100 square miles. or $4,000 acres. IN
Kona. The company has had its
troublous times but I believe its dlf-
ficulties are now ended. There is work
ahead. plenty of it: and if we progress
no further in manufacturing than has
already been discussed, and partly ar
ranged. there will be an industry es-
tablished on the island of Hawaii, that
will be surprising