The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-09-09

in the Territory to be fitted with the
hollow blast CRATE bar, squared iron
tubes with blast holes that are fitted
beneath the freboxes and through
which a blast of cold air can be sent
from a blast engine connected with the
main one. The boilers have a guaran-
teed capacity of 400-horse power, but
with the use of the cold blast this can
be increased twenty per cent,
while the greenest wood can be used
for fuel.
The mill building, in the main struc-
ture, is sixty-fve feet wide and one
hundred and twenty feet long. When
running at capacity, a force of twenty
five men and overseers will be required.
This mill was designed and erected
by the mill superintendent of the Ma
hogany company, H. c. Haner, who
came here from Missouri, not to be
shown but to show.
OF course, the main object of the
sawmill force, just as 1t is just now
with the office force at Hilo headquar-
tiers and the numbering force in the for
est, is to turn out ties for the big Santa
Fe contract, and every energy is to be
directed toward this end. But the COM
pany has plans for the future, plans
for putting the by-products of the tie
saws to commercial uses, uses which will
add materially to the income from the
sales of ohia without adding greatly to
the cost of production.
w. w. Harris, the general manager
of the company, has file of orders on
hand for ohia lumber from various
manufacturers from many points on
the mainland. The value of ohia as
tough, workable and seemly wood has
been spread abroad, and the many or
ders for sample lots and the numerous
inquiries are the results.
One manufacturer has sent in an
order for ohia which is to be worked
up into shoes for car brakes; implement |
men are writing, wanting to know what |
prospects there are to secure a supply |
of the heavy, white wood to be worked !
up into pillow handles, shafts and Whit |
fe-trees and gear boards for reapers !
and binders; a great wagon manufac- .
turing firm wants figures on a supply !
for axle shafts, for spOkes and wooden
and other inquiries are in
the company's Office for ohia flooring.
Later on, also, when it is possible to
is well under. way and the accumulated
orders are begun to be filled, it is the
of the company to experiment
with ohia as a material for street paw
ing blocks. Ohia has a density much
greater than northwest fir, a tenuity
hickory, and a wearing quail
ty and power of resisting both dry
and wet rot that should commend it to
hose interested in getting a paving
block capable of wearing smooth and
the wear of heavy traffic.
Then there is the possibility of ex-
racting the fannie acid from the saw
lust waste, the wood containing high
of this valuable product.
Altogether, there is small danger of any
portion of the ohia log going to waste,
nee the main contract work is well
lnder way, which should be long before
he end of the year.
General Manager Harris is looking
fter the game from every end, being
ntiring in his duties. which take him
rom office to forest many times during
very week. One hour will find him
,usy behind the koa counter of the
Vainuenue avenue office of the company
a Hilo, attending to the thousand and
ne things which crowd upon the ex-
cutive head of any large concern,
leeting inquirers, prospective purehas-
RS of lumber, and company directors
nd shareholders; the next hour may
nd him whirring away in his Franklin Al
yer the Puma road, ready to plunge
ito the difficulties met with by the mill
lperintendent or the outside manager. I
e can meet the railroad magnate ON
n Iequal footing, or settle a fight in
apanese camp. His work for the
,mpany tells, and the way everything |
owes every day from end to end of
le business shows it.
The arrangements for the loading of
lie ties, either direct from the ears at j.
e Hilo Railroad Company's wharf or
: lighters, are now under consideration
Id will be settled this week, although, !
far, the company manager here has
IT received definite information as to \
e carrying contract with the Matson
1mpany. ,Jusr how big contract this
ansportation is can be seen when it is
yured that the mill can turn out
rgo for twenty-five thousand ton