The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-09-09


clinker deposits lying in close proxim-
ity to one another, situate about So
miles from the city of Honolulu, at
Waianae, Island of Oahu, and having
a railroad on the boundary line of the
property, also with 5000 feet of good
and safe anchorage in the Bay of Wal
amaze.
The mill site is most favorably To-
Gated in regard to water, which will
assure an unfailing and abundant sup
ply of water for steam supply. With
the railroad running on its boundary
and a good harbor within 1900 feet
of the site, places the company in a
position to ship its product economi-
cally and to easily procure and retain
the high-class labor necessary to keep
the plant contantly in operation, and
gives the company many other advan-
tages.
The physical properties of the raw
materials are excellent, as both the
lime and lava rock, or clay clinker,
quire no stripping in handling; and
as the lime rock is soft in texture and,
when blasted, fractures to a very fine
material, it should be quarried, deliver
ed to the crushers, and reduced to the
fine powder required for mixing at a
comparatively very slight expense, the
lava rock or clay clinker, also, when
blasted, fractures in small particles
being brittle, easy to crush to powder
as required for mixing, at small cost;
thus by using steam shovels the ma
terial delivered to the mill will be way
below the average cost of delivery.
and quantity of the raw materials con-
tanned on the company's property have
been thoroughly examined by experts,
and tested, analysis having been made
by eminent experts and chemists es-
pecially fitted for this work, and their
reports show all the materials to be
practically pure and almost entirely
free from certain foreign substances,
which as rule are found in sufficient
quantities to render the materials
worthless for the manufacture of
high-grade Portland cement and lime.
Experts have examined the entire
property in detail and all report it to
be rare deposit of superior quality,
unlimited in quantity and perfectly
adapted, as to location, for the bust
ness to be conducted successfully and
profitatSy. Such raw materials are
hard to find; so hard, indeed, that we
believe it to be practically impossible
to find in the United States another
such property containing two raw ma
terials of equal quality so admirably
located. The discovery of the property
will be more appreciated when it is
understood that today S5 per cent of
Portland cement and lime produced
in the United States is made east of
the Mississippi River, and not one bar
rel of cement is produced in the Terri
tory of Hawaii, and only small guam
tity of lime.
The expense connected with the ma
nufacture of Portland cement and lime
is divided into several items, viz: Get
ting out raw material and transporting
it to mill; reducing and preparing the
raw material for grinding and mixing;
burning the prepared mixture of raw
materials to produce clinker; grinding
the resulting clinker into an impal-
pable powder, which is the finished
product, Portland cement; packing and
getting ready for shipment.
One of the most important and larg-
est items in the cost of manufacture
of this product is fuel. Fuel is neces-
sary, not only to furnish power for
operating mixing, grinding, conveying,
and all other machinery, but also for
generating the immense amount of in
tense heat which it is necessary to
maintain in the furnaces for calcining
the raw materials. Fuel oil can be
secured at this point at cost of Sips
per barrel delivered to the company s
plant, by reason of it's location on a
good harbor, which gives the company
reasonably cheap fuel.
Factory and Equipment.-To inves-
tors in Portland cement and lime in
dustry, the question of factory, its
process, equipment, the quality of &C.
ment and lime it will produce, is OF
vital Importance.
Poor, incompetent, or dishonest man
agement can be promptly displaced
but 1t is a difficult, impractical
: and expensive undertaking to replace q
poorly designed and cheaply construct
J ed cement and lime factory with good
: one. To insure constant good earning
l power, a Portland cement and lime
: factory must first Of all be constructed
!, with the view of permanency and have
) capacity corresponding with the CAPT
7 tai invested; it must be equipped witt
5 machinery that is certain to run anC