The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-07-19

bacco crop is only 80 days and some
times less. Successive paintings may
be made throughout each year, each
planting maturing full crop, thus
keeping curing barns at work all the
year, which can not be done in any
other tobacco country. No other to-
bacco growing country contains so
many good features for it's production
as Hawaii, where the seasons permit of
continuous planting and successive
crops.
"All the good grades of cigar to-
bacco -known-Turkey, Cuban and SUI
matra-grow without any artificial
shade or covering as required in Flor
ida, Connecticut, Porto Rico, Cuba and
Philippines.
"The yield per acre is high and the
percentage of wrapper is large and of
the highest grade in quality and color.
sEThe filler grades have the body,
burn and aroma essential to high-grade
cigars, together with m;ldness found
in but few cigar tobaccos.
Experiments have proven that Ha-
wall can and does produce a good cigar
tobacco, the burning of which, accord
ing to expert reports on file with the
Hawaii Experimental Station, is ex-
celIed by none.
'sThese tobaceos are classed as for
eign tobaccos {Cuba and Sumatra), pro
tected by high duty of $1.S5 per
pound on. imported wrapper and 35c.
per pound on filler.
"Cigar consumption is increasing
rapidly and the supply of good cigar
tobacco does not now meet the de-
mands of the trade. An annual in
voiced importation to- Hawaii of $543,-
600 worth of tobacco states a fact that
a tobacco factory for the manufacture
of cigars, cigarette and smoking to-
bacco from homegrown tobacco fer
home consumption alone is worth con-
sidering.
FFThe following figures and estimates
are approximately correct and apply to
planting of fifty acres on the com
pany's land and the purchase OF fifty
acres of green tobacco leaf grown by
small nearby planters, this giving
product from 100 acres between this
date and January /, 1910.
.'This acreage forms the basis of one
unit for computation and each sub5e-
ouent unit. or multiple thereof, would
cost less for permanent improvements
and handling, therefore yielding great
er returns.
The prospectus places field culture at
1920 per acre, and the expense OF cur
ING $95. The expense of clearing the
land is estimated at $50 an acre. The
cost of the first crop from fifty acres
is placed at $4,000. The returns from
this fifty acres and from the crop raised
bv individual growers on fifty acres
adjoining is put at $4,000, leaving $43,-
O0O above cost of production.
THE PRICE OF RUBBER.
In view of the extent of rubber cul-
ture In these Islands and the capital
invested in the venture, it will be OF
interest to know the price of rubber.
A year or so ago the price Of rubber
went down to something like 90 cents
a pound, but it has been going up
steadily ever since. On July L the Lon
don price of Para rubber, Islands fine,
which is the standard that fixes the
price for wild rubbers, was 81 to 50
cents a pound. The price of Ceylon
Plantation. which fixes the price of Gull
tivated rubbers, was $1.03 to $1.O4
pound The cause of the low prices
some time ago was that the continued
high prices preceding had stimulated
the equipment of expeditions into the
interior to gather the wild rubber, with
the result that an over-supply had been
temporarily produced. This low price
will doubtless in its turn reduce the
equipment of expeditions into the N I
terror, resulting later in an under |
supply.
PINES AT DENVER.
The carload of Hawaiian pineapples /
gb;rTad bx tho uiioniap RI nauvar in ,